Atlassino Academy · First visit · Lesson 4 of 8
Buying chips and cashing out
Cash into chips at the table, chips into money at the cashier — the part of a first visit with the most steps and the fewest signs.
The fourth lesson of the first-visit track. It starts with cash in your hand at a table and ends at the cashier with money back in your wallet, and it asks nothing of you beforehand except the walk in from the door. Choosing which table to sit at, and reading the sign screwed to that table, come later in the first-visit track.
Before we start: you sit down at a blackjack table with two notes in your hand, and the round has just finished. Where do the two notes go?
- Into the betting circle in front of you.
- Flat on the cloth just outside the betting circle, and then you wait for the dealer.
- Into the dealer’s hand.
Nothing is scored and nothing is sent anywhere. We come back to these three places at the end of the lesson.
The short answer
Buy chips from the dealer between rounds: the cash goes flat on the cloth beside your betting circle, never inside it. Read the number printed on the chip, not its colour. Roulette colour chips go back across the roulette table they came from; every other chip, and every slot ticket, becomes money at the cashier.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
I dealt cards for years, and the buy-in is the part of the evening people get wrong most often and worry about least. Three steps, always in the same order.
I will do the first one, we will do the second one together, and the third one is yours.
Leo buys in
One: I do it and say it out loud
Leo: “Round over, cards gathered in. I put two notes — $40, an example amount and not a sum I am telling you to bring — flat on the cloth, just outside my betting circle. My hands stay off the betting circle itself. Then I say which chips I want: ‘fives and twenty-fives, please.’ The dealer answers with the two words that mean the money is about to be counted out loud: “Cash Change” (the dealer’s call before counting the money you have put down on the table). Then the notes are counted where the cameras can see them, and a small pile comes back across the cloth to me. I add up the numbers on that pile before I bet any of it: twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty — $40, which is what I put down, to the dollar.”
What the dealer pushed back
- 1 chip of $25
- 3 chips of $5
Those three steps, in that order, are the same at a table in Ontario and at a table in British Columbia.
Two: I stop one step short
Leo: “Same table, next round. I put down $60, ask for the same two kinds of chip, and the dealer pushes this pile back to me. Add up the numbers on it before you touch the betting circle: what have I been given?”
The pile in front of Leo
- 2 chips of $25
- 2 chips of $5
Check yourself
$60 — twenty-five and twenty-five and five and five. That is 4 chips, and the colour of the four chips told you nothing: the numbers printed on those four chips did all of the work.
Three: you do it, I only confirm
A table whose smallest bet is $15 — an example amount again — and $80 in your hand to change. Which chips do you ask the dealer for, so that you can put a bet down without having to ask for different ones a minute later?
| The chip you ask for | Does it build the smallest bet exactly? | Does it fit inside the cash you are changing? |
|---|---|---|
| Five-dollar chips | Yes — 3 five-dollar chips make the smallest bet exactly | Yes — $80 comes back as 16 five-dollar chips |
| Twenty-five-dollar chips | No — the smallest bet is smaller than one twenty-five-dollar chip, and a chip cannot be broken in half at the table | Yes — one twenty-five-dollar chip is well inside the cash you are changing |
| Hundred-dollar chips | No — one hundred-dollar chip is far more than the smallest bet | No — one hundred-dollar chip is more than the cash you are changing |
Check yourself
Leo: “Five-dollar chips — the only value in that table with a yes in both columns. And if you pick wrong it costs you nothing at all: between rounds you can push a chip back across the cloth and ask the dealer for smaller ones.”
Money becomes chips at the table
A chip is a token with a dollar amount printed on it, and that amount is good in the building the chip came from and nowhere else. To turn cash into chips you buy in (to change cash for chips at the table). It happens at the table, in front of the dealer, and it takes three steps that always come in this order.
- Wait for the round to finishUntil the round is over the dealer has both hands full, and a dealer halfway through paying out cannot stop to count your money.
