question on chips

[Molson]

Sorry not A BJ question but this is the only forum i ues. Ok when i go to my local casino anything in £100 denominations comes in a pespex card slightly larger the a credit card.
Now can someone please tell me if anything stops me from going to my collage machine shop and replicating this chip.
sounds a bit dodge i no i promise i would never do this its just curiosity.

Molson

 

[Jeff25]

Sorry not A BJ question but this is the only forum i ues. Ok when i go to my local casino anything in £100 denominations comes in a pespex card slightly larger the a credit card.
Now can someone please tell me if anything stops me from going to my collage machine shop and replicating this chip.
sounds a bit dodge i no i promise i would never do this its just curiosity.

Molson

The fear of getting caught and going to jail would stop me.

 

[EasyRhino]

Several years ago, a retired machinist started manufacturing dollar slot tokens for various casinos.

Just recently, a local casino re-designed their $500 chips. Rumor on the floor was because there had been a theft of those chips. (They shortly redesigned all their chips)

 

[ihate17]

Counterfeit chips

Periodicly casinos have problems with counterfeit chips. There are hidden ID markers on large chips that a good counterfeiter often can copy. This has happened in Asia more than anywhere else.
The use of RFID chips within chips has been growing. We generally think of it as a way to track the bets of customers for comps or perhaps to correlate to a count if someone is also running a counting program on the player, but that is only one of the benifits to a casino, detecting counterfeits may be the prime reason for RFID.

With today's technology, the replication of a clay chip is quite simple and dangerous to a casino's life. Small time operators who counterfeit dollar tokens and small denomination chips can probably do this for long periods of time before being caught as the casinos worry most about $100 and larger chips.

I have also seen casinos that do not use RFID still put high denomination chips under some kind of reader when cashing out. So they have some kind of ID device that is not noticeable to the naked eye.

I know of casinos that even have RFID in their white chips.

I think one of the Reno hotels got stuck for a fair amount of counterfeit chips about a year ago.

ihate17

 

[shadroch]

I'm not sure it's accurate but I was told that if you are caught with fake chips in Atlantic City,each chip is considered a criminal offence.In other words,if you have five chips,you are charged with five different charges. Ten,one hundred,whatever.Each seperate offence is punishible by a year or two in state prison.

 

[ChefJJ]

I have also seen casinos that do not use RFID still put high denomination chips under some kind of reader when cashing out. So they have some kind of ID device that is not noticeable to the naked eye.

ihate17

That makes sense...I think I've seen some places put larger denomination chips under kind of a blacklight or infrared thing at the cage.