Gene,

I would like to see or find the gaming regulation regarding selling or more importantly "trading" of silver strikes at the casino cage.

Might it be a contract with Anchor Gaming to keep the action high on these machines?

BTW, these are "Gaming Tokens" approved by the NGC. I always wondered what would happen when someone placed one on a card table in a casino. Well it happened while I was at the Silver Legacy during the past year a person whom I will call LOADED(big bucks) place several at the blackjack table where I was playing. At first the dealer said they weren't playable and they had to be redeemed at the cage. He then complained and said why not they state that they are a "GAMING TOKEN" right on them, the pit boss was called over and said "PLAY IT" and told the player that if he won he would NOT be paid in silver strikes only chips, and the player agreed. The player won that first hand(picked up the silver strikes) then started playing $200 - $500 per hand at which point I quit playing and started watching. This player almost never lost a hand.

Back to the concerns I have...

It would be almost impossible to get a set of Stratosphere (20 tokens) by playing the machines. At the last convention the Stratosphere would trade for tokens in the same design sets, to help the collectors complete their sets.

I really hate it when a casino has a set of more 3 or 4 tokens, and I am told I have to win them, when all that is coming out o of the machine is the same token every time. I would think that the player would have the right to force the casino to open the machine to prove that the other tokens are in the fill.

At the Silver City during the convention, the cage traded with me all I need to complete sets. Needless, to say I kept the duplicates I had after I got all the sets I could make out of the tokens I had won.

I still find that more casino cages will trade than will not. It mainly depends on what time of day I hit the cage. Most times after midnight when things are slow, I find most will but there are several that have a firm NO Trade policy. Being a silver strike collector, I've found that those that won't trade I don't play, I just wait for a trade with another collector to complete my sets or get them from the dealers.

I can understand a possible gaming regulation, not allowing the selling of gaming chips and tokens for profit at the gift shops.

For example, why should I have to have paid the gift shop a $75.00 plus tax profit on the $200.00 token I purchased at the Eldorado gift shop? Did that gift shop have to win them from the machine in order to sell them?

I've got lots of questions regarding this issue and would really love to see the actual "Nevada" gaming regulations covering it.