- Put the cash flat on the clothThe notes lie flat on the cloth, just outside your betting circle (the marked place on the cloth where your bet goes). Your own hands stay off the betting circle while the dealer works.
- Say which chips you wantThe dealer calls Cash Change, counts the notes in view of the cameras and pushes the chips across the cloth to you.
There are two places the cash must not go, and each of the two has a published refusal behind it. Inside the betting circle: chips that sit in the betting circle before the deal starts are a bet, and a cash bet is refused in writing by a casino in Alberta and by a casino in Manitoba. And into the dealer’s hand: the notes are put down on the cloth, and the dealer picks the notes up from the cloth rather than out of your fingers.
One of the casinos we read sells chips at its counter as well as at its tables, and a poker room sends you to the counter first.
Read the number, not the colour
The number printed on a chip is its denomination (the amount printed on a chip, which is what the chip is worth). That number is the only part of the chip you can trust. Colour is each casino’s own arrangement, and no casino we read publishes which of its colours stands for which amount — so a colour you worked out in one building is not something you can carry into the next one.
Three chip faces, drawn in the same colour on purpose. The 3 chip values drawn here are an example set: no casino we list publishes its own chip values.
Two piles. The shorter one is worth more
A tall pile of small chips
- 12 chips of $5
A short pile of large ones
- 1 chip of $100
- 2 chips of $25
The taller pile is the cheaper of the two: $60 on the tall side against $150 on the short side. Only the numbers printed on the chips tell you what a pile is worth.
When a bet is made of two kinds of chip, the larger number goes at the bottom of the stack, so that the dealer can read the whole bet at a glance instead of taking the stack apart to look.
A bet stacked the way the dealer reads it
- 1 chip of $25
- 2 chips of $5
Stacked the other way round, with the small chip underneath, this bet would come to exactly the same amount: which chip sits at the bottom changes nothing about what the bet is worth. What it changes is whether anyone has to touch the stack. With the larger number underneath, the dealer reads the bet at a glance — and a bet nobody has to touch is a bet nobody can be accused of moving.
Once the bet is down
The dealer closes the betting for the round with a call: "no more bets" (the dealer’s call that closes betting for the round; in Quebec, "Rien ne va plus"). From that call onwards the bet on the cloth is not yours to touch — not to add a chip to it, not to take a chip back off it, not even to straighten it — until the dealer has settled the round and finished paying out.
The call shuts the betting — but casinos do not all put that edge in the same place.
| Province | The bet is closed from |
|---|---|
| British Columbia | The moment the deal starts |
| Ontario | The call |
| Québec | The first card |
| Manitoba | The call |
| Alberta · one casino’s house rule | The call — and it stays put until the dealer has finished paying out |
No need to remember which row belongs to which province: wait for the call, then keep your hands off the cloth until the dealer has finished paying out, and you are inside all five rules at whichever table you sit.
In front of your seat is the chip rack (the shelf in front of your seat where your own chips sit while you play). The chips sitting in the chip rack are yours to look after rather than the dealer’s, and one Alberta casino puts that in writing. So when you get up for a break, take the chips with you — the guide for B.C. casinos asks plainly that nothing of yours be left sitting unattended.
Leaving a table
Before you leave a table, push the whole pile in front of you back across the cloth between rounds and ask the dealer to colour up (to swap a pile of small chips for fewer larger ones before you leave the table). The dealer counts the pile, says out loud what the pile comes to, and passes back the same amount in fewer chips. Nothing is rounded off in either direction.
What you push across
- 3 chips of $25
- 7 chips of $5
What comes back
- 1 chip of $100
- 2 chips of $5
Both sides of the arrow are worth $110. The colour change sends 10 chips over the cloth, and 3 come back. A colour change moves chips and never money.
