Casino Chip of the Day
City: Medicine Hat, Alberta
Casino: Casino by Vanshaw
Today's chip of the day is from Casino by Vanshaw. The casino opened in 1996. I can't find anything either on the casino site or otherwise as to what the name means. The way the name sounds it is like the casino is owned by Vanshaw but google comes up with nothing as to Vanshaw might be, so it is a mystery I guess. The casino has 332 slot machines and 8 tables games including BJ, Roulette, Ultimate Texas Holdem, Lightning Poker and one poker table.
The chip is the same plastic model as the British Columbia chips. It is brown with the double edged inserts. The outer inserts are white/light blue/white and the inner ones are white. The centre inlay is white with different shades of red/orange/yellow on the top and bottom. There is a giant diamond with the casino name on it. As well the denomination is present on the top and bottom of the inlay.
With regard to Casino by Vanshaw, that's strikes me as a rather bizarre way to name a casino. If it's named for a person, why not just Vanshaw's Casino or something like that? No skin off my nose, I suppose.
Quote: DocWith regard to Casino Lethbridge, ordinarily when a casino has changed names but hasn't (yet) changed chips, I try to list the casino by the old name in the hope that we can eventually have it shown here by both names with both types of chips. However, since the name change took place eleven years ago and nothing has come out since, maybe they never will have a full set of new chips. The MoGH Chip Guide shows just one 50¢ chip and two brass 50¢ tokens that say "Casino Lethbridge." I think it is very interesting to see that guide agree with PokerGrinder that the casino started operating under the new name in 2004 while one of those two 50¢ tokens shows a date of 2000. I have no idea how to interpret that. Anyway, I'll go along with listing the Casino ABS chip under Casino Lethbridge in the index.
It is a very odd situation that they would re-brand and not get a new set of chips. The thing is if they ever do get new chips I don't think I will ever know about it so I can get a new chip. Although I wouldn't keep the one I have now, I would just switch it out for the new one as I have never been to "Casino ABS". Oh the rules of collecting and being nuts lol.
Quote: DocWith regard to Casino by Vanshaw, that's strikes me as a rather bizarre way to name a casino. If it's named for a person, why not just Vanshaw's Casino or something like that? No skin off my nose, I suppose.
It is an extremely odd casino name.
Quote: PokerGrinderCategory: Canada
City: Lethbridge, Alberta
Casino: Casino Lethbridge
...Today's chip of the day is from Casino Lethbridge. The casino was formerly Casino ABS Lethbridge but changed it's name in 2004...
What a strange name. The Casino Abs I usually see are like these:
Has it always been this way, or are people that frequent casinos just getting bigger?
Quote: PokerGrinderCategory: Canada
City: Medicine Hat, Alberta
Casino: Casino by Vanshaw
Today's chip of the day is from Casino by Vanshaw. The casino opened in 1996. I can't find anything either on the casino site or otherwise as to what the name means. The way the name sounds it is like the casino is owned by Vanshaw but google comes up with nothing as to Vanshaw might be, so it is a mystery I guess...
The "Vanshaw" in "Casino by Vanshaw" is actually a mashup of the names of the two original founders: Van Der Kooy and Shawn Strange. Read a short history on the Alberta Gambling Institute web page here.
City: Red Deer, Alberta
Casino: Cash
Today's chip of the day is from Cash Casino in Red Deer, AB. Red Deer is about 90 minutes from Calgary. The casino opened in 1995 and is one of two casinos in Red Deer. The casino has 330 slot machines, a 7 table poker room and 12 tables games including BJ, Roulette, Pai Gow, 4 Card Poker, Baccarat, Craps and Ultimate Texas Holdem.
The chip for Cash Casino Red Deer is the same one as the chip I posted for Cash Casino Calgary. The only differences are the Red Deer chips are much more worn out and thus are a much lighter blue and the other difference is that the chip obviously says Red Deer and not Calgary. It is a simple chip, blue with the casino name and location in black. As I said about the Calgary version I like the designs on the bottom of the chip as it makes it look a little fancier.
