CPC A63F 1/062 (2013.01) [A63F 11/0002 (2013.01); G07F 17/322 (2013.01); G07F 17/3216 (2013.01); G07F 17/3241 (2013.01); G07F 17/3293 (2013.01); A63F 1/06 (2013.01); A63F 1/067 (2013.01); A63F 3/00157 (2013.01); A63F 11/00 (2013.01); A63F 2001/001 (2013.01); A63F 2003/00164 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2425 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2439 (2013.01); A63F 2011/0006 (2013.01); A63F 2250/58 (2013.01)] | 11 Claims |
1. A system configured to manage gaming chips and packages of shuffled playing cards, the system comprising:
a set of shuffled playing cards constituting a predetermined number of decks that are shuffled in a random order, wherein a unique card ID is assigned to the set of shuffled playing cards using a wireless tag;
a gaming chip having a chip ID using a wireless tag;
a game table where games are played using the set of shuffled playing cards and the gaming chips, the gaming chips including the gaming chip;
a card storage area configured to store one or more sets of shuffled playing cards carried from a card room and to be loaded to a card shooter device on the game table, the plurality of shuffled playing cards including the set of shuffled playing cards;
a chip storage area configured to store one or more gaming chips of the gaming chips to be used on the game table;
one or more card readers configured to read, using a first information transmission method and for each set of the one or more sets of shuffled playing cards stored in the card storage area, a card ID of the set; and
one or more chip readers configured to read, using a second information transmission method and for each chip of the one or more gaming chips stored in the chip storage area, a chip ID of the chip, and
wherein the first information transmission method is different from the second information transmission method, such that the:
one or more card readers are configured to read the wireless tag for the card ID and not read the wireless tag for the chip ID, and
the one or more chip readers are configured to read the wireless tag for the chip ID and not read the wireless tag for the card ID.
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