Cage system and chip management system
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
A cage is divided into a plurality of locations, including a cashier room. The gaming chip has an RFID tag storing a chip ID. The cage system that manages the movement of the gaming chips within the cage of the casino hall comprises: a chip reader that reads a chip ID from an RFID tag of a gaming chip moving between multiple locations within the cage; a chip reader that reads the chip ID from the RFID tag of the gaming chips that exit the cage to the casino hall; and a chip management database that records the chip IDs read by the chip reader as the movement history of the gaming chips.
Claims16
A chip management system for managing movement of gaming chips in a cage and in a casino hall, each of the gaming chips has an RFID tag storing a chip ID, the chip management system comprising:
- at each gaming table of a plurality of gaming tables in the casino hall, a first reader configured to read the chip ID from the RFID tag of each gaming chip in the casino hall stored in a chip tray provided at the gaming table;
- a second reader configured to read the chip ID from the RFID tag of each gaming chip in the cage;
- a database configured to maintain information on at least a location of each of the gaming chips in the casino hall and in the cage and a possessor of the gaming chip;
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- a management device configured to:
- update the database based on at least a result of reading by the first reader and a result of reading by the second reader;
- refer to the database to ascertain whether a gaming chip is possessed by a player;
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- ascertain a total amount of gaming chips possessed by the player as an amount obtained by subtracting a total amount of gaming chips in the cage and a total amount of gaming chips read from and stored in chip trays provided on the plurality of gaming tables in the casino hall from a total amount of gaming chips managed in the database.
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