Betting chips meet silicon chips as casinos integrate technology

Some good info from this artcle http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=2/13/2005§ion_id=15&newsid=12617&spcl=yes as well as the usual headscratchers. Its about Progressive Gaming International and their RFID system they're intalling at Hard Rock. Until Jan. 4 PGI was known as Mikohn. Good info about costs. But also:

...RFID chip transmits more than just the amount bet. It also indicates the identity of the player.

Good trick that! If the critter does know who I am, maybe it'll play Neil Diamond for me after all!

This form of cheating is common in Macau, which -- unlike the U.S. -- still relies on manual playing systems.

Pretty silly statement.

Progressive's next project: a system that reads playing cards as they're dealt in blackjack and other games.

Wouldn't it be fair if the player had that information as well as the house?