At a roulette table none of that holds, and the difference is one you have to act on before you stand up. The wheel does not sell you chips with numbers on them; it sells you colour chips (chips of one colour used by one player at one roulette table, with no amount printed on them). What one colour chip is worth is an amount you name yourself when you buy the pile. A colour chip is money at the roulette table it was bought at and at no other table in the building, so the whole pile goes back across that same table before you get out of the seat.
| The question | A chip with a number on it | A roulette colour chip |
|---|---|---|
| Where one comes from | The dealer at any table; at one casino we read, the cashier sells them too | The dealer at one roulette table, and nowhere else |
| What one is worth | The number printed on it | Whatever amount you named when you bought the pile — no amount is printed on a colour chip |
| Where one turns into money | The cashier | Into chips with numbers on them at that roulette table, and into money afterwards at the cashier |
| What you do before you stand up | Ask the dealer to colour up, between rounds | Hand the whole pile back across that same roulette table |
And it is the whole pile rather than part of it: at one Alberta casino a partial exchange is refused in writing, so the dealer either changes every colour chip you are holding or refuses the exchange altogether.
Chips back into money
At a table a chip only ever turns into other chips: a dealer does not hand money back across the cloth. One counter in the building does that, and it is the cashier (the cage) (the window where chips and slot tickets become money). The sign above it differs from building to building, so if you cannot see it, ask any member of staff where the cashier is.
| What you are holding | Where it becomes money |
|---|---|
| Chips from a table | The cashier |
| Roulette colour chips | That wheel first, for chips with numbers on them, and the cashier after that |
| A slot ticket | The cashier, a ticket machine on the floor, or another slot |
| American dollars | The counter — Fallsview in Ontario, Camrose in Alberta and Diamond Tooth Gerties in the Yukon all send you there |
A slot machine pays in paper. You press Cash Out and the machine prints a slot ticket (the printed slip a machine gives you instead of coins, cashed at the cage or a kiosk).
- Press Cash Out on the machineWhatever credit is left on the machine stops being credit on the machine, and the machine owes you that amount on paper instead.
- The machine prints a slipThe slip that comes out is a slot ticket, and the amount printed on it is the credit the machine had left. In British Columbia that slip is good for 30 days at the casino that printed it; in Ontario the same slip is called a TITO ticket.
- Spend the slip or cash itThe cashier, a ticket machine on the floor, or the next slot machine you sit down at — all three places are named in the same guide.
One exception belongs to a single small town: in Dawson City, Gerties says, its chips are the town’s own currency. That is one casino talking about one town, and it is the only claim of its kind we found.
Why the cashier may ask for identification
Casinos in Canada report to FINTRAC, and it sets the amounts at which the counter has to know who you are.
| At the counter | From |
|---|---|
| Cash you hand over — buying chips counts | $10,000 |
| Money paid out to you — chips and slot tickets count | $10,000 |
| Funds taken in on one transaction | $3,000 |
None of those three lines is a rule about you: each of them is a rule about the casino, and the staff at the counter cannot make an exception to it for anybody.
Practice: buy in, colour up
Moments from a visit, one run of them. Each one is a real step: cash in your hand at a table that has just finished a round, a pile to count, a wheel to leave, a counter to find. Choose with the numbered buttons or the number keys; where the picture shows places on the table, you can press one of those instead. There is no money on this table and nothing adds up from one moment to the next — the amounts are examples, and only your decisions are counted.
Pick your province above the table: each moment then answers in the words that province publishes, and where it publishes nothing on a step, the answer says whose rule it is showing instead. Level 1 is buying in, and when its squares on the strip are full the next level begins by itself.
Rules differ by province, and so do the words they are written in. Where a province publishes nothing about a step, the moment says whose rule it is showing.
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Level 1 · Buying in
Dealer and the chip tray
The round is over and you have $40 in your hand — an example amount. Where do the notes go?
The answer: Flat on the cloth, beside the betting circle.
In B.C. the cash goes flat on the cloth outside your betting circle, and the dealer announces Cash Change and counts the notes where everyone at the table can see the count.
