Cheques question

Hello, two questions:

1) If I wire funds to a LV casino, can I get cheques from the cage rather that at the tables?

2) Say I am able to get a rack, can I give any portion of that to my wife/friend/stranger?

Thanks,
Mugect

Some casinos will allow it and others will not. The more money you wire in the better chance you have. Call the casino you want to go to and ask for the Hosts office. Let the host arrange it with the Credit Office.

Quote: mugect

Hello, two questions:

1) If I wire funds to a LV casino, can I get cheques from the cage rather that at the tables?

2) Say I am able to get a rack, can I give any portion of that to my wife/friend/stranger?

Thanks,
Mugect

On #2: Yes, as a stranger, and hopefully future friend, you can give them to me. When will you be in Vegas next with your rack?

Less than one hour to find a best friend, pay the under!

Thanks DRich, thought that would be an option, just wondered if anyone on the board has done such.

I play on FM all the time. Usually I can get chips at the high limit cages/windows. At times they do not have them and if I don't want to interrupt a current table's game in progress, I will tell the HL personnel and they will usually call the floor and I will be directed to an empty table that is opened and they will cut them out there. A few min's later the floor person will come over to the table I am at and have me sign the slip real quick. (everywhere except WYNN cause that is a pain in the butt HL to deal with for me).

My chips, I can give them to whomever I want. None of the properties business.

Quote: Baccaratfrom79

My chips, I can give them to whomever I want. None of the properties business.

Are you sure about that? I recall a discussion about someone paying off a side to another player with a high denomination chip. Later the cage would not cash it because there was no record of him buying or winning the chip. In fact I think the cage took the chip and claimed it to be property of the casino.

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My chips, I can give them to whomever I want. None of the properties business.

Careful though. There are cases of the casino not honoring the chips exchanged, and even confiscating them.

http://m.lvsun.com/news/2007/mar/09/chips-no-longer-good-cash/

Quote: JimRockford

Are you sure about that? I recall a discussion about someone paying off a side to another player with a high denomination chip. Later the cage would not cash it because there was no record of him buying or winning the chip. In fact I think the cage took the chip and claimed it to be property of the casino.

I will state where my answers come from. I am the person of record/account and my wife plays (rated and non rated at times) and I always slip her my chips. Friends come along the same thing. I commonly play with purple, yellow and flags. I know I have given my wife yellows and flags and never anything said. So, we are known players of course where we play so might be 100% accurate what you are saying. And I would be careful with the RFID ones for that case. Purple and below I still would not worry.

Whether you have wired Front Money to the casino or merely hand them a check upon your arrival, the cage is more willing to give you chips/cheques than to give you cash to take to the tables and buy cheques.

At the level of your play, I'm sure any casino would be willing to do just about anything that you want. Cheques at a table once you sign the marker or cheques at the cage once you sign your marker. If you have some sort of preference, just let your host know, if he has to jump through some hoops, he will do it, but you will get what you want.

Giving your chips to someone is fine, their accepting them is fine.... but casinos sometimes frown on someone walking up and trying to cash a chip that may have been lost, stolen or given in exchange for certain "activities" the casino does not want to encourage on their premises. Most hookers don't even try to personally cash chips that are high denomination.

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Giving your chips to someone is fine, their accepting them is fine.... but casinos sometimes frown on someone walking up and trying to cash a chip that may have been lost, stolen or given in exchange for certain "activities" the casino does not want to encourage on their premises. Most hookers don't even try to personally cash chips that are high denomination.

How would a random cage worker know if any given chips are lost, stolen, etc? Do people file a missing chip report? Would love to hear the sad stories of someone 'losing' chips!

So my takeaway here is so long as the cheques are filtered back through me to the cage, there are no issues with personal distribution.

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How would a random cage worker know if any given chips are lost, stolen, etc? Do people file a missing chip report? Would love to hear the sad stories of someone 'losing' chips!

So my takeaway here is so long as the cheques are filtered back through me to the cage, there are no issues with personal distribution.

They track the high demonization ones, $5k and up, also if you have a stack of $1k chips. They will ask you where you were playing and they will call the pit/floor to verify. This happens when you cash out outside of the respective high limit room. Last time we were at the Bellagio and although their HL cashier in at the counter in the back, the cashier can see all the tables and pretty much knows, who is who when you go to cash. Anyways, we went back tot he HL and no one was playing baccarat so we went for a walk. We decided to go over to Mirage and we stopped by one of the cashiers on the way out. Had about $15k or so in 10-$1k's and 1-Flag. She asked where we got them and had to call. That's what is normally done. If I didn't get them from the HL, I probably would have had to have the prison that gave them to me to come up, etc.

When I occasionally cash out 1 or 2, $1k yellow's at a main cage, they never have said anything. I don't think they care about 1 or 2 or 3 pieces?? I know the do the RFID ones and the other factor is if you are CTR'd/LTR'd, is the second issue other than where you bought-received them.

I find it funny they are so worried about cashing high value chips..... yet when they see a bank manager blowing MILLIONS into the high denomination slots they turn a blind eye