It's RFID, stupid
I guess I'm totally bored today because I keep posting.
Mark told me about the blogs that talk about the massive chip discrepancy in the World Series of Poker main event.
The total number of chips, according to Pokerblog, should be a little more than 87.7 million.
The actual number of chips by the remaining players is 88.2 million, which is a discrepancy of more than 50 $10,000 buy-ins.
Mark and I discussed this and it's simple: RFID is the answer.
The WSOP would be the perfect place to showcase this radio-frequency technology in which chips could not easily be counterfeited and then the chips' own broadcasts could keep straight where they are and make quick and accurate chip counts possible.
Then casinos could roll out RFID chips on their regular gaming floors.
Keeping the chips straight would take away at least one complaint of how poorly the WSOP has been run since it left the old Horseshoe.
Mark told me about the blogs that talk about the massive chip discrepancy in the World Series of Poker main event.
The total number of chips, according to Pokerblog, should be a little more than 87.7 million.
The actual number of chips by the remaining players is 88.2 million, which is a discrepancy of more than 50 $10,000 buy-ins.
Mark and I discussed this and it's simple: RFID is the answer.
The WSOP would be the perfect place to showcase this radio-frequency technology in which chips could not easily be counterfeited and then the chips' own broadcasts could keep straight where they are and make quick and accurate chip counts possible.
Then casinos could roll out RFID chips on their regular gaming floors.
Keeping the chips straight would take away at least one complaint of how poorly the WSOP has been run since it left the old Horseshoe.
posted by kurokitty at
3:04 PM
3 Comments:
Seriously.
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Mark, at 9:21 PM
I am being completely serial here folks.
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deliverator, at 10:40 PM
Bad boys. Big brother alert. Ok, so if the us govt could, they would put RFID in all moiney. Hey, then they know how much you have, where your money has been (software tracking history of the RFID path) and who it goes to. Cash is no longer anonymous. Ok, now go to casinos. They would love to do the same thing; to figure out if you have a habit of leaving their cansio and going somewhere else; to figure what path you take most often; to figure out which bathroom you go to most. TO TRACK YOU AND YOUR HABITS.
Putting it into the chips has been talked about to do precisely this. Once it's done, it's done. None are going to agree to only do it during the series. Harrah's doen't have the people's best interest in mind. That would not be being a responsable company. They want to make money and protect their interests.
Then it starts going into other things. Everything in the gift shops, the glasses the free drinks come in (that affects you sham), the frikkin whalebones. I see it as a rather dangerous slippery slope. Screw the whole tracking me thing. I'm down with RFID where it makes sense, but I'm against even the subdermal implants for dogs, why would I want my own?
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thecaffiend, at 3:45 PM
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