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.BCLC · Casinos BC — Casino etiquette · read
When a Player wishes to buy-in they must place the cash on the table.
The Dealer must announce Cash Change and will count the cash for verification.BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Craps · section 4.0 Craps, 6 · read
Level 2 · Colour up and cash out
What is left in front of you
- 12 chips of $5
You are leaving a blackjack table with a pile of $5 chips. When do you ask to change them up for larger ones?
The answer: Between rounds, chips flat on the cloth.
Chips go flat on the cloth and you ask for a colour change; the dealer counts the chips, says the amount and passes back the same amount in fewer chips. Nothing is rounded off: $60 stays $60. B.C.’s craps rules are the only published Canadian document we found that writes the step down.
When a Player wishes to change up their chips, they place the chips on the table and request a color change or cash out.BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Craps · section 4.0 Craps, 6 · read
In our words: A bet counts only if it sits in the betting spot before the first card is dealt.
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5 · readLevel 3 · Counting the stack
The pile in front of you
- 2 chips of $25
- 3 chips of $5
How much is this pile of chips worth?
The answer: $65.
two $25 chips and three $5 chips come to $65. There are 5 chips in the pile, and the number of chips is not the amount: colour and height differ from casino to casino, and the numbers printed on the chips do not.
Tell the dealer the denomination of chips you want to buy.OLG PlaySmart · Blackjack — etiquette · read
| Province | Who sells you chips | Leaving a table | Where chips become money |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | The dealer, at the table | Chips on the cloth, ask for a colour change | The cashier, called the Cash Cage |
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.BCLC · Casinos BC — Casino etiquette · read | |||
| Ontario | The dealer, at the table | Not published | Not published on the pages we read |
Buy chips at the table from the dealer.OLG PlaySmart · Blackjack — etiquette · read | |||
| Québec | The dealer; the cashier in the poker room | Not published | The cash desks |
See the cashier to obtain chips in exchange for cash equivalent to the amount of the initial bet required to be seated at a table.Loto-Québec, Casino de Montréal · Poker · read | |||
| Manitoba | The dealer, who changes the notes for chips | Not published | Not published on the pages we read |
Cash wagers will not be accepted. All currency tendered will be exchanged by the Dealer for value chips.Club Regent Casino · Gaming · read | |||
| Alberta | Not published; one casino says only chips may be bet | Not published | Not published on the pages we read |
Only table game chips may be used to wager.River Cree Resort & Casino · House rules · read | |||
| Saskatchewan | Any table in the building | Not published | The Cashier’s Desks |
Value chips may be purchased at any table throughout the casino and are redeemable at our Cashier’s Desks.Casino Regina · Casino etiquette · read | |||
Every row names its publisher under it, and the publishers are not of one kind. In British Columbia, Ontario, Québec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan the words are the operator’s own, and they cover its casinos in that province. In Alberta they are one casino’s house rules, which bind that casino and no other. An empty cell means nothing was published about that step on the pages we read — not that the step does not happen there.
How the practice table works
Where the answers come from. Not one of the answers is written by hand. The arithmetic ones — what a pile comes to, which chips build a bet, the fewest chips an amount can be — are worked out by the same small engine that prints the numbers in the text above. The rule ones come from the document of the province you picked, and the explanation carries the sentence it rests on, with the date we read it.
The amounts are examples. The chip values in the practice table — the five-dollar, twenty-five-dollar and hundred-dollar chips — are an example set: no casino we list publishes its own chip values, and no casino we read publishes which of its colours stands for which amount. The smallest bets in the practice table are examples too; real table minimums, and everything else printed on a table sign, are the next lesson.
One strip, no rounds. Every square on the strip is one moment of this lesson, and they are all there from the start. Your first answer fills the square; when a level’s squares are full the next level begins by itself, with no button in between. Practising a mistake turns a cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count: only first answers do. Progress stays in this browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Five quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
The question we opened with. Flat on the cloth just outside the betting circle, and then you wait. The betting circle is for chips, the dealer changes your money into chips first, and handing the notes over is the one of those three places that is refused in writing.
