Originally Posted by
AndrewG
The scenarios I discussed -- and at great lengths -- were about getting a check when cashing in chips from table games.
If you had a profit you could get a check.
No profit you get cash.
They also said they'd make exceptions to that policy for regular players. They also said they usually dont give checks for less than five thousand.
Well, that's as expected. Actually pretty forthright of this particular casino. Maybe they knew the questioner's AKA.
So, to sum up, which is what I could have told you:
No law. Not even a regulation. This is what we in something of the know call a "policy." LOL.
So the policy will, of course, vary by casino and vary by who you are and what you've done for them lately or how nicely you ask.
This dovetails a bit with what I mentioned vis-a-vis sports gambling. Namely, I never had an issue getting a check (with or without notation) if I asked nicely or I was on good terms. And, as I said, I was turned down recently when I asked for a check for around 10K because (1) it was a piddling amount and (2) I was persona non grata to the person I asked. The 5K amount AndrewG mentioned seems about right all around -- for table games and sports. It's a pain in the ass in general for them to write a check, and it's frowned upon. They'd rather, of course, that you parade around with the cash on hand for obvious reasons.
Can't wait for coach to try to explain that a policy is a law. Coach has an odd proclivity -- he treats math as though it's malleable and circumvent-able (not sure that's a word). He treats what he's personally experienced in casinos, however, as some kind of natural immutable law that can't be bent or circumvented. He acts as if what happens to him, how casinos treat him, is what happens to everyone. It's very odd. He disrespects math and over-respects his own experiences.