Casino staff usually refer to chips as "cheques," which is of French ancestry. In reality, there’s a distinction amidst a chip and a cheque. A cheque is a chip with a denomination imprinted on its face and is constantly valued at the amount of the imprinted amount. Chips, however, don’t have values printed on them and any color can be valued at any amount as defined by the table. For example, in a poker tournament, the dealer might state that white chips as $1 and blue chips as $10; while, in a game of roulette, the croupier may value white chips as twenty-five cents and blue chips as 2 dollars. A different instance, the cheap red, white, and blue poker chips you buy at Target for your weekend poker game are referred to as "chips" because they don’t have values printed on them.
When you put your money down on the craps table and hear the croupier say, "Cheque change only," he’s just advising the box man that a new individual would like to change money for chips (cheques), and that the $$$$$ on the craps table is not part of the action. Cash plays in a majority of betting houses, so if you place a $5 bill on the Pass Line just prior to the player rolling the dice and the dealer doesn’t trade your cash for cheques, your money is "part of the action." When the croupier indicates, "Cheque change only," the boxman understands that your $$$$$$ isn’t in play.
In reality, in in real life craps games, we gamble with cheques, and not chips. Ever so often, a gambler will walk up to the the table, put down a $100 cheque, and say to the dealer, "Cheque change." It is entertaining to pretend to be a novice and say to the croupier, "Hey, I’m new to this game, what’s a cheque?" Most of the time, their crazy responses will amuse you.
February 23rd, 2010
Lina
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