if you've ever walked into a casino it might seem like a fairly straightforward
operation lots and lots of flashing
lights and Candy Crush sound effects you stick a couple bucks into a slot machine
you hope it spits out thousands of dollars or you throw down some chips on
the craps table and pray that the dice stay hot simple right no as it turns out
the level of Technology you interact
with inside a game establishment is among the most
sophisticated anywhere and it probably shouldn't be that surprising given how
much money is constantly turning through
a casino basically the moment you set
foot inside it goes to work you see many
casinos keep databases on specific
people card counters people who have been caught stealing or maybe even just
that guy yes you Kevin who had too many
free cocktails and decided to use the potted plant in the corner as a urinal
and they achieved this by using biometric scanning to capture an image
of your face when you walk in the door to compare you against a database of
undesir but let's say you've never tried to pull off an Oceans 11 style Heist so
security leaves you alone and you make your way over to a slot machine well it
used to be that you would pull down the ARM cross your fingers and hope that
when the mechanical reels stopped spinning a bunch of fruit or something
would line up but these days the attention grabbing Graphics are just for
show slot machines determine if you've won or lost almost immediately after you
press spin using a pseudo random number
generator that Awards prizes based on pre-programmed paytables that are
spitting out numbers at a rate of hundreds per second by Design they
occasionally Award Big jackpots that allow the casino to entice others in
with dreams of striking it rich while also preventing frequent gamblers from
being able to figure out when a machine is hot to keep payouts tight this is
critical because over 2/3 of the average
casino revenue comes from slot machines
so so being a Savvy Gambler then you give up on the slots and go set some
money down on the blackjack table instead where the dealer hands you a
stack of chips now these might seem like
mere pieces of plastic but the chips actually contain more
chips RFID chips that is they contain
serial numbers that are scanned both at the tables as well as when you take them
to the cashier this prevents people from from trying to cash counterfeit chips
and also protects the casino in cases where authentic ones get stolen one Mis
creant lifted $1.5 million in chips from
the Bellagio in Las Vegas back in 2010
so the casino simply invalidated their RFID tags so the dude ended up going to
prison for stealing what were essentially a bunch of worthless
Chuck-E-Cheese tokens I almost feel bad
for him and for yet another layer of security chips can also contain special
UV inlays that only show up under a
black light similar to features found in modern currency which you can learn more
about here and chips aren't the only
little handheld items at casinos with baked in protection the playing cards
can have barcodes printed on them with invisible ink these are scanned when the
dealer clears them off the table so the odds are that if you're trying to use
slight of hand to switch cards you're going to end up with a date with big Kim
but you're an honest player and besides
surely you wouldn't think of trying to cheat with all of those cameras on the
ceiling anyway and that would probably be wise although some of them are just
regular surveillance cameras others are actually connected to systems that can
recognize which cards are dealt betting
patterns and even wins and losses for
each player at the table so because
long-term trends in casino games are rather predictable these cameras can
help casinos pick up on the abnormal patterns that occur when someone might
be counting cards trying to perform trickery with their chips or colluding
with a dealer or another player to cheat
now of course not all Casino technology is security related you know that
Players Club card they give you for free that you've been inserting into slot
machines handing to dealers and even showing at the cocktail bar although
they track how much you're spending so they can give you comps and discounts
they also use that data to build a detailed picture of what your favorite
games are how much you've won or lost whether you're a skilled player and even
which casino restaurants you're eating at in order to offer you perks that will
lure you back to the casino and entice
you to keep gambling especially if their
algorithms think that the casino can suck lots of money out of you in the
future so if you won big on your last
trip to Vegas be wary of any special
offers you get that are designed to get you to hand all of that money right back
but feel free to go crazy with that two for one Buffet coupon that one's
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