Craziest Story To Get A Casino Chip..what is yours (1 Viewer)

[Brian Weis]

Circa, 1999 - I do not recall the casino name but there were ads all over Dublin for a casino. I just started collecting chips and convinced my wife and friends to go. For an hour we could not find the casino as the address was right smack in a neighborhood of row houses. Of all places kiddy corner toIrelands Parliament.

Standing outside baffled, a security guard came outside and asked what we were doing. I told him trying to find the casino. He said come on in. I had to register and become a member and soon after that found myself playing blackjack on the 2nd floor of what felt like someones apartment.

I wanted to play a few hands and get the heck out. I could not stop winning and started fearing for my safety as I was the only gambler there and got on a huge winning streak.

With pockets full of chips, I asked where to cash out. You guessed it..in the basement. No lie handed my chips to someone behind dog cage fencing.

I may have won $400 but i got my money and started running.

When i got outside I just dead sprinted for a half of mile. My friends caught up to me. They talked to the guard. They said casino and gambling was legal in home game situations. Or something crazy.

I kept 2 5 pound or euro chips. I kick myself for not keeping a 1 uniit chip.

At the end of the day it was not that big of a deal..but it sure was weird and creepy at the time. I will have to go look through my collection to see what the casino name was.

 

[Trihonda]

Welcome to the forum. Always nice to see fellow Wisconsin folks here.

 

[moose]

I have a couple of stories.

First one. Originally in Ontario before our permanent casino's were built we had these roving popup casinos. You would check the newspaper everyday to see where the next would be. They would rent a hall and could stay for 3 days then they had to shut down and move somewhere else. There were probably 10-12 of these roving casinos. As competition got tougher they would show up in sketchier and sketchier places as they tried to find the cheapest place to rent. So one day I happened to be in downtown Toronto and looked up a nearby casino and popped in for a bit. It was in an Asian district. Busy with tons of smokers. I was the only white guy there. I almost felt like the room went silent when I went in there. I walked through the haze of smoke feeling like I was Christopher Walken in the Russian roulette scene in the deer hunter. I played like 15 min of BJ and ran out of there expecting to be jumped by a gang in the alleyway.

Second one. I was in St. Louis late one night and decided to find a casino. President Casino on the Admiral had poker so I decided to check it out. What a shit hole. The poker was a couple decks down and to get to it you walked through a large ballroom that had probably 400 chairs thrown in a pile that looked like the opening ballroom scene in the Posidon Adventure. The poker room was literally two tables in a companionway. The dirtiest table with the scummiest chips I had ever seen. Obviously all locals who I swear all looked at each other, knowingly winked and put on wolfish grins. I felt like I was being colluded against on every hand. After about an hour I finally booked a small win and I don't even think I played a single hand after that. I immediately racked up and left.

 

[zo121179]

Still looking for my first set of casino chips