Patent ID: 8206206

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a controller configured to (a) determine, during a normal game, establishment/non-establishment of a shift condition for shifting, after the normal game, a game mode from a normal game mode to a special game mode including first and second games, the first game being different from the second game and the second game being the same as the normal game; (b) shift, during the normal game, the game mode from the normal game mode to the special game mode based on a result of the determination in (a); (c) extract, during the special game mode, a plurality of items of card data used in the first and second games of the special game mode at time of the shifting from the normal game to the special game mode; (d) select, during the first game of the special game mode, a first card data as a card on a gaming machine side and a second card data as a card on a player side, from among the plurality of items of card data extracted in (c); (e) determine, during the first game of the special game mode, a win/loss result based on a comparison between the first card data and the second card data; (f) perform, during the second game of the special game mode, an establishment/non-establishment determination on a winning combination corresponding to the normal game, based on the plurality of items of card data extracted in (c), including the first and second cards used in the first game, in a case of win of the second card data on the player side as a result of the determination in (e); and (g) calculate, during the special game mode, a payout of the special game mode based on a result of the establishment/non-establishment determination in (f) during the second game, wherein a payout rate for calculating the payout is changed during the calculation of the payout, in accordance with the number of times the winning combination is established during the second special games in a case where a set of the special game mode shifted after the normal game and the second special game executed in accordance with a result of the special game mode is executed a plurality of times.