Ok guys. I need your help to find out if this could work. What if one player buys unmarked chips for $1 per chip and another player buy the same coloured unmarked chips at another table but for say $50 per chip. Could the player who paid $1 pass them over to the other player (without anybody seeing) and get them cash in to make a profit. I know this sounds ridiculous but maybe something worth talking about. thanks

Every casino I’ve been to marks their chips with some sort of distinguishable characteristics (Custom art, special coloring, and ultraviolet markings are all common), so you would need to to get unique chips made for that specific casino. High quality counterfeit chips do exist, but I highly doubt you would be able to be able to reproduce indistinguishable ones for anywhere near $1 each.

In theory your idea is possible, and people have succeeded (and many have gotten caught) in doing this, but Casinos have an increasing number of tools at their disposal to catch these chips both before and after you are able to cash out.  In my opinion, the risk vs reward just isn’t worth it.

You do bring up a good point. But I was actually thinking of buying in at a table for $1 chips then buying in at another table for say $50 chips (same color and design). Bet a little so it’s not suspisous. Then cash all of the chips. I don’t really want to take the chance of making my own chips. Thanks

What Casinos have the same exact design for their $1 and $50 chips? Most Casinos I’ve been don’t even use $50 chips (usually $25 then $100), and if they did it would be a distinguishable design.

lol no i mean. the special chips that you buy into when you play roulette. you get to pick what the value of your chips can be. say i want $20 dollars worth of $1 dollar chips, then the croupier would give me 20 chips at a value of $1, then mark down the value beside him. or you can ask the croupier to give you $1000 worth of $50 chips, then he would mark down the value of those chips and give you 20 chips.

Whoops, I got thinking about the whole counterfeit thing and just ran with that! How would your idea work though? I haven’t played a lot of roulette, but I thought every player was given a different color of chips to avoid any confusion? Is this different for smaller casinos?

yea they are given different color chips. but at different tables they dont use a different set of chips, they use the same set.so if i get blue at one table, somebody else could have the exact same blue but at a different table but at different values. thats how this could work.

benmarl - 21 June 2009 04:36 PM

yea they are given different color chips. but at different tables they dont use a different set of chips, they use the same set.so if i get blue at one table, somebody else could have the exact same blue but at a different table but at different values. thats how this could work.

i very much doubt that their values would be different, but i dont play a lot of land based so i can’t really help