RFID Playing Cards
In 2004, our team put a chip in a playing card and let the world see the hole cards. Twenty years on, we build the most advanced card-reading systems in televised poker.
The complete card-data pipeline — decks, readers, encryption, and the APIs that feed any broadcast graphics system.
Casino-grade playing cards with embedded RFID inlays — the feel, snap, and durability dealers expect, with the data layer broadcast demands.
Embedded antenna arrays for every seat and the board, built into custom tables or retrofitted into a casino's own — reading cards in real time without changing how the game is dealt.
Hole cards are encrypted the moment they are read and stay encrypted at rest. Access is tiered and enforced server-side — live, delayed, or no-card access per role — so integrity is architecture, not policy.
A machine-learning vision pipeline that identifies board cards from the camera feed alone — a second, independent read that verifies the RFID data or covers productions where RFID decks aren't an option.
Complete, tamper-evident hand records: every card, action, and timestamp logged for compliance review — the audit trail regulators and operators ask for.
Clean JSON over HTTP and WebSocket, plus OSC for control surfaces — card and game data that plugs into our graphics stack or any third-party system you already run.
The first RFID playing card debuted at Turning Stone Casino in July 2004 and changed how poker is watched. The full origin story — the inventors, the patent filing, the first broadcast — is preserved at rfid.poker.