Where to check this
19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · Play responsibly · the helplines for every province are at the end of this page
Further reading
- Blackjack etiquette · OLG PlaySmart (Ontario)Ontario’s player guide: the three steps of buying chips, and what happens to a bet after the dealer’s call.
- Casino etiquette · Casinos BC (British Columbia Lottery Corporation)The same three steps for B.C. casinos, plus when a roulette table will take you.
- Rules of Play for Table Games — Craps · British Columbia Lottery CorporationThe only published Canadian rules we found that write the buy-in and the colour change down step by step.
- Rules of Play for Table Games — Roulette · British Columbia Lottery CorporationWhat colour chips are, who sets their value, and the window in which a wheel will sell them to you.
- Know your client requirements — Casinos · FINTRAC (Government of Canada)The federal rule behind the identity check a cashier may ask for, and the amounts it starts at.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Chips are tonight’s money with a number printed on them, and the number is the whole point: count the pile in dollars, not in stacks. A pile of chips looks like a pile of chips whatever it is worth, and that is exactly how people lose track of how much of the evening they have already spent.
And if you find yourself wanting a second buy-in, decide about that second buy-in away from the table — Game plan is where the first decision was written down. Ontario’s own guide gives the plainest way to hold that line: bring cash, and leave the cards at home.
A helpline is for talking. If you would rather the door was closed for a while, the provincial programmes are here.
If it stops being fun
If gambling stops being entertainment, help is available. 19+ in most of Canada; 18+ in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. More on responsible gaming.
How it’s worked out
Sources, numbers and hosts
Sources. Every rule on this page is quoted from the document that states it, and the ⓘ beside it opens that sentence with its publisher and the date we read it: the rules of play BCLC publishes for B.C. casinos, Loto-Québec’s own game pages, the house rules of named casinos, the player guides published by OLG and by Casinos BC, and FINTRAC for the identity check. Where a province publishes nothing about a step, the page says which province the rule it shows belongs to, rather than making it sound national. Quotes are printed as the publisher printed them, including a typing slip in one of the quotes.
Three places where the wording is thinner than it looks. A colour change: B.C.’s craps rules are the only published Canadian document we found that writes the step down. Colour chips: they have money value at the table where they were bought, which is as far as B.C.’s rules of play go, and that they go back before you leave it is said in so many words by Québec, Saskatchewan and Ontario. American dollars: the casinos that write about them all name the counter, and whether a table would do it is not something any casino we read writes down.
Numbers. Every amount here is worked out when the page is built, by the same engine the practice table uses: a pile is the sum of the numbers on its chips, and the fewest chips are found by taking the largest example denomination first. The chip values used throughout — five, twenty-five and a hundred dollars — are an example, and so is every smallest bet on this page: no casino we list publishes its own chip values, and what a real table sign says is the subject of a later lesson.
What is deliberately absent. No table minimum on this page is taken from a real casino, and there is no hand signal, no word about tipping, and no reading of how a payout is written on a table sign. Each of those four has a lesson of its own further along the first-visit and blackjack tracks, and each of the four needs something this page does not set out to teach. There is also nothing here about getting hold of more money once you are inside the building, and that absence is on purpose: this lesson is about the money you walked in with.
Hosts. Leo and Maya are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former dealer and a former floor supervisor, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. This lesson is about handling money at a casino, not about how an evening ends. Nothing on this page says an evening at a casino is a good idea for you.
Both halves, in the rules of play
In our words: A bet counts only if it sits in the betting spot before the first card is dealt.
Section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · read
In our words: Once the dealer starts dealing, keep your hands off your chips.
Section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · read
Hands off after the call
Once the dealer calls “no more bets”, that’s your cue to not touch your chips until the play on the hand is completed.
The bet closes at the first card
The dealer will exchange your money for value chips and you may place your bet in the betting spot indicated on the table before the first card is dealt.
