arrest in Venitian chip theft.

Another genius heard from. Hope he lived it up for the last 3 weeks. lol

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/19955830/breaking-news-arrest-made-in-venetian-casino-chip-theft

More details .

This guy made it all look SOOOOO easy ...

And funny thing: it was.

Way too easy.

*scratches head, lightbulb flashes*

Now that's pretty interesting. lol A guy walks into a private secure gaming area, restricted to employees, leaves to find a tool, returns, breaks open a blackjack table and steals 1.6 million in gaming chips and walks out with them in a plastic bag. The whole thing took 30 minutes and was caught on camera, and yet, they didn't know anything was wrong for 22 hours. Meanwhile surveillance was probably busy counting down the deck of cards and running a skills check on some card counter that was grinding his way to 20 bucks an hour, legally. lol

I have heard some casino industry folks say that cutbacks in the industry have not escaped surveillance departments. They have taken cuts like everyone else, with surveillance operators often to thin to cover everything they should be covering. This could be a prime example of that.

The private high limit area was not in use so surveillance would not have been watching at the time and the chips were relatively uncashable since they were such high value chips.

I wonder if the higher denomination chips were RFID'ed?

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The report said Venetian employees didn't learn the gambling chips were gone until 4:45 a.m. on Oct. 11.[the next day]

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...they didn't know anything was wrong for 22 hours.

This is the part that really gets me. WTF?

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Meanwhile surveillance was probably busy counting down the deck of cards and running a skills check on some card counter that was grinding his way to 20 bucks an hour, legally. lol

From your mouth...