Counterfeit chips

[The Armchair]

Has anyone ever heard a story (or stories) of people getting caught passing counterfeit chips?

[Dynasty]

There's a reasonably well known story about a guy who minted coins which worked in the Caesars Palace slot machines. I think it was on one of those Discovery Channel shows.

[scrub]

A dealer at the Taj told me he once caught someone passing painted whites off as blacks. This was apparently before they had holograms on them.

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[bdk3clash]

Someone counterfeited reds at a club I play at in NYC.

Now THAT's gutsy...

[The Armchair]

Give me the full story?

[Ouspensky]

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Give me the full story?

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Getting ready to plan something out?

[illunious]

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Getting ready to plan something out?

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Probably something having to do with this (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=holdem&Number=843060&Forum =,All_Forums,&Words=&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=84 3060&Search=true&where=&Name=13167&daterange=&newe rval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Po st843060)..

[Losing all]

Let me save you a couple knee caps and years getting bum hammered in the joint. If you really need money- go to Arizona, check out the card rooms, follow a fat, winning player out to his car, put gun in his face, ask to see trunk. Now you rich....

[Sponger15SB]

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Let me save you a couple knee caps and years getting bum hammered in the joint. If you really need money- go to Arizona, check out the card rooms, follow a fat, winning player out to his car, put gun in his face, ask to see trunk. Now you rich....

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also, this guy has fuggin ugly blond hair.

[t_perkin]

I thought he wore those funny lizard-eye sunglasses?

[Ouspensky]

I was playing 2-4 at oceans11 when a rude, drunk, maniac offered to trade a girl a rack of blue ($1 chips) for the black chip she used to cover her cards. She explained the chip was a prop but after a few more cocky, bullsheite, abusive wins even she regretted it.

[The Armchair]

Actually, the two are unrelated. I work full-time in the legal department, and one of my main duties is intellectual property rights protection -- that is, anti-counterfeiting. When I came back from the Taj a few weeks ago, someone in passing made a joke about counterfeiting at casinos, and now I wonder if it ever happens.

[ohgeetee]

Rumored to have happened at Binions. I think the story goes that Ted ordered somehting like 15k 5k chips from their chip manufacturer, but the order was stopped and only like 5k got out. Technically not counterfeitting I guess, but still the same. A couple of Teds business acquaintenances tried to cash in some of these 5k chips but ran into issues or something. The full story is in Positively Fifth Street.

[CORed]

I don't have any specific information on counterfeit chips, but just about any way to rip off a casino that you can think of (and probably a lot you can't think of) has been tried.

[TruePoker CEO]

Yes. I was counsel to a casino in Las Vegas. A fellow was coaught in the place trying to pass some $25 chips which he had manufactured at home. He also had the top 1/2 of a counterfeit $100 MGM chip in his pocket.

He will get out in about 10 years and that happened about 10 years ago.