At the casinos, someone converted the cash into chips for betting and then reconverted the chips into cash that was sent to bank accounts in Hong Kong, reported Filipino newspaper the Inquirer.
If cashed, the chip would get you a moderately priced entree.
"Poker can be good for a person -- financially," he said last Tuesday, temporarily abandoning a poker game, and more than $2,500 in cash and chips stacked on the table, to talk to this reporter.
The dealer is as unimpressed with my howls of delight as with my suddenly sensible decision to cash my chips while I'm ahead, or at least not behind.
"It's like South Jersey's version of 'The Golden Girls.' " When Kellyanne was a teen-ager, her mother worked at the Claridge Hotel and Casino, in Atlantic City, as a shift supervisor in the main cage, where players cash their chips.
We cash our chips in too early, playing it safe when the world could end at any second.
In part that's because Intel's vast size allows it to crank out processors with tinier transistors quicker than rival AMD can, even as its smaller rival was struggling through seven-straight quarters of losses and putting together a plan to offload its cash-burning chip fabs, unveiled last week.
Check the halls of Congress often, Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, Watch those regulations soften, Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, Toss aside your déclassé seat, Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, Cash your chips and move to K Street, Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
You might enter a casino and buy $100,000 in chips, gamble modestly, then cash in your chips for a cashier's check.
The nurse at A&E told me I'd be back to normal after a fortnight, but over half a year later I was barely functioning as an adult, and for the first time in years, back to the exhausting business of constantly thinking about cashing my chips in.
