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An Australian land casino went public with the admission that the company lost an AUS $100,000 chip. Crown Casino is a land gambling venue in Melbourne that naturally not only offers the lower value chips like $1, $5, $25 chips and so on, but also the higher value chips that cater to the high rollers. In this case, the police and casino itself consider the loss of the chip as done by a company employee, but at the same time, there is no additional information or leads from the case. This is an example of a problem that the online casinos sites can often circumvent by having everything controlled by computer systems – not that that is infallible either though as the Absolute Poker online gambling scandal indicated.

So as much as chips have been eliminated at the online casinos, the land gambling venues still have to contend with the very real possibility that the large value chips will be targeted by thieves. The police have questioned upwards of 50 Crown employees, but have yet to uncover any leads. As for where Crown Casino stands in all of this hullabaloo, Crown spokesperson Gary O’Neill commented, “It is an on going investigation by police, we will leave it up to them. We are co-operating and continue to co-operate with the police. It is a police investigation, which is still open.”

The land and online casinos gambling industry will watch the developments of this case closely in the coming months. The police are at the beginning of their investigation even though the theft occurred in January 2008. The casino opted to keep the matter private and conduct their own investigation into the matter before actually reporting the theft to the police not long ago.