In that index, we sometimes get casinos with exactly the same name in exactly the same state/category, such as the Nevada editions of Harrah's in Las Vegas, Laughlin, Lake Tahoe, and Reno. In order to distinguish between these identically-named establishments, I add the city name in parentheses right below the casino name, but only for cases of duplicate names.
When updating the index with the entry for the Cash Casino in Red Deer, I also needed to update the index entry for the other Cash Casino that PokerGrinder already covered, in Calgary. When I looked at the entries, it occurred to me that many of us stupid Americans (like me) would have no clue as to what part of Canada the town of Red Deer is in. So I went back and added province identification for each of those city names. I mean, most of us may have a good idea what province Calgary is in, but where the heck is Penticton? I am sure we never covered that in my elementary school geography classes.
PokerGrinder suggested long ago that I should present each of the provinces separately in the index, just as I did for states in the U.S., but I declined, saying I expect that a couple of individual states will continue to have more entries than the entirety of Canada. Besides, I'm too lazy to reconfigure that whole section of the index.
Quote: DocFor those of you who have never bothered to look, the first page of this thread contains an index of links to each of the main entries in the thread. I take the time to update that index (almost) daily -- and to complain regularly about the process -- because I think having the set of links there makes the thread much more useful as a reference.
In that index, we sometimes get casinos with exactly the same name in exactly the same state/category, such as the Nevada editions of Harrah's in Las Vegas, Laughlin, Lake Tahoe, and Reno. In order to distinguish between these identically-named establishments, I add the city name in parentheses right below the casino name, but only for cases of duplicate names.
When updating the index with the entry for the Cash Casino in Red Deer, I also needed to update the index entry for the other Cash Casino that PokerGrinder already covered, in Calgary. When I looked at the entries, it occurred to me that many of us stupid Americans (like me) would have no clue as to what part of Canada the town of Red Deer is in. So I went back and added province identification for each of those city names. I mean, most of us may have a good idea what province Calgary is in, but where the heck is Penticton? I am sure we never covered that in my elementary school geography classes.
PokerGrinder suggested long ago that I should present each of the provinces separately in the index, just as I did for states in the U.S., but I declined, saying I expect that a couple of individual states will continue to have more entries than the entirety of Canada. Besides, I'm too lazy to reconfigure that whole section of the index.
(Clapping hands over eyes) Noooooo, don't make me lookdon'tmakemelookdon'tmakeme....(Peeking between fingers) oh. Well, that seems quite usable. lol...
Quote: DocFor those of you who have never bothered to look, the first page of this thread contains an index of links to each of the main entries in the thread. I take the time to update that index (almost) daily -- and to complain regularly about the process -- because I think having the set of links there makes the thread much more useful as a reference.
Doc first off I appreciate all you do for this thread as many other members have previously said. As well I will admit that your complaints/rants about the index make me laugh :). Without the links this thread would be a disaster, I personally use the links all the time. I couldn't imagine having to scroll through over 500 pages of this thread to find something that I am looking for, so thank you again.
Quote: DocWhen updating the index with the entry for the Cash Casino in Red Deer, I also needed to update the index entry for the other Cash Casino that PokerGrinder already covered, in Calgary. When I looked at the entries, it occurred to me that many of us stupid Americans (like me) would have no clue as to what part of Canada the town of Red Deer is in. So I went back and added province identification for each of those city names. I mean, most of us may have a good idea what province Calgary is in, but where the heck is Penticton? I am sure we never covered that in my elementary school geography classes.
To be honest with you Doc I live in Canada and before visiting the Lake City Casino Penticton I had no idea Penticton existed.
