Is it common knowledge that a $2.50 chip = "snapper" (1 Viewer)

[jbutler]

Playing omaha last night at Borgata a guy to my right had a stack of snappers from various AC casinos and I asked if he cared to sell them to me. "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me all those snappers?" He looked confused and asked what I meant. "Your pink chips - I'll give you $3 each to save me the trip of having to go around to all the rooms."

When he realized what I was asking he was nice enough to just sell them for face, but he said he'd never heard of a pink chip being called a snapper. Mind you, this is a guy who has played the pink chip game in AC for decades, plays $10/20 OE or O8 virtually every day. I was a bit shocked, so I asked the other players and the dealer and none had ever heard of a pink chip being called a snapper. I asked the two floors working and neither had ever heard of snappers either. We cycled through at least 4 or 5 more dealers and they all said the same thing.

So...is this some kind of chipper slang that hasn't made its way into common usage in casinos? Before last night I'd have bet any amount of money that at least half the people who routinely played the pink chip game would have known pink chips to also be called snappers. Glad no one tried to bet me on that one.

 

[ChipTalker]

Not that I am a valid resource by any means but on a side note it took me a while to figure out what a snapper was while reading these forums. I guess I did not care enough at first to ask and then eventually I pieced it together.

 

[QuiQuog]

I don't know the answer to your question, but I had to look it up a couple of weeks ago. I've heard the term snapper for a while now since I've been frequenting CT, but haven't bothered to know it's meaning until recently. Now I've been wondering why they're called snappers. I've been assuming that since they're usually pink, they have the same color as the Red Snapper fish. But as far as I know, only the 2.50 chip is called a snapper, and not other pink chips like quarters. Is a blue 2.50 called a snapper as well?

 

[sleepypiggly]

Playing omaha last night at Borgata a guy to my right had a stack of snappers from various AC casinos and I asked if he cared to sell them to me. "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me all those snappers?" He looked confused and asked what I meant. "Your pink chips - I'll give you $3 each to save me the trip of having to go around to all the rooms."

When he realized what I was asking he was nice enough to just sell them for face, but he said he'd never heard of a pink chip being called a snapper. Mind you, this is a guy who has played the pink chip game in AC for decades, plays $10/20 OE or O8 virtually every day. I was a bit shocked, so I asked the other players and the dealer and none had ever heard of a pink chip being called a snapper. I asked the two floors working and neither had ever heard of snappers either. We cycled through at least 4 or 5 more dealers and they all said the same thing.

So...is this some kind of chipper slang that hasn't made its way into common usage in casinos? Before last night I'd have bet any amount of money that at least half the people who routinely played the pink chip game would have known pink chips to also be called snappers. Glad no one tried to bet me on that one.

I don't know the answer to your question, but I had to look it up a couple of weeks ago. I've heard the term snapper for a while now since I've been frequenting CT, but haven't bothered to know it's meaning until recently. Now I've been wondering why they're called snappers. I've been assuming that since they're usually pink, they have the same color as the Red Snapper fish. But as far as I know, only the 2.50 chip is called a snapper, and not other pink chips like quarters. Is a blue 2.50 called a snapper as well?

The $2.50 chip was originally created for blackjack for the 3/2 payoff on a $5 bet. When you hit a blackjack, it's called a "natural" or "snapper" and the dealer has to pay you $7.5 on a $5 bet (3/2). So this created a need for a $2.5 chip. Henceforth that chip is sometimes known as the "snapper."

I've also heard that it's called the snapper from the sound it makes when the dealer whisks the chip out of his tray, but that makes less sense to me than the above.

Snapper chips are usually in much better condition than $1 $5 chips because they see way less usage, thus a lot of casino patrons like to collect them. I mean, who wants to bring back a gunky $1 chip when you can take back a pretty pink chip with sharp edges?

 

[trever]

Don't know if it is in common use or not, but back home "snapper" was a vulgar anatomical reference. I always assumed that the pink $2.50 chips derived their name from there.

 

[luckbox]

but back home "snapper" was a vulgar anatomical reference

i wouldnt call it vulgar.. but it does reference some of those women parts

 

[derekdd23]

Don't know if it is in common use or not, but back home "snapper" was a vulgar anatomical reference. I always assumed that the pink $2.50 chips derived their name from there.

Just what kind of women do you date?

 

[ssanel54]

i wouldnt call it vulgar.. but it does reference some of those women parts

this is what I always thought, and I believed any Pink chip could be referred to as a snapper

 

[NiceShot]

Just what kind of women do you date?

Hopefully one that has a snapper from its other meaning.

 

[luckbox]

not to derail...tax on snapper maintenance but not candy:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tampon-tax-could-finally-eliminated-170428732.html

 

[abby99]

Common knowledge? Obviously, not. I've known $2.50 chips as snappers for a long time but have no idea when or how I learned the term (in the context of chips). Considering that the term is thought to have originated from Blackjack, it seems reasonable to conclude that all $2.50 chips are snappers, and that pink chips that are non-denominated or that have a denomination other than $2.50 are not snappers.

 

[phaze12]

Just what kind of women do you date?

must be the good kind.

 

[Trihonda]

I've run into confusion at several casinos when I ask for "barrels" of particular chips. Such as asking for two barrels of reds and a barrel of whites. I've always received confused looks. And have to explain a barrel is 20 chips. I mean, you work in a chip cave and have never heard of barrels? Guess I'm dumb.

