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Minor things that bother you
ethanhopkin14:
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 28, 2022, 04:10:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: abefroman329 on November 28, 2022, 12:24:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 23, 2022, 10:23:55 PM ---Not on purpose, because chips are essentially a bearer instrument backed by each individual casino. So accepting chips from "Casino R" would mess up the books at "Casino N", even though they were both owned by "Tribe C". (And it would mess things up even more if they were to accept chips from "Casino F" that was run by "Tribe P".)
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Right - I'm pretty sure that, once upon a time, in Vegas, you could cash in chips from the Desert Inn at the Stardust, and the two casinos would just work things out on your behalf.
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Sure. That's a totally different market, though. Most of the patrons are tourists who need to leave town with zero chips, because they are not going to be back in Las Vegas for a long time. If you're the Desert Inn and you cash a Stardust chip, a patron might spend that money on your property instead of going back to the Stardust to cash it there (and they'll be grateful you saved them the trip).
Most of the Oklahoma casinos cater primarily to locals. All of the OKC casinos are within easy driving distance of the patron's home, so if you decline a foreign chip the customer just kind of grumbles and hangs on to it until the next time they end up at that property anyway. And since most of the casinos in a given area will be owned by the same tribe, it's not like it really makes a difference to the higher-ups one way or another if the tribe takes in that $100 or whatever at Casino R or Casino N.
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I thought the ones on the Oklahoma/Texas state line catered more to Texans.
abefroman329:
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 28, 2022, 04:10:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: abefroman329 on November 28, 2022, 12:24:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 23, 2022, 10:23:55 PM ---Not on purpose, because chips are essentially a bearer instrument backed by each individual casino. So accepting chips from "Casino R" would mess up the books at "Casino N", even though they were both owned by "Tribe C". (And it would mess things up even more if they were to accept chips from "Casino F" that was run by "Tribe P".)
--- End quote ---
Right - I'm pretty sure that, once upon a time, in Vegas, you could cash in chips from the Desert Inn at the Stardust, and the two casinos would just work things out on your behalf.
--- End quote ---
Sure. That's a totally different market, though. Most of the patrons are tourists who need to leave town with zero chips, because they are not going to be back in Las Vegas for a long time. If you're the Desert Inn and you cash a Stardust chip, a patron might spend that money on your property instead of going back to the Stardust to cash it there (and they'll be grateful you saved them the trip).
Most of the Oklahoma casinos cater primarily to locals. All of the OKC casinos are within easy driving distance of the patron's home, so if you decline a foreign chip the customer just kind of grumbles and hangs on to it until the next time they end up at that property anyway. And since most of the casinos in a given area will be owned by the same tribe, it's not like it really makes a difference to the higher-ups one way or another if the tribe takes in that $100 or whatever at Casino R or Casino N.
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Makes sense. I think the situation I was describing is no more, what with it being a massive AML concern and all.
vdeane:
When a box of honey nut cheerios is missing the honey and is just normal cheerios. This happens surprisingly often - about once every month or two, in fact!
ZLoth:
--- Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on November 29, 2022, 11:44:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 28, 2022, 04:10:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: abefroman329 on November 28, 2022, 12:24:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 23, 2022, 10:23:55 PM ---Not on purpose, because chips are essentially a bearer instrument backed by each individual casino. So accepting chips from "Casino R" would mess up the books at "Casino N", even though they were both owned by "Tribe C". (And it would mess things up even more if they were to accept chips from "Casino F" that was run by "Tribe P".)
--- End quote ---
Right - I'm pretty sure that, once upon a time, in Vegas, you could cash in chips from the Desert Inn at the Stardust, and the two casinos would just work things out on your behalf.
--- End quote ---
Sure. That's a totally different market, though. Most of the patrons are tourists who need to leave town with zero chips, because they are not going to be back in Las Vegas for a long time. If you're the Desert Inn and you cash a Stardust chip, a patron might spend that money on your property instead of going back to the Stardust to cash it there (and they'll be grateful you saved them the trip).
Most of the Oklahoma casinos cater primarily to locals. All of the OKC casinos are within easy driving distance of the patron's home, so if you decline a foreign chip the customer just kind of grumbles and hangs on to it until the next time they end up at that property anyway. And since most of the casinos in a given area will be owned by the same tribe, it's not like it really makes a difference to the higher-ups one way or another if the tribe takes in that $100 or whatever at Casino R or Casino N.
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I thought the ones on the Oklahoma/Texas state line catered more to Texans.
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Winstar in Thackerville and Choctaw in Durant most certainly cater to Texans, especially since they are about an 75-90 minute drive from North Texas. Also, Winstar is the second largest casino in the world and largest in the United States in terms of casino square feet (519,000 square feet). Otherwise, you have a three hour drive to Shreveport, Louisiana, and the casinos there aren't that great in my opinion..
Scott5114:
--- Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on November 29, 2022, 11:44:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 28, 2022, 04:10:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: abefroman329 on November 28, 2022, 12:24:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scott5114 on November 23, 2022, 10:23:55 PM ---Not on purpose, because chips are essentially a bearer instrument backed by each individual casino. So accepting chips from "Casino R" would mess up the books at "Casino N", even though they were both owned by "Tribe C". (And it would mess things up even more if they were to accept chips from "Casino F" that was run by "Tribe P".)
--- End quote ---
Right - I'm pretty sure that, once upon a time, in Vegas, you could cash in chips from the Desert Inn at the Stardust, and the two casinos would just work things out on your behalf.
--- End quote ---
Sure. That's a totally different market, though. Most of the patrons are tourists who need to leave town with zero chips, because they are not going to be back in Las Vegas for a long time. If you're the Desert Inn and you cash a Stardust chip, a patron might spend that money on your property instead of going back to the Stardust to cash it there (and they'll be grateful you saved them the trip).
Most of the Oklahoma casinos cater primarily to locals. All of the OKC casinos are within easy driving distance of the patron's home, so if you decline a foreign chip the customer just kind of grumbles and hangs on to it until the next time they end up at that property anyway. And since most of the casinos in a given area will be owned by the same tribe, it's not like it really makes a difference to the higher-ups one way or another if the tribe takes in that $100 or whatever at Casino R or Casino N.
--- End quote ---
I thought the ones on the Oklahoma/Texas state line catered more to Texans.
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Those two casinos are the exception. All of my casino experience has been in the OKC area. (Although, I was privy to the policies in place at one of the state line casinos, since I worked for the same tribe and theoretically they used the same policy book. Though I also heard from transfer employees that whenever upper management came down from HQ to try the nonsense they pulled with us, they were politely told to go back to HQ and stop meddling with the tribe's biggest source of income.)
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