Patent ID: 7938722

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a gaming table having a chip tray and an upper surface including a number of gaming chip placement areas; a plurality of gaming chips placeable within the chip tray, at least one of said plurality of gaming chips containing a plurality of RFID tags wherein at least one of the RFID tags is adapted to transmit data using at least one encryption protocol; and a plurality of RFID reading devices distributed about the gaming table, each adapted to read data transmitted from one or more of the gaming chips located at the upper surface of the gaming table; wherein at least one of the plurality of RFID tags includes at least one tamper proof RFID tag having a security breach component that automatically makes an alteration of data stored on the tamper proof RFID tag when an external source makes an unauthorized attempt to write data to the tamper proof RFID tag, said alteration comprising at least one of recording an alert on the RFID tag and erasing at least some of the data from the RFID tag.