A device for and method of providing a poker game. In a broad aspect, the
method is generally directed to a game in which, in a particular game
instance, a hand is initially provided with a plurality of cards from
which a user may select cards to be shifted from the hand and replaced
with replacement cards. If at least one card is selected to be shifted
from the hand by the user, the game is repeated for a subsequent game
instance, with the hand initially provided in the subsequent game
instance comprising cards corresponding to the cards that were selected
to be shifted from the hand. In one exemplary embodiment, the plurality
of cards is provided as a sequence of subsets of cards (e.g. five cards
provided as a sequence of two initial cards followed by three
individually-dealt supplementary cards), and in a particular game
instance, the user decides whether or not to shift from the hand each
card of a given subset in the sequence before the next subset of cards in
the sequence is provided to the user.