Initial bets cannot be made, changed or withdrawn after that point.
No bet touched after the call
No additional bets will be accepted, and Players are not permitted to alter or touch any bet wagered once the Dealer has announced “no more bets”.
Club Regent Casino · Gaming · read
Bets stay until the payouts are done
All bets must remain in place until dealer has completed all payouts.
Chips are redeemed at the cashier’s desks
Value chips may be purchased at any table throughout the casino and are redeemable at our Cashier’s Desks.
They must be redeemed at the cashier and are only used for the table games.
Colour chips are exchanged before you leave
Colour chips are restricted to the table where purchased and must be exchanged for value chips before leaving the table.
Coloured Roulette chips must be redeemed at the Roulette table before you leave.
Where a slot ticket is paid
When you’re done playing, simply press Cash Out and you’ll get a ticket voucher if you have remaining credits.
The ticket voucher can redeemed for money at the cashier, Cash Cage or Ticket Express redemption machine, or you can take it to another slot machine.
American dollars at Fallsview
At Fallsview Casino, U.S. Currency can be exchanged with any cage cashier or currency exchange machine on the gaming floor, or at the Foreign Exchange outlet on Fallsview Blvd.
American dollars in Alberta
We offer currency exchange services at the casino cage for your convenience.
Camrose Resort Casino · FAQs · read
American dollars at a Yukon casino
US dollars can be exchanged inside at our bank window.
Buying chips is one of those transactions
the sale of chips, tokens or plaques;
Identity at $10,000 in cash
You must verify the identity of every person or entity from which you receive $10,000 or more in cash when the transaction takes place.
Cashing chips and tickets
the redemption of slot tickets, chips, tokens or plaques
Identity on a payout of $10,000
You must verify the identity of every person who receives a casino disbursement of $10,000 or more, for which a Casino Disbursement Report (CDR) is required, when the transaction takes place.
Identity from $3,000
You must verify the identity of every person who conducts a transaction in which you receive $3,000 or more in funds when the transaction takes place.
What colour chips are
Non-value chips shall be purchased at the Roulette table.
The Player shall determine the value of the chips.
Section 1.0 Roulette — Double Zero, 5 and 6
Colour chips have value only at their table
Non-value chips shall have monetary value only at the table where they are purchased.
Section 1.0 Roulette — Double Zero, 5 and 6
Where the cash goes
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.
When a Player wishes to buy-in they must place the cash on the table.
The Dealer must announce Cash Change and will count the cash for verification.
Section 4.0 Craps, 6
Money is not handed over
Place your money on the table.
Never hand it to the dealer.
The window for buying colour chips
Buy-ins/colour changes shall only be permitted:
After all bets have been paid;
Before the Dealer announces “no more bets”.
Section 1.0 Roulette — Double Zero, 5 and 6
You can join a game anytime the ball has landed and the croupier has finished paying off winning bets from the previous round.
Not while the ball is moving
No buy-ins will be taken once the ball is in motion.
Hands off after the call
Once the dealer calls “no more bets”, that’s your cue to not touch your chips until the play on the hand is completed.
In our words: Once the dealer starts dealing, keep your hands off your chips.
Section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · read
The same rule in three more provinces
The dealer will exchange your money for value chips and you may place your bet in the betting spot indicated on the table before the first card is dealt.
Initial bets cannot be made, changed or withdrawn after that point.
No additional bets will be accepted, and Players are not permitted to alter or touch any bet wagered once the Dealer has announced “no more bets”.
Club Regent Casino · Gaming · read
All bets must remain in place until dealer has completed all payouts.
Colour chips belong to their table
Non-value chips shall have monetary value only at the table where they are purchased.
Section 1.0 Roulette — Double Zero, 5 and 6
As a result, wheel checks may only be played at the table where they were purchased.
They have no value anywhere else and you must exchange them for regular value chips before leaving the table.
