Viva RFID
Steve Wynn has announced plans to use RFID tags in the gamming chips at his new Las Vegas Casino. Last time I was in Vegas I was a little surprised to find out the casinos haven’t been doing this all along. Privacy concerns with RFID tags used in more public places, consumer goods and government issued currency are obvious. But here we have an industry which produces its own wampum in the form of little clay chips that can’t be too hard to reproduce. The addition of RFID tags won’t effect game play, and considering the watchful eye of the LV gaming comish the change won’t give the house an upper hand at all. As someone who can sit at a 10 or 25 dollar blackjack table for a twelve hour shift and stagger bets very frequently into the 100’s not expecting to make any money, but not loose anything significant either, I want to see some comps. With the tags in place this should really balance things out for players sitting at low denomination tables but betting significant hands, and still allow the pit bosses and hosts to play nice to the people blowing wads. Vegas is a city of people looking to screw someone, weather it’s a hooker or Steve Wynn a little protection can’t hurt; especially in a case like this where we are dealing with such a closed monetary system.
Unless of course they can track the chips from the table, to me, to the hooker and back to the table; that would suck.
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