Patent ID: 7329186

Claim:
A method of providing one or more gaming events at a gaming event location involving the placement of wagers, the play of games, and the possibility of monetary awards based upon the outcomes of the games, the method comprising: permitting a player at said gaming event location to check in with a player tracking instrument, wherein said player tracking instrument contains a radio frequency identification tag therein and a rewritable display thereupon; reading said player tracking instrument through a display device having a display and read region, wherein said display device is adapted both to display gaming related information and to read player related information through said display and read region; associating information read from said player tracking instrument with an account assigned to said player; prompting said player to provide a player specific biometric identifier at said gaming event location; reading said provided biometric identifier through said display and read region of said display device; verifying that said biometric identifier corresponds to biometric information previously stored for said player; allowing funds from said account assigned to said player to be available to said player for the play of said one or more gaming events; accepting one or more wagers from said player for the play of said one or more gaming events at said gaming event location, wherein at least a portion of said one or more wagers involves funds from said account assigned to said player; playing said one or more gaming events at said gaming event location; tracking a monetary balance for said player with respect to the outcome or outcomes of said one or more gaming events; prompting said player to check in again with said player tracking instrument; sending a radio frequency communication to said player tracking instrument; rewriting at least a portion of said rewritable display on said player tracking instrument in response to said radio frequency communication; reading said rewritten portion of said rewritable display through said display and read region of said display device; confirming that said rewritten portion of said rewritable display is correct in accordance with said radio frequency communication; and crediting at least a portion of said monetary balance to said account assigned to said player.