Anyone have one of these? (1 Viewer)

I was playing poker at Harrah's L.V. and they were using these for the rake. I ask a few dealers for a one, they said they weren't allowed.

I bought one from a dealer when they first came out. Not currently for sale. Sweet chip!

They're really awesome. Neither dealer would sell me one =(

I will never understand why a casino doesn't order Ezra chips for souvenir seekers. 300% markup on that chip probably. I'd sell them by the rack.

IIRC, the Nevada gaming commission says a casino cannot "sell" chips. It was the threat of enforcing this rule that caused casinos recently to curtail the $8 Chinese New Year chips, because they knew that those chips were more often being bought as souvenirs.

My last visit to Wendover I asked to buy their drop chips and they too would not sell them.....not nearly as sweet as that Harrahs but still a bummer

dirty moose said:

I ask a few dealers for a one, they said they weren't allowed.

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Not only are the dealers instructed to not let the drop chips leave the tables, but some casinos will fire their dealers immediately if they're caught doing so. In fact, some casinos go so far as to put placards and signs out in the poker room stating that the dealers are not allowed to issue the drop chips to players and that doing so is a terminal offense (Casino Morongo was one such example, IIRC).

I'm not entirely sure why casinos take such a strong stance on drop chips, but I'm unaware of any of them that remain aloof to the chips walking out the door. What you observed is indeed quite par for the course.

In the FWIW category, it wasn't too long ago there was a lot of 30 Stratosphere $4 drop chips on eBay. They were listed at $240 for the initial bid, but the lot never got a single bid. This is a travesty, as those chips would have made fantastic "budget" Empress $1k relabels.

Instead my make an actual chip, why don't they use lamer type chips. I've seen this in other rooms. No cash value type chip.

Many casinos don't care about the drop chips and you can easily get them. Monte Carlo, Bellagio, and Mirage come to mind. I can also see why they protect them though. The drop chips determine how much rake the table and room generates. When X chips go into the tray and Y chips return in the box at the end of the day the casino has to figure out where the missing rake went.

I don't understand why card rooms still drop physical chips into actual boxes for rake anymore. As far as I can tell, many places take the rake, put it in a staging area where the camera can see it, then return it to the tray. Requires fewer fills and fewer weird denom chips.

When it comes to these odd denomination drop chips... some are definitely easier to come by than others. Some are almost impossible and therefore increases its value exponentially over others. Seems kind of silly that a live $3 or $4 chip at times is worth 5x 6x sometimes even 7x or 8x face value.
These were something unique and what caught my eye and started collecting all of the drop chips from LV! Have about a full rack of different ones, old and new.

rimmerryan said:

Have about a full rack of different ones, old and new.

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Yo, bro, pics! When you get a chance, of course. But that's the kind of epic pr0n we'd like to see.