Patent ID: 7980939

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 different weights on probabilities that a ball is housed in each of said pockets; and a controller, said controller controlling rotation of said roulette wheel and launching of said ball by referring to a single control data out of said control data, determining a number corresponding to one of said pockets with said ball housed therein as a winning number, determining whether or not to offer a prize based on the determined winning number and a BET placed by a player, determining whether or not to generate a predetermined bonus different from said prize, and selecting another control data different from said single control data, out of said plurality of control data, and setting the selected control data as a reference target, when determining that the predetermined bonus different from said prize is to be generated.