REAL-TIME TRACKING OF LOCATIONS OF MACHINE-READABLE PAI GOW GAMING TILES

摘要

A preferred embodiment of a Pai Gow gaming table (352) is equipped with a system (460) that implements real-time tracking of gaming tiles (366) to mitigate risk of dealer or player cheating behavior during game play. Each gaming tile has a machine-readable tile identifying tag. The gaming table has a playing surface (350) that includes a pre-assigned woodpile position (358) and multiple pre-assigned player positions (54). Multiple woodpile position tile tag identification readers (362) configured to read the tile identifying tags are located in the pre-assigned woodpile position. Multiple player position tile tag identification readers (360) operatively associated with different ones of the pre-assigned player positions and configured to read the tile identifying tags are located in associated ones of the pre-assigned player positions. A controller (68, 464) operatively associated with the tile tag identification readers performs during game play real-time tracking of movement of the gaming tiles.

主权项

1. A method of real-time tracking of Pai Gow gaming tiles to mitigate risk of dealer or player cheating behavior during game play, comprising:
setting in a gaming environment a Pai Gow gaming table having a playing surface that includes a pre-assigned woodpile position and multiple pre-assigned player positions, the pre-assigned woodpile position in operative association with woodpile position tile tag identification readers, and the pre-assigned player positions in operative association with corresponding player position tile tag identification readers; providing on the table surface a Pai Gow game set of gaming tiles each of which having a machine-readable tile identifying tag that is readable by the woodpile position and player position tile tag identification readers; forming in the pre-assigned woodpile position a post-shuffle woodpile of multiple four-tile stacks of the gaming tiles in the Pai Gow game set, the post-shuffle woodpile arranged so that each of the multiple four-tile stacks corresponds to a specified one of the multiple pre-assigned player positions and is associated with a corresponding one of the woodpile position tile tag identification readers; using the woodpile position tile tag identification readers associated with their corresponding multiple four-tile stacks to read and create a record of the tile identifying tags of the gaming tiles in the multiple four-tile stacks; distributing the multiple four-tile stacks from the post-shuffle woodpile to the corresponding specified ones of the multiple pre-assigned player positions and using the player position tile tag identification readers associated with their corresponding multiple four-tile stacks to read the tile identifying tags of the gaming tiles distributed; and determining for the distributed multiple four-tile stacks whether there is a difference between the recorded tile identifying tags and the tile identifying tags at the corresponding pre-assigned player positions.