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When you walk up to a craps table, you’re first order of business is to buy-in. You’re going to exchange your cash for the casino’s tokens (discs) to play the game with.

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These tokens are called chips, checks, cheques, and in higher denominations, they’re called plaques.

The use of each of these terms has gotten pretty loose over the years, and there’s a lot of overlap in how players use the terms, but let’s take a look at what they really mean.

Chips – At the craps tables, you’ll hear most players refer to the casino tokens as chips, but that’s not really correct. The term ‘chips’ refers to non-dollar denominated discs that are typically used in casino games like roulette. The player determines the value of the chips when he/she buys-in and the different colors identify each player at the table. When playing roulette, you may have bought in at $1 a chip and the person playing next to you may be at $100 per chip.

Checks/Cheques – These terms are interchangeable, and refer to the dollar denominated tokens you use at the craps tables. Each casino will have their own design that identifies their casino imprinted in the center of the disc along with the dollar denomination each color represents clearly imprinted as well. You’ll often hear the dealer call out ‘cheque-change’ when exchanging a player’s cheques for different denomination of tokens. We’ll take a look at the most commonly used cheques in a moment.

Plaques – These are the casino tokens typically used for higher denominations in their high-stakes areas and are usually found for amounts of $25,000 or more. You’ll commonly find plaques being used for high-stakes baccarat. They are typically rectangular and are rarely used in the game of craps. The highest denomination plaque I’ve ever heard of is the $10 million plaque from the, now defunct, London Club Casino in Las Vegas.

Let’s get back to the cheques used at the craps tables.

Because of their consistency of size, shape, colors and patterns, using chips, cheques or plaques instead of cash offers the casino a number of advantages including;

• Increasing the speed of play at the tables
• Pit bosses can more easily verify amounts paid out
• Reduces theft as the cheques have no value outside of the casino
• Security cameras can better monitor the action at the tables, and
• Studies have shown that players will gamble more and at higher amounts using cheques versus using cash.

Recently, casinos have been adding a tiny RFID chip to their higher value cheques so that they can trace and track the location of those chips both in and out of the casino giving them even more protection against theft.

Current Cheque Construction

While referred to as ‘clay’ cheques, it’s been since at least the 1950s since casino cheques have been made of pure clay. Today, they’re made of a composite of materials, including clay or clay like materials, to increase their strength, durability and longevity.

Manufacturers are reluctant to give out their exact process but we know that the composite materials, including the casino emblem inlay, are placed in special molds, pressurized and then baked.

There are currently no universal or national standards governing the construction, size or color of casino cheques and each state’s gaming commission vary in requirements as well. Some states govern the shape, size or weight of cheques, while others govern color by denomination, or any combination of the above.

Common Cheque Color Denominations

Below are some of the more common color denominations you’ll find in casinos, but realize that you’ll find variations by state, and by casino within a state. For example, since the gaming commission in Nevada doesn’t govern the color of cheques, you’ll find white, blue and sometimes grey $1 checks in use. Not to worry, as all craps cheques have their denomination clearly printed on each.

Here are some common colors and denominations used for craps cheques.

It’s rare that you would ever see $25,000 cheques at the craps table except in the high-stakes area, but hopefully you’ll be lucky enough to actually need to cash some of those in when you’re done playing.

If you have any other information you’d like to share on craps cheques, feel free to leave comments below.

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