Not Mine Bellagio $5,000 huh? (3 Viewers)

[Teach42]

I wonder how many of these are in private circulation...

 

[rimmerryan]

I wonder how many of these are in private circulation...

Has to be only a handful.
If they aren't good at the casino any longer, the rest are either locked in a vault or have been destroyed.

 

[Lemonzest]

 

[warewulf]

Wow! Currently at $765!

So if you want a whole barrel, $15,300

 

[Teach42]

That $1k mark isn't looking too crazy anymore.

 

[Solid Snake]

$860 let’s go!!!!!!

 

[kmccormick100]

I think the best bet for cashing it would be sitting down to a $20/40 NL game and buying in for $4-5k, play a while then ask somebody to break it into $1ks, add a couple onto your stack, play a while and leave (hopefully still with chips). If I could’ve picked it up for $3-400 might’ve been worth trying.
Cashing it at a cage is not gonna work.

 

[davin]

I think the best bet for cashing it would be sitting down to a $20/40 NL game and buying in for $4-5k, play a while then ask somebody to break it into $1ks, add a couple onto your stack, play a while and leave (hopefully still with chips). If I could’ve picked it up for $3-400 might’ve been worth trying.
Cashing it at a cage is not gonna work.

Wonder what happens when the guy that got the 5k goes to cash it in ? Does he say he got it from a player on the table? Then they review the tape and watch how it was Handled?

 

[kmccormick100]

Wonder what happens when the guy that got the 5k goes to cash it in ? Does he say he got it from a player on the table? Then they review the tape and watch how it was Handled?

Maybe, but assuming the types of players who are regs in that game are probably keeping chips in a box and/or cashing multiple flags at a time in racks aren’t getting scrutinized all that closely

 

[justsomedude]

I think the best bet for cashing it would be sitting down to a $20/40 NL game and buying in for $4-5k, play a while then ask somebody to break it into $1ks, add a couple onto your stack, play a while and leave (hopefully still with chips). If I could’ve picked it up for $3-400 might’ve been worth trying.
Cashing it at a cage is not gonna work.

According to the GPI Paulson catalog, they can do some kind of quasi-geo-fencing with chips with RFID, so management can track when certain (high denom?) chips enter/exit specific areas of the casino. If a chip has been shown as missing from the database for a period of time, then all of a sudden pops back up on the radar back in the poker room, you may have more problems than you realize.

Also, don't forget the Dalla $5,000 chip story: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2007/mar/09/chips-no-longer-good-cash/

If $5,000 casino chips could talk, what would this one say? It might explain its recent travels and how it has ended up in the custody of a cashier at the MGM Grand, who questioned whether it really belonged to the gambler who turned it in.

The gambler, a poker player, made the mistake of treating the chip like currency. And all he's got to show for it today is a piece of paper - a receipt for the chip he no longer has - and no money.

 

[warewulf]

Sold for $911 which is coincidentally the number they will call when you try to cash it in...

 

[FordPickup92]

Sold for $911 which is coincidentally the number they will call when you try to cash it in...

Epic!

 

[kmccormick100]

Sold for $911 which is coincidentally the number they will call when you try to cash it in...

I can’t see somebody getting in any criminal trouble for trying to cash this in, but the chance of it getting seized is high I think.

 

[Solid Snake]

Card capper

 

[warewulf]

I can’t see somebody getting in any criminal trouble for trying to cash this in, but the chance of it getting seized is high I think.

I think your scenario above would be the best bet for cashing in -- mix it in with other chips.

I don't think it could lead to charges, but might get questioned. Plus they could flag you in the system as suspicious.

 

[davin]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/cheating-vegas-modifying-chips.52406/

 

[jr8719]

Any idea which robbery this is from? Interested to know which ones people are referring to... The man on the bike?

 

[FordPickup92]

Any idea which robbery this is from? Interested to know which ones people are referring to... The man on the bike?

Yes theres a link in a previous comment to a news article on the robbery

 

[dickzapper]

Those counterfeiters went about their operation all wrong. Who wants to start painting chips and selling em to rubes on eBay?

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

Those counterfeiters went about their operation all wrong. Who wants to start painting chips and selling em to rubes on eBay?

Is this not a real $5k bellagio chip?

 

[dickzapper]

Is this not a real $5k bellagio chip?

Possibly not. Looks a little like the ones counterfeited by painting and labeling dollar chips. Do any Bellagio flags really have black color transfer on them? Could be wrong but it looked fake to me.

Edit: ok I looked at it again, and seems like what I thought was color transfer could be hooker juice but still the edge spots look kind of weird to me.

 

[davin]

Is this not a real $5k bellagio chip?

Hmmm now that I look at it more kinda seems like the blue an red goes over the inlay if you zoom in but I could be wrong