Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
There's an Indian Casino near where I grew up in Buffalo NY. They actually keep your money on your players club card. So you walk in and hand the cashier $100 - they press a few buttons and it goes onto your players card....then you can just use that at any machine. Problem is you have to enter your pin every time you go to a new machine.
Even in this example you still need cash....but you can see how some variant of this might ultimately be implmented in the future.
That approach was used at several casinos in the Midwest a couple of decades ago, but for a different purpose. You would queue up for admission to the casino, which was supposedly on the water, not land (it was usually a riverboat or something,). Then you had a "session," during which you could only put $500 in action. You had to buy in to slots or table games using a players' card.
I would always buy in for $100 and make it back selling the remaining $400 to desperate gamblers at a markup.