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if you've ever walked into a casino it might seem like a fairly straightforward

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operation lots and lots of flashing

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lights and Candy Crush sound effects you stick a couple bucks into a slot machine

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you hope it spits out thousands of dollars or you throw down some chips on

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the craps table and pray that the dice stay hot simple right no as it turns out

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the level of Technology you interact

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with inside a game establishment is among the most

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sophisticated anywhere and it probably shouldn't be that surprising given how

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much money is constantly turning through

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a casino basically the moment you set

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foot inside it goes to work you see many

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casinos keep databases on specific

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people card counters people who have been caught stealing or maybe even just

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that guy yes you Kevin who had too many

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free cocktails and decided to use the potted plant in the corner as a urinal

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and they achieved this by using biometric scanning to capture an image

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of your face when you walk in the door to compare you against a database of

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undesir but let's say you've never tried to pull off an Oceans 11 style Heist so

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security leaves you alone and you make your way over to a slot machine well it

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used to be that you would pull down the ARM cross your fingers and hope that

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when the mechanical reels stopped spinning a bunch of fruit or something

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would line up but these days the attention grabbing Graphics are just for

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show slot machines determine if you've won or lost almost immediately after you

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press spin using a pseudo random number

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generator that Awards prizes based on pre-programmed paytables that are

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spitting out numbers at a rate of hundreds per second by Design they

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occasionally Award Big jackpots that allow the casino to entice others in

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with dreams of striking it rich while also preventing frequent gamblers from

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being able to figure out when a machine is hot to keep payouts tight this is

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critical because over 2/3 of the average

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casino revenue comes from slot machines

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so so being a Savvy Gambler then you give up on the slots and go set some

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money down on the blackjack table instead where the dealer hands you a

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stack of chips now these might seem like

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mere pieces of plastic but the chips actually contain more

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chips RFID chips that is they contain

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serial numbers that are scanned both at the tables as well as when you take them

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to the cashier this prevents people from from trying to cash counterfeit chips

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and also protects the casino in cases where authentic ones get stolen one Mis

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creant lifted $1.5 million in chips from

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the Bellagio in Las Vegas back in 2010

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so the casino simply invalidated their RFID tags so the dude ended up going to

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prison for stealing what were essentially a bunch of worthless

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Chuck-E-Cheese tokens I almost feel bad

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for him and for yet another layer of security chips can also contain special

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UV inlays that only show up under a

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black light similar to features found in modern currency which you can learn more

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about here and chips aren't the only

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little handheld items at casinos with baked in protection the playing cards

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can have barcodes printed on them with invisible ink these are scanned when the

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dealer clears them off the table so the odds are that if you're trying to use

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slight of hand to switch cards you're going to end up with a date with big Kim

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but you're an honest player and besides

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surely you wouldn't think of trying to cheat with all of those cameras on the

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ceiling anyway and that would probably be wise although some of them are just

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regular surveillance cameras others are actually connected to systems that can

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recognize which cards are dealt betting

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patterns and even wins and losses for

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each player at the table so because

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long-term trends in casino games are rather predictable these cameras can

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help casinos pick up on the abnormal patterns that occur when someone might

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be counting cards trying to perform trickery with their chips or colluding

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with a dealer or another player to cheat

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now of course not all Casino technology is security related you know that

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Players Club card they give you for free that you've been inserting into slot

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machines handing to dealers and even showing at the cocktail bar although

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they track how much you're spending so they can give you comps and discounts

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they also use that data to build a detailed picture of what your favorite

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games are how much you've won or lost whether you're a skilled player and even

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which casino restaurants you're eating at in order to offer you perks that will

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lure you back to the casino and entice

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you to keep gambling especially if their

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algorithms think that the casino can suck lots of money out of you in the

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future so if you won big on your last

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