Proxy player machine

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Consequently, there is a need for an efficient way to empower a proxy player at a gaming hall so that he or she can economically and practically play a game on behalf of numerous remote clients or home personal computer users located throughout the country.
Therefore, a computer user at home need not be playing but instead merely observing the results of the game which the automated and empowered proxy player is playing on his or her behalf at the gaming hall.
In order to fully comply with the proxy play restraint, and still offer the on-line home computer user or client the full entertainment value of a fast moving, challenging game, the empowered proxy player needs to be able to make relatively sophisticated decisions and perform relatively complicated tasks.
In order to so empower the proxy player, an automated Proxy Player Machine is provided, which, in its preferred embodiment as described herein, uses off-the shelf computer equipment, software, and peripherals along with custom applications software.
In the past, people unable to attend a bingo hall have given money to bingo hall attendees to buy bingo cards and play the cards on their behalf.
Recently, many manufacturers have developed microcomputer-based electronic player stations (EPS's) that are capable of automatically playing hundreds or thousands of cards on behalf of a single operator.
Consequently, an EPS operator can play cards on behalf of many others who are not present.
In this case, the EPS operator acts as an agent or a proxy player on behalf of those remote clients who are not present.
Applicant's Proxy Player Machine is a proxy player computer/communications system that sends an electronic signal from the EPS proxy player to the remote client and either prints or displays for the remote client a receipt that contains a replica of the card or cards that are being played by the EPS proxy operator on behalf of the remote client before a game such as bingo begins.
The results of a bingo game, in terms of the balls drawn, are also transmitted by the Machine and displayed to the remote client