That is sort of what I mentioned in an earlier post when the car chips were first released. It seemed from the complaints that there were not enough for walk ups after the dealers on the list were all taken care of. Also, there may have been some miscommunication between cage personnel and some walk up buyers.

I was looking at my O'Sheas chips and noticed that they are editions of 750. If they released 1000 and said that the list would be frozen at current levels then the dealers would get what they need and walk ups would have more than 250 to try for. O'Sheas would have to follow up on that with some policy about those on the list standing in line to get a walk up allottment then going up and picking up their reserve too. I have heard about some who do that. If that were to get out of control that would defeat the whole purpose. As for editions of 500, The car chips, I think, shows that 500 is too small of a release for $5 chips. They might still be able to have 750 releases by saying 500 for dealers and 250 for walk ups with a limit of say 5 or 10 chips for walk ups.

I also like the idea of taking some of the chips in a release and putting them at the tables to allow players to get some. That, from my experience, puts interesting chips in front of non collectors. While playing at the Orleans, I have seen several instances where players will notice that different chip. They will pick it up and look at it, sometimes talking about it with a friend next to them. Some times they will chuckle and put it in their pocket. Other times they just play it. I even remember one person picking up the chip and asking the dealer, Whats this? The dealer replied that it was a special collector chip, "Some people collect them", he said. The woman kept the chip. I was with a friend at Luxor who had never thought of keeping chips. While playing we were given Blue Man chips. He comented on why I was putting them in my pocket. I told him I collect them. He then took a closer look at his I showed him the others in my pocket and he thought the $1 tokens would be fun souveniers for his kids. Before we quit he had saved a Blue Man, A reg $5 chip and had purchased a full set of the slot tokens at the cage.

Also, I don't know how many they hold for any one dealer but maybe that should be reconsidered to allow more dealers and NIS sellers to have some access. I have not heard many complaints on this though. The complaints that I have heard involve some NIS sellers who are not on the list, who can't get on the list. They are, in some cases, squeezed out by certain dealers. I would like to point out here that these observations don't solely deal with O'Sheas. The involve comments made about other casinos that have dealer lists as well.