 

[NiceShot]

Found this googling:
"snapper. A blackjack or natural. The term snapper supposedly came from the early days of face down games when players would snap down their cards when they had a blackjack." Further backs up @sleepypiggly 's info.

 

[Ronoh]

I mean, you work in a chip cave and have never heard of barrels? Guess I'm dumb.

I was a dealer and pit boss in Vegas for seven years and never heard the term "barrel" until joining chipper forums.

 

[BGinGA]

Playing omaha last night at Borgata a guy to my right had a stack of snappers from various AC casinos and I asked if he cared to sell them to me. "I don't suppose you'd like to sell me all those snappers?" He looked confused and asked what I meant. "Your pink chips - I'll give you $3 each to save me the trip of having to go around to all the rooms."

When he realized what I was asking he was nice enough to just sell them for face, but he said he'd never heard of a pink chip being called a snapper. Mind you, this is a guy who has played the pink chip game in AC for decades, plays $10/20 OE or O8 virtually every day. I was a bit shocked, so I asked the other players and the dealer and none had ever heard of a pink chip being called a snapper. I asked the two floors working and neither had ever heard of snappers either. We cycled through at least 4 or 5 more dealers and they all said the same thing.

So...is this some kind of chipper slang that hasn't made its way into common usage in casinos? Before last night I'd have bet any amount of money that at least half the people who routinely played the pink chip game would have known pink chips to also be called snappers. Glad no one tried to bet me on that one.

Try asking at the $5 blackjack table. I'm guessing at least most of the dealers will know what you're talking about.

 

[snooptodd]

Don't know if it is in common use or not, but back home "snapper" was a vulgar anatomical reference. I always assumed that the pink $2.50 chips derived their name from there.

The summer before my freshman year in college, a group of my HS friends and I went up to Montreal for a last hurrah together before we all went off to our respective schools. Stumbling back to the hotel at 4 a.m., we passed one of Montreal's many strip clubs, and the barker yelled out to us in a classic French-Canadian accent - "Hey Fellahs, come back here tomorrow night! You can touch everything but the snapper!"

I don't think he meant $2.50 chips.

 

[bergs]

I have definitely heard the term snapper from BlackJack dealers - now that I think about it, I've never heard it in a poker room (but then I've only seen pink chips in a room twice at Mohegan).

 

[jbutler]

Try asking at the $5 blackjack table. I'm guessing at least most of the dealers will know what you're talking about.

That's what I thought. At least 3 of the dealers claimed to have been former blackjack dealers. Borgata doesn't offer $5 tables, though, to my knowledge, so perhaps that's the problem.

 

[JFCJ]

Are most blackjack tables now 6/5 on a natural? Guess snapper won't apply for those tables...

 

[jbutler]

Are most blackjack tables now 6/5 on a natural? Guess snapper won't apply for those tables...

Considered that, too, but I asked and a couple of the players said BJ at Borgata (at least one some of the tables) still pays 3/2.

 

[ssanel54]

Here ya go

snapper
Early to mid 80s vernacular for an attractive young woman. Popular in Massachusetts and nearby regions of adjacent New England states. Often pronounced as "snappa".
A "Do you think she's pretty?"
B "Definitely! She's a wicked snappa!"

 

[bentax1978]

That's what I thought. At least 3 of the dealers claimed to have been former blackjack dealers. Borgata doesn't offer $5 tables, though, to my knowledge, so perhaps that's the problem.

You'd still need them for $25 bets @ 3:2.

 

[jbutler]

You'd still need them for $25 bets @ 3:2.

I'm not what you call "smart".

 

[72o]

Here ya go

snapper
Early to mid 80s vernacular for an attractive young woman. Popular in Massachusetts and nearby regions of adjacent New England states. Often pronounced as "snappa".
A "Do you think she's pretty?"
B "Definitely! She's a wicked snappa!"

Damn..."similar words" listed in that link are interesting.

 

[BGinGA]

back home "snapper" was a vulgar anatomical reference.

In my earlier stripper club patron days, the term snapper only applied if it was 'tight'. Feel free to use your imagination....

On a related topic, that gal at The Tender Trap in Detroit who could shoot ping pong balls across the stage was pretty entertaining.

 

[QuiQuog]

When I was a kid and would go to the carnival, there was an old carney with a finger missing. If you asked him what happened to it he would tell you that he got it caught in a snapping pussy. That was endless entertainment to 10 year old boys.

The term snapper always reminds me of that old carney.

 

[Jeff]

I always thought 2.50 chip was called a snapper because it referred to the sound that the blackjack dealer made when the dealer used their index finger pull a chip from the front of the stack in the tray and it hits the chip in their hand already. Pay 7.50 on a 5 bet on the blackjack.

 

[pltrgyst]

Common knowledge? Obviously, not. I've known $2.50 chips as snappers for a long time but have no idea when or how I learned the term (in the context of chips). Considering that the term is thought to have originated from Blackjack, it seems reasonable to conclude that all $2.50 chips are snappers, and that pink chips that are non-denominated or that have have a denomination other than $2.50 are not snappers.

^ This here, too.

 

[jbutler]

I always thought 2.50 chip was called a snapper because it referred to the sound that the blackjack dealer made when the dealer used their index finger pull a chip from the front of the stack in the tray and it hits the chip in their hand already. Pay 7.50 on a 5 bet on the blackjack.

I always thought the same.