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Casino personnel normally refer to chips as "cheques," being of French ancestry. In reality, there is a distinction amidst a chip and a cheque. A cheque is a chip with a amount imprinted on it and is constantly worth the amount of the written number. Chips, however, do not have values printed on them and any colour can be worth any amount as defined by the house. e.g., in a poker tournament, the casino may value white chips as $1 and blue chips as $10; while, in a game of roulette, the casino may define white chips as twenty-five cents and blue chips as $2. An additional example, the inexpensive red, white, and blue plastic chips you buy at the department store for your Friday-night poker get together are considered "chips" seeing as they do not have values printed on them.

When you plop your $$$$ down on the craps table and hear the dealer say, "Cheque change only," he’s merely informing the boxman that a new player wishes to exchange cash for chips (cheques), and that the money on the craps table is not part of the action. $$$$$ plays in a majority of casinos, so if you place a five dollar bill on the Pass Line just prior to the shooter tossing the bones and the croupier does not trade your cash for chips, your cash is "in play." When the dealer says, "Cheque change only," the boxman knows that your cash isn’t part of the action.

In reality, in in real life craps games, we bet with cheques, not chips. Every once in a while, a gambler will walk up to the the table, drop a 100 dollar cheque, and inform the dealer, "Cheque change." It’s fun to act like a novice and say to the dealer, "Hey, I am new to Craps, what’s a cheque?" Generally, their comical answers will entertain you.