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Originally Posted by o0ch
This makes 0 sense to me how does somebody play without chips
It's obvious you've never played in a casino.
This happens all the time. They call your name on the board and you walk to the table. You pull out $1000 (or whatever) and give it to the chip runner and then you sit down.
The chip runner goes to the cage or their station (which can be on the other side of the poker floor) to change your money into chips.
Meanwhile, you sit down and the dealer asks you how much you have behind, you tell them, the dealer deals you cards and you play without chips until your chips arrive. Normally, chips arrive within a minute or so.
This is EXTREMELY common.
But in this case, procedure wasn't followed. Normally, you are supposed to place the money on the table, chip runner then counts it out on the table, then takes the money and makes chips.
However, the guy just sat down and said he has a thousand behind coming from one of the chip runners. This is a little unusual but it does happen and is no big deal because no one would be stupid enough to do that without chips coming. But apparently this guy was.