Rob Singer didn't beat video poker

[redietz]

No redietz. YOU were wrong. When I write about chips being cheques I write about chips being cheques. You wrote checks -- as in a check from a casino to pay a jackpot.

I spoke to casinos and the NGC about cash and chips and not checks. I could have used the word cheques on the phone but that could have been confusing when the question was about chips.

Back to school "Editor Bob."

The jargon spelling is technically (according to the dictionary) both ways. Wikipedia (which I don't generally like) lists "casino tokens" as "chips, checks, or cheques." The Las Vegas Advisor, however, preferred the spelling "cheques" as opposed to "checks," although they allowed "checks" in the title of the question without correcting the author in the article. In a back-and-forth on WoV, some people said they used either spelling. I'd say "cheques" outnumbered "checks" about 2 to 1, although evidently non-value cheques is its own term regarding blackjack and roulette tournaments, so some people avoided spelling it "cheques" for that reason. The consensus, and I agree, is that "cheques" is to be preferred as the spelling, but "checks" is not technically incorrect. The managerial person I spoke to also said I should have spelled it "cheques" to avoid confusion, which I reported.

Editor Bob