Re: Keeping Chips from Casinos
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I heard about a guy once asking about the following
Take like $1000 to casino and get a whole bunch of chips
Take them home and use them over the weekend for a home game, whatever, etc.
Take them back to the casino and cash in later.
Kinda a cheap ass but hey, I think it was a good idea.
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My friend and I actually tried this. There were a number of good reasons (We thought) including nice chips and no fear of friends-of-friends sneaking in their own cheap chips identical to ours to defraud us.
The hardest part was getting the $300 in ones that we really needed, and the difficulty in getting ones meant that we couldn't just return the chips and then get them again for the next game. After all the work though, we ended up deciding that there was no reason to tie up the money when nicer style chips were becoming more affordable in 02/03.
Also, we travelled to a lot of our games, and there was no great reason to carry around bulky racks worth quite a bit of cash to all the games we went to.
I wouldn't think that this is a bad idea for a sporadic big home game with a casino nearby.
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