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Can the casino chips be taken home? what are the consequences?

Quote: HannibalLecter

Can the casino chips be taken home? what are the consequences?
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Why don’t you ask Clarice?

You might not be able to cash the bigger chips in on a different day. The cashier wants to know what table you won them on, and they may verify it with a phone call. So people coming back a week later with a purple chip or higher may get turned down at the cashiers cage. You could just buy-in at a table with a high-value chip from a previous day and play a bit, color-up, then go to the cashier's cage.

RFID hocus-pocus may go unexplained.

What some people had a problem with is the casino got caught up in a state-wide casino shutdown from COVID-19, and outstanding chips could go down with the casino.

On my first trip to Vegas, I stayed ten days at the El Cortez, and not knowing any better, I didn't cash in every day. At the end of the 10th day, I brought 12 black chips to the cashier and it set off all sorts of alarms. Luckily, I'd talked quite a bit to two pit creatures and they were able to verify I'd been camped out there playing BJ for the better part of a week.

Quote: HannibalLecter

Can the casino chips be taken home? what are the consequences?
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Can they be taken home? You tell me:

As for consequences, it may depend on where. Vegas laws may be different from California tribal laws. However, I have never been stopped by anybody, although outside of Vegas, the only casinos where I have removed chips are two in Australia (Crown Melbourne and Star City Sydney) and Cache Creek near Sacramento. Mohegan Sun Vegas had no problem selling me a $5 chip; in fact, the cashier even asked me if I wanted one with the Virgin logo on it. Also, I have a feeling that the casinos that have special Chinese New Year chips expect a lot of them to be taken home.

That being said, Nevada Gaming Regulation 12.060(1) says:
"Chips and tokens are solely representatives of value which evidence a debt owed to their custodian by the licensee that issued them and are not the property of anyone other than that licensee."
Still, there is nothing that says that the casino has the right to demand that someone with their chips cash them in upon leaving the casino.

You can take chips out of the casino, but there is little advantage to doing so. You risk the chance that the casino will change their chips and you will be out of luck when you return. In the case of higher value chips, you may run into a problem cashing them in at a later date.
In the mid-90s I wasn't much of a gambler and would go to AC once a year for a trade show. I got home from one show and found two green chips and a couple of red ones in the pockets of a pair of shorts.. I wasn't sure if they would be valid the next year, but they were.