Roulette system with side bet and random multiplier event

• US 9,327,186 B1
• Filed: 05/16/2015
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interblock DOO
• Original Assignee: Interblock d.d.
• Inventors: Pececnik, Joze
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno, Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US14/714,253
• Time in Patent Office: 353 Days
• Field of Search: 273/142.R, 273142 E-142 H, 273/142.HA, 273/142.J, 273142 JA-142 JD
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/00 Roulette games aspects of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions showing representations related to the game A63F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/0005 Automatic roulette
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/0088 with a plurality of balls used during one game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/02 Roulette-like ball games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

A wagering system having: a physical roulette wheel; a source of multiple drop balls; a selection system that selects a single drop ball from a roulette ball storage area; and the roulette ball storage area storing a first roulette ball of a first color in a first accessible area and storing a second roulette ball of a second color in a second accessible area. The processor recognizing wagers on roulette wagering event outcomes and side bets placed at a player position on roulette wagering event outcomes. The processor is configured to resolve wagers at a player position with the side bet being recognized on roulette wagering event outcomes that do occur at odds against a second paytable with odds on at least some winning event outcomes that are higher than odds on the same at least some winning event outcomes without a side bet.

Claims

1. A wagering system comprising:

a physical roulette wheel;

a source of multiple drop balls;

a selection system that selects a single drop ball from a roulette ball storage area for use in a roulette wagering event;

the roulette ball storage area storing a first roulette ball of a first color in a first accessible area and storing a second roulette ball of a second color in a second accessible area;

a processor having a random number generator;

the processor configured to cause the selection system to randomly select only one roulette ball of a first color or a second color for use in a single event of roulette in which the roulette wheel is spun and the only one roulette ball is delivered onto a track on the spinning roulette wheel to determine a roulette wagering event outcome when the only one roulette ball stops at a numbered position on the roulette wheel;

the processor recognizing wagers on roulette wagering event outcomes and side bets placed at a player position on roulette wagering event outcomes;

the processor configured to resolve wagers as follows;

side bet wagers are always forfeit when placed;

wagers on roulette wagering event outcomes that do not occur are forfeit;

wagers at a player position without the side bet being recognized on roulette wagering event outcomes that do occur are resolved at odds against a first paytable; and

wagers at a player position with the side bet being recognized on roulette wagering event outcomes that do occur are resolved at odds against a second paytable that provides odds on at least some winning event outcomes that are higher than odds on the same at least some winning event outcomes in the first paytable.

2. The wagering system of claim 1 wherein the selection system also returns the only one roulette ball to the appropriate storage area for the only one roulette ball.

3. The wagering system of claim 2 wherein both delivery of the only one roulette ball onto a track on the spinning roulette wheel and return of the only one roulette ball to the appropriate storage area for the only one roulette ball is configured to be performed by apparatus directed by the processor.

4. The wagering system of claim 1 wherein the processor provides different weighted probabilities between the first color ball and the second color ball.

5. The wagering system of claim 4 wherein the processor is configured to provide different weighted probabilities between the first color ball and the second color ball at rates of weighted probabilities between 8:

1 and 25;

1.

6. The wagering system of claim 1 wherein each player position has a player position enabling entry of both a wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and a wager on the side bet.

7. The wagering system of claim 6 wherein indication of entry of both a wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and a wager on the side bet, the processor is configured to decrement credits at the player position by an amount of the wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and a fixed amount for the wager on the side bet.

8. The wagering system of claim 6 wherein indication of entry of both a wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and a wager on the side bet, the processor is configured to decrement credits at the player position by an amount of the wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and an amount for the wager on the side bet that is a predetermined percentage of the wager on roulette wagering event outcomes.

9. The wagering system of claim 8 wherein the processor is configured to base the predetermined percentage on a highest amount of any single wager placed at the player position on a next roulette wagering event outcome.

10. The wagering system of claim 8 wherein the processor is configured to base the predetermined percentage on a minimum allowable total wager allowed on a next roulette wagering event outcome.

11. The wagering system of claim 8 wherein the processor is configured to base the predetermined percentage on an average of all wagers placed at the player position on a next roulette wagering event outcome.

12. The wagering system of claim 8 wherein the processor is configured to base the predetermined percentage on total wagers placed at the player position on a next roulette wagering event outcome.

13. The wagering system of claim 6 wherein the processor provides different weighted probabilities between the first color ball and the second color ball and wherein both delivery of the only one roulette ball onto a track on the spinning roulette wheel and return of the only one roulette ball to the appropriate storage area for the only one roulette ball is configured to be performed by apparatus directed by the processor.

14. The wagering system of claim 13 wherein indication of entry of both a wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and a wager on the side bet, the processor is configured to decrement credits at the player position by an amount of the wager on roulette wagering event outcomes and at least one of a) a fixed amount for the wager on the side bet or b) a fixed percentage of the amount of the wager on roulette wagering event outcomes.

15. The wagering system of claim 6 wherein the processor provides different weighted probabilities between the first color ball and the second color ball.

16. A method of performing a wagering event on a wagering system comprising:

a physical roulette wheel;

a source of multiple drop balls;

a selection system that selects a single drop ball from a roulette ball storage area for use in a roulette wagering event;

the roulette ball storage area storing a first roulette ball of a first color in a first accessible area and storing a second roulette ball of a second color in a second accessible area;

a processor having a random number generator;

the processor configured to cause the selection system to randomly select only one roulette ball of a first color or a second color for use in a single event of roulette in which the roulette wheel is spun and the only one roulette ball is delivered onto a track on the spinning roulette wheel to determine a roulette wagering event outcome when the only one roulette ball stops at a numbered position on the roulette wheel;

the processor recognizing wagers on roulette wagering event outcomes and side bets placed at a player position on roulette wagering event outcomes;

the processor configured to resolve wagers as follows;

side bet wagers are always forfeit when placed;

wagers on roulette wagering event outcomes that do not occur are forfeit;

wagers at a player position without the side bet being recognized on roulette wagering event outcomes that do occur are resolved at odds against a first paytable; and

wagers at a player position with the side bet being recognized on roulette wagering event outcomes that do occur are resolved at odds against a second paytable that provides odds on at least some winning event outcomes that are higher than odds on the same at least some winning event outcomes in the first paytable,

wherein after a player position has made a wager on the side bet, the method includes steps of the processor randomly selecting a single drop ball from a roulette ball storage area for use in a roulette wagering event,

dropping the single drop ball onto a track in a spinning roulette wheel,

capturing the single drop ball in a final outcome identifying position on the roulette wheel, and

when the randomly selected single drop ball consists of a drop ball of the second color, winning wagers placed at player positions that have made the side bet are resolved against the second paytable.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein after resolution of the winning wagers, the selection system returns the single drop ball to the appropriate storage area for the single drop ball.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the processor provides different weighted probabilities between the first color ball and the second color ball before the random selection of the single drop ball.