It involved keeping chips in varied numbers in her stacks Archie, a bunch of stacks, all different in number, spread out, none comparable to my stacks of twenty in the next seat.

Real roulette collectors NEED people like me sitting next to them! <G> The higher betting level combined with lower action on their part would/could deflect from what the collectors might be doing! Sheesh! Now I'm telling you how to collect when I'm playing?!?

.....it will always bother me when someone suggests that someone take a stack of 20 chips. It will always bother me when you continue to do so too, or won't discourage it. We have many idealogical differences, but this bottom line shouldn't be one of them. Quit proposing to collectors that they should take roulette chips by the stack, and I'll agree to put the "harvesting" matter to a rest other than for educational purposes.

Bob