These chips are like match play chips. In order to use them you have to place a similar money value bet with the NCV chip on even money games. Can't play the chips as one unit. Once a bet is placed, the dealer takes the NCV chip and drops it into the slot. and puts a save value live chip on the betting square. So, the chips are one-time bet chips. Players usually receive a coupon in the mail and instructs them to redeem the coupon for the chips and the cage tell you how to play each chip. Last time I was in the Beau, the operators were trying whatever they could to get customer into the casino. Very few players were in the casino and the same was for several other casinos along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In fact, one of the newest casinos -- The Scarlet Pearl -- was posting notices about being closed a couple days a week. That was in early December.