Patent ID: 7226357
Filing Date: 2007-06-05
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a casino game of chance, the casino game of chance having a mechanical wheel oriented in a vertical direction, said mechanical wheel divided into a plurality of segments with each segment having an award value, the method comprising: spinning the mechanical wheel under control of a processor; freely moving a ball within a housing of the mechanical wheel in response to spinning; randomly selecting one set of possible outcome sets from a plurality of sets; stopping spin of the mechanical wheel, under control of the processor, at said randomly selected one set at the bottom of the vertically oriented mechanical wheel; randomly landing the freely moving ball in one possible outcome segment in the randomly placed one set of possible outcome segments as the mechanical wheel stops, the possible outcome segments in the randomly placed one set uniformly disposed upwardly from the bottom of the stopped vertically oriented mechanical wheel; sensing, under control of the processor, the one possible outcome segment the ball landed in; awarding a payout, under control of the processor, based on the award value of the one sensed possible outcome segment the ball landed in; the award values of each set of the plurality of sets of possible outcome segments having a range of player expected values so that the casino game of chance has an overall range of player expected values for all play of the casino game.