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Abstract

A player, playing 'player's hand only' format video poker machine deposits money into the machine as a wager to cause the machine to deal and display a video image of two five card stud poker hands from a standard deck of fifty-two cards, face up. The player may win on one or both hands per a pre-established poker hand ranking paytable, the amount won based the hand ranking and the amount wagered. If, however, the player has a threshold hand, be it only a pair in either or both hands, and nothing else, (as determined by the variation of the game played), then, the player is allowed to and does play all ten cards on the screen as a single, Super Stud hand, winning any of the pre-established poker hand rankings in the Super Stud paytable. In this game, the pair is the threshold hand. In other variations, it could be only some but not all pairs, and/or hands wherein there were no winners or pairs at all (losing hands).

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