Ratholing, taking advantage of the system!

Cardcounter

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When you cash out your chips and you cash out a few blacks the cage will sometimes call the pit to let them know how much you cashed out. Some will tell you what they are doing. When you are at a table you can take advantage of this and rathole some chips. At the end of your session you can cash out for less than what you have on you. I recomend that you cash out for what you colored up in the end and you might add a little bit to it but don't cash out your whole stake take a few extra chips to the casino next door and buy-in with them that way you can conceal what you really won to the pit. Concealing $25-$50 a session might take you from a winner to an average player!
 

EasyRhino

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Of course, the advice of walking the chips to another casino only works in an environ where casinos are honoring each other's chips. A while back, I tried to redeem a green from another local Indian casino (it had slipped in my pocket). It ended up dragging in two cashier supervisors and multiple phone calls, and they still wouldn't take it (the chip was a new design they didn't know about). Obviously, in that case, it wasn't worth it.

Cardcounter said:
When you cash out your chips and you cash out a few blacks the cage will sometimes call the pit to let them know how much you cashed out.
This is a very good point. You don't really want the cashier calling the pit and saying "... XXX... and $400 in green chips" to the pit boss, ever. But this is very very location specific.

One possible way is to break your cashins into several small cashins with small denomination chips. Then, if you are cashing in large-denomination chips, make sure your total approximates what the pit marked you leaving the table with. But this runs the risk of too many cashins at the same cashier (if there's only one cashier).
 

jimbiggs

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EasyRhino said:
Of course, the advice of walking the chips to another casino only works in an environ where casinos are honoring each other's chips. A while back, I tried to redeem a green from another local Indian casino (it had slipped in my pocket). It ended up dragging in two cashier supervisors and multiple phone calls, and they still wouldn't take it (the chip was a new design they didn't know about). Obviously, in that case, it wasn't worth it.



This is a very good point. You don't really want the cashier calling the pit and saying "... XXX... and $400 in green chips" to the pit boss, ever. But this is very very location specific.

One possible way is to break your cashins into several small cashins with small denomination chips. Then, if you are cashing in large-denomination chips, make sure your total approximates what the pit marked you leaving the table with. But this runs the risk of too many cashins at the same cashier (if there's only one cashier).
Once I went to go take a nap in the car before I went back to cash in my second load. I went back and it was still the same cashier.
 

Cardcounter

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Reno and Lake Tahoe Area adavantage!

I play down in a reno where there are about 7 casinos with in 2 mile radius of each other and they all take each others chips. You are less hassled if you use them to buy in and get the current casinos chips and I usually play a few hands of blackjack there if the rules are bad a will bet a couple of hands of $5each and cashout the chips at the cage. Also up in Lake Tahoe the Crystal bay club, biltmore, hyatt, and cal-neva will all take one another chips.

The reason why I didn't post it in the other thread is because it got over 30 responses and it time consuming to read it all and the end messages don't get read as often to and the replies don't make much sense on the end.
 
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