It has nothing to do with amount won. It is chip denomination. When the pit offers to color up, or exchange all of the small denominations for a few chips, you normally get into the nickle and up chips. What the cage does is source you. They either get a call from the pit, or ask you where were you playing. Before there were chips in chips it was very important to stop the fakes. Also, I knew of an instance where a high roller was seduced by a scammer broad, went up to his room and he got a hand job with his mickey. He wakes up, and his stack of dime chips are gone with the scammer. She got caught, using a friend, in this manner. I used to carry 20-50 dimes in a piggy back fishing tackle container, they fit perfect and I kept different denominations in different compartments. Nicks were my minimum, but had mostly dimes and an occasional 5 dimer. When I got to the cage, they always sourced me, and would call the sportsbook. Yes, that is FROG, he is OK. I would hold the chips for weeks sometimes. Much better than carrying a huge wad, but became obsolete during casino wars when nobody accepted each other's chips. It is the same reason they count all chips before shift change, and why dealers do the hand roll. They do not except shrinkage, nor high denomination chips without source. CYA. Was a nick and above in my casino days. You could have an entire rack of 100's, no call. Did that happen to someone you saw ID?
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