Gaming table apparatus

A gaming table apparatus for a card game having a plurality of successive rounds and a plurality of possible directions in which play during the card game may proceed based on a value of game media bet in a successive round being equal to or decreased relative to a value of game media bet in a previous round, the gaming table comprising:

• a plurality of bet areas adapted to receive a game player bet in the card game, each of the plurality of bet areas including indicia corresponding to a bet sub-area, each of the bet areas in communication with a reading unit capable of automatically determining a value corresponding to gaming media placed in one or more of the plurality of bet areas during the card game;
• a second control unit including a central processing unit (CPU) and a non-transitory computer readable storage device that receives and stores information pertaining to the value of the gaming media placed in the one or more of the plurality of bet areas during each round of the card game;
• a card shoe adapted to dispense one or more cards during the card game;
• a detecting device that detects identification information pertaining to the cards dispensed via the card shoe during the card game and outputs the detected identification information;
• a first control unit including a central processing unit (CPU) and a non-transitory computer readable storage device that stores and transmits information corresponding to one of the plurality of possible directions in which play of the card game may proceed based on the value of gaming media placed in the one or more of the plurality of bet areas during a first round of the card game;
• a display device that displays the transmitted information corresponding to one of the plurality of possible directions in which play of the card game may proceed;
• wherein the first control unit is in electronic communication with the second control unit via a communications network and is programmed to perform:
• first processing that automatically determines a first one of the plurality of possible directions in which play of the card game may proceed for each of the plurality of bet areas based on the identification information detected by the detecting device and a first value of a first amount of gaming media placed in one or more of the plurality of bet areas during play of a first round of the card game as determined by the reading unit, and received by the second control unit,
• based on a result of the first round, second processing that automatically determines a second subsequent one of the plurality of possible directions in which play of the card game may proceed for each of the plurality of bet areas when a subsequent second value of a second amount of gaming media placed in the one or more of the plurality of bet areas during play of the card game as determined by the reading unit and received by the second control unit is equal to or decreased relative to the first value of the first amount of gaming media placed in the one or more of the plurality of bet areas during play of the first round of the card game according to a predetermined ratio of the first value relative to the second value, and
• third processing that obtains the information about the determined one of the plurality of possible directions in which play of the card game may proceed from the non-transitory computer readable storage device of the first control unit and displays the information on the display.