Saturday my buddy Nick and I went on the strip searching out some poker rooms we hadn't played in yet. It was a fun day and I was also able to pick up a few more $1 & $5 casino chips for my collection that I currently did not own. I also had fun playing in several other casinos that my normal haunts like Bellagio and the Horseshoe.

On the final stop of our trip we checked out the newly opened poker room at Bally's, which is right across the street from Bellagio. Because this poker room was new many of the dealers and the cashier had been re-trained from other areas of this casino e.g. the sports book. I went up to one of these newly trained employees at the poker room cashier's cage.

I pulled out two hundred dollar bills and asked for $180- in $5- chips and the remaining $20- in $1- chips. This gal pulls out a rack of red $5- chips (100 chips in a rack or $500) then proceeds to pull out another rack of red and pull out twenty of the red chips in it then pushes me both racks with a total of 180 red chips in them worth $900- to me.

I looked at her and said "What are you doing?" She said she was giving me my chips and I said "I like a deal when I can get it but $900- for $200 in this case would be wrong. I put together a little jingle for her next stating if their red (the $5 chip colors) you might be dead but if their blue they are true ($1 chips color) as one chip equates to one dollar.

That young lady was very happy I was an honest guy and she told me she bet I would win lots of money in the game that night. The funny thing during that subsequent session I was down most of the night looking at awful cards like 72, Q3 (Queen Three), K2, etc and was frustrated but kept folding these losers for a couple hours. I ended up winning a dollar by the end of my night at Bally's.

But I must admit the following afternoon I returned to Bellagio and I had a fabulous session winning over a thousand dollars on a $400- investment. Maybe it does pay to be honest, what ever my conscience would not have it any other way!!!