Patent ID: 7753781

Claim:
A system used to indicate at a gaming table whether betting information of a player has been associated with the player at least for player comping purposes based on information including the betting information received from a gaming table which includes a plurality of player betting positions on the table within which one or more chips to be bet can be placed, the system comprising: a computer which receives the betting information from each betting position relating to a chip or chips at a respective betting position on the gaming table; an indicator device associated with each betting position on the gaming table viewable from a player side of the table, each indicator device having a plurality of indicating conditions; the respective indicator device associated with each of the respective betting positions being controlled by the computer based on information received by the computer comprising (a) information indicating that another hand is being played at the table, (b) player identity information associated with a respective betting position or positions and (c) the betting information received by the computer from a respective betting position or positions; the computer being configured to cause the indicator device associated with a respective betting position to change one of the plurality of indicating conditions thereof to a different one of the plurality of indicating conditions thereof after receiving the information that another hand is being played if the betting information received by the computer from the respective betting position has been associated with a respective player identity at least for player comping purposes.