Quote: DocPokerGrinder suggested long ago that I should present each of the provinces separately in the index, just as I did for states in the U.S., but I declined, saying I expect that a couple of individual states will continue to have more entries than the entirety of Canada. Besides, I'm too lazy to reconfigure that whole section of the index.
When I am done my chip of the day posts for the Canadian casinos (6 more) would you be interested in having me help you to reconfigure the section of the index to include provinces. I know you said that you don't feel as though it is necessary but allow me to be the devil's advocate for a second. I think I remember reading you say that this thread doubles as a travel guide quite well and I totally agree as I have used it many a time to help plan chip collecting trips. I think it makes it more helpful for someone who might be planning a chip trip through Canada or parts of it to know which casinos belong to which provinces. We will have 64 casinos represented, spanning 8 provinces. Like I said I would be more than happy to help change the index or just do it if that is possible. In the end I stated my case and totally respect and support whatever you decide as I believe you should have the final say. You did create the thread :)
Quote: PokerGrinderLike I said I would be more than happy to help change the index or just do it if that is possible.
OK, I'll think a little more about reconfiguration. My rationale at the moment is that the current block of 58 Canadian casinos in the index fills only about half of my browser window, so it's easy to see all of those casinos at once. It still will fit with room to spare after adding two more rows to the block to accommodate 64 casinos.
In contrast, the 100 casinos for California barely fit in the window on my display and might require scrolling on someone else's just to see the one state. The 223 casinos for Nevada likely requires scrolling on all but the most outrageous display. The Canada index just isn't that unmanageable now.
However, you made a valid point: If someone were planning a chip-chasing run through Canada (or another type of casino tour there) and they were using this thread as a guide, a breakdown by province could be quite useful. After all, Canada is one huge country. You don't just slip out of a casino in Sydney and pop over to one in Richmond. Besides, some of us might be clueless enough to think those two cities are in Australia and Virginia, which would make it an even more outlandish tour.
If I do decide to make a change, I don't think there is a practical way for you to help, PokerGrinder. It's just a matter of cut and past on my computer screen. (Don't tell anyone, but the editing I do is not really so difficult as I try to make it out to be -- it just gets to be a grind sometimes to do it with every new chip that is posted.)
Quote: DocIf I do decide to make a change, I don't think there is a practical way for you to help, PokerGrinder. It's just a matter of cut and past on my computer screen. (Don't tell anyone, but the editing I do is not really so difficult as I try to make make it out to be -- it just gets to be a grind sometimes to do it with every new chip that is posted.)
Don't worry your secret is safe with me :)
City: Red Deer, Alberta
Casino: Jackpot
Today's chip of the day is from Jackpot Casino, it is the second of two Red Deer casinos and the last Alberta Casino (try to hold back tears please). Jackpot Casino opened in February, 1997. Funny story from when I tried to get this chip, so I was living in Calgary and decided to take a road trip up to Edmonton and do some gambling/chip collecting up there. This is a very basic route Calgary to Red Deer grab the 2 chips, onto Edmonton grab the 7 chips (spent three days in Edmonton), stop at Camrose Casino on the way back and then a short drive home to Calgary, seems simple right? Well I get to Red Deer get the chip from Cash Casino, GPS takes me to Jackpot Casino, one problem the GPS thinks the casino is in a Taco Bell. I spent 30 minutes driving up and down most of the area looking for the building or a sign of any sort pointing me in the direction of this casino. No luck! I sort of give up (knowing I would pass through on my way home) and head to Edmonton. On my way back grab the chip from Camrose, and head back. Get to Red Deer again and decided I am not leaving this city without my chip. I spend a bunch more time looking and then happen to see the casino off to the side of a supermarket I think if my memory is right. I must have only seen the supermarket every time because it faces the street while the casino door faces the side street. Overall I will split the blame with the casino because I think I was pretty blind not to notice this place but the casinos lack of signage or any indication of hey come gamble here, we do exist was pretty bad. Got my chip though. The place was pretty dumpy overall, went in played for ten minutes found a chip in good condition and got the heck out of there. Jackpot Casino has 359 slot machines and 15 table games including BJ, Ultimate Texas Holdem, Baccarat, Roulette and Extreme 21 (no clue what that is).
