Casino Chips

[skin city]

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also you cant take chips to another casino and try to cash them,

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Uhh, yeah you can, about 95% of the time. (Huge chips cause problems)

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uhh, no. not in vegas bro! no casino in town will cash chips from another casino! they will tell you to take em back where you got them!....dont take my word for it though! i just work in the biggest casino in vegas, but what the hell do i know....?

[iversonian]

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also you cant take chips to another casino and try to cash them,

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Uhh, yeah you can, about 95% of the time. (Huge chips cause problems)

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uhh, no. not in vegas bro! no casino in town will cash chips from another casino! they will tell you to take em back where you got them!....dont take my word for it though! i just work in the biggest casino in vegas, but what the hell do i know....?

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Wonder who I should believe, you or the Benjamins in my wallet?

[BrunoThePug]

Would the cage mind if I bought $100 in whites... put them in a bag and walked out?

[VBCurtis]

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also you cant take chips to another casino and try to cash them,

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Uhh, yeah you can, about 95% of the time. (Huge chips cause problems)

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uhh, no. not in vegas bro! no casino in town will cash chips from another casino! they will tell you to take em back where you got them!....dont take my word for it though! i just work in the biggest casino in vegas, but what the hell do i know....?

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Perhaps you should read the thread about the Rio accepting Bellagio chips for WSOP entry fees.

I have personal experience with MGM properties accepting any MGM-property chips, though I have only tried this with 5 and 25 chips. Seems to me it is considered a courtesy rather than an official policy to accept them; if you sit at casino X with 4 25's from casino Y, the runner will nearly always cash them for a rack. I have never tried to convert chips into cash at a cage of another casino, I admit.
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[skin city]

in regards to the rio accepting bellagio chips.....we're talking about a whole different ball game! at those levels it was definatly a courtesy to the "big-game" players having to carry large sums of cash
my point is if you take $80 in reds ($5) from binions and try and cash them at, say, bellagio or caesars. sorry not gonna work! against policy. back in the day...maybe. but not anymore sport!

[AquaSwing]

I think the casino would love for you to buy 100 white chips and take them home with you. That's $100 in their pocket and zero in yours. Who's the sucker?

In the old days a black chip was a black chip. I have read in several places that a Dunes black got the same action at the BJ table as a Caesars black would at the Flamingo. I would assume once in awhile all the chips would end up back at home where they belong.

[BrunoThePug]

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I think the casino would love for you to buy 100 white chips and take them home with you. That's $100 in their pocket and zero in yours. Who's the sucker?

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What if I made them into something else of value and sold it for more than $100. ???. Profit.

[bav]

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in regards to the rio accepting bellagio chips.....we're talking about a whole different ball game! at those levels it was definatly a courtesy to the "big-game" players having to carry large sums of cash
my point is if you take $80 in reds ($5) from binions and try and cash them at, say, bellagio or caesars. sorry not gonna work! against policy. back in the day...maybe. but not anymore sport!

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This just ain't true in my experiences. I've cashed smallish amounts ($5 to $200) without serious complications in Vegas. Between like brands (Harrahs to Caesars, say, or Monte Carlo to Bellagio) it's no problem at all. Between off brands (taking a Mirage $100 to Venetian) they've done the "I'm sure I can cash it but I'll have to call them first to verify it's ok" thing. I never assume it's going to work and I wouldn't be upset if I got told "no", but it's just not been a problem unloading a few chips I carried out of one strip joint to another. And I ain't no high roller getting special privileges.

I imagine there are casinos that aren't in the "we all get along" club. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the strip casinos won't take Binion's chips.

[bmwguy525]

Casinos actually don't mind you taking cash value chips out of the casino at all, as the cost per chip to them is always less than what you paid for it. The bigger the chip you take, the bigger the profit they get from your souvenir.

The one thing you can't do is take any NCV chips out (No Cash Value), such as tournament chips.

[jmn32]

Thanks for all the advice, guys. Looks like taking my souvenir isn't gonna be a problem!