Patent ID: 8388429

Claim:
A player tracking apparatus that communicates with a management server for authenticating a player, comprising: a display panel which displays information to be provided to a player playing at a gaming machine when the player is authenticated by the management server; a camera which picks up the player as an image for an authentication of the player at the management server; a card slot which is provided lateral of the display panel, inserting and ejecting an information card storing information related to a played result in the gaming machine; a cabinet which has the display panel, the camera, and the card slot integrally provided therein; a card stacker which stacks the information cards in plurality; a detecting portion which detects the number of cards stacked on the card stacker; a memory which stores the detected number of cards; a light emitting portion which emits light in accordance with the number of cards; and a controller which is programmed to execute the processing of (A) causing the light emitting portion to emit light in a first mode in a case where the number of cards stored in the memory is a first reference number or less and is more than 0, (B) causing the light emitting portion to emit light in a second mode in a case where the number of cards stored in the memory is a second reference number or more and is less than a upper limit, (C) stopping a game executed in the gaming machine in a case where the number of cards stored in the memory is 0, and (D) stopping the game in a case where the number of cards stored in the memory is the upper limit.