Gaming machine allowing player to select dealer and control method thereof
A gaming machine of the present invention displays a dealer image selected from a plurality of types of dealer images to a display, and offers a profit (e.g. a game support advantageous for the player) in accordance with the dealer image to a station where an additional BET has been placed. Then, the gaming machine calculates and compares a total number of BETs in each station over a unit number of games, and accepts a selection of a dealer image at the station where the total number of BETs is the largest.
1. A gaming machine comprising:
a display capable of displaying an image;
a plurality of stations each having an input device and being arranged at a position from which said display is visible to a player playing a game;
a memory storing a plurality of types of dealer image data each showing a dealer image; and
a controller,
said controller programmed so as to execute the processing of
(a) displaying the dealer image selected from a plurality of types of said dealer images to said display based on said dealer image data stored in said memory,
(b) accepting a normal BET from said input device provided in each of said stations,
(c) accepting an additional BET different from said normal BET, from said input device provided in each of said stations,
(d) offering a normal payout, after executing said game, based on a result of said game and said normal BET,
(e) offering a profit in accordance with the dealer image displayed to said display in the station where said additional BET has been placed,
(f) calculating in each of said stations a total number of BETs as a sum of a number of normal BETs and a number of additional BETs over a predetermined number of games, and
(g) accepting an input for selecting the dealer image to be displayed to said display from said input device provided in the station where said total number of BETs is the largest, out of said plurality of stations, as a result of a comparison of the total number of BETs at each of said stations calculated in said processing (f).
2. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said processing (g) is processing of accepting the input for selecting the dealer image to be displayed to said display from said input device provided in the station where said total number of BETs is the largest as a result of the comparison of the total number of BETs at each of said stations calculated in said processing (f), out of the stations where said additional BETs have been placed during said predetermined number of games.
3. The gaming machine according to claim 1 wherein said controller is further programmed so as to execute the processing of
(h) cumulatively accumulating a predetermined percentage of additional-bet game media in association with the dealer image displayed to said display, and
(i) offering a special payout, at the station having satisfied a condition determined for each of the plurality of types of said dealer images, from game media cumulatively accumulated in association with the dealer image for which said condition is determined.
4. A gaming machine comprising:
a display capable of displaying an image;
a plurality of stations each having an input device and being arranged at a position from which said display is visible to a player playing a game;
a memory storing a plurality of types of dealer image data each showing a dealer image; and
a controller,
said controller programmed so as to execute the processing of
(a) displaying the dealer image selected from a plurality of types of said dealer images to said display based on said dealer image data stored in said memory,
(b) accepting a normal BET from said input device provided in each of said stations,
(c) accepting an additional BET different from said normal BET from said input device provided in each of said stations,
(d) offering a normal payout, after executing said game, based on a result of said game and said normal BET,
(e) offering a profit in accordance with the dealer image displayed to said display in the station where said additional BET has been placed,
(f) calculating in each of said stations a total number of losses obtained by subtracting a total number of payouts as a total amount of game media offered over a predetermined unit number of games from a total number of BETs as sum of a number of normal BETs and a number of additional BETs over said predetermined number of games, and
(g) accepting an input for selecting the dealer image to be displayed to said display from said input device provided in the station where said total number of losses is the largest, out of said plurality of stations, as a result of a comparison of the total number of losses at each of said stations calculated in said processing (f).
5. The gaming machine according to claim 4 , wherein said processing (g) is processing of accepting the input for selecting the dealer image to be displayed to said display from said input device provided in the station where said total number of losses is the largest as a result of the comparison of the total number of losses at each of said stations calculated in said processing (f), out of the stations where said additional BETs have been placed during said predetermined number of games.
6. The gaming machine according to claim 4 wherein said controller is further programmed so as to execute the processing of
(h) cumulatively accumulating a predetermined percentage of additional-bet game media in association with the dealer image displayed to said display, and
(i) offering a special payout, at the station having satisfied a condition determined for each of the plurality of types of said dealer images, from game media cumulatively accumulated in association with the dealer image for which said condition is set.
7. A control method of a gaming machine, said control method comprising the steps of:
(a) displaying a dealer image selected from a plurality of types of said dealer images to a display based on dealer image data showing said dealer image, said dealer image data being stored in a memory;
(b) accepting a normal BET from an input device provided in each station arranged at a position from which said display is visible to a player playing a game;
(c) accepting an additional BET different from said normal BET, from said input device provided in each of said stations;
(d) offering a normal payout, after executing said game, based on a result of said game and said normal BET;
(e) offering a profit in accordance with the dealer image displayed to said display in the station where said additional BET has been placed;
(f) calculating in each of said stations a total number of BETs as a sum of a number of normal BETs and a number of additional BETs over a predetermined number of games; and
(g) accepting an input for selecting the dealer image to be displayed to said display from said input device provided in the station where said total number of BETs is the largest, out of said plurality of stations, as a result of a comparison of the total number of BETs at each of said stations calculated in said step (f).
8. The control method of the gaming machine according to claim 7 , wherein said step (g) is a step of accepting the input for selecting the dealer image to be displayed to said display from said input device provided in the station where said total number of BETs is the largest as a result of the comparison of the total number of BETs at each of said stations calculated in said step (f), out of the stations where said additional BETs have been placed during said predetermined number of games.
9. The control method of the gaming machine according to claim 7 , said control method further including the step of:
(h) cumulatively accumulating a predetermined percentage of additional-bet game media in association with the dealer image displayed to said display; and
(i) offering a special payout, at the station having satisfied a condition determined for each of the plurality of types of said dealer images, from game media cumulatively accumulated in association with the dealer image for which said condition is set.