Patent ID: 8771057

Claim:
A system for use with a plurality of gaming devices, comprising: a plurality of player tracking devices, each player tracking device being associated with one of the plurality of gaming devices and configured to enable a player to initiate player credit transactions to operate a corresponding gaming device; a plurality of transaction reading devices, each transaction reading device being coupled to one of the plurality of gaming devices and being configured to receive monetary instruments and read information associated with the monetary instruments to enable a player to initiate a monetary instrument transaction to operate a corresponding gaming device, at least one monetary instrument including a currency bill; a host computer operatively coupled to each transaction reading device and being configured to: receive the information associated with the monetary instrument transactions and the player credit transactions; assign a unique gaming device identifier indicative of the corresponding gaming device to the monetary instrument transactions and the player credit transactions; generate a plurality of monetary instrument transaction records associated with each corresponding monetary instrument transaction, each monetary instrument transaction records being associated with a corresponding currency bill received during the corresponding monetary instrument transaction and including a monetary value of the corresponding currency bill, a date and a time the corresponding currency bill was received, and the assigned unique gaming device identifier; and generate a plurality of player credit transaction records, each of the plurality of player credit transaction records including transaction information associated with a corresponding player credit transaction and the assigned unique gaming device identifier; a database associated with the host computer and being configured to retrievably store the generated transaction records, the host computer for awarding incentive points to player accounts stored in the database, each player tracking device allowing the player to initiate transactions to download incentive points from the host computer to the associated gaming device for play; and each player tracking device including a data display device operatively coupled to the host computer and being configured to retrieve and selectively display a list of transaction records in response to input from a user, the list of transaction records including the selected monetary instrument transaction records, the selected player credit transaction records, and the assigned unique gaming device identifier.