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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/police-hunt-for-vegas-casino-bandit.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Bellagio Italian-themed casino with a wall of famous fountains along the Las Vegas Strip" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-police-hunt-for-vegas-casino-bandit.jpg" alt="The Bellagio Italian-themed casino with a wall of famous fountains along the Las Vegas Strip"/></a></p>
<p>Authorities will be looking out for anyone trying to cash high-denomination chips at the Bellagio hotel and casino complex in Las Vegas after an armed bandit stole at least 1.5 million dollars (£955,000) in casino chips and fled on a motorcycle.</p>
<p>The thief took chips ranging in value from 100 dollars (£63) to 25,000 dollars (£15,900) early on Tuesday, police said. </p>
<p>However, he might find it hard to redeem the chips at any other casino except the Bellagio, an Italian-themed casino with a wall of famous fountains along the Las Vegas Strip.</p>
<p>Gordon Absher, spokesman for Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International, said the casino chips are not the same as cash. &#8220;At some point they have to be redeemed,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Chips are unique to casino properties and are generally not interchangeable, although state regulations allow casino companies to redeem chips from sister properties with some restrictions.</p>
<p>Mr Absher would not say if MGM Resorts properties are among Las Vegas casinos that embed radio frequency devices in chips. But police will be keeping a close eye on cashier cages in case someone shows up with a stack of 25,000 dollar chips.</p>
<p>The robbery had the makings of a scene straight out of a Hollywood film. Police say a man wearing a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet with white stripes walked into the casino with a gun, robbed a betting table then sped away on a motorcycle in the dead of night.</p>
<p>The early morning robbery happened &#8220;about as quick as you can do it,&#8221; police Lt Clinton Nichols said. Police later released an 11-second video showing a man running through a casino entry lobby with a gun in his right hand. At one point, he turned and pointed the weapon behind him.</p>
<p>Estimates of the amount taken from the Bellagio varied. Nichols said it could approach two million dollars (£1.3 million). In a press release, police put the amount at about 1.5 million dollars.</p>
<p>Police suspect the same man wore a helmet, flashed a gun and sped away on a black sport motorcycle after robbing the Las Vegas Suncoast Hotel&#038;Casino poker room on December 9. That heist netted less than 20,000 dollars (£12,700) from a poker room cashier, police said.</p>
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