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Casino wants its $2

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by TheSportsPredictor, Feb 3, 2011.

  1. billikens

    billikens Member

    I think if he tried walking back in to cash them in, he'd be lucky to end up in a police station. The Vegas casinos may not be as bad as they were two or three decades ago, but I've heard numerous rumors of casinos that will "take care of the problem" on their own when it comes to cheating and stealing. Regardless, I can't see how the guy thought he'd be successful in cashing those in.

    But, like most things that happen in Vegas, maybe strippers is the answer.
     
  2. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    Inderstand the stripper angle from 'Bringing Down the House', but I think the casino will immediately change the chip design after this happened, so even if a stripper walks in with tons of the old chips, there's a good likelihood she's not walking out with the equivalent in cash. At least not without a lot of questions and some rather detailed follow-up.
     
  3. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    Great book, BTW.
     
  4. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    Someone told me that chips can be spent outside the casino, either at other casinos or other businesses that elect to accept the chips. Plus even if they do change the design of the chips, they have to give people still holding chips the ability to cash out before they switch. I think someone like this was a M*A*S*H plot, where Winchester bought old script from Koreans for American cash at a 10:1 rate, but ended up getting locked out of camp when the day came to trade old script for new.
     
  5. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member


    A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night.

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  6. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    Unless it's some shady type business, you can't spend casino chips outside the casino. You can't even spend them elsewhere on the hotel property such as restaurant, bar or spa.
     
  7. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    What the fuck?

    Did that same person tell you there was a tooth fairy?
     
  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I have cashed outside chips before -- up to the $25 or maybe $100 level -- even at casinos that aren't affiliated with each other. But you aren't going to do that with a $10,000 chip. Cash out anything more than about $1,000 and they're going to ask you what table you came from.
     
  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Cashing a Bellagio chip at the MGM is not the same as "spending".... Try to 'spend' a Caesar's chip to pay for dinner at the Mirage...
     
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Ah, OK ... I didn't differentiate there ... yeah, shit, the thief might as well "spend" those chips on a down payment for a City Center condo if it's accepted as currency across the city. Although I do remember paying for a 3 a.m. breakfast at the Sands with a $100 chip I won at the Riviera. Jeez, I've been going there too long.
     
  11. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Did Frank and Sammy just finish their set?
     
  12. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    It's usually if you have four of a kind or better and lose in a showdown.
     
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