Patent ID: 7980941

Claim:
A gaming apparatus comprising: a roulette wheel including a plurality of pockets associated with respective numbers in advance; a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controlling the gaming apparatus so as to provide a relatively high weight on a probability that a ball is housed in any of the pockets constituting a single group, said single group belonging to a plurality of groups each of which consists of a first predetermined number of said plurality of pockets, and the plurality of control data associated with each of said groups; a plurality of stations for players to play games; and a controller, said controller programmed to execute the following processings of: (a) controlling rotation of said roulette wheel and launching of said ball by referring to a single control data out of said plurality of control data, and (b) selecting another control data different from said single control data, out of said plurality of control data, to set the selected control data as a reference target, when a bet is placed on any of the pockets belonging to a group having said relatively high ball-housing probability at a second predetermined number or more of the stations among said plurality of stations.