Protecting Your Chips - Page 2

bav · #11 10-08-2007, 08:49 PM

This story may or may not be BS, but this DOES happen from time to time. I also heard of a very similar tale happening at the WSOP in the past maybe 4 years? Basically you wait for someone to go to dinner so you know they'll be gone a while, wait for the dealer to change, and then come in and do whatever bit of social engineering double talk to abscond with the chips.

In one story, the thief simply came over and said "Bill asked me to come pick him up--he's not coming back from dinner". In another the person quietly sat down in someone's seat, posted the missed blind, played a couple hands, and then picked up and left. Apparently nobody at the table remembered who had been sitting there.

If you're worried about such things, color-up, and announce how much you're taking off the table as you go (but leave behind some chips to save your seat).

Jauron · #12 10-08-2007, 09:33 PM

I make it a point to be friendly with at least one person on the table, if I don't know anyone. One of the bonuses is nobody gets to walk off with my chips.

I usually announce to the dealer I'll be back in a couple as well.

ClubChamp04 · #13 10-08-2007, 10:31 PM

Soooo....is the casino responsible for stolen chips while I go to the bathroom or whatever? It would be a hassle to color up everytime I leave but it would become a necessity if they don't assume responsibility.

I always thought they agreed to watch and protect the chips while a player is gone so I have never worried about this in the past.

Jauron · #14 10-08-2007, 11:18 PM

You'd probably have to ask them and I wouldn't be shocked if they said no. I think any worth a crap would at least say they will watch them for X minutes to keep it reasonable.

LuckyTxGuy · #15 10-08-2007, 11:19 PM

My buddy was playing poker one night and told the dealer and table he was going to grab some supper but he'd be back shortly. He counted his stack down to see exactly how much money he had and noted that he had 3 red chips. (it was a white chip limit game) When he returned from supper he noticed the table he'd been playing at was now empty. Assuming the game broke, he went to the podium and asked where his chips had been moved too. The floor acted confused and he explained the situation to them. They couldn't locate his chips and they hadn't moved the chips to another table. My buddy walked over near his original table and there on the empty table, with no one around was his chip stack. He told the floor those were his chips and they acted shock and obviously wanted to act like what had happened, didn't really just happen. ie: the game broke and they left his chips unattended on an empty table.

They found him a seat at another table and when he sat down and counted his chips, he noticed his stack was short a red chip. Having no way to prove how much money he'd had when he left, he didn't even tell the floor because he didn't feel it was worth the trouble of having security roll the cameras back just for a $5 chip.

He called me and told me about this while it was all playing out and I was just amazed.

xxx · #16 10-08-2007, 11:40 PM

In some of the high limit areas they have a clear plexiglass box that can be placed on a chipstack. This might not stop someone from racking you up, but it would stop the loose chip or two thief.

Javanewt · #17 10-09-2007, 09:44 AM

I use the clear boxes at my 1/2 tables if I'm going to get something to eat or take more than a bathroom break. They write the time I left on the box to make sure I'm not gone too long (maybe a 1 hour limit?). They do take the time rake regardless, but the dealers do that. I'm always friendly with the table/dealers, too.

It probably helps that I'm one of the few female players, so if a man sat down, it would be sketchy. Most of the dealers know my boyfriend, too.

I assumed all casinos had the clear boxes?

ungarop · #18 10-09-2007, 11:29 AM

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I have never seen one of these at Foxwoods or in Vegas at any 1/2 or 2/5 NL game. Maybe for mid-high limit NL and LHE?

Gonso · #19 10-09-2007, 11:47 AM

Many casinos don't take responsibility for the players chips, including mine. Players will leave them there, and I'll look after them of course, but officially our casino wants no part of it.

*TT* · #20 10-09-2007, 11:56 AM

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I know of something similiar that happened one year at the WSOP.

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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.