1. A method for tournament gaming comprising; allowing a wager on non-modified base game in normal mode and awarding pay table prize for a winning event on said base game, monitoring said base game wager and win data, processing a calculated normalized tournament score using said monitored data spanning multiple base game plays, providing a tournament game and awarding a tournament prize to at least one tournament winner, wherein a player concurrently plays the base game and the tournament game; wherein the tournament score calculation also uses the theoretical payout percentage for the base game in determining player ranking.