Passive RFID tracking is one thing; as in, the casino may be able to excite the passive antennas and see where all $25k chips are in play inside the casino at a given point, but to presume that chips have some kind of active super-minature tracking transponder powered by air is a little far fetched.
I'd believe the passive stuff in a heartbeat over active RFID in every chip. Is it feasible, though, for each chip to have its own sig? I'm asking because it honestly seems to me to be one helllllllllllll of a crapload of sigs to deal with, and I just don't know. As stated above, I've never stepped foot in a casino, I can lose my money 5x easier at home.
I could see it being just like cash from the mint to banks I guess, if they're serialized or barcoded. Then if chips are stolen, they know what numbers were stolen, system is alerted, then as chips are checked in they get grabbed. THAT system seems plausible to me.
This was the was near the top of the list when I used the ole google foo...
Spending a few bucks to be able to track super high value chips does not seem out of line at all to me.
Spending a few bucks to be able to track super high value chips does not seem out of line at all to me.
I highly doubt the RFID, active or passive. I would guess that the casino will now remove all remaining chips of the stolen denominations, and replace them with a completely different design/color that way, if an old one shows up, its acquisition can be questioned.
Tracking as in evidence. Might as well grind it down to dust and call it good. Just to have it in existence would be too much heat.
On a side note, how the heck do you post a pic on here? Was gonna post a pic of some autographed chips I've obtained so far:
Bill Clinton, Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie), Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, James Woods, Paul Azinger, etc.
Don't care about poker players, so I don't have any of them.
On a side note, how the heck do you post a pic on here? Was gonna post a pic of some autographed chips I've obtained so far:
Bill Clinton, Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie), Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, James Woods, Paul Azinger, etc.
Don't care about poker players, so I don't have any of them.
Think in terms of a 'cardkey' system where a person has to wave or swipe an access card to clear a door. Each one of those cards is unique to the individual assigned to it; in that way you can pull audit trails to see when & where a card was scanned. (FYI: the biggest cardkey system I've been involved with had over 500,000 unique cardholders in a major university system in Texas)
I'm certain that those chips are serialized in the same way. If someone claims theft, the guy running the computer can just invalidate a chip (or a bunch of chips) and make it useless...
A bold theft, but not very well thought out.
Wow. Well, I guess it's not that expensive. Probably some third world gig, but you can buy them for $1.65-8.65 per, which is pretty cheap compared to a 25k loss for the casino I guess. Not to mention there's no way they pay that much on their bulk orders.
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/278782939/RFID_Poker_chip.html
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/278782939/RFID_Poker_chip.html
Casinos recognize other casinos chips. They couldnt change the chips it would cost them way more than what he got away with. not to mention all the people who play and just keep their chips until they go back. He will funnel the chips back in with out any problems. little here a little there. The casino had done onto them as they do onto others..got their money took.
I'd be willing to bet the Casinos (and their insurers) aren't so short sighted as to be vulnerable as you describe.
BTW: If it's that easy, why isn't 'chip counterfeiting' a more promenient crime?
No. Not even. This was theft of the illegal kind. ETA: It was also puzzified theft, using a gun.
No one makes anyone go to casinos, same as no one makes you drink beer, smoke cigarettes, eat at McDonalds, whatever. That is part of what is screwing us over right now.
Just like the others, I agree that it's an easy way to lose. So like I said above, I don't go to them. I also don't blame fast food joints for my lazy azz not working out. When I was drinking heavily, I didn't blame the alcohol companies. When I decided I was doing it too much, I stopped, just like that. My Grandpa did the same thing with smoking, 40 years a smoker, no doctor telling him he needed to quit, he just quit.
If you want a crutch, make one for yourself. Don't blame other people and then hire a lawyer because you don't have the mental capacity or ability to stop your own problems yourself.
