It's all gone. The casino, she said, never asked if she was getting in over her head . In an envelope that's too full to seal, she keeps a stack of cashed bank markers. The stack is about 3 inches high. Markers are basically checks, provided by the casino.
Patrons provide their bank account numbers and also submit to a credit check.
Once approved, the casino prints checks on a computer with the patron's bank account number. The patron can then use the money to gamble, and the casino will hold the marker for a least one week. It was a Friday night and Randall Boyd was ready for a weekend of gambling on Indiana's first riverboat casino . But apparently that money wasn't enough. All four of the markers would later be rejected by the First Indiana Bank in Indianapolis.