Do casinos still have change sorting machines? Will they convert lots of change to paper (or even a slot ticket to take to a cash machine) at no charge if you are a customer?
Do casinos still have change sorting machines? Will they convert lots of change to paper (or even a slot ticket to take to a cash machine) at no charge if you are a customer?
I see people bring in buckets of coins to Red Rock and get cash. I doubt they charge a fee. I have no idea what the policy is at other casinos.
Elis Island probably still has one. Sometimes they will even give you a small % in extra in free play when you take your receipt to the cage. At one time it was a sweet deal. at one time I bought bricks of quarters and cashed them in just to get the extra free play.
I carted a couple of large change bags to Ellis when they had their 10% free play bonus for that. In fact, Argentino went into fits that anyone would do such a thing. I don't think they are currently giving the bonus, but I think they still have the change machine. They put in new flooring and carpet in the casino area last spring, so the place looks a bit spiffier. Plus the coffee shop specials are solid.
I take my change a few times per year to Ellis Island. Always a good excuse for a great root beer.
I could be wrong, but at one time I think they were doing 20% in free play up to $400 worth for $480 in free play. If me and my GF went that was $160 in extra free play. I should have done it more often.Bricks of quarters are heavy. I did hit a Royal clearing the free play.Originally Posted by redietz
It was more about getting over on the casino than it was about the money.
Geez... if they still do that the +EV play is to buy rolls of quarters half dollars or dollars and cash them in. Will ha e to unroll them ofcourse.
Casinos accept rolled coins.
I think when the other guys talk about a brick they are referring to a box of wrapped coins that you get from a bank. Casinos take these and probably prefer them.
Remember the boxes of nickels when nickels were worth more than face value?
By the way copper pennies (all before 1982, some 1982) have 1.8-cents of copper.
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Places that have coin-droppers will obviously accept your coins. I'm not sure if they have to be "separated" or not. But if you have a bunch of quarters by themselves, then they'll definitely accept them.
I remember going to the bank one time to get a bunch of rolls of quarters to bring to Ellis Island for the 10% bonus. I walked in and was greeted by the greeter person dude, he asked me what I needed help with, I said I just want to turn paper cash into quarters -- is there a limit for how much I can do? He looked at me stupidly, and said there's no problem, no limit, this is a bank after all. I wanted to confirm, so I asked again, and again he told me not to worry, there's no limit. Okay, cool.
I knew I wanted to do the Ellis Island thing several times, at $400 max, I decided if I did it for 5 days, I should get $2k in quarters. No problem for a bank, right? Riiiight???
So I get to the front, tell the teller I wanted A LOT of quarters and wasn't sure if they could help me with that. She also clarified there was no limit. So I asked for $2,000 in quarters. She told me they don't have that much in quarters (so much for the "no limit" thing). I don't remember how much I ended up getting, but it was definitely above $400 and I went to EI later to claim my $440 in FP. I didn't realize how freaking HEAVY that many quarters would be. It was a real struggle getting them all to my car.
After all that, I said f*** this, it's not worth the $35 in EV or so to spend all this time doing all this nonsense.
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Years ago I drove to Vegas with a friend who owned a laundromat.
I'm amazed my car made it. I'm also amazed that the valets brought out two clothing carts to carry the buckets (and I mean buckets) of quarters. This was before TITO and Caesars happily accepted the $30,000+ of quarters.
Sounds like a sad, pathetic, desperate way to pick up a few bucks. Wouldn’t it be easier to collect deposit bottles out of the garbage? Imagine going to the bank and making a fool of yourself, then dragging heavy pounds of quarters to a casino for $35.00 dollars.
Of course, the famous alcoholic AP Axel hits a royal with the free-play scraps. He always wins or won regardless the angle.
These are the type of moves one must make when banking on the results of casino gambling games for their and their families security and future. Oh, that’s right, the math says certain results will eventually exist. Yet, the math never says you’re guaranteed these results. You still have to a certain degree be lucky.
I need to get away from here again.
I just wanted a cheaper place than coin star to do it quick. The coin star vig sucks
I take my various coin into just about any casino every 3 years or so for cash just to get rid of it. Each time it's around $400-$600. The grocery stores charge to do it but Harrahs is the only casino I've run into that does....if you're not Diamond or 7-Stars.
RS__ it's not called "EV" when you went for the 10% EI bonus. That's called "real money".
My bank has a coin counter, and they charge no fee for processing coin.Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK
Check and see if your bank has one (they probably do) and go to the bank, not the casino.
What, Me Worry?
Not that it matters but Ellis Island has some stipulations on the FP offer with the change exchange program.
They had one machine and it broke down a good bit.
This machine would take halves and below.
It wasn't hard to have 400 dollars or more in your trunk in coin.
I had a few milk carts with plastic buckets from different Casinos like the California.
The Cal has/had a coin area upstairs during that promotion a few years back.
You could buy quarters off the Cal.
You could go to the D and use the quarter machine beside the Derby game.
You could hit up the bank for some change.
Fremont has a big area of coin in machines still. You could buy quarters there or cash out machines.
Sams Town still had coin areas at that time as well.
Skyline and other places. It wasn't hard to get a rolling bank of coin.
Ellis Island would also except dollar coins at the cages so you didn't have to use the machine.
I hit the place kinda hard at the tail end.
I was over there when they told me they were going to discontinue the promotion inside of a week.
IMO it was good while it lasted and it lasted a long time.
The best game at that time to run it off of was the 16/10 deuces.
They have/had all the way up to 5 dollars.
I hit a few sets of deuces for 5k over there and they get all shook up with security and the clientele.
After the promotion ended my mailers on my card went to zero.
It was as if they no mailed me. I haven't been inside the place since they gave up on the promotion.
I posted about this before when it ended on WoV. Old News that has all been discussed already multiple times.
I can't remember why I choose quarters over halves, I suspect it is from my experiences with halves always clogging and jamming up the old Brant machines more often than quarters. It only takes a few seconds to crack and release a roll of quarters.Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK
I guess Ellis Island can expect a rash of people cashing in change in the next few days.
The self-serve line at Walmart accepts coin as payment for your groceries. When you run out of coins, you can use paper currency or switch payment type to a credit card.Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK
About 6 years ago, I was at a casino that had a CoinStar. I went to the cage to exchange 4 quarters for a dollar bill. The retarded attendant pointed to a sign stating that they don't exchange coins and told me about the machine. I countered back with "You want me to take 4 quarters to that rip off machine, be charged 7% and come back to you with a receipt for 93 cents???" She gave me the dollar bill.Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK
If you took the bonus, you got the whole amount ($440) in freeplay. If there was a prime example of “EV vs real money”, I think this would be it, or pretty close to it.Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
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