Progressive roulette

• US 6,776,714 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2001
• Issued: 08/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mark Curran Ungaro
• Original Assignee: Mark Curran Ungaro
• Inventors: Ungaro, Mark Curran, Palombo, Carlo
• Primary Examiner(s): Walberg, Teresa
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Binh-An D.
• Application Number:
  US09/799,889
• Publication Number:
  US 20030036426A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,259 Days
• Field of Search: 463/27, 463/10-13, 463/16, 463/17, 463/18, 463/19, 463/20, 463/21, 463/22, 463/25, 463/26, 463/28, 463/29, 463/46, 463/47, 273/274, 273/236, 273/142.R, 273/148.R, 273/141.R, 273/309, 273/162.E, 273/138.1, 273/142.F, 273/283, 273/242, 273/243, 273/268
• US Class Current: 463/27
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3258 Cumulative reward schemes, e.g. jackpots

Abstract

A roulette game utilizing the existing roulette wheel and layout to enhance the game of roulette. Players make wagers on the conventional layout and using the plurality of token acceptors can place an extra wager to win two separate progressive jackpots.

Claims

1. A method of playing and wagering a live roulette game using a standard roulette wheel and a standard roulette table layout wherein the table layout having thereon a plurality of numbers corresponding to an identical numbered indicia group on a roulette wheel and an additional position for wagering and receiving a pro-aggressive jackpot comprising the steps of;

(a) placing a wager, by each player on the surface of a live roulette game table to participate in a pro-aggressive jackpot portion of roulette;

(b) inserting a first token or chip in a coin acceptor gate to receive a firt number of three in a line or three in a row sequentially to win a pro-aggressive jackpot;

(c) inserting a second token or chip in a coin acceptor gate to receive a second number of three in a row or three in a line sequentially to win a pro-aggressive jackpot gate,

(d) inserting a third token or chip in a coin acceptor gate to receive the a third number of three in a row or three in a line sequentially to win a pro-aggressive jackpot, and

(e) accumulating a pro-aggressive jackpot account fund from a portion of said wagers.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

activating a timed counting cycle, by a start button located at the main control panel, to visually spin and display a random number associated with the indicia of the numbered roulette table layout;

detecting a winning three number combination, calculating a pay out of an accumulated amount of a jackpot condition; and

reset to a set jackpot amount by

means of a pre-set jackpot amount or accumulated jackpot amount.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

activating a token return button; and

using a conveyor system to receive and recycle the coin accepted drop from the wagering positions back to the dealer position for continuous play.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

using a conveyor system to receive and recycle coin accepted drop from the wagering positions back to the dealer position for continuous play by a pre programmed automatic function token return.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the roulette game having two pro-aggressive jackpots that can only be won by placing a wager three times in a row consecutively and resulted in by:

a. catching three numbers from three spins in a row touching each other, or

b. catching three numbers horizontally, vertically or diagonally touching each other.