[DigitalNate]

This problem has pretty much disappeared from my home games since I bought a set of clay checks. I use casino style racks to hold the checks, so I always know that one stack of $1 checks is $20, one stack of $5 checks is $100, etc. This simplifies counting out stacks and helps to speed up the buy-in process.

Another thing I did to solve this problem is to make everyone buy in one at a time, if they get their money out they better hold onto it until it goes into the "bank" (a plastic cup with a lid that I keep in my sight at all times). I make sure noone but myself (or a trusted friend who acts as the banker for the night) touches the money cup or the unbought checks.

Since I bought the new checks and instituted the above mentioned rules, the bank has only been off once, and I took the hit on the $5, since it was likely my mistake. I do not miss that days of having to count obscene amounts of little plastic chips at the end of every night just to find out the bank was off by $30 because someone couldn't count to cash in or out right, or was simply cheating us.