Patent ID: 7693781

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing system from a computing device in use by a second party, a request to purchase a financial instrument, wherein the financial instrument is for sale by a first party, wherein the financial instrument represents at least one of ownership of and an interest in an underlying wager, wherein the underlying wager comprises a wager on at least one potential outcome from spins of at least one roulette wheel, wherein a point count is maintained for the financial instrument, the point count comprising an indication of a value of the financial instrument, and wherein the computing system and computing device are communicatively coupled via a communications network; based at least in part on the request to purchase the financial instrument, transferring by the computing system the financial instrument from the first party to the second party for a price, wherein the transferring of the financial instrument results in the first party no longer having ownership of or interest in the underlying wager and the second party having at least one of ownership of and interest in the underlying wager; receiving by the computing system a plurality of results from a plurality of spins of the at least one roulette wheel; settling by the computing system the financial instrument, wherein settling the financial instrument includes determining, based at least in part on the wager and the results, one of: an amount of a payment due to the second party, and an amount of a payment owed by the second party; and wherein the method further comprises: adjusting by the computing system the point count based at least in part on a subset of the plurality of results; and communicating by the computing system the point count to the second party via the computing device.