Making the transition from playing at an online casino to a live casino for the first time is a little bit daunting for anyone. We’ve all had to make our first trip to a live casino at some point, although my first time was long before I started playing at online casinos. However, I know how worrying it can be about not making a faux pas and annoying the staff or those grizzled gamblers that seem to spend their entire lives in casinos. And one of the first things you have to work out is how to get chips at a casino.

Playing online, you want chips you just make a deposit into your account via whichever method you prefer. You want to use PayPal? Sure. You want to use MoneyBookers? Go right ahead. Once you’ve made at least one deposit, getting chips is virtually the click of a button away. However, at a live casino, it’s even easier. I promise.

The first thing to remember is that you obviously can’t use the same methods to get chips at a live casino that you do at an online casino. Think of a casino like any other shop or service that you might pay a visit to. So, if you’re just going for a casual visit, just make sure you take enough cash that you’re willing to lose should the worst happen and you don’t break the bank! It might sound like obvious advice, but the amount of times I’ve been to a casino with friends who didn’t think like this and either blew far too much money, or had to use an ATM machine is far too many to count (and I really don’t like using an ATM machine at a casino!).

Of course, if you’re wanting to take a bigger amount to the casino, if you get in touch with them before you make your trip, you can have the money wired to them, or if you’re feeling extra flush, you can play with casino credit. However, it should be noted that casino credit isn’t for everyone and if you can’t afford to pay back any potential losses, you should NEVER take advantage of it.

Anyway, we’ve got our money with us, whatever way we prefer and now all we want to do is gamble. Well, it’s very easy to start gambling. If you want to play slots, just go and get some cash changed into smaller denominations and go wild. I would make sure you get a healthy amount changed, because the coins can go quickly. And if you don’t want to use quarters, you can just feed notes into the slot machine.

But what about table games? Well, it’s just as easy and it’s a way the casino tries to keep you playing for longer than you might have planned. Just take however much you want to gamble with out of your pocket, put it on the table and the croupier will give you the same amount back in chips and you can then gamble at will with them. For most of the games, you can take the chips you received at one table and use them on another table, although a lot of roulette tables have individual chips that can’t be used at any other games. But if you get chips at the blackjack table and you want to play another game, the chips are good to be used elsewhere in the casino.

What you have to remember is that casinos let you buy chips at the table because they want you to stay there. If you had to keep going back and forth to a cash desk, you’d get fed up with that and you’d eventually leave. However, if you can just keep putting your hand in your pocket and keep buying chips, they’ll get a lot more money from you. So remember to manage your bankroll properly and don’t get overexcited and lose too much money if you go on a cooler.

You can also go to the casino cashier, or “cage”, to buy chips. It’s the same as getting chips at the table, just hand over your cash and you’re sorted. That being said, it’s a bit more time consuming than simply getting the money changed at the table, especially if there’s a queue of people.

So, there you go, it’s easy and not something you should worry about when you make your first trip to the casino.

However, if you still find that a bit daunting, you can stick to online casinos, because it is a lot easier to get money to gamble with. Vegas Days Casino has a wealth of depositing options for you and they even give you a 100% deposit bonus up to $500, which a live casino will never, ever give you. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t play at a live casino, but when you’re getting a deposit bonus, you’d be daft not to play online a lot more!

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