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Originally Posted by crawfurd
ok learned something new. so in rounders, when the dealer tells worm that he has to buy chips from her, she's not just saying that he can't borrow chips from a friend, he literally can only buy chips from her?
It was that way in the mid to late 90's when I played there. I'm not sure at what point they allowed chip runners, but for several years I recall that the dealer was the only one who could sell chips.
You could NOT buy chips from the cage, and floor supervisors were not allowed to handle cash. I recall one time where this led to an outraged player when he got seated in a game where the dealer rack was basically depleted. The floorman was trying to explain that the player needed to go over to a nearby dead spread and purchase chips from THAT dealer, then carry them over to his seat at the live table. The guy kept trying to hand the cash to the floorman to do it for him, and of course the floorman couldn't handle cash. I think the player ranted for at least an hour about how idiotic this was, and how much better things were in California or Vegas or wherever.
But in that Rounders AC scene I think they're trying to highlight that Worm's action is violating table stakes rules, and that Atlantic City's gaming rules were very strict.