Button on table. What is it?

[SecurityRisk]

Have any of you seen this before? I was at a casino playing blackjack. There is a button built into the table. It is in between the shoe and chip tray. The dealer presses this button right before dealing each hand. Does anyone know what that is?

 

[shadroch]

Maybe. Which casino are you talking about?

 

[Canceler]

Might be this: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showpost.php?p=39298&postcount=2

 

[SecurityRisk]

Might be this: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showpost.php?p=39298&postcount=2

Thanks. That's probably it. The button was white just like you described.

I'd rather not name the casino.

 

[shadroch]

If we knew the casino,then we could tell you if the place had mind-play.

 

[EasyRhino]

A local place (Sycuan) has such a button. Their tables are definitely not mindplay. And I don't think they're sophisticated enough to have RFID (either that or the PC's just religiously track chips out of habit). So I think it's more of a tool to clock the number of hands played, that feeds into the player rating computer.

 

[bj bob]

One way to at least eliminate the tracking question is to play that table heads-up without a player's card.

 

[aslan]

Might be this: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showpost.php?p=39298&postcount=2

Could the chip also be used to detect adding and subtracting chips from the original bet, a trick that is hard to catch when done by a pro?

 

[Automatic Monkey]

Thanks. That's probably it. The button was white just like you described.

I'd rather not name the casino.

It is exactly that. RFID. Potentially you can exploit this for comps.