Casino Chip Security

[SenecaJim]

I just spent the last half-hour trying to tell my wife Casinos don't have a major problem with couterfeit chips. I told her I believed they have a computer chip or tracking type signal, whatever, now days.

She didn't believe that. I told her IF that wasn't true the expense of trying to match the composite, the logo, and manufacture as such would take know how and money. Yadda yadda yadda.

Anyway, can anybody that has a working knowledge of this issue please explain it in a definite and coherent way so that, well, I can go nah nah to my wife. Plus even though I have read stuff about the computer chip and could develop theories if not, I would like to know a definitive answer from someone more knowledgable than myself.

Thanks,
Beleaguered Husband

[wesrwood]

at foxwoods some people were caught making 100 dollar chips in their hotel room.foxwoods had to redesign the chips afterwards

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at foxwoods some people were caught making 100 dollar chips in their hotel room.foxwoods had to redesign the chips afterwards

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GD geniuses we have here! How stupid can you be to actually try to make them at the casino you're cashing them in? I mean, seriously, wtf. They deserve everything they have coming to them becuse they'd win the Stupid Criminal of the Year award.

[Diana Ross Fan]

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at foxwoods some people were caught making 100 dollar chips in their hotel room.foxwoods had to redesign the chips afterwards

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GD geniuses we have here! How stupid can you be to actually try to make them at the casino you're cashing them in? I mean, seriously, wtf. They deserve everything they have coming to them becuse they'd win the Stupid Criminal of the Year award.

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I dunno. Can Security look at you in your hotel room? I mean do they have people watching you shower?

[Repsychler]

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I dunno. Can Security look at you in your hotel room? I mean do they have people watching you shower?

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No, it'd be a huge PR mess if they did. They do, however, have employees enter your room every day. (Housekeeping)
I'd imagine most would report anything that looked like you were counterfeiting chips.

[Grasshopp3r]

Some of the higher denomination chips are numbered.

As far as chip counterfeiting, I imagine that the lower denoms are more vulnerable due to the cost of doing RFID as compared to the potential total fraud. How hard would it be to replicate the smaller denoms? Not too hard. Playing them at craps would launder them pretty quickly.

[Dave D]

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at foxwoods some people were caught making 100 dollar chips in their hotel room.foxwoods had to redesign the chips afterwards

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If true this amazes me how people can be smart enough to figure out how to make a fake chip, but dumb enough to do it in their hotel room, rather than somewhere else (so there's no evidence at least and they can claim they were given them at the table or something), AND managed to cause enough commotion for security to have to go to the room.

[lowpockets]

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at foxwoods some people were caught making 100 dollar chips in their hotel room.foxwoods had to redesign the chips afterwards

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I know foxwoods changed their chips, but I have never heard about this. I would need some more details before believing it. Especially since I have read about the process of making chips and it cannot be done without A) the proper machine to make them with, B) the perticular mold that the chips used (the old $100's at the woods used the Paulson Top Hat and Cane mold)and C) the recipe that Paulson uses for their chips.

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tell your wife you were right. Take her to visit the GPI website, home of the #1 casino chip manufacturer.

[sirpupnyc]

Well, RFID chips do exist, but they're not that widely used, are they?