Patent ID: 8206213

Claim:
A wagering gaming machine comprising: a first mechanism by means of which a player can implement a wager of an amount of money or other gaming medium; a second mechanism by means of which the player can be awarded an amount of money or other gaming medium upon the occurrence of a payout event; one or more input devices that enable the player to provide input to the gaming machine; a display unit that displays an image; an odds information acquiring unit that acquires, from a server storing a plurality of sets of odds information provided by a plurality of clients setting a plurality of sets of odds that various possible results of a given event will occur, any one of the sets of odds information; and a display control unit that displays, in the display unit, an image about the odds information acquired by the odds information acquiring unit; wherein the gaming machine operates in a first gaming mode comprising displaying a reel-based spinning reel game in the display unit, with the reels spinning in response to a wager being implemented by the player via the first mechanism; wherein the gaming machine operates in a second gaming mode upon a predefined event occurring while the gaming machine is being played in the first gaming mode; and wherein the second gaming mode comprises the odds information acquiring unit acquiring and the display control unit displaying, as the any one of the sets of odds information and in accordance with a selection made by the player using the one or more input devices, 1) first odds information provided by one of the plurality of clients, selected by the player, for the given event or 2) second odds information for the given event that has been culled or filtered from among the plurality of sets of odds information for the given event provided by the plurality of clients so as to present to the player the most advantageous odds for each of the various possible results of the given event.