Patent ID: 8070574

Claim:
A card game monitoring apparatus, comprising: a card-handling device to randomize and dispense cards during a casino table game play, the card-handling device forming a plurality of groups of cards, each group comprising one or more cards of a hand for a player position; a card recognition system to recognize card information including a rank and a suit of each card while each card is under control of the card-handling device; a control system comprising at least one processor and a memory wherein the control system is configured to: control the card-handling device; receive the card information for each card from the card recognition system; maintain a play history comprising a card composition of two or more rounds, one of which is a completed round, the card composition of each round comprising hand information for the cards in each group of cards dispensed in the round; and associate the hand information with each of the two or more rounds; and a display in communication with the control system and configured for displaying the card information corresponding to the hand information of at least one hand from at least one round of the two or more rounds.