WAC 230-15-495. Opening tables

Licensees must clearly mark the outside of the chip tray with the gambling table number which it matches. When opening gambling tables, house-banked card game licensees must follow these steps: (1) A floor supervisor must unlock the table inventory container (chip tray) and take out the table inventory slip (opener); and (2) The floor supervisor and the dealer assigned to the gambling table must: (a) Count the contents of the chip tray; and (b) Verify the count against the opener; and (3) The dealer and the floor supervisor must then sign the opener, confirming the information on the opener is correct; and (4) The dealer must immediately deposit the opener in the drop box attached to the gambling table; and (5) If there is any discrepancy between the amount of gambling chips and coins counted and the amount of the chips and coins recorded on the opener: (a) The floor supervisor must report immediately to the shift manager, if on duty or when the manager arrives; and (b) The floor supervisor on duty must complete and sign a notification of error slip; and (c) The dealer and security must verify and sign the notification of error slip; and (d) Security must transport the duplicate of the notification of error slip to the accounting department or the cashier's cage; and (e) The dealer must drop the original notification of error slip in the drop box attached to the gambling table; and (f) The accounting department must keep a copy of the notification of error slip in a log in the format we require; and (g) Licensees must notify us within twenty-four hours of errors of two hundred dollars or more, or if there is a pattern of shortages.