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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Aside from being watched by a bunch of pit bosses and the untold amount of visible and hidden cameras being monitored by a crew, dealers and cashiers must handle all cash and checks (chips) in a specific manner to ensure it’s clearly visible to the cameras and customers (players).
They have to handle the checks in a manner where they can’t “palm” them.
In the end, it’s up to the player to ensure they are properly paid.
Many years ago, I saw a security video of a blackjack dealer who slipped a $100 chip out of his chip tray and put it in his mouth, and then stood there after they took the chip tray away. He was standing there waiting to be cleared and released. They let the poor guy stand there for quite a while, sweating and fidgeting with the chip in his mouth. Finally, two security guards came and hustled him away.
Aside from being watched by a bunch of pit bosses and the untold amount of visible and hidden cameras being monitored by a crew, dealers and cashiers must handle all cash and checks (chips) in a specific manner to ensure it’s clearly visible to the cameras and customers (players).
They have to handle the checks in a manner where they can’t “palm” them.
In the end, it’s up to the player to ensure they are properly paid.
Many years ago, I saw a security video of a blackjack dealer who slipped a $100 chip out of his chip tray and put it in his mouth, and then stood there after they took the chip tray away. He was standing there waiting to be cleared and released. They let the poor guy stand there for quite a while, sweating and fidgeting with the chip in his mouth. Finally, two security guards came and hustled him away.
There are very few, if any places on earth, where you have every one of your movements watched and recorded more than a casino. Outside of highly important government buildings (White House, Pentagon, CIA stations, etc). You are ALWAYS being watched.
There are very few, if any places on earth, where you have every one of your movements watched and recorded more than a casino. Outside of highly important government buildings (White House, Pentagon, CIA stations, etc). You are ALWAYS being watched.
High denomination cheques are tracked fairly tightly so a dealer’s only opportunity to try to send out extra without being noticed easily would be when a high roller is at their table. But in that case, their supervisor will spend more time watching the game than normal, making it harder not to get caught. Realistically, a skilled and careful crooked dealer could steal small amounts of moment for some time, but in the long run it is more likely than not that they will be caught, due to the level of surveillance in a casino.
High denomination cheques are tracked fairly tightly so a dealer’s only opportunity to try to send out extra without being noticed easily would be when a high roller is at their table. But in that case, their supervisor will spend more time watching the game than normal, making it harder not to get caught. Realistically, a skilled and careful crooked dealer could steal small amounts of moment for some time, but in the long run it is more likely than not that they will be caught, due to the level of surveillance in a casino.
Good question, never thought about that but I assume the answer is there are so many cameras anyone transporting money is watched the whole way and/or being followed by other people
Everybody is being watched. The watchers are being watched. Records are kept as to who signs out chips, and who cashes them in. It isn’t foolproof, but it is heavily supervised and you probably couldn’t get away with stealing for very long, if at all. In the past few years, casinos have also started embedding RFID tags into higher value chips, which allows them to track the movement of the chips continuously. Any chip showing up somewhere unusual, and it sets off alarms.
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