The chip is a very cheap model, your most basic chip. The chip is white and the info in the middle is hot stamped (I think that is what it is called) on in Gold. I was lucky I was able to find one that the hot stamp is completely unfaded as most of the chips seemed pretty old.
I note that the casinos in Red Deer are supposed to be smoke free. Does it appear that this legislation has had a negative impact on their business?
As is usually the case with my chip photos, you can see a higher-resolution image by clicking on the small one behind that spoiler button. If you click on that image (perhaps depending upon your browser), it displays full-size, but even the "high" resolution is not sufficient to allow examining individual chips -- the image just starts to fall apart when examined in detail. All of these chips have been posted individually somewhere in this thread.
The array of my collection now contains 441 chips, with four additional chips received as gifts from forum members shown to the upper right and four tokens to the lower right that are from casinos also represented by clay chips in the main array.
When I posted the similar photo back in January, I also provided copies of the five photos that I had previously posted from May 2010 to July 2014. Rather than repeating all of that, I'm just providing the link to that post here.
Quote: AyecarumbaThanks for the posts PokerGrinder! I am enjoying them very much.
I note that the casinos in Red Deer are supposed to be smoke free. Does it appear that this legislation has had a negative impact on their business?
Not at all, I would say most of the casinos if not all minus the Indian casinos are smoke free. I can't remember for BC but Alberta (Indian casinos aren't smoke free), Saskatchewan, Manitoba are smoke free and possibly Ontario and Quebec too. People just go outside to smoke it is second nature at this point. Gamblers are going to gamble no matter what.
Quote: DocPokerGrinder, I just noticed that your post for the South Beach chip from Scanterbury, Manitoba has a broken link to the chip image. Do you still have the image, and can you fix that post? (Yes, I think I've always been a nerd.)
Easy fix the chip was still on Imgur, not sure why the link broke.
Quote: DocI have to admit that I have a wee bit of trouble thinking about a South Beach themed casino located in Manitoba. I've never been to either South Beach or Manitoba, but the mixture just boggles my mind.
I guess I somehow forgot to give an answer to this, then when you mentioned the chip image was gone I read this and thought well I can answer it now. The name is quite simple to get to Winnipeg Beach/Victoria Beach/Patricia Beach etc... (there a lot of them) from Winnipeg you head north on Hwy 59. You pass the casino and go about 30 minutes longer you are at the beach. So quite literally the casino is south of the beach. Aren't they geniuses lol?
And thanks for getting your chip back on view for us.
That 100 casinos in CA is only about 2/3 of the available total. One day, I'll (or someone will) get around to going north of I-80.
There are entries for states with a tiny amount of casinos. So the argument against provinces with a low count is tricky. Plus, I have no idea where some of these places in Canada are. But then I guess Canada is basically just the 51st state anyway & if that's the case then why would the provinces be separated?
ABS=Alberta Bingo Supply. No idea why the Supply is in there or what that has to do with a slot barn.
And now back to work and packing and moving.
Quote: rdw4potusHit and run post:
That 100 casinos in CA is only about 2/3 of the available total. One day, I'll (or someone will) get around to going north of I-80.
There are entries for states with a tiny amount of casinos. So the argument against provinces with a low count is tricky. Plus, I have no idea where some of these places in Canada are. But then I guess Canada is basically just the 51st state anyway & if that's the case then why would the provinces be separated?
ABS=Alberta Bingo Supply. No idea why the Supply is in there or what that has to do with a slot barn.
And now back to work and packing and moving.
As a Canadian I would have to strongly disagree with the common statement of "Canada is basically the 51st state". I am by no means offended by the comment but I definitely don't agree with it. I don't want to say anything that might start an angry political debate but let's just say the countries are very different.
