Keeping Chips from Casinos

ThaHero · #1 11-16-2005, 07:17 PM

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.

Cyberchomp · #2 11-16-2005, 07:22 PM

You bought the chips. They're yours for whatever purpose you wish to use them. The casino/cardroom obviously prefers you spend them on the premises. But no one will stop you from taking "one." Just don't take it off the table while you're playing.

I make it a point to take a chip from places I've played at. Even the places where I've lost money... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

AKQJ10 · #3 11-16-2005, 07:36 PM

Here's a good link if you want to learn about serious collectors: http://www.ccgtcc.com/

I'm not a serious collector.... I just have a few saved from places I've played, mostly $1.

I do like to use the following as card holders when I play B&M:

Bellagio $1 blue
Bike $1 blue, $2 green, $5 yellow (when not at Foxwoods)
Borgata $10 blue
Commerce $1 blue
Mirage $1 blue

and others as the mood hits

FishNChips · #4 11-16-2005, 07:40 PM

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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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I have one $1 chip from the Luxor. I liked the Egyptian stuff on it. Its differen than the chips I'm used to seeing so I kept it.

For a while I had a $5 chip from the first session I ever played. I was playing 3/6 kill and a few guys had some reds. I won a big pot that had a couple in it and when I cashed out, I kept one. I later used that chip as part of a reload in an NL tourny at that casino. I ended up in a 6way chop for 1st place, so I guess it was a lucky chip.

Taking one from everywhere you play sounds cool. Wish I had done it.

FishNChips

tylerdurden · #5 11-16-2005, 07:47 PM

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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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I believe it's *technically* illegal to take chips out of a casino in New Jersey, but nobody will care about $1 chips.

ThaHero · #6 11-16-2005, 07:50 PM

I'm curious. If you use a chip from another casino as a chip protector, does that chip play? I considered doing this if I ever did start a collection, but I don't wanna lose them in a pot if I do lol.

TheMetetron · #7 11-16-2005, 07:56 PM

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I'm curious. If you use a chip from another casino as a chip protector, does that chip play? I considered doing this if I ever did start a collection, but I don't wanna lose them in a pot if I do lol.

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The obvious answer is no, but it actually does depend.

If I was playing a NL game at the Wynn and I was using a yellow ($1k) bellagio chip to protect my cards, I actually believe it would play. In vegas, casino chips (at least the high denomination ones) are pretty much interchangeable (I can cash Bellagio chips at Wynn and vice versa), at least by the chips runners. I would check if this holds true for chips you just have sitting on teh table, but I believe it would.

If it's a chip from another city, I doubt it would play, but make sure people realize it's not a real chip from that casino if the colors are similiar.

offTopic · #8 11-16-2005, 07:56 PM

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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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I've even got $1 chips from before I started playing poker. I've got ~60 of them now from casinos in CA, NV, and NJ. I'm not a big collector, though, so some of them are in not-so-good condition (and some of them SHOULD be...who wants a perfectly clean Taj or Horseshoe chip? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] )

Randy_Refeld · #9 11-16-2005, 08:04 PM

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I'm curious. If you use a chip from another casino as a chip protector, does that chip play? I considered doing this if I ever did start a collection, but I don't wanna lose them in a pot if I do lol.

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Put it in a case. It will protect it and it clearly is not in play.

AKQJ10 · #10 11-16-2005, 08:06 PM

IIRC the Mirage was using Bellagio $1 (and probably other) chips when I was there a year ago. If you look carefully they have similar rim markings owing to the rooms' common Steve Wynn-influenced heritage. I wouldn't expect to bring in, say, a brown $1 from the Orleans and play it at the Mirage. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

But this is part of the reason so many blue chips are in my list of favorite card-protectors -- since I don't play the Borgata $40/80, I'm pretty safe from confusion on the East Coast. Also, the Bike $2 is a bright green that looks nothing like the quarters at Foxwoods or the AC rooms I've been in.

Never has anyone interpreted these chips as part of my stack.