Don ,

The Poker manager would not sell us any of the $3 chips either, He said "yeah we've been getting alot of you people here this week" His excuse was "that since he did not have a Live Game going at the time He could not sell us any from the cage" but He did sell us the $2 chips.
One of our group commented to him " I guess the plaza doesn't like to make money" ,
It was not a big deal to me .

Marc