Patent ID: 7862425

Claim:
A loyalty reward points allocation system for allocating loyalty reward points to a player at a gaming area having a loyalty reward card with player details recorded thereon, said system comprising: at least one uniquely identifiable casino chip having an electronic identification means, said identifiable casino chip being associated with said player; a recording means located in the vicinity of said gaming area for reading and recording the player details on the loyalty reward card; a first casino chip detection means for detecting said player associated casino chip located in play in said gaming area, said first casino chip detection means being operatively connected to said recording means; and wherein said first casino chip detection means is operatively connected to said recording means such that at the completion of bet placement the value of said player casino chip in play in said gaming area detected by said first casino chip detection means is communicated to said recording means thus enabling the value of bets placed by individual players to be calculated and thereby determining the allocation of loyalty reward points to individual players for the particular bet placement; 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.