How every dollar is accounted for in casinos
By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun
Despite the proliferation of credit cards, Apple Pay and Square readers, Nevada’s gaming business has remained largely cash-based.
Though the days of players carting around buckets of quarters are, for the most part, long gone, “the gaming business will remain a cash-heavy business,” said Douglas Florence Sr., vice president of strategic operations at eConnect, a security software company, and former head of surveillance at the Mirage.
So what happens to the money gamblers lay down on tables or feed into slot machines?
The Nevada Gaming Control Board sets standards for casinos about how money must be watched and secured. Some casinos set their own stricter standards as well.