A gaming system provides a bonus gaming session that is activated during a play of a five-card draw poker base game when a predetermined plurality of the first set of five cards dealt meets a predetermined criteria, for example at least four of the five cards dealt and held by the player share a common suit. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at users’ sites, and a fax registration system that may be deployed remotely from these users’ site. The uniform API permits the use of a variety of different proportional share schedulers for controlling access to physical resources, e. A signal representative of the acoustic-based signal is presented to the input of the receiver when the trigger has not occurred such that the receiver converts the acoustic-based signal into an output acoustic signal.