FWIW I never had issues with hotel safes in Vegas. Or anywhere else really. Just avoid the RIO and other places that get bad reviews wrt safety

FWIW, I don’t know anyone personally who had their room safe broken into.

OTOH, I know several people who lost big denomination chips. I am a member of the latter group and for that reason stopped carrying those.

If you're not stupid. You're not getting robbed.

More chance of you getting mowed down by a drink driver in a mobility scooter.

If you're that bothered, get a FairFX or other currency card, and swallow the fees.

Right, I would be really paranoid having say $1000 or $5000 in one chip. Or you can be like that guy who tipped the valet with what he thought was a $1 chip but it ended up being a $1000 chip. The valets had a meeting to decide whether to return it, and the majority voted to keep the money. Allegedly.

Like prisoners ... suitcase it. 😏

I break it up into 3 buy in piles then fold it in the middle of different articles of clothing.

wsop.com and sports betting apps are good surprised not mentioned.

say I go to Vegas, deposit 5-10k cash into wsop.com and then don't play there at all, and 2 weeks later I want to withdraw. will that work without any trouble?

May not be an option for OP, but it is worth a mention that with relatively little effort (at least for a US resident) one can open a Charles Schwab checking account which has no foreign transaction fees, no ATM fees, and refunds 100% of ATM fees charged by any machine you use. They have never fought me on upping my daily withdrawal limit. Few to no brick-and-mortar locations, so you want to keep another bank account for depositing cash, but its a nice option for making cash easily available at casinos.

Also great for travel abroad because you can just take out foreign currency as you need it and only pay very close to the market exchange rate (which is far more favorable than currency exchanges and what many other banks will charge). Literally easy mode for travelling, and you don't need to carry a ton of cash and worry about it because you can just get more as you need it.

Should be fine only thing that sucks is it is not automatic during non wsop season might take 24hrs to get approved. During wsop you can go to wsop cage and get the money right away.

cool, I was always kind of hesitant to deposit "too much" there and tried to play at least a littel bit. because most sites like stars etc won't process your cashout if you only deposit and don't play enough.

It takes 6-24 hrs to process a cage withdrawal on wsop.com. For the longest time, the approvals and your pin number to pick up was coming at 2am next morning no matter when you withdraw.

OP should just not go. It's just too dangerous out there.

Schwab has lots of b&m locations, at least 2 in Vegas.

I am fairly certain they do not accept cash deposits.

They did the last time I visited one.

That surprises me because Schwab clearly states that they don’t accept cash deposits and lists various alternatives to get money into your account.

For example, you can just get a money order and scan it with your Schwab app or deposit cash into one of your other accounts via ATM and transfer it online.

FWIW, a couple years ago we were wondering if the ATM fee reimbursement also covered stuff like strip clubs so a friend tried it out and they refunded him the full $45 he paid in fees.

Just make sure you don’t let them know that you aren’t planning on using the brokerage account when signing up. Otherwise you might get denied.

It was a good ten years ago so maybe they changed. FWIW I had a brokerage account first and the money account second.

My experiences only, YMMV:

I have a standing 10k line of credit at any Caesars property. Saves me from converting Canadian currency back and forth, travelling with large amounts of cash and having to screw around with ATMs.

Most trips after checking in and getting settled in my room I head to the main cashier and get a 1k voucher (or two) for my wife and 4-5k in chips for myself.

If I need funds to play at a another property I either cash in one of the vouchers or some of the chips.
This isn't done immediately, but a few times I've cashed out upwards of 2k less than 30 minutes after initially visiting the cage. Never had any issues.
I've been Diamond for about 7 years and have a great host so maybe I get some leeway, not sure.

Also, I always use the room safe to hold some of my money and chips, haven't had any problems so far.

My laptop and the wife's Ipad are always left out in the open as well, never bother putting them in the safe and we still have them to this day.

I'm sure some hotel guests in Vegas are victims of theft, just like anywhere, but I think the overall percentage is pretty small.

I have many friends who travel there and nothing has been stolen from them as far as I know.
Not to mention I belong to a massive Vegas group on Facebook and rarely see any posts about crime, the ones I do are usually about Credit Card fraud, not stealing from hotel rooms.

Maybe because I’ve got a rich guy attitude, but I’ve wired money to Bellagio and Rio and never had the slightest bit of static getting money to play poker at the main cage. They like to give you chips which you can change at the poker cage, and they do prefer to wire it back — but I like that better anyhow. Never tried it at Aria, but if they refused to let me play poker with money I wired to them, I’d have a big problem with that.

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They have specifically told me and a bunch of others that I associate with that when you wire money to an Mlife property you can ONLY take it out at table games. Once you get the chips at a table game you can sneak some chips into your pocket for poker or betting sports, but it’s not what they want you to do at all. Also they’ve forced me to have the money wired back at the end of my trip and I didn’t have another choice.

Venetian let me use my wire for poker, but wouldn’t give cash. Luckily I won the first night, or I would have had a really hard time buying in to wsop events. Also my bank wouldn’t give me anywhere near the cash I wanted(20k) they said I’d have to order it, and get it in like a week.

Getting large amounts of cash isn’t as easy as people think. This is why high stakes players have to borrow and loan so often.

Yeah, the first time Galfond played on a late night poker show he mentioned how hard it was to get the cash to Vegas. Couple hundred grand iirc?

A week sounds ridiculously long, but one or two days is pretty standard. They don’t have much extra cash around.

In today’s perfect world for banks, 100% of your monetary transactions happen through ATMs. I am pretty sure they will start charging customers for non-ATM transactions in the not too distant future.

I cashed a $15000 check instantly at a Wells Fargo. I wasn’t even a Wellla Fargo customer but the check was from a Wells Fargo accohnt