From the gambler’s perspective not much has changed. He walks up to the blackjack table, buys some chips and places a bet. But at 1,000 casinos in 20 countries there’s a whole lot more happening on the back end.
More and more casinos are spending money to put radio frequency identification tags in gaming chips, says Bodo Ischebeck, vice president RFID and table management systems at Progressive Gaming International, Las Vegas. He expects 30 more casinos to begin using RFID chips in 2009.
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