Method and system for allocating loyalty reward points to gaming players

A loyalty reward points allocation system comprising:

• a gaming table having an in-play portion and individual player positions;
• a loyalty reward card having a player's detail recorded thereon;
• a plurality of uniquely identifiable casino chips having an electronic identification means, said identifiable casino chip being associated with a player, said identifiable casino chips having a frequency identification tag therein;
• a recording means located in the vicinity of said gaming area for reading, recording, and transmitting the player details recorded on said loyalty reward card;
• a first casino chip detection means for detecting said player associated casino chip located on said in-play portion of said gaming table, said first casino chip detection means being operatively connected to said recording means, said first casino chip detection means being mountable underneath said gaming table surface adjacent to said in-play portion of said gaming table, said first casino chip detection means being a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader;
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• a plurality of second casino chip detection means which are each operatively connected to said recording means, said second casino chip detection means being mountable underneath said gaming table surface adjacent to said individual player positions of said gaming table, said second casino chip detection means being a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader;
• wherein said plurality of identifiable casino chips are divided into sets of coloured or marked chip sets, wherein each of said coloured or marked chip sets have a master chip that electronically carries on it the code that other associated coloured or marked chips are encoded with.