You used to be able to use casino chips in Vegas just like cash. You could pay for your meal with chips in a place totally unrelated to gambling. You could pay for your taxi ride in casino chips. Casinos would accept chips from other casinos without any problem.
Then the treasury dept. stepped in and forced them to stop. All that's in the past now.
Then the treasury dept. stepped in and forced them to stop. All that's in the past now.