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Originally Posted by BigKyle  I dont think custom ASMs would be much of a problem security wise. Ditto custom BCC, especially the giant inlay chips. |
You sure about that? If you order custom clays, why can't I order the same color and edge spots? Inlays can be different but I can get chips that look the same in your stack of chips and if you can't see the face of the chip, you won't notice it's a fake. A rack of house $25s with 10 of the same edge spot and chip base color in the middle of the rack just cost the house $250. When is the last time the card room you played at took chips out of a rack and looked at the middle chips when you were cashing out? They look at the edge of the chips, take a chip and try to insert it into the edge to make sure each row in the rack isn't short a chip and cash you out. I can't be the only person here who brings one or two racks worth of chips to the cage when cashing out on a good night. Now multiply that by X number of tables and Y number of players in a busy card room.
One doesn't need the fake chips to pass a complete inspection, just enough to pass on a crowded table. If one wins with a hand full of fake $25 chips mixed in with real chips, great, cash out the winnings, if one loses then one only risked the act of putting them into play. During a busy night, it could be very hard to figure out who slipped them in. Remember, this isn't a friendly, everyone is your buddy or a friend of a friend game, this is a business. I'd be surprised if someone would run a business based on the idea everyone in the world is trustworthy. Security by trusting the general public seems like a bad business model for any business with significant money at stake. This is not a corn/fruit stand with a wood box to leave money in, or a take a penny leave a penny tray. This is conceivably tens of thousands of dollars changing hands every few hours.
At the end of the night, after chips have been cashed in, is when they will likely be noticed and only after management is asking why money is 'missing'. Just imagine cashing people out at the end of the night and running out of money while people still have chips left to cash in because the house now has more chips than they started with.
Not trying to promote the idea that this is a good way to live ones life. Just saying that anyone who is thinking about running a card room better consider security and why a company like Paulson is so restrictive about what they will sell to the general public.
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