Trouble Cashing chips

Has anyone else had trouble cashing larger chips? Last trip to Vegas, I was held up with phone calls, and "required" photo copies of my Drivers license to cash larger chips. They don't ask any questions when you drop a grand, but it sure was a hassle cashing in the yellow chips. The cage employees just seemed to go bizzerk when the demanded my comp card, and I told them the truth, " I'm a cash player and don't have one."

Is this now normal, or something to worry about? Atlantic city just asks if you have any markers, then hands over the money! Whats up with Vegas cash cages?!?! Not talking about anything over $10,000, but $500 to $9000.

Well, $10,000 would be government regulation time. However, I have seen Vegas casinos have to call the pit to verify even a $1000 cash-in.

There was a lot of publicity recently about two different players who were denied their money when trying to cash in cheques at the MGM. Eventually, the casino was forced to pay the players but it involved a long delay (weeks or months!) I think it involved a $6,000 transaction.

I was concerned once about cashing out. That was at the El Cortez in Las Vegas. As some of you may know, I may very well be the only legall blind person ever backed off for card counting; and that came at the El Cortez, when I torched them for $50. There were rumors that they might have to close their doors after I broke them; but I think they survived eventually, although there is no telling how many employees had to lose their job to make up for my 15 minute run at the record books there.

Anyway, I had bought in for three hundred and won fifty; so I was concerned about them possibly giving me a hard time about cashing out. However, that was the smoothest part of an otherwise disturbing experience.

I have only ever played at one casino that seems to want to know where you came from if you have anything over $500 or so to cash in. That is Sam's Town in Las Vegas. They normally ask me what table I was playing at; and it appears that they may log it into their computer somehow. Most of the time, however, they don't want ID. When I cashed in $5000 there once, however, they caled the pit to verify that it was legit; and they did ask for my ID then.