Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
Frankly, I think there is always a safety issue with cash.

I have to say that the only time I was asked if I wanted a private payoff on a jackpot was at Pechanga some years ago. I hit a $20,000 royal. They came to my machine and asked me how I wanted the payoff. I asked for cash (because I was married at the time and the rule was half was mine and half was hers and I liked to surprise her with the money on the dresser in the morning). Then they asked me if I wanted to go into a side room by the cage for the payoff. Another time it was only a $10,000 pay on DDB, and two HUGE security guards surrounded me and the payer so that no one could see the transaction -- but obviously anyone could tell a cash pay was being made. (By the way I offered to tip the security guards and they declined saying it was against the casino rules for them to accept tips.)

The reality is getting cash at any casino puts you at risk. People watch. They watch you at the tables, they watch you at the machines and they watch you at the cage. Don't you think 90% of the cars arriving in Vegas or headed northbound on the I-15 to Vegas have at least one person with several thousand dollars in their pockets? Same is true with plane passengers: what do you think the cash amount is of a planeload from LAX or Burbank arriving in Vegas???
I'd be more concerned with civil forfeiture from crooked cops than from some thug in a casino.

There's an episode of "The A Team" where a rogue casino supervisor alerted crooked cops of buses full of seniors. They'd stop the bus, then rob the seniors.