Also great to see you back RDW, haven't heard much from you lately. I guess the move is keeping you busy.
City: Black Hawk
Casino: Z
I haven't uploaded pictures of the rest of my Canadian chips yet so I am going to move back into the American chips. Today's chip of the day is from the Z Casino in Black Hawk, CO. Z Casino used to be Bullwhackers Casino which was one of the first casinos in Black Hawk. I collected this chip along with all the other Colorado chips on my way home from Las Vegas two winters ago when I was living there. A snowstorm was in the midst of hitting the Denver area so that made this trip a little tougher. Outside of spinning out on the freeway and ending up in the ditch (no damage and somehow managed to drive out of the 8-10 foot ditch that was wet cause of the storm) the trip went well.
The MoGH guide says the casino opened on May 9, 2014 but thinking about it now that can't be correct. I would have been there around April 8-10 roughly because I got home on April 14, they had opened a couple days before I got there so maybe they opened early, or the guide is just wrong. I played craps there and it was one of the best dealer crews ever. They were fun, enjoyed what they were doing and were good at it. I ended up losing about $50 but it was worth the enjoyment. The restaurant upstairs at this casino is excellent if you are ever there.
The chip is white with what I would say is a grey tire track across about 2/3 of the chip. The Z Casino logo is black outlined in orange. The location and denomination are both white outlined in black so that it is visible on the white chip. Overall this is one of my favorite chips, the design is so simple and yet catches my eye.
You may well have happened in during that testing period, given the dates you mention.
Quote: beachbumbabsFWIW, a lot of casinos (The Cromwell and SLS for 2 I know personally) have what they call a "soft" opening, weeks or even a month or two ahead of their "official" opening. They get locals and special invitees from other properties to come in, run their casino as they intend to, break in dealers, staff, and procedures, in short get things up and running so they don't have a disasterous "grand" opening without trying things with customers, but not flooded with a full crowd while they get their feet under them. Then they have the "grand" opening, with media, VIP's, advertising, party, speeches, whatever, and that's the date that goes on the books.
You may well have happened in during that testing period, given the dates you mention.
Oh that makes a lot of sense. Thanks Babs for the explanation.
City: Williamsburg
Casino: Turtle Creek
I am going to start off by saying that although the new site looks great, I don't like change even if it is for the better lol. I will eventually get used to it but for a week or so I will complain to myself. I am that guy that complains every time Facebook changes their set-up. OK I am done complaining now.
Today's chip of the day is from Turtle Creek Casino in WIlliamsburg, MI. I got this chip on my road trip to Windsor, ON last November. I played a little BJ here and won $20 before moving on since I had a lot of casinos to visit this day. The casino was very nice and outside of them hiding the bathrooms I thought the layout was great. The casino opened June 14, 1996, which leads me to believe they had recently done a major makeover cause this place looked new. The casino has 1238 slot machines, a 10 table poker room and 31 table games including BJ, Craps, Roulette, 3 Card Poker, Let It Ride and Doc's favourite game the money wheel.
I really love the design of this chip. It is white with the Turtle Creek Casino logo on the front along with some random designs on the front. The back of the chip has more black designs. I have no idea what any of these designs are supposed to be or if they are supposed to be anything at all but I like them.
Does the edge of the chip have stripes, or is it plain? Usually the colors on the edge of the face correspond to stripes on the edge, but with this asymmetrical design it is not clear.
Here's my chip
I was reluctant to edit the index until they get the site fixed, but I decided to go ahead. I suppose that the most that could happen is that the index gets destroyed then I get PO'd and exit the forum the way that member gofaster87 did, deleting all of my old posts in the process. Good riddance some might say.
Anyway, I added the two latest chips to the index, and the links seem to be working.
Quote: AyecarumbaI like this design too. Very cool.
