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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When the table is opened the chips are counted by a dealer and a pit boss who then sign off on a slip. When players buy in the cash is entered into a computer, and chips are given equaling the same value. At the end of the night the tray is counted again, and if there’s a discrepency (a variance we called it) between the chips and the computer then you re-count. If there’s still a variance another pit boss comes over and counts with the dealer again. If there’s still a variance then you sign off on it, inform the floor manager, and a surveilance review will be done over night to find it. This is obviously for casinos that close, for casino’s that don’t close I assume they just do counts periodically. We did rough counts periodically (once an hour) just to make sure nothing really seemed off.
In my 7 years in the industry we never once had something go missing we didn’t find.
Source: 7 years in tables, 2 as a dealer, 3 as a pitboss, 2 as a floor manager.
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