How are you tracked at the casino?

[Mistylee]

Last weekend, my husband and I went to Four Winds Casino. My Host had text me to say that she would find me that night. Fine... I know that you can be tracked when your card is in the machine.

But, this time it was a little creepy. I was playing a machine way in the back of the casino. Four Winds has 3'000 slot machines and is rather big. I left the machine, found my husband on the other side of the casino, walked around for a bit, and went into the main lobby to make a couple of phone calls and answer some texts and emails. I was off the machines for about 45 minutes.

I was walking back in the casino (there are three entrances) and there was my Host at the entrance waiting for me.. The casino was crowded. The Hosts there only come out of there offices once in a while... so it's not like she saw me on the floor......

How do you think she found me? Maybe something in my players card? She found me another time when I wasn't playing and I wondered then..,but this was strange....

[Blase]

Wow, that *is* strange. Maybe they were greeting someone else on the floor and they happened to see you walking toward them?

I talked to my host at Harrah's Joliet for a bit tonight (we are FB friends and chat occasionally ). I told him I was coming tomorrow for the day and he said "call me or text me when you get here." I felt like saying, why? You can find me by my player's card!!

[Mistylee]

Wow, that *is* strange. Maybe they were greeting someone else on the floor and they happened to see you walking toward them?

I talked to my host at Harrah's Joliet for a bit tonight (we are FB friends and chat occasionally ). I told him I was coming tomorrow for the day and he said "call me or text me when you get here." I felt like saying, why? You can find me by my player's card!!

Blase...I don't know if you notice at Four Winds that the Hosts aren't around much on the floor. When there was a Host office.. they were.... but she was standing there waiting for me... no one else was around her and it was quite a while that I was by the big fireplace catching up on my phone!


Maybe they implant a tracking device when you hit your first handpay :-)

[Moneybags]

Face recognition? I know a lot of places have it.

[slotbender]

Face recognition? I know a lot of places have it.

Yup! You are sooo right! They don't put in those ceiling camera's hooked up to all of that high tech sophisticated computer equipment for nothing? They want to recognize the "cheats" as they enter so that security can show them the exit : )

[Moneybags]

Yup! You are sooo right! They don't put in those ceiling camera's hooked up to all of that high tech sophisticated computer equipment for nothing? They want to recognize the "cheats" as they enter so that security can show them the exit : )

Is this next? "Hello, mr. slotbender, welcome back! Your favorite Quick Hit machine is open, and you have $25 in free play on your card."

[Hawkeye]

They want to recognize the "cheats" as they enter so that security can show them the exit : )

I'm sure that is part of it but I think they also use it to track those that may not use a card. Not sure why?

[slotbender]

I'm sure that is part of it but I think they also use it to track those that may not use a card. Not sure why?

The casino wants to track everything/everyone that they can. There are many reasons for this (from their point of view). Not only just for security reasons but I also believe that it involves the science of human behavior (profiling individuals) when it comes to gambling which is a very deep subject : )

[Jeani]

Face recognition? I know a lot of places have it.

It is the wave of the future. Before I retired I was trained in facial recognition and it is a starting point in identification of someone. There are other validations that have to be completed. Quality of the camera, facial placement in picture, having a database to compare against and other technique's are just some of the issues when using facial recognition. I don't believe many private companies are using it yet but I see it in the future.

[slotbender]

It is the wave of the future. Before I retired I was trained in facial recognition and it is a starting point in identification of someone. There are other validations that have to be completed. Quality of the camera, facial placement in picture, having a database to compare against and other technique's are just some of the issues when using facial recognition. I don't believe many private companies are using it yet but I see it in the future.

I had read an article about 10 or so years ago that some casino's in LV were already using it to identify the "cheats".