Nowadays keeping track of the casino high rollers in US is a sophisticated process where computer technologies are involved, unlike in the old days, when casino hosts were keeping handwritten notes. Today high-roller lists sometimes appear for sale on the black market, or certain casino executives take these lists along to their next job. Civil charges for cases like that are pretty common, though criminal suits almost never take place.

However, last week three casino employees were indicted on charges they stole a list of more than 20,000 top players from the Tropicana Casino&Resort in Atlantic City. They had all quit Tropicana in 2005, and later left for other casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas.

New Jersey prosecutors said the list was worth more than $108 million because it included important private and gambling data of big casino players. According to the Attorney’s statement, “This type of corporate espionage and theft involving proprietary information is a very serious crime."

On the other hand, many industry workers in Atlantic City believe such high-roller lists are meaningless in a city where gamblers choose more than one casino to play at. They say, it is not at all unconditional that information on a few thousand of Atlantic City gamblers is worth big millions.