Does the edge of the chip have stripes, or is it plain? Usually the colors on the edge of the face correspond to stripes on the edge, but with this asymmetrical design it is not clear.
Yes the edge of the chip does have 4 groups of 4 black squares. MoGH has a picture of it if you would like to see it.
Quote: rdw4potusI'm so confused right now. I have a Turtle Creek chip. When I posted MI, Ibeatyouraces even called out that it was yet to be posted. Then I replied that I'd also just been to the new Four Winds in Dowagiac. Then, several pages later, I posted the Four Winds chip. I never posted the Turtle Creek chip?!? Seriously?!?
I was wondering why nobody had posted it when all the other Michigan chips had been posted already. Mystery solved I guess.
Quote: DocWell, the "New, Upgraded, etc., etc." forum design screwed up the Page #1 index layout, perhaps because some formatting functions, such as centering and bolding, aren't working. So far, my impression is that the "new" design is once again proof that change does not necessarily imply improvement. It's amazing that they would let the site go public this way. For me, it's almost unusable.
I was reluctant to edit the index until they get the site fixed, but I decided to go ahead. I suppose that the most that could happen is that the index gets destroyed then I get PO'd and exit the forum the way that member gofaster87 did, deleting all of my old posts in the process. Good riddance some might say.
Anyway, I added the two latest chips to the index, and the links seem to be working.
I can't say I am a fan of the new site set-up, I had my routine of getting around the site. I guess we will all have to get used to it cause they sure aren't putting it back to the way it was.
Haha I don't know who gofaster87 is but please don't leave us Doc.
City: Mahnomen
Casino: Shooting Star
Today's chip of the day is from Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, MN. I have been here a couple of times, it is about a 3 hour drive and they send lot's of offers for free rooms and play so it is fun to go there for a weekend. This was one of the first casinos I visited when I started collecting chips. I would say it was probably one of the first five chips in my collection (now sitting at 390). Although the chip I originally got isn't this chip. They used to have what I thought was one of the lamest sets of chips. The $1 was a golf ball chip, the $5 was a basketball chip, the $25 had a football on most of the chip (chip is round, football is not obviously) and the $100 was a baseball chip. I had collected a $1 chip from here since that was my only choice. Years later they brought in a new set of chips and I happily exchanged mine for a new one on my next visit.
The casino is on an Indian reserve and sadly is a smoking casino. Funny thing about there casino is they have a high limit room, the high limit room starts at $10 shoe BJ. The casino has 1100 slot machines, a 7 table poker room and 16 table games that are all BJ except for this odd dealer dealt poker game which I can't think of the name of it. What I do remember is when they brought it in the first time how it is the biggest rip off game ever. Between bad payouts and the 50 cent commission paid before every hand, pretty sure the game is a sink-hole for money.
I believe this is the third straight day that the chip is a chipco. The chip is white with the Shooting Star logo, the denomination is on the bottom in blue.
Quote: AyecarumbaWoah Nellie... the font in the index is tiny... like 7 pts. or so, making it very hard to read. Is there a way to "force" it to at least 10 pts?
That was my first thought too. Also anyone else notice that the chip of the day posts no longer have the state, city and casino bolded?
The lack of boldface for the state, city, and casino in the CCotD posts will probably be part of another fix. There does not appear to be any way to implement boldface right now. If you quote someone's post, their name appears in bold, but that seems to be a feature of the quote function, while the bold function doesn't work. If you start a post and click on "Click here for formatting codes" then you can see that even JB's examples of how to use them aren't right. Among the ones that I see are obviously non-functional are bold, italic, strikethrough, underlined, centered, right-aligned, and justified.
Quote: DocWell, the "New, Upgraded, etc., etc." forum design screwed up the Page #1 index layout, perhaps because some formatting functions, such as centering and bolding, aren't working. So far, my impression is that the "new" design is once again proof that change does not necessarily imply improvement. It's amazing that they would let the site go public this way. For me, it's almost unusable.
