Patent ID: 7963843

Claim:
A cashless gaming method for providing a plurality of games at a plurality of player terminals coupled together, the method comprising: receiving, at the player terminals, player identification information from players; receiving, at the player terminal, game selection information from the player indicating a plurality of games; displaying selected the games to the players at video displays at the player terminals; executing software application program at the player terminals, said software application programs corresponding to the selected games, in response to an externally-generated set of random numbers to determine results of the selected games; storing player account information for the player at a central controller connected to each of the plurality of player terminals; adjusting, at the central controller, the account information of the players according to the results of the selected games from the player terminals; and storing game information corresponding to the plurality of player terminals at a monitoring system remote from the central controller and the player terminals, wherein the game information indicates wins associated with one of the player terminals and one of the selected games; detecting, by the monitoring system, that the wins exceed statistical odds for the one of the selected games; and disabling, by the monitoring system, the one of the player terminals associated with the wins, wherein the disabling occurs after detecting.