While at the casino cage of one of the Majors recently, I noticed this
and took a pic of it (redacted, above).
This is what happens to someone who is known to the casino, but has no SSN on file, who has cashed too many chips (or deposited too much cash). It doesn't take much to reach this point, some casinos will demand the SSN after as little as 6000 cumulatively have been deposited or cashed out.
The reason the ID is there is like a sort of "lookout" to look for the face.
An unknown player who has cashed out too much and remains in hiding is subject to a SAR once identified, if they are able to connect the dots.
I've posted about this in detail, how much a person may be able to cash out without a player card or identifying himself. At the Majors, the big casinos, the breaking point is anywhere above a thousand dollars, with two or three thousand in chips being the max. This also depends on whether it is done at the regular cage or high limit.
At a less high end casino, anything above a black chip (500s and above) are scrutinized closely.
And at the tables, anyone who ducks out without "coloring up" draws attention to himself, if for no other reason than being a pain in the ass to the pit boss who now has to think about ordering a fill for those smaller chips, and now has to put in more work to figure out exactly what the player walked with.
The other day when I had a big winning hit, and I was walking around the pit basking in the glory of the win, the pit boss came up to me and asked how many 5K chips I had walked with. I told the pit boss that I had had X number of 5000 chips in my pocket when I arrived, and walked with X many, and that seemed to have solved the dilemma. I'm not sure why in that instance the number of 5K chips (versus 25K or 100K) I walked with mattered.
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