To provide a game machine capable of exhibiting a peculiar effect in a specific game state immediately after the completion of the execution of a jackpot game.

A game area includes a first start pocket, a second start pocket, a third start pocket, a first jackpot pocket, a second jackpot pocket and the like. The second start pocket is controlled easily to an open state in a time-shortening game state, and the first jackpot pocket is controlled to an open state during the execution of a long winning game. Also, the third start pocket allows a game ball to enter when the first jackpot pocket is left open. A main CPU acquires first reservation when the game ball enters the first start pocket, acquires second reservation when the game ball enters the second start pocket or the third start pocket, and can hold up to four of them, respectively. A jackpot determination result based on the second reservation has a rate that a jackpot pocket open mode, a game state after the completion of the jackpot game or the like becomes advantageous to a player, higher than a rate that a jackpot determination result using the first suspension has.