I agree with Gene. We might know right away what is in our chip bank used for dispursment to games, our casino keeps track of that on the computer (chipbank balance-fills+credits+buys from frontline cashier windows), however we do not know what goes on at the tables on an hourly basis, in fact it would be a waste of resources trying to keep an hourly count.

Many casino cages do a monthly reconcilliation of chips and high dollar tokens that are in possession of the cage, this is usually forwarded on to accounting where they can match it up with counts from the games department or slot department, accounting gets the fun of reconstructing the data.

Mike