Patent ID: 8152614

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising a display device for displaying cards which are dealt in a main game; an input unit for allowing a player to enter instructions related to a progress of the main game; an operation unit for allowing the player to indicate a number of bets of one of a first type and a second type for one of a term “Player”, a term “Banker”, and a term “Tie” in the main game; a memory for storing a number of credits held by the player; and a processor programmed to execute the main game by executing processes of: when the number of bets of the first type is indicated by an operation on the operation unit, (a) displaying, upon completion of allowing the player to indicate the number of bets using the operation unit, two cards which have been dealt as term player cards and two cards which have been dealt as term banker cards on the display device; (b) respectively determining whether or not to deal one more card to the term player cards or the term banker cards, which have been displayed on the display device, according to a predefined rule; (c) if it is determined to deal one more card to the term player cards which have been displayed on the display device, additionally displaying the dealt one more card as the term player cards on the display device; (d) if it is determined to deal one more card to the term banker cards which have been displayed on the display device, additionally displaying the dealt one more card as the term banker cards on the display device; (e) determining an outcome of the main game by one of the term “Player”, the term “Banker”, and the term “Tie”, based on a combination of the two or three cards which have been displayed as the player card on the display device and a combination of the two or three cards which have been displayed as the banker card on the display device; (f) determining whether or not the player wins for the number of bets, based on the determined outcome of the main game; and (g) if the player wins for the number of bets, adding a number of credits calculated using a predefined odds to the number of credits in the memory and storing the added sum, when, otherwise, the number of bets of the second type is indicated by an operation on the operation unit, (h) changing the predefined odds to a lower value than the predefined odds and; (i) randomly determining whether or not to award a bonus to the player; and (j) if it is determined to award the bonus to the player, adding a number of credits according to the bonus to the number of credits in the memory and storing the added sum.