Originally Posted by darrelplant

Or really, really go all the way and dump cards altogether.

A completely electronic card and chip system would be far less expensive than RFID chips, cards, and tables. A table with nine tablet-style computers, a network, software similar to any of the online sites but set up to log players in at physical table locations, and you could have a live version of an online tournament with every player poking away at their screen, able to see who they're up against in person. Casinos (and probably some players) would love it because it would eliminate the need for actual dealers. I wouldn't place bets against someone already working on it. There's already completely-automated individual tables, and certainly the software to run a tournament with thousands of entries already exists.

Originally Posted by Mr Beer

This is obviously completely do-able, problems I would see with this are:

1. As soon as it's electronic, all the rigtards will pop out of the woodwork and make wild accusations.
2. It won't look as cool on TV for WSOP. Massive great uber-chip piles are part of the whole experience. Plus players will have to find something else to endlessly fidget with.

Originally Posted by Kevmath

Got an email about ChipTic, a company that claims it'll do for live tournaments what the hole card camera did for TV poker.

If you're playing a bracelet event, you'll be seeing dealers handling a Blackberry- tablet inputting an assortment of data. An overview can be found here.

Originally Posted by Kevmath

Got an email about ChipTic, a company that claims it'll do for live tournaments what the hole card camera did for TV poker.

If you're playing a bracelet event, you'll be seeing dealers handling a Blackberry- tablet inputting an assortment of data. An overview can be found here.

Originally Posted by Kevmath

The first tournament using ChipTic will be sometime this week.

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

All the bracelet events use the same chips.

Originally Posted by jmrd27

cant wait for all table to have RFID cards, I might actually win the main event now using a RFID compatible cellphone and a simple custom app or by pretending you drop something on the ground and hack the table during the break to read whole cards and transmit by wifi to your phone or maybe even read the deck of cards coming lol.

Dont think something like WSOP will ever do that... same for debit cards like chip stack, people could simply fill them up lol.

Originally Posted by TheBigFD

To be fair, its about as hackable as hole card cams. You would really need an inside man. The RFID chips dont broadcast "7 of clubs", they broadcast 98473278423953295 and that might mean 7 of clubs.

So you would need to capture every card, you could theoretically do this, if you have a RFID antena, and the means to process the 'tags'. But lets say you manage to get all 52 cards quite quickly, you would then have to find a way of getting your convert RFID antena underneath each others players spot, to be able to read their cards. I cant think of a way you would be able to do this without someone getting wise. And every deck and every card would have an unique number (not to mention the chips), and like I have already said, Ive not played a WSOP, but at a WPT main event, they changed the deck with every dealer change. Then when your table breaks, you have to start again.

Not to mention that if you managed to do all this without an inside man (which you wont) the powers that be are going to know somethings up when you fold a monster because you are beat, beacuse they get to see EVERYTHING! And I would hope they put some sort of detection in for betting patterns.

I do however like your idea for 50 odd tables for players in the money. This would make the closing days very watchable.

Cliffs : Hacking is next to impossible