Patent ID: 8162738

Claim:
An electronic lottery/gaming bet/wager placement system comprising: a plurality of passive Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) tags each further comprising stored data, said stored data comprising a unique unchangeable and uncopyable read-only tag identification number; a data storage medium under the operative control of a gaming administrator comprising data associated with a plurality of gambling accounts, said data further comprising personal information and payout information associated with an individual, wherein each gambling account of said plurality of gambling accounts is associated with at least one read-only tag identification number of said plurality of RFID tags; a near field communication RFID tag reader/writer operable to receive a read-only tag number from an RFID tag of said plurality of RFID tags, and associate a received bet with a gambling account of said plurality of gambling accounts, wherein said gambling account is based on an associated RFID tag; and a device carrying out notification to a said individual associated with an account of said plurality of gambling accounts in the event of a winning bet.