Police: Bellagio heist similar to earlier hold-up

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VEGAS –Las Vegas police are looking for an armed casino bandit who escaped on a motorcycle with perhaps $2 million worth of gambling chips from the posh Bellagio hotel-casino. Police Lt. Clinton Nichols told Th

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Little does he know that all chips have rfid tags..good luck using them....

[Red Badger]

If true, he is really stupid..................

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VEGAS –Las Vegas police are looking for an armed casino bandit who escaped on a motorcycle with perhaps $200 worth of gambling chips from the posh Bellagio hotel-casino. Police Lt. Clinton Nichols told Th....

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Corrected it.

[IYAS9YAS]

Little does he know that all chips have rfid tags..good luck using them....

Does each chip have a unique ID or does the chip just show that it belongs to the casino and is worth so much?

[JPG]

Yep..like idiots that steal lottery scratch-off tickets. Value = $0.00

[jpl]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was an inside job of some kind.

Vegas probably has more cameras than just about any place in the world. I expect they'll be able to track the guy down without too much trouble.

[delapaz]

A few guys even came close... Looks like this guy went one better than those guys. Won't get far though.

[GreenHornet]

I hope he has his affairs in order.

[Lazlo in PA]

I can't wait till the idiot rolls into his local Cadillac dealer and throws a pile of these down and ask to take the Escalade in the corner. This dope has nothing but a bag full of plastic.

[OldDeckHand]

"If true, he is really stupid.................."

$2M is not only going to get him dead, it's going to get him dead in the most painful way(s) possible. "Really stupid" about sums it up perfectly.

[PUGACHEV]

"Yep..like idiots that steal lottery scratch-off tickets. Value = $0.00"

I was talking with an investigator for the Virginia State Lottery, and he told me about a type of fraud they see often. Apparently, if you have a convenience store that is not doing well, and it sells lottery tickets, it will sooner or later occur to the owner that he is sitting on a gold mine, that somewhere in those rolls of unsold tickets is a million dollar winner. So, as figures the indebted owner, if I only scratch off all the tickets, when I find the million dollar ticket I'll have enough to pay for those scratched-off tickets, and more besides. Sadly, and predictably, it never works out that way.

[databoss]

Yes a serial number which links back to the value, date placed in service etc. Also tracks when the chip has left the building.

[Texas Federalist]

Not all of them have RFID. Wynn does. Aria doesn’t. Some have them for $1000 and above chips. I don’t know about Bellagio, but last time I was there they did not have RFID.

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[vbmoneyspender]

Maybe he just wants to start up his own casino and needed some high-end chips to make his high-rollers comfortable.

[noiseman]

It's thinking like that that keeps casinos and lotteries in business. Just like people buying a few extra Powerball tickets when the jackpot gets unusually high. The increased odds of winning gained by buying even several hundred additional tickets is miniscule.

For proof, just look at the times when lotto fever runs high and they sell tens of millions of tickets each week, yet go for weeks on end without even a single winner. Most people just don't get it.

[EggsAckley]

Wait a minute. The Belagio changed name several years ago. I think it’s now called “Wynn” or something like that.

I’m sure they would have retired the Belagio chips by now.

[LukeL]

At the casino here in Milwaukee they have a table right next to an exit. I always thought it would be very easy to do a grab and run and cash in the chips slowly over time.

[editor-surveyor]

> “Little does he know that all chips have rfid tags..good luck using them”

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Very unlikley that they have record of the chips taken. The tags are for the slot machines and auto-counters to recognize them.

You can even use them in stores around Vegas.
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[databoss]

Casino chips on slots? Never seen that trick...