Dear chrissmith98-ga;
Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question. Casino
activities are heavily monitored and strictly regulated. Those who
?cheat? people (i.e. intentionally short-changing) don?t last long
before authorities catch on and fines are handed out. Dealers are
watched by security cameras just as closely (if not more closely in
some instances) as the patrons and any dealer caught palming, sliding
or pocketing chips would be immediately fired and prosecuted without
prejudice.
Having said that, the casino most likely isn?t trying to STEAL your
money when they invite you to color up (for those of you just tuning
in, ?coloring up? is a gambling term that essentially means to
exchange a number of lower denomination chips for fewer larger
denomination ones). As a rule casinos like players to ?color up? when
the players intend to leave the table so they will not have to
replenish the lower denomination chips nearly as often. There is also
a courtesy of convenience. Many players would not like to walk around
with 300 $1 chips for example, and since the dealers don?t like to
spend all their time ?making change? with the chips during play, they
politely offer this opportunity to a bowing player so he can condense
his stash of 300 singles into three, more manageable, $100 chips, if
he chooses to do so.
Well, that?s all actually true and that?s what they?d have you believe?
Now, here?s the sneaky stuff that casinos probably don?t really ?want?
you to know: While the casino is not trying to STEAL your chips, they
have certainly figured out a way to get some of them BACK from some
easily manipulated players. The dealer doesn?t have to resort to
stealing; given the right circumstances he can convince you to simply
GIVE them away. Here?s how it works:
As soon as you give the indication (either verbally or via body
language) that you have had enough and that you?re moving on, a clever
and observant dealer will enthusiastically invite you to color up.
He?ll stroke your ego and bend over backward to help you manage your
cumbersome pile into a neat little stack of a different color. Why?
Because the higher denomination chips are of a different color than
the lower ones and chances are your pile can be condensed into a
higher denomination color that you haven?t yet managed to win on your
own. This sudden appearance of valuable chips stacked in front of you
provides a subliminal message that you are successful and the player
often instantly has greater (false) confidence, therefore a greater
willingness to continue. If the technique works and you try to leave
again, some casinos will pay your winnings in even higher denomination
chips than you placed your last bet with, to try to entice you into
staying even longer and betting still more. The intent is to make you
think, "I'm winning, looking at all these valuable chips in front of
me. I?m not leaving now!?
You?re not the only target either. Colored up players draw attention.
People walking up and considering playing the game themselves don?t
know if you?re winning or just colored up, and the colored up players?
egos won?t allow them to tell because they WANT everyone to think they
are winning. All the onlookers see is BIG chips and they want some
too, so the crowd often grows when the coloring up takes place.
Onlookers also draw more onlookers and thus new potential players.
Onlookers encourage players and players with fans continue to play. In
other words, a cycle begins that feeds itself: the more they?re
cheered the more they play, and the more they play the more they?re
cheered. And all this works in favor of the casino, and the fuse to
the whole thing is often lit by simply coloring a player up and then
giving him a little encouragement. On a good night (for the casino,
that is) the psychological outcome on both players and onlookers is
almost predictable.
Anyway; there you have it. Coloring up isn?t stealing. Like everything
else in a casino, it?s merely a polite nicety with a veiled coercive
purpose in the same way that free spins, free pulls, free drinks and
the frequent sound of someone hitting a $5 jackpot are niceties but
they are also important tools of the trade. (By the way, have you ever
noticed that the $5 jackpot bell rings just as loud and just as long
as the $1000 jackpot bell? Why? Because very few people will stuff
$1000 right back into the slot machine but LOTS of people will stick
their new found $5 in a slot machine 200 times.)
By coloring you up, technically the casino isn?t even ?tricking? you -
they don?t have to - they are merely ?tempting? you to fall victim to
yourself. If you take the bait, shame on YOU - not on them.
I hope you find that my answer exceeds your expectations. If you have
any questions about my research please post a clarification request
prior to rating the answer. Otherwise I welcome your rating and your
final comments and I look forward to working with you again in the
near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.
Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga ? Google Answers Researcher
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