Patent ID: 7478812

Claim:
A method of effecting an economic outcome between one or more players and an operator in a roulette style game, which method includes using a roulette style game apparatus having an indicia selecting means including a rotatable wheel having 49 or 50 regions, each region associated with playing card indicia, and a means for randomly selecting a selectable region of the wheel; and a wagering area adapted for positioning wagers concerning the indicia associated to the region selected by a single operation of the rotatable wheel, the method including the steps of, a) a wagering phase wherein each player providing a cash or token wager on the wagering area, the location of wager corresponding to one of the 49 or 50 regions and defining the win or lose conditions of that wager; b) an operation phase after the wagering phase wherein the rotatable wheel is rotated and a ball is located on a rotating wheel, in a manner capable of randomly selecting one of the 49 or 50 regions of the wheel; c) an outcome phase wherein the ball becomes located on one of the 49 or 50 regions of the wheel and thereby selects that region and indicia associated thereto; d) a result phase after the outcome phase for each single operation of the indicia selecting means, wherein an assessment of each wager of each player is effected by comparing the selected indicia of the wheel to the win or lose conditions of the players wager and effecting a payment of cash or tokens in response to a result of the comparison; and e) wherein the profit is consistent for all selectable regions.