How do casinos keep track of the amount of chips in a dealer’s care at a table to make sure the dealer isn’t pocketing them or paying out too much?

Question

I used to think it was some kind of process like a cashier till where the dealer would pick up a tray with X amount of chips, and then have to turn it in where everything is counted and reconciled somehow.

But I saw in a movie (never been to a casino myself to gamble) where one dealer would just walk up and tag-out another dealer and take over their spot. It made me wonder how everything was accounted for.

What’s to keep a dealer from slipping an extra $500 chip every once in awhile to their buddies?

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Answer 1

Dealt for 10 years, the floor supervisors regularly check what’s in the computer system and compare what’s in the dealers rack. As long as the dealer keeps their rack nice and tidy a floor can literally glance at a color and know a very close estimate. They spend more time checking the higher values, 100, 500, 1000 etc but will guesstimate the smaller