I wasn't going to play on that wheel at $25 a spin minimum but I did want the chips. Like someone mentioned they would not sell them at the cage. The one place where they had little or no control was at the other tables. Since they were denominated chips you could leave the roulette table with a few and use them at a BJ table. And the BJ dealer didn't always drop them right away. I went in there one morning about 6 AM and noticed a BJ table that had one of the $5 jetons in the rack. I bought it from the dealer for $5 and then proceeded to check out every other table in the casino where I think I found one or two more. Sadly by the next trip the roulette table was closed.