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Casino staff normally allude to chips as "cheques," which is of French ancestry. Technically, there is a distinction amidst a chip and a cheque. A cheque is a chip with a denomination imprinted on its face and is always worth the amount of the imprinted amount. Chips, although, don’t have values printed on them and any color can be valued at any cash amount as defined by the casino. For example, in a poker tournament, the dealer might value white chips as one dollar and blue chips as 10 dollars; at the same time, in a game of roulette, the dealer might define white chips as twenty-five cents and blue chips as 2 dollars. A different instance, the inexpensive red, white, and blue poker chips you purchase at K-Mart for your weekly poker get together are referred to as "chips" owing to the fact that they don’t have denominations imprinted on them.
When you put your $$$$$ down on the craps table and hear the dealer say, "Cheque change only," he is merely informing the boxman that a new player would like to change $$$$$$ for chips (cheques), and that the $$$$$$ on the table isn’t in play. $$$$$ plays in a majority of casinos, so if you put a 5 dollar bill on the Pass Line just prior to the hurler throwing the dice and the dealer does not exchange your money for chips, your cash is "live" and "in play." When the croupier says, "Cheque change only," the boxman understands that your $$$$$$ is not part of the action.
In reality, in live craps games, we wager with cheques, and not chips. Every now and then, a player will walk up to the the table, drop a $100 cheque, and inform the dealer, "Cheque change." It’s fun to pretend to be a novice and say to the dealer, "Hey, I’m new to this game, what’s a cheque?" Frequently, their wacky responses will amuse you.
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