Active player controls for gaming apparatus

A method of executing a wagering event outcome on a roulette wheel system comprising:

• a wheel assembly comprising a wheel and a bowl with a circular upper track for accommodating a roulette ball, the upper track surrounds an annular lower track which is positioned above a circular recess, meets the upper track at a lower end of a circumference of the circular upper track, and slopes downwardly toward an inner diameter surrounding the circular recess;
• N randomly numbered receptors, positioned within the circular recess and physically separate from the annular lower track, having N individual numbers between 0 and N−1 distributed among the N randomly numbered receptors, wherein N is at least 37;
• an elevated display system supported overhead and separate from the wheel assembly, forming an arc including more than 200 degrees around the wheel assembly;
• an elevated display system supported overhead and separate from the wheel assembly, forming an arc including more than 200 degrees around the wheel assembly, wherein the elevated display system shows a dynamic rendition of wheel assembly game play on one or more display panels along an outer perimeter of the arc, the dynamic rendition includes at least a display of event outcomes from the wheel assembly game play, and the wagers are resolved based on the event outcomes;
• and
• wherein the method comprises rotating the wheel in a first direction of rotation and spinning the roulette ball within the circular upper track in a second direction of rotation opposite the first direction.