Re-characterization of bets at table games
View Patent ↗A gaming table allows late bets and bet re-characterizations to increase the action available to the player during a single game instance. Such late bets and bet re-characterizations are tracked through the use of an additional token associated with the wager stack of the player.
1. A gaming table comprising:
a playing surface comprising:
a banker hand area;
at least one player station comprising a player display; and
a plurality of RFID interrogators adapted to detect placement and movement of RFID chips and re-characterization tokens;
a shoe from which cards are dealt; and a control system operatively coupled to the player display, the shoe, and the plurality of RFID interrogators and adapted to: receive information about at least one of the cards dealt from the shoe;
determine that a first bet has been placed by a player associated with the player station;
dynamically determine, based on at least one factor relevant to the first bet, each of a modified odds and a corresponding modified payout for a particular bet re-characterization of the first bet,
wherein at least one bet re-characterization is available via the control system,
and further wherein the control system is operable to suppress the at least one bet re-characterization available via the control system based on at least one of the first bet and the at least one of the cards dealt;
display the available odds and the corresponding modified payout for the particular bet re-characterization on the player display, thereby making the particular bet re-characterization available to the player;
detect placement of a bet re-characterization token with at least one RFID interrogator of the plurality of RFID interrogators, wherein the bet re-characterization token corresponds to the particular bet re-characterization and further wherein the bet re-characterization token has no monetary value as a wagering chip aside from being indicative of a re-characterization wager being placed;
display an acknowledgment of that the first bet has been re-characterized into a second bet in accordance with the particular bet re-characterization based at least in part on the placement of the bet re-characterization token and at the modified odds;
determine whether the player wins the re characterized second bet; and
inform a dealer of a payout for the player.
2. The gaming table of claim 1 wherein the control system is further adapted to detect a late bet by the player.
3. The gaming table of claim 1 wherein the playing surface reflects a baccarat playing surface.
4. The gaming table of claim 1 further comprising a dealer station comprising a dealer display.
5. The gaming table of claim 4 wherein the control system is further adapted to display payout information to the dealer through the dealer display.
6. The gaming table of claim 1 wherein the control system is further adapted to suppress at least one of the at least one available bet re-characterizations based on at least one of: the first bet and cards dealt.
7. The gaming table of claim 1 wherein the control system is further adapted to provide a bet slider through the player display, wherein the bet slider allows the player to determine a hypothetical payout based on a hypothetical bet re-characterization.
8. The gaming table of claim 1 wherein the control system is further adapted to determine cards remaining in the shoe based on cards dealt.