Hunters have their ammunition, carpenters have their hammers and the tools of the casino visit are the forces. It is the instruments of the profession and without them the blackjack, roulette, craps and poker tables would be creepy empty. Gokkers process hundreds or even thousands of different sheets during a night in the casino. And there are millions of euros monthly through the cash register of the casino.
But despite their essential nature within industry, sheets are often considered obvious by the masses. To change that, you can read five facts in this article about the replacement of cash by the casino that every gambler should know.
Gamblers have used everything to play with
The first documented use of what modern gamblers know as the Casino Fiche took place in USA in the mid -18th century. At that time, American gamblers enjoyed a complex card game based on tricks using a modified card game of 40 cards that is known as Quadrille.
The game itself has long since fallen into oblivion, but it has made a meaningful contribution to the gambling history of casinos. One that continues to this day in the form of a three -part chipset. To play Quadrille, players posed their commitment to buy a basket with a range of three unique sheets.
In his book "Quadrille Elucidated" from 1752, author and Quadrille expert Q. Quanti de Chipkorf of the game described in detail. According to Quanti, Quadrille players used a basket with 10 jettons (American for "tokens"), 19 sheets (American for "files") and 5 contrats (American for "contracts").
A sheet was worth 10 Jettons, while a contrat was worth 10 tokens to create an ever -increasing scale of sheets.
The different sheets were exchanged between four players while they each maneuvered by their randomly distributed hands for a series of 40 strokes. Quadrille chips themselves had no money value, but they acted as a scoring system with which the players rated their financial profits and loses at the end of the game.
Poker files
Towards the end of the 19th century the poker spel who were held in Saloons in the Old West and on river boats in the south, forced to improvise in the field of chips. At that time, gold diggers who became poker players could compete against others with small gold nodels or even glass bottles with gold fabric. Silver dollars were also played, together with all the coins that were accepted as payment by the local traders.
And in long -term games where hard currency was not immediately available, it was even known that players were betting with bullets, guns, knives and other objects they had with them.
To prevent disputes about stolen goods and false coins, enterprising gambling halls started to use standardized chipsets. Players paid the house to receive a proportional number of chips and they cashed in if they had won.
Fiches in all colors and values
Most casinos issue $ 1,- sheets that are usually white or blue. Fiches with a value of $ 5 are known as "Red Birds" because of their red color. The green sheets are worth $ 25 and the black $ 100. In a American Casino Like Holland Casino, they also have tokens with a value of $ 20, a so -called Lowietje.
With the help of these four color / value combos, gamblers who play low or average bets can perfectly navigate through the table games.
But in addition to the primary four colors and values, casinos use a laundry list with lesser -known tokens to run the casino.
You will find special pink $ 2.50 chips that are reserved for the blackjack table. This allows dealers to quickly pay a winner of $ 7.50 with a blackjack deployment of $ 5 with a rating of 3 against 2. Poker rooms use brown $ 10 for sheets to guarantee efficient bets when bets $ 5 / / $ 10 and $ 10 / $ 20.
And the Casino-High Rollers spart with chips of $ 500, which are almost always purple the red, white and blue striped chips that are known as "flags" are worth $ 5,000. The violet $ 25,000 chips are lovingly called "cranberries".
Small lines and characters on the outside of chips
Colors may catch the eye, but for casino security systems that are largely dependent on black and white screens, chips must be distinguished in a different way.
In the United States, these small deviations are therefore required according to the 12.030 (d) of the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB). According to that rule that applies to casino sheets in the Silver State, operators must design their different sheets with a special touch:
"Every chip must be designed in such a way that when stacked with chips and tokens of other denominations and viewed on black-and-white television with closed circuit, the denomination of the chip can be distinguished from that of the other chips and tokens in the pile."
Search on Google for "Casino Chipstacks" and ignore the usual links, such as the logo and the dollar amount. Instead, check the outer edges of the chips and search for small "spots" in the form of lines, squares, triangles and other shapes. These insignia are added to all casino sheets to comply with Regulation 12.030 (D).
In essence, security personnel watching TVs with a closed circuit can even quickly scan a chip pile and determine its total value without the possibility of seeing colors. Moreover, if a player combines different chip values in one stack (in the poker language known as a "dirty stack"), the security can search the different stripes to see which exactly which are.
Most players do not even notice these small design improvements, but once you do, you will not forget how they work.
Taking a sheet off the ground is punishable in the US
If you once visit a casino in the United States, this is an important rule to remember. In most areas of law where gambling in casinos is legal, finding a lost chip on the floor is considered a crime in your pocket.
Casinos in Colorado, for example, use Colorado Statute 12-47.1-823 (1) (C) to punish players for "theft of property" when they put a lost chip in the bag. As their legal reasoning is, the chip itself is paid and maintained through the house, so unless you have paid it to use it, you cannot just grab it for free.
Fortunately for fans of the "Vindersloon" rule, the NGCB sees things differently, so gamblers in Las Vegas are not considered sinful when they pick up a free chip.
Try to grab a sheet from another player or dealer at the table, and you can bet that the security will have a strict word with you.
More bacteria on a sheet than on toilet glasses
Anyone who regularly deals with casino sheets has probably noticed the small brown "spots" that never seem to go away.
This layer of dirt and soot hopes day in day out, year after year, while the chips go back and forth from hand to hand. For the most part, well -managed modern casinos tend to solve this problem by regularly removing and replacing chips caked with Crud. On the other hand, smaller, more dilapidated casinos do not have the same dedication to clean up their inventory.
Casino sheets are of course not the cleanest surface on the casino floor. But it would surprise you how filthy these little boys are.
In a 2007 study, conducted by the University of Las Vegas-Nevada (UNLV), a research team collected and analyzed various chips of prominent casinos on The Strip. With the help of the "Swab and Incubate" method, Professor Brian Hedlund tried to see exactly which microorganisms grew on casino sheets.
It turns out that a random casino sheet in Las Vegas probably has more than 3,000 microorganisms that crawl along its two sides. And these microorganisms are also serious things, including Staphylococcus and Bacillus Cereus, the sources of staphylococcinosations and food poisoning respectively.
Some chips even appeared to contain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as the antibiotic-resistant tribe of Staphylokok infection MRSA.
At a time when disinfection and avoidance of germs has never been so important, you should pay attention to the warning from UNLV Pandemie expert Dennis Pirages that was offered in a recent interview at the Las Vegas Sun:
“It only takes 24 hours for a disease to spread from southern Europe to Las Vegas. I hate to see a poker chip as a great way to convey a virus, but that is unfortunately the reality ”
Fortunately for you, Hedlund and Pirages want to make one thing clear about the invisible world of microbes and other germs. Only one of your hands is the home of more than 100 billion bacterial, fungal and viral microbes. The human body is positively covered with these microbes 24/7. Simply because they have evolved to use us as hosts.
Evolution, however, is a powerful thing, which means that the immune system of your body has programmed millennia of fine coordination directly in your DNA. The microbes are there, they are just almost completely benign, unless you have an immune compromised system, making you extra vulnerable.
Nevertheless, when in doubt it is always better to certainly take it uncertain when handling sheets. Wash your hands before and after, do not eat snacks and do not smoke cigarettes while you play.
Conclusion
Fiches are used in casinos instead of money. They connect players in a tangible way with the games and form a source of fascination.
Perhaps you consider chips as just a means to achieve a goal. Or maybe you are a collector who desires a souvenir of every casino that you can find. The next time you take a sheet in your hand, you definitely look at it differently.