I was reluctant to edit the index until they get the site fixed, but I decided to go ahead. I suppose that the most that could happen is that the index gets destroyed then I get PO'd and exit the forum the way that member gofaster87 did, deleting all of my old posts in the process. Good riddance some might say.
Anyway, I added the two latest chips to the index, and the links seem to be working.
At least they didn't change the number of posts per page. That would have messed up all of your links.
Quote: PokerGrinderState: Michigan
City: Williamsburg
Casino: Turtle Creek
...The casino opened June 14, 1996, which leads me to believe they had recently done a major makeover cause this place looked new...
It's a completely new building that opened June 17, 2008. I first went to the original in 2004.
Quote: AyecarumbaPerhaps DJTB can create a world map, similar to the one he made of the Las Vegas valley, using the images of the chips as "pins"? I think that would be a cool feature, especially if the location data could be used by the various map engines to create route maps. It would be a huge project, but worth it to create a unique and helpful tool. Where's the suggestion box??
You mean something like this? I just did the 3 Washington casinos and am working backwards in this thread. I finished page 515.
City: Thief River Falls
Casino: Seven Clans
Today's chip of the day is from Seven Clans Casino Thief River Falls. This was technically the first casino I ever was in. They have a great water park and arcade so a bunch of families used to take their kids. In reality though this was one of the first 10 or so chips I collected once I was legal since the gambling age in Minnesota is 18. The casino opened in 2001. The casino has over 650 slot machines, 6 BJ tables and 3 poker tables.
We seem to have somehow found a streak of chipco chips because I believe this is another one. It is white with the Seven Clans Thief River logo (each Seven Clans has a different colour 7) in the middle. The casino name and location are around the logo in black with a light blue shading. The denomination is in yellow over the logo.
City: Tower
Casino: Fortune Bay
Today's chip of the day is from Fortune Bay Casino in Tower, MN. The casino opened in 1992. I am pretty sure that I got this chip on my trip out to Detroit/Windsor last November. One of the downsides of going to so many casinos in one driving day is sometimes I don't really remember the casino, and this is one of those times. The casino has 735 slot machines and 12 table games including BJ, Double Draw Poker and Ultimate Texas Holdem.
The chip is light blue with 6 darker blue edge inserts. The centre inlay is white with the casino logo in the middle, "Fortune Bay" in blue above the logo and "Resort Casino" in green below the logo.
The thought that popped into my mind when I saw that was the original Ford Pinto ads from back in '71, I think. They played on the "pinto" name when describing the colors, categorizing them as "Old Paint", as in the name of some horse. They had quite a variety of semi-humorous names for the colors, with one of them being "Thanks Vermillion".
The only other such Pinto color that I can draw from my own memory is "Original Cinnamon", but I dug up a web site that lists these: Hulla Blue, Anti-Establish Mint, History Onyx, Bring 'Em Back Olive, Last Stand Custard, Young Turquoise, Freudian Gilt, Three Putt Green, There She Blue, Good Clean Fawn, and Counter Revolutionary Red.
Yes, it was a simpler time for humor.
City: Warroad
Casino: Seven Clans
Today's chip of the day is from Seven Clans Casino Warroad, which is the second of the three Seven Clans Casinos. Seven Clans Casino Warroad opened in 2001 and is the former Lake of the Woods Casino. The casino has over 600 slot machines, 3 BJ tables and 3 Poker tables. I played $3 BJ at a full table for about ten minutes. Which was about as long as I could stomach watching a full table of $3 BJ players. Wow are they bad at an easy game.
The chip is a Chipco product, it is white with 4 light blue edge inserts. The centre has the casino name along with the Seven Clans Warroad logo, notice it is a different colour than Thief River Falls "7" logo.
Quote: AyecarumbaYes!Quote: mipletYou mean something like this? I just did the 3 Washington casinos and am working backwards in this thread. I finished page 515.
