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Roulette Chips differ from any of the other chips in a casino in that they have no value printed on them. For instance, if you're playing Blackjack, you have stacks of chips with all the dollar amounts such as $1, $5, $25, $50, $100 etc... printed on them. A true chip has no value on it, a chip with the printed value on it is actually called a check. As a standard, the Roulette Table has as many as eight sets of different colored chips with each set having 300 chips in them. To make a purchase, the player decides how much money he is going to spend on the game, pays that amount and then his chips are split up to assume the value the player spent. For example, a player buys in for $300, he has 300 chips, his chips are valued at $300. Chips can only be purchased in stacks of 20 so if you want to buy in with $80 you would receive 4 stacks of 20, with each chip valued at $1. The Croupier is in charge of taking the money for chips and for cashing in a players chips at the end of a game. While some casinos allow cash to be wagered at the Roulette Tables, players more often than not opt to buy chips from the Croupier. When a game has ended or the player decided to try his luck at a different game, he must sell his chips back to the Croupier. Roulette Chips can not be used at any other casino game either inside the same casino or at any other casino, and in a lot of cases, they can only be used at the Roulette Table where they were purchased. In recent years, Roulette Chips from some of the more famous land based casinos have become somewhat of a collectors item, with buying, selling, trading and bartering going on all the time in order to complete a particular collection. This is especially true of the casinos that used to stand as landmarks but have been closed down forever. Many people have brought home chips as souvenirs from casinos they have visited over the years, and some don't realize the treasure trove they have stashed away in their attics. |