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Sir Tifyable · 06-02-2012, 01:51 PM

Another thing to consider is the 'forgeability' of casino chips. Until someone came up with a way of making chips both identical and hard to copy, it was too easy for cheats to make a profits from casinos by slipping forged chips into the game or simply cash out chips that had never before seen the inside of the casino.

The way around that is to restrict selling and cashing in chips at the gaming table, so no-one is ever walking around the casino with unwatched chips. But that ruins one of the points of chips: because they are not 'real money' people are likely to be more casual at betting with them than with hard currency, and therefore the wagers will be higher. Consequently, the house wins bigger when it does win, or if it's a game where the house doesn't sometimes win the percentage they take will be more in real terms. (I confess I'm not a gambler, so I don't know how casinos make money from poker or other games where the house doesn't play a hand.)

If your casinos do not have chips that cannot be counterfeited, using real money is the only way to ensure that someone - make that 'many people' - cannot make their money that way.

06-02-2012, 01:51 PM	#33
Sir Tifyable Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Sheffield, England	Re: TL4 Poker Chips Another thing to consider is the 'forgeability' of casino chips. Until someone came up with a way of making chips both identical and hard to copy, it was too easy for cheats to make a profits from casinos by slipping forged chips into the game or simply cash out chips that had never before seen the inside of the casino. The way around that is to restrict selling and cashing in chips at the gaming table, so no-one is ever walking around the casino with unwatched chips. But that ruins one of the points of chips: because they are not 'real money' people are likely to be more casual at betting with them than with hard currency, and therefore the wagers will be higher. Consequently, the house wins bigger when it does win, or if it's a game where the house doesn't sometimes win the percentage they take will be more in real terms. (I confess I'm not a gambler, so I don't know how casinos make money from poker or other games where the house doesn't play a hand.) If your casinos do not have chips that cannot be counterfeited, using real money is the only way to ensure that someone - make that 'many people' - cannot make their money that way.