"Borrowing" casino chips

Dusseldorf · #1 07-07-2005, 02:25 AM

So, is it kosher to buy a rack of $1 chips, drop it in your backpack and walk out of the place?

Or will you get taken out to the desert and shot?

SossMan · #2 07-07-2005, 03:04 AM

I don't think they encourage it.

slavic · #3 07-07-2005, 03:17 AM

$1 Chips they don't care
$5 Chips they kiss you on the mouth as you walk out the door
Blackbirds I got some odd looks but they seemed wrather happy.
I haven't tried taking out a rack of $500's yet.
Not much need for those really.

The Dude · #4 07-07-2005, 03:19 AM

Big casinos and cardrooms won't stop you. I do it all the time in Vegas - buy a bunch of chips and take them upstairs to my room to play home games. I've also done it at Commerce in LA - bought several racks of blue chips and walked out of the place. If it's a smaller cardroom they might take issue with it.

Degen · #5 07-07-2005, 03:52 AM

think about it

how much do those chips cost to produce? ten cents each? you pay $1 each for them, and leave...would you care?

i personally collect chips and have probably $200 worth at home of all different denominations and have never once been given even a weird glance.

the Palms is great about this...all of their $5 chips have Playboy Playmates and Nascar drivers and stuff on them...whenver i go there i'm always leaving with at least one chip...i feel like such a fish! lol

Edit: Tournament chips, obviously, are a completely different story...if they catch you trying to take those, you'll be banned and kicked out of the tourney.

soah · #6 07-07-2005, 05:26 AM

10 cents?

mosch · #7 07-07-2005, 07:36 AM

I've taken large numbers of chips out of the casino before, nobody said a word. I've played in other private games both in and outside of casinos that were played with casino chips, too.

What's the worst that will happen? They might ask you not to do it... in which case you walk to the next casino and try again.

sirtimo · #8 07-07-2005, 08:38 AM

you're not "borrowing" chips.. .you buy them with your money. They are yours.

nervous · #9 07-07-2005, 09:24 AM

I'm thinking of a really cool way to get essentially a free set of chips for personal play.

Can you return them once you go back to the casion/how often do they change the faces on the chips?

sekrah · #10 07-07-2005, 09:26 AM

At the Taj, they change them everytime Haley's Comet passes by.