Casino Chips

[jmn32]

Hi, I'm from England and I'm going to Vegas for the first time in a few months, and I'm just wondering about the rules regarding casino chips leaving the casino building.

Let's say I'm playing in a small no limit game and I think to myself "these $1 chips are pretty nice, I'd like to take one home as a souvenir" and slip one in my pocket. Is that acceptable?

This is a serious question, I have no idea if this is illegal / frowned upon / common practice.

[ungarop]

Legal, don't know. Frowned upon, don't think so. Common practice, for sure.

[skin city]

first rule: dont put chips in your pocket when you still at the table! thats a no-no. however after you stand up from the game, those chips are yours to with what you like. if you wanna take a few home, thats perfectly fine. you payed for them / or won them, their yours.
also you cant take chips to another casino and try to cash them, also you cant buy things with the chips, even in the casino they are from
good luck, have fun

[Mike Gallo]

When you cash out, just put a chip in your pocket.

[NickMPK]

As a practical matter, no one will care if you take $1 off your stack....everyone does it all the time for tipping anyway.

[bav]

Go right ahead and put a $1 chip in your pocket at the table anytime you bloody well please! If someone at the table yells about you going south with $1, you will have learned valuable information about who the ubernit is and will know who you can put on tilt with a few well placed words or ill-timed actions.

Yes, it's technically against the rules. I've never ever seen someone get called out for putting $1 in his pocket. I have seen it for $5 and at about the $20 point it's about a 99% lock that someone will start yelling (usually caused by a wife or GF wandering up saying "I ran out of money" and the poker playing SO grabbing $20 out of his $1200 stack to hand to her saying "here--go play some more 5c slots", with the ensuing shouts of "he can't do that--he can't take money off the table").

[skin city]

just as a courtesy to the other players, even at the low-limit tables, i always make it known im taking 5, 6 , maybe 8 bucks off my stack to go buy some smokes, get a sandwich or whatever...if anyone complains......well actually no ones ever complained..its no biggie at that level
usually people playing that level dont even know the rules regarding "going south"

[fraserbrown]

People always buy drinks and food at the table and pay with chips, NEVER has anyone been called out on it, everyone views it as standard.

[jhardin3]

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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)

[BagOfCoins]

Generally the casino doesn't care where you take your chips.

Me and a buddy were playing at a casino on our way up to the cottage, and realized we wouldn't have any poker chips when we got there. So on the way out I grabbed one of the buckets for slot machine winnings, and filled it up with the chips I'd won at the poker table. Nobody cared when I took the bucket of chips out, or when I brought them back next time.

I've even heard that professional players in the USA will take most of their winnings home in chips, so they won't have to cash out more than $599 and have to do paperwork or pay extra tax.