Remote game play in a wireless gaming environment
A system employs a server computing system with an integrated database and wireless communications devices. The wireless communications devices permits players to take a position on a potential outcome of a game and includes remote game play and remote backline playing (taking a position on a potential outcome of a position on game outcome taken by a primary player occupying a player position at a gaming table) and other types of positions not involving money. In response to the electronic indication that the primary player is no longer occupying the player position at the gaming table the system automatically initiates a period locking out players taking positions on the potential outcome of the game such as a position on game outcome lock out period for such proposed backline positions on game outcome and modifies the user interface on a wireless device of the dealer accordingly.
1. A system for operating a table game system via a communication network and for accepting game outcome predictions from a remote wireless communication device having a video display with a touch enabled user interface, the table game system including one or more gaming tables each having a plurality of positions for a dealer and live, primary players, the system comprising:
a server configured to receive table data indicating occupancy of the table positions by participating primary players and provide the same to the wireless communication device over the network;
the wireless communication device including a processor configured by a processor-readable memory storing executable instructions to cause the processor, in response to the received table data, to:
control the video display to display (i) user-selectable primary game outcome prediction icons and (ii) a plurality of user-selectable primary player backline outcome prediction icons where the user-selectable primary game outcome prediction icons represent possible game outcomes selectable by a primary player prior to the conclusion of a current instance of a game executed on the gaming table, the user-selectable back-line outcome prediction icons represents a possible backline game proposition outcome selectable prior to conclusion of a current instance of a game executed on the gaming table; and
disable user selection of backline prediction icons for a primary player position for which table data indicative of occupancy of a participating primary player has not been received by the server.
2. The system of claim 1 including a dealer system user interface, the system comprising the server configured to receive the table data as data responsive to a dealer input at the dealer system interface indicating the occupancy of one or more player positions.
3. The system of claim 1 including at least one sensor to sense and provide the table data indicating the occupancy of a table position by a participating primary player by sensing the physical presence of at least one of a primary player or a game piece used in the play of the game.
4. In an environment including a communication network, a server on the network and one or more gaming tables each having a plurality of positions for a dealer and live, primary players, a method for a user of a wireless communication device to operate a table gaming automation system comprising:
receiving, by the server, signals indicating occupancy of the table positions by participating primary players and providing data to the wireless communication device over the network;
controlling, by the wireless communication device, a video display at the device for displaying (i) user-selectable primary game outcome prediction icons and (ii) a plurality of user-selectable primary player backline outcome prediction icons where the user-selectable primary game outcome prediction icons represent possible game outcomes selectable by a primary player prior to the conclusion of a current instance of a game executed on the gaming table, the user-selectable back-line outcome prediction icons represents a possible backline game proposition outcome selectable prior to conclusion of a current instance of a game executed on the gaming table; and
disabling, by the wireless communication device, user selection of backline prediction icons for a primary player position for which table data indicative of occupancy of a participating primary player has not been received by the server.
5. The method of claim 4 including a dealer system user interface, the method comprising the server receiving the table data as data responsive to a dealer inputting at the dealer system interface indications of the occupancy of one or more player positions.
6. The method of claim 4 comprising the server receiving signals from at least one sensor to sense and provide the signals received by the server to indicate the occupancy of a table position by a participating primary player by sensing the physical presence of at least one of a primary player or a game piece used in the play of the game.