NZ744179A - Table game system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention directed to a table game system is made to enhance the quality of management of card games at entertainment facilities such as casinos. The table game system comprises shuffled playing cards composed of playing cards made up of a plurality of number of decks shuffled to have a unique arrangement order, a uniquely identifiable shuffled card ID being attached to the shuffled playing cards as an ID code; and a card shoe apparatus that houses the shuffled playing cards such that the housed shuffled playing cards are manually dealt one by one onto a game table, wherein the card shoe apparatus comprising a card housing unit for housing the shuffled playing cards; an opening for drawing cards from the card housing unit one by one; a card reading unit that reads from a card drawn from the card housing unit onto the game table information contained in the said card on a rank thereof; wherein a control unit with a database identifies a current card set, which is used in a current game, and identifies an end time of use of the shuffled playing cards based on a cut card, wherein the database contains game table information which indicates one of the game tables on which the identified current card set is used, the database contains the following items: (1) the start time of the use of the shuffled playing cards; (2) the end time of the use of the shuffled playing cards; and (3) the start time of the use of the next new shuffled playing cards.