Protecting Your Chips

[bav]

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I was playing 1/2 Badugi Triple Draw with a guard nearby because someone stole chips from that table the day before at the 06 WSOP.

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Yeah, last year there was a snatch-and-run that was reported on 2+2. Some guy walking by reached around a player and grabbed a stack of cash (I think it was) and took off running. He got away. I noticed when I wandered through a couple days later they had a guard standing among the high limit tables. This year's big security oops was the person claiming his in-room safe was cleaned out for $10K's of cash.

[UprightCreature]

It sounds like this is a real risk, albeit a low one, that we just have to accept. When playing mid/high limit poker even a small number of chips is a decent amount of money, but it doesn't sound like I can reasonably expect the casinos to protect me. At the same time, though, its not realistic to color up 3 racks every time I have to go to the bathroom. Fortunately I am usually playing with at least one person who I know well enough that they (hopefully) wouldn't let some random person play or take all my chips.

Of course there is little defense from a smash and grab for a handful of chips (even when I'm in my seat), but I'd like to think security would generally make a decent effort to stop this kind of theft.

[ReidDeCardes]

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Recently a Commerce player told me about a guy he was playing 40-80 with. Supposedly a gentleman who had a few racks of chips got up to use the restroom. A few minutes later a younger kid shows up at the table while talking on his cell phone. He says into the cell “Ok dad, I’ll rack you up and meet you at the cage.” The kid proceeds to rack up all the chips and leaves. A few minutes later the guy comes back and asks where his chips are, and the table informs him that his son has his chips at the main cage. To this he replies “I don’t have a son!” I of course have no idea whether this story is true or not, but supposedly it is, and the guy didn’t get his chips back, nor reimbursed by the casino.


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The story would have been better if the guy's face goes pale and he says, "My son was killed in a car accident a year ago today!"

[Mr_Mxyztplk]

lol, yeah and today would have been his 21st birthday