Patent ID: 7618321

Claim:
An electronic card table for providing an electronic card game to a plurality of players, comprising: a table having a table top with a playing surface; a plurality of electronic player interaction areas located around a periphery of the table top, each electronic player interaction area providing a player interface for interaction with one of the players; a game computer coupled to the plurality of electronic player interaction areas for dealing one or more hands of the electronic card game composed of electronic cards, and administering the electronic card game using electronic cards, and for determining a winner from among the players and awarding a pot to the winner at the end of each hand, the electronic card game being electronic poker, the game computer for detecting possible collusion between two or more of the players, the game computer detecting possible collusion including the game computer ranking the players with respect to one another in terms of their winning percentages, analyzing the hands played by one or more of the players in response to the one or more of the players having the highest winning percentage in the ranking, including establishing another one of the players as a possible partner in collusion with one of the players of the one or more of the players, and analyzing the hands played in which the one of the players and the another one of the players both participated, including comparing the play of the one of the players and the another one of the players, and determining if one or more collusion triggers are present.