Patent ID: 9694272
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A63F,G07F

Claim:
1. A system for facilitating a card game, comprising: a table apparatus, the table apparatus having positioned thereon a processor operable to communicate with each of the respective player position antennas and the at least one shared position antenna; and a memory accessible to the processor, the memory storing (i) information about RFID-enabled chips usable on the table apparatus for a card game; and (ii) a program, wherein the processor is operable with the program to: receive an indication that a first RFID-enabled chip has been acquired at the at least one shared position antenna, the indication including an identifier of the at least one shared position antenna that acquired the first RFID-enabled chip and a unique identifier of the first RFID-enabled chip, thereby determining a first specific RFID-enabled chip and a first acquiring antenna; access, from the memory, information defining a most recent particular player position associated with the unique identifier of the first specific RFID-enabled chip acquired by the first acquiring antenna; determine, based on the information, the first specific RFID-enabled chip as being placed as part of a wager to be associated with the most recent particular player position; and register the wager for the most recent particular player position based on the indication from the first acquiring antenna and the information.