Printing playing cards at a gaming table
A gaming table is provided with an associated playing card printer. At the beginning of play, the playing card printer prints an entire deck of playing cards on suitable card stock. The deck of playing cards is printed in a random order as determined by a random number generator. The deck of playing cards is collated into a stack of cards and presented to the dealer who then uses this deck of playing cards to deal the casino game.
1. A method of dealing playing cards at a gaming table comprising:
a) providing a gaming table and a playing card printer associated with the gaming table;
b) prior to the start of a card game at the gaming table, activating the playing card printer to print out an entire deck of playing cards on suitable card stock; the entire deck of playing cards being printed in a random order that varies from game to game;
c) collating the entire deck of printed playing cards so that a dealer may use this deck to deal a card game.
2. The method of claim 1 in which the card game is Baccarat and a new entire deck of playing cards is printed and used in the Baccarat game for each hand of the Baccarat game.