I read on Wired.com that Andrew Milner, chairman of Aces Wild, an Australian IT company recently developed a RFID enabled poker table that allows him to track every card in each players hand every deal. The RFID enabled poker table cost Milner over $7,000 dollars and took him over three months to make.

Right now most televised poker games show each players cards through a tiny camera hidden in the poker table. Andrew Milner's idea is going to make televising poker games a lot easier and more detailed. With this technology it allows you to be able to automatically calculate the drawing odds before a player even receives a card, which is basically card counting, but only the televised audience will see the odds.

Since RFID tags are so thin, theirs no problem placing them onto playing cards. The problem comes with security. RFID tags are not secure and if some one could figure out which RFID number corresponds with each card and could be near the table with a RFID reader, then they could know which cards where on the table. This could be a problem with televised games that have live audiences.

The entire card reading process is controlled by a piece of software that Milner wrote. The above picture is the applications screen used to setup the games. The picture below is of the video files used. Theirs a video file for each and every possible hand. When some one has that hand the corresponding video is then played onto the video screen.