$2.50 chip collecting

mizuchaud · #1 (**permalink**) 11-01-2006, 08:04 PM

Chip and casino Noob question:
If I wanted to collect $2.50 chips from AC and/or LV, would walking up to the cage and asking for a bunch be frowned upon? I read from other threads about collecting from the cage, but not sure about this denomination.

Playing Blackjack to get them seems to be a REALLY BAD IDEA.

Thoughts?

poislb · #2 (**permalink**) 11-01-2006, 08:20 PM

Im sure snuffy will chime in real soon to tell ya all about his $2.50s

I picked up 200 $1.00 chips from the gage at NY, NY in Vegas..

snuffy · #3 (**permalink**) 11-01-2006, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by mizuchaud

Chip and casino Noob question:
If I wanted to collect $2.50 chips from AC and/or LV, would walking up to the cage and asking for a bunch be frowned upon? I read from other threads about collecting from the cage, but not sure about this denomination.

Playing Blackjack to get them seems to be a REALLY BAD IDEA.

Thoughts?

you can jut walk up to the cage and ask them for a rack of 2.50 chips for collecting. the person may or may not give it to you...and call a boss over. the boss will ask you what are you going to use the chips for. you just say collecting. since you are paying 2.50 per chip and they paid like .70 cents per chip...you shouldnt really have any problem walking off with them. i think if it were .50 chips or .25 chips they wont let you walk off with it.

but here is a pic of what they look like hehehe. got some nice mint $1 chips that were still chalky.

Gaming Ore · #4 (**permalink**) 11-01-2006, 10:34 PM

Mizu...

Assuming that when you say "collect" $2.50 chips, you are taking about one-sies and two-sies of each different issue, and not by the rack full, right?

Generally speaking, walking uo to the cage will work in Nevada, but not necessarilly in Atlantic City. However, what does work in nearly all gaming jurisdictions is to just buy them at the blackjack table. When you buy-in, just tell the dealer that you want a couple of "snappers" or $2.50 chips. Just put them in your pocket, AND feel free to walk away with whatever you bought in for. Go to the cage and cash in the other chips. However, if you are not planning to play, then I suggest you do this at an empty table (no players). If the hour is late and there are no players, you will often give the dealer something to do by looking for better conditioned chips.

OK, so thats the answer for casinos that you can get to, but then you have to ask, how do I get snappers from casinos far away? The answer is to get more than one or two snappers from the casinos you can get to and use those extras to make trades with other collectors. Trading is usually a face-value for face-value opportunity with current issue chips.

But allow me to give you fair warning! Focusing on snappers as a collectible is a subtle entrapment! It is shocking how many snappers there are out there. Within the CC&GTCC there are many snapper collectors, but only about two, significant, major two-fifty colllectors, and they collect from around the World.

I hope this helps and good luck!

Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis

mizuchaud · #5 (**permalink**) 11-01-2006, 10:42 PM

thanks Jim!
Hoping you'd see this.
Subtle entrapment indeed. I'm balking at the stratospheric (for me) amounts for some of the AC snappers, but some of the more available ones are still so nice to look at.

Onesies yes, but when the powerball goes rolling up I end up daydreaming of racks of snappers for a cash game.....

For some reason, I just like the bubblegum pink and big fat edgespots. They are not 'normal' looking chips.

ross · #6 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by mizuchaud

thanks Jim!

Onesies yes, but when the powerball goes rolling up I end up daydreaming of racks of snappers for a cash game.....

This is one of the games we play in AC. Its called the "pink" game and is a limit holdem at $7.50/$15 all played with pink chips (ostensibly its a 3-6 game with pink chips).

Tropicana used to spread it regularly, and it would always have a waiting list as it was a high-action game. But the other cool feature was that you would have racks of pink chips to look through and there were ALWAYS a few TropWorld and older ones mixed in

Gaming Ore · #7 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 09:49 AM

Ross,

You are killing me! Thanks for that insight!! I have never known a snapper ($2.50) to be used, regularly, in any game other than blackjack!

Thanks,

Jim

mizuchaud · #8 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 10:38 AM

The Pink Game!
Ross, I'd be too busy fishing through my pink stacks to play properly!

I would love to be able to play that game bankroll-wise.

Maybe if we all pretend they're quarters............

Wedge Rock · #9 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 10:43 AM

I've got a few snappers coming my way...older design from Foxwoods, though I don't know for sure if they are obsolete... 1 LCV and 4 H&C's...

ross · #10 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Wedge Rock

I've got a few snappers coming my way...older design from Foxwoods, though I don't know for sure if they are obsolete... 1 LCV and 4 H&C's...

Here's a link to Greg Susongs Foxwoods page (http://www.chipguide.com/cgi-bin/sea...cgi?id=ctlefo). The full graphic one (CG09512) is the one currently in use.