Patent ID: 7422522

Claim:
A game monitoring system for monitoring a game played using a plurality of cards, the system comprising: a plurality of wirelessly communicating identifying information recording devices, a respective wirelessly communicating identifying information recording device being attached to each of the plurality of cards, and recording information identifying respective cards and a date and a place related to location of the game monitoring system; an identifying information reading device for reading, wirelessly, the information recorded in the identifying information recording devices, the identifying information reading device being embedded in a card game playing table; a stake money handling device operable by players of the game for entering and/or changing stake money amount; a control device calculating a money balance in the game using the cards, based on the identifying information read by the identifying information reading device and the stake money amount entered and/or changed through the stake money handling device, recording the information recorded in the identifying information recording devices of the cards and read by the identifying information reading device, and the money balance calculated, and accumulating the identifying information read by the identifying information reading device and the money balance calculated in a database, wherein the control device determines when a game has ended from at least one of when number of times the identifying information reading device has read the identifying information of cards has reached a predetermined number for a card game in which cards may be changed no more than the predetermined number of times, and when the identifying information has been read by the identification information reading device from all cards distributed to card distribution areas on the card game playing table for a card game in which all of the cards distributed are placed in card distribution areas of the card game playing table at game end; and a display displaying the money balance calculated by the control device, the display device being located at the card game playing table for playing of the game with the card distributed to and placed on the card game playing table.