MY188140A - Card shooter device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

A card shoe apparatus (4) capable of preventing fraudulent acts is provided. A card shoe apparatus (4) includes a card guide unit (7) that guides cards (1) that are manually drawn out one by one from a card housing unit (5) onto a game table (6), a code reading unit (8) that, when a card (1) is drawn out from the card housing unit (5), reads from that card (1) a code (2) that indicates a rank (number, rank) of that card (1), a authenticity determination unit (9) that determines the authenticity of the card based on the information of the authenticity of the card, a winning/losing determination unit (10) that determines the winning/losing of a card game based on the ranks of the cards (1) sequentially read by the code reading unit (8), and an output unit (11) that outputs the results of the determination made by the winning/losing determination unit (10). The card guide unit (7) includes a card entry/exit restriction unit (30) or (40) that restricts the entry/exit of the card (1) to/from the card housing unit (5). (Fig. 1)