3 problems so far:
What to do with defunct/renamed casinos?
What to do with cruise ships?
Google only allows 10 layers, so I can't put each state in a layer. I'll probably put all the US in one layer.
I finished page 495. Any suggestions or comments or questions?
Quote: mipletQuote: AyecarumbaYes!Quote: mipletYou mean something like this? I just did the 3 Washington casinos and am working backwards in this thread. I finished page 515.
3 problems so far:
What to do with defunct/renamed casinos?
What to do with cruise ships?
Google only allows 10 layers, so I can't put each state in a layer. I'll probably put all the US in one layer.
I finished page 495. Any suggestions or comments or questions?
Hmmm, for expedience, perhaps only using the most current name/design would be the most useful. Maybe defunct and former versions can be added later with a different color background??
It would be cool if cruise ships could connect to the actual ship's current location, but maybe the "home" port when they were collected is enough?
Should Nevada have its own layer just because of the volume? I would probably be more helpful if I knew what a "layer" was.
City: Belcourt
Casino: Sky Dancer
Today's chip of the day is from Sky Dancer Casino in Belcourt, ND. I had a little trouble finding a opening date as they built this casino while the old one was still in use I believe. They then renovated the old casino into an events/convention center. I found what I think to be the Grand Opening on November 1, 2012. I visited this casino on my way to Las Vegas two winters ago, it was the first stop of about 100 total (3 months in Vegas included) between the drive down and back home later from Vegas. I visited a bunch of places over about a week on my way down to Vegas including Deadwood, Jackpot, Reno and Lake Tahoe. San Diego and Los Angeles midway through my vegas stay and then Colorado (all Colorado casinos) on my way home.
I got to this casino too early for table games by about 30 minutes so I played some slots first, ended up winning about $680 when I hit the bonus and then won about $100 once the BJ table was open. The casino has over 525 slot machines, 6 Poker tables, and 6 table games including BJ, Phil Em Up and Let it Ride.
The chip is another Chipco product. I guess it is just coincidence as I am posting these chips pretty randomly but for the longest time all the chips that I was posting were PHC and now this makes around 7 of 8 being Chipco I believe. Not important at all I just thought it was odd. The chip is white with 10 I guess we can call them edge inserts. They are green triangles with a red outline. The Sky Dancer logo takes up most of the chip, it is quite colourful.
City: Fort Yates
Casino: Prairie Knights
Today's chip of the day is from Prairie Knights Casino in Fort Yates, ND. Fort Yates is located just south of Bismarck and about 30 miles to the ND/SD border. I stayed at the hotel here my first night on my way to Vegas. If you are ever in the area, very nice hotel rooms for an extremely reasonable cost. DO NOT eat the buffet though, they gave me a coupon when I signed up a club card, bad idea. Tough to turn down a free buffet :)
Prairie Knights Casino opened December 14, 1993. The casino has over 700 slot machines and 7 table games including BJ, Craps. Three Card Poker and Ultimate Texas Holdem.
Ayecarumba we have another entry into the North Carolina Tar Heels coloured chips. I am not sure who makes the chip but it is a similar plastic style as the British Columbia chips. It is white plastic with three baby blue edge inserts. Between each set of inserts are the four suits in baby blue. The center inlay is a silver coin, I really like the look of the chips with the metal insert. The coin is really simple, just the casino name with the chip denomination in the middle.
But I have 2 extra $5 chips from Carnival Cruise Line casino's.
Red with blue and orange side markings.
Both sides the same, says $5, underneath in smaller print, "The Fun Ships".
Brought home by accident, found in a pocket.
Willing to mail to whoever wants them, Doc has to have 1st dibs.
Not from "the Miracle" in AK, they had their own chips.
From one of 3 sailings out of FL in 2013-2014.
Doc should accept or decline here, then others are welcome.
Mail address should be PM'd.
Keep up the good work. 2F
