Hand count methods and systems for casino table games
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1. A casino table card gaming system comprising:
- at least one gaming table;
at least one device on or proximate to the gaming table that provides a signal that is indicative of at least one of a single round of play, and at least one hand played in the table card game system, the device selected from the group consisting of a) at least one bet sensor, b) a playing card shuffler, c) a playing card delivery shoe that indicates a sequence of playing card positions for each playing card delivered from the playing card delivery shoe, and d) an intelligent discard rack that senses activity that causes a signal to originate in the device, and at least one intelligent data collection module that senses from that signal changes in output from the at least one device, the intelligent module acting as a finite state machine capable of date stamping the data and transmitting the date stamped data to a database.
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Abstract
A gaming table with multiple sensing devices on or proximate the table. Each sensing device or groups of devices has a separate intelligent module that senses changes in the sensing devices, as through a state change signal from the sensor. The module date stamps and transmits the data over a network to an external database. The modules broadcast information over a network, such as an Ethernet.
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44 Claims
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1. A casino table card gaming system comprising:
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at least one gaming table;
at least one device on or proximate to the gaming table that provides a signal that is indicative of at least one of a single round of play, and at least one hand played in the table card game system, the device selected from the group consisting of a) at least one bet sensor, b) a playing card shuffler, c) a playing card delivery shoe that indicates a sequence of playing card positions for each playing card delivered from the playing card delivery shoe, and d) an intelligent discard rack that senses activity that causes a signal to originate in the device, and at least one intelligent data collection module that senses from that signal changes in output from the at least one device, the intelligent module acting as a finite state machine capable of date stamping the data and transmitting the date stamped data to a database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41)
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20. A method of collecting data on a casino gaming table comprising:
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providing at least one device that performs at least one activity that is unique within a single round of play of a casino table card game;
providing at least one intelligent controller dedicated to collecting information from at least one device;
the intelligent controller receiving a signal relating to the at least one unique activity from the at least one device;
the intelligent controller date and/or time stamping data collected from the at least one sensor;
the intelligent controller broadcasting the date and/or time stamped data over a network; and
recording the broadcasted information in a database. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 42)
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- 26. A hardware component on a casino card table that senses signals from a device on a gaming table that performs at least one activity during each round of play of a card game that can indicate that a single round of play of a card game is or has been played, wherein the hardware component adds time and or date stamps information to the signals, and forwards the time stamped signal to a database, via a network.
- 39. A playing card delivery shoe that indicates a sequence of playing card positions for each playing card delivered from the playing card delivery shoe, wherein the playing card delivery shoe comprises at least two sensors on a delivery chute of the playing card delivery shoe, the at least two sensors sensing the presence or absence of a playing card.
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