Colour chips are restricted to the table where purchased and must be exchanged for value chips before leaving the table.
The same rule in Ontario
Coloured Roulette chips must be redeemed at the Roulette table before you leave.
When you’re ready to leave a table do not bring the roulette chips from that table to any other – they will be worthless, even at other roulette tables.
What a colour change is
When a Player wishes to change up their chips, they place the chips on the table and request a color change or cash out.
Section 4.0 Craps, 6
Buying chips, in three steps
Buy chips at the table from the dealer.
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.
Tell the dealer the denomination of chips you want to buy.
Buy chips at the table from the dealer.
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.
Tell the dealer the denomination of chips you want to buy.
Buying chips, in three steps
Buy chips at the table from the dealer.
Place your cash on the table just outside of your betting spot.
Tell the dealer the denomination of chips you want to buy.
Glossary: betting spot
In our words: A bet counts only if it sits in the betting spot before the first card is dealt.
Section 1.0, 5.1
BCLC · BCLC Rules of Play for Table Games - Blackjack · read
The dealer announces and counts
When a Player wishes to buy-in they must place the cash on the table.
The Dealer must announce Cash Change and will count the cash for verification.
Section 4.0 Craps, 6
Chips are a bet, and a cash bet is refused
In our words: A bet counts only if it sits in the betting spot before the first card is dealt.
Section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · read
Cash bets will not be accepted.
Cash wagers will not be accepted.
All currency tendered will be exchanged by the Dealer for value chips.
Club Regent Casino · Gaming · read
Money is not handed over
Place your money on the table.
Never hand it to the dealer.
Chips at the cashier too
Chips may be purchased at the tables and at the cashier.
Buying in for poker
See the cashier to obtain chips in exchange for cash equivalent to the amount of the initial bet required to be seated at a table.
The larger chip at the bottom
If you are betting two or more different denomination chips, always place the higher denomination chip on the bottom of your stack of chips.
If you are betting two or more different denomination chips, always place the higher denomination chip on the bottom of your stack of chips.
Hands off after the call
Once the dealer calls “no more bets”, that’s your cue to not touch your chips until the play on the hand is completed.
In our words: A bet counts only if it sits in the betting spot before the first card is dealt.
Section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · read
In our words: Once the dealer starts dealing, keep your hands off your chips.
Section 1.0 Basic Blackjack, 5
BCLC · Rules of Play for Table Games — Blackjack · read
Your chips are your responsibility
Chips in the player rack are the player’s responsibility.
Nothing left unattended
Never leave credits or valuables unattended when you take a break.
What a colour change is
When a Player wishes to change up their chips, they place the chips on the table and request a color change or cash out.
Section 4.0 Craps, 6
What colour chips are
Non-value chips shall be purchased at the Roulette table.
The Player shall determine the value of the chips.
Section 1.0 Roulette — Double Zero, 5 and 6
Colour chips have value only at their table
Non-value chips shall have monetary value only at the table where they are purchased.
Section 1.0 Roulette — Double Zero, 5 and 6
Exchanged before you leave
As a result, wheel checks may only be played at the table where they were purchased.
They have no value anywhere else and you must exchange them for regular value chips before leaving the table.
Colour chips are restricted to the table where purchased and must be exchanged for value chips before leaving the table.
Coloured Roulette chips must be redeemed at the Roulette table before you leave.
Colour chips exchanged whole
Partial cashouts are not permitted.
How long a ticket stays good in B.C.
Tickets are valid for 30 days at the casino where they were issued.
A ticket in Ontario
You'll get back a TITO ticket with the remaining money on it - all set to use on other machines, or to cash in.
Where a slot ticket is paid
When you’re done playing, simply press Cash Out and you’ll get a ticket voucher if you have remaining credits.
The ticket voucher can redeemed for money at the cashier, Cash Cage or Ticket Express redemption machine, or you can take it to another slot machine.
The Dawson City exception
Gerties chips are their own currency in Dawson City!
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