Casino Chips

jmn32 · #1 07-27-2007, 02:56 PM

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 · #2 07-27-2007, 03:00 PM

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

skin city · #3 07-27-2007, 03:01 PM

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

jhardin3 · #4 07-27-2007, 03:42 PM

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

BagOfCoins · #5 07-27-2007, 03:56 PM

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.

skin city · #6 07-27-2007, 04:08 PM

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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 · #7 07-27-2007, 04:22 PM

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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 · #8 07-27-2007, 04:27 PM

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

VBCurtis · #9 07-27-2007, 04:29 PM

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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.
-Curtis

skin city · #10 07-27-2007, 04:37 PM

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!