Patent ID: 7985135
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine switchable between an insurance mode and a non-insurance mode and which activates insurance compensation irrespective of a result of a game when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the gaming machine comprising: a controller programmed to conduct processes of; (A) when a bet value that is not smaller than one credit is bet, receiving specification of a number of a plurality of BET objects of which game results are determined independently of each other; (B) calculating an individual bet value by dividing the bet value by the specified number of bet objects, determining the game results for each of the bet objects, and determining an amount of payout for each of the bet objects based on the individual bet value and the game results; (C) when the total of the amounts of payout determined in (B) includes a value lower than one credit, determining the value lower than the one credit as a fractional value; (D) paying out an amount determined by subtraction of the fractional value determined in (C) from the amount of the payout determined in (B); (E) accumulatively adding the fractional value determined in (C); (F) shifting a mode to an insurance mode from a non-insurance mode, on condition that the fracrional value accumulatively added in (E) reaches a predetermined value; and (G) executing a free game even when no game media have been bet, when a predetermined trigger condition is established in said insurance mode.