CARD GAME MONITORING SYSTEM

摘要

The card game monitoring system has: a game table (1) on which bettors (2) put wagers (3) on betting areas (4); and a card shooter apparatus has a card reading unit to read and record the number (rank) and suit of the cards (6); and a control unit (7) to determine a winning hand according to a table game rules based on information of numbers (ranks) and suits of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit (5); a monitor video camera system (8) to capture positions of cards and to identify wagers (3) on each betting area (4) at the game table (1); the control unit (10) has further processing function to check whether wagers (3) with payoff (3W) move to a pool (12) of the winner (W) of the bettors (2) determined by the card shooter apparatus (5) at the end of each game.

主权项

1. A card game monitoring system for playing a table game,
having: a game table on which bettors make wagers by putting wagers on betting areas, a card shooter apparatus that is put on the game table and has a card reading unit that reads the number (rank) of a card and having a control unit to determine a winning hand according to a table game rule based on information of numbers of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit, and a monitor video camera system to capture positions of the cards delivered from the card shooter apparatus to bettors and to identify wagers on each betting area at the game table, the control unit has a processing function using the information of the monitor video camera system to determine: 1) head-count of the bettors playing at each game by identifying the wager on each betting area or cards delivered to each bettor, 2) whether or not each bettor gets more than two cards from the card shooter apparatus, 3) each hand of the bettors and the dealer according to the information read by the card shooter apparatus with using the information of head-count of the bettors according to the game rule, and 4) winner(s) having the winning hand(s) in the game according to the game rule based on the information of the each hand of the bettors and the dealer.