Keeping Chips from Casinos

[MickeyHoldem]

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Just wondering if anyone keeps maybe a $1 chip or somethin from each casino they go to. I was thinking about starting up a little collection like this. Don't know how a casino would take me walking out with some of their chips though, but I don't think they'd mind.

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Only thing I save is thongs from chicks I bang!

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Is there an "appropriate" way to "display" this collection?

I've got a pretty nice collection. When my friends go on vacation they all bring back 10 $1.00 chips. Curently my collection looks like this:
Harrah's New Orleans
The Palms
Bike
Resorts East Chicago
Niagra Falls
Foxwoods

Ritchie Z

I do this.

[MicroBob]

Chipr777 who posts in this forum (works as dealer/floor at Horseshoe-Tunica) says he has a collection of chips from various casinos....Something like 3k or 4k chips from different casinos or something like that I think.

Not sure though...maybe it was only 1k.

I have a lowest domination (usually $1) chip from everywhere I have played. I agree with the others that it is a great memento. I have them displayed in a case on my "I Love Me" wall at home. I travel a bit so I have a lot of chips from overseas casinos as well: Egypt, Kenya, Bulgaria, Poland (no poker at any of these though!). I never tried to hide that I was taking one but I wasn't obvious about it either. I've used a 50 Schilling chip (about $.50) from Kenya as a card protector before. It was a great conversation piece because it looked like no chip I had ever seen before and couldn't be confused with any chips that were in play. I stopped using it though because it was drawing too much attention. Any other exotic chips out there?

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Chips humm

I have about $1k worth in chips at home. 1's, 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 7's, 8's (yes, 7's and 8's), 10's, 20's, 25's all in my collection. I dont go higher but if I'm ever hurting for $, I can ebay or take them back to most of the casinos. (some are out of state).

[ThaHero]

Thanks for the replies guys! Guess I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to catch up to some of you.

Gonna start with the casinos around L.A. and branch out.

I'd like to hear about some other collections too if you haven't posted yet and are being shy.

[UATrewqaz]

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.

Funny story on this note. A guy that ran a now defunct NYC poker room thought it would be nice to have some large unit Borgata chips on hand. This way if someone who was an AC player cashed in a big win they didn't have to walk out with a giant wad of cash. This would be expecially helpful at the end of the night when the drawer was short on $100 bills and you were giving a guy $3000 in $20's.

So he gives a friend who was going to Borgata $20,000 and asks him to bring some chips back. The guy buys 8 racks of green chips and stuffs them in a bag. It was quite the priceless moment when he was holding a bag of 800 quarters asking his friend what the hell he thought he was going to do with them.

[ThaHero]

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Funny story on this note. A guy that ran a now defunct NYC poker room thought it would be nice to have some large unit Borgata chips on hand. This way if someone who was an AC player cashed in a big win they didn't have to walk out with a giant wad of cash. This would be expecially helpful at the end of the night when the drawer was short on $100 bills and you were giving a guy $3000 in $20's.

So he gives a friend who was going to Borgata $20,000 and asks him to bring some chips back. The guy buys 8 racks of green chips and stuffs them in a bag. It was quite the priceless moment when he was holding a bag of 800 quarters asking his friend what the hell he thought he was going to do with them.

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Maybe I'm just a little slow, but I don't really understand what happened in this story. Where did the quarters come from? I'm a little lost lol.