Casino Chip of the Day

Oh wow I didn't even realize. I know he said he was going on a trip but I don't remember where or for how long.

So now do you feel any guilt pangs for suggesting that I harrass him?

Not really lol. It's not like he's sick or something, just absent.

Hey, wait a minute now. What's this "I won't harass people who haven't visited the forum in a while" thing? Is that new? :-)

Quote: rdw4potus

Hey, wait a minute now. What's this "I won't harass people who haven't visited the forum in a while" thing? Is that new? :-)

Hey!!! Unicorns (RDW) do exist!

Quote: rdw4potus

What's this "I won't harass people who haven't visited the forum in a while" thing?

It's a sometimes thing, employed when it is effective in harrassing certain other members.

As of March 18 the thread index and chip count (1009) kept in the index are both correct. I did a quick check and everything adds up this time Doc, but I'm watching you :)

After much procrastination (yes I know what you are going to say Doc lol) I have finalized my chip collecting for Spring Fling. My plan includes collecting 39 new chips (12 new chip of the days), 3 more maybe chips, 2 replacement chips (replacing tokens) and possibly one new state and no I won't tell you which state. :)

Quote: PokerGrinder

As of March 18 the thread index and chip count (1009) kept in the index are both correct. I did a quick check and everything adds up this time Doc, but I'm watching you :)

Question: Did you just verify that the index is consistent with itself? I keep an active spreadsheet that shows the number of chips posted in each category and the total, so I don't think I'm likely to get that incorrect unless I miss seeing a chip post. The bigger problem is whether someone posted a chip-of-the-day somewhere in these 646 pages and I missed it. If you come across one of those, please let me know.

Quote: PokerGrinder

After much procrastination (yes I know what you are going to say Doc lol) I have finalized my chip collecting for Spring Fling. My plan includes collecting 39 new chips (12 new chip of the days), 3 more maybe chips, 2 replacement chips (replacing tokens) and possibly one new state and no I won't tell you which state. :)

You won't tell me where you are traveling to? I had in mind to send you a P.M. to ask whether our outside-of-Las-Vegas wanderings might cross during that period. Guess I can just post my plans (taking up space in this thread) and you can decide whether we have opportunities to meet anywhere.

Monday 4/17: Fly to Las Vegas, arriving LAS at 7:44 PM. Pick up rental car and spend the night at the Rio.

Tuesday 4/18: Drive to Lake Tahoe. Stop off at Stagecoach (Beatty) for token-replacement chip, Paiute Palace (Biship, CA) for new chip, and Topaz Lodge (Gardnerville) for token-replacement chip. Stay at Harvey's Lake Tahoe for two nights, picking up a chip at the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe while I am in the area.

Thursday 4/20: Drive a long loop for sightseeing and collecting. Begin with a clockwise 3/4 loop of the lake, stopping at Grand Lodge (Incline Village) for a new chip. Then continue to Max (Carson City) for a new chip, Diamond's (Reno) for token-replacement chip, Nugget (Sparks) for a new chip, Stockman's (Fallon) for token-replacement chip, followed by Pioneer Crossing (Yerington), El Capitan (Hawthorne), and Mizpah Club (Tonopah) for new chips. Spend the night at the Mizpah Hotel next to the club. (That is the only hotel on the trip that is not comped, even though I will have to pay some resort fees at Rio and Harvey's.)

Friday 4/21: Drive on down to Las Vegas, where I am booked at the Orleans for Friday and Saturday nights surrounding the Spring Fling Main Event. As I arrive in the Las Vegas area, rather than going directly to the Orleans, I (tentatively) plan to loop the city, stopping at Texas Station for a new chip that says "Station" instead of "Gambling Hall", then continue to Silver Nugget, Poker Palace, Longhorn, and Skyline for token-replacement chips. I certainly expect to hit all of those spots while I am in town, but it might turn out that I don't really make that loop before going to the hotel.

Sometime while I am in town I will get to the Lucky Dragon to pick up a new chip. Perhaps there are several of us who want to do that and we could go together. Anyone interested in that? I think Lucky Dragon and Grand Lodge are the only casinos on my list for this trip that haven't been covered in the thread already, and it doesn't matter much who posts the Lucky Dragon chip.

Sunday 4/23: Move to Main Street Station. It's annoying to hotel hop, but I'm a cheapskate, and I try to take advantage of the comped rooms that are offered. MSS didn't offer me Fri/Sat nights; those were offered by Gold Coast, but they claimed to be sold out on Saturday night, and I got that offer transferred to Orleans.

Tuesday 4/25: Turn in rental car and fly home. Scheduled departure at 2:05 PM.

Am I likely to encounter you anywhere other than at the Spring Fling events?

Category: Commemorative
City: Biloxi MS USA
Casino: Hard Rock Hotel and Casino


These chips from the Hard Rock were created for Chinese New Year 2017, the Year of the Fire Rooster. They also commemorate the installation of the Macau Kitchen, a late night noodle bar and basic Chinese and Thai dishes restaurant. The restaurant has a long dining bar along the open kitchen and a half-dozen small tables. It's immediately adjacent to a pit which holds 2 minibac tables, a progressive PGP table, and DD med limit BJ.

The restaurant opened early in 2017, replacing an underutilized poker room and angering a few rabidly loyal players, but generally pleased those who enjoy Asian games. The pit, gathering those games from elsewhere on the floor, was also an addition to available tables. However, all 3 games have at least one other table in other pits around the casino; but this pit appears to be staffed 24/7, while the others are sometimes closed.

The HRHC Biloxi is already in this index, so I will defer to that entry on general history and gaming conditions.



These chips appear to be Paulson high top hat and cane. The chips are clay with golden yellow and black inserts. The background has a subtle pattern of diamonds and dots done in a slightly darker red than the base chip. The face edging of both sides is slightly serrated in the mold, though the circumference is smooth.

The phonetic lettering and Chinese characters both translate to Fortune Kitchen (I am told). The Rooster artwork is done in shades of gold, orange, red, brown, and black. The denomination is $5. I am told they also produced a limited number in $100 denomination, but I have not seen any.

I won these chips playing UTH on Chinese New Year's Eve. They were plentiful, and last I saw were still in the general mix in all gaming tills there.

BBB, your post is very appropriate to this thread, though I think it should be edited just a bit and a title block added. You see, we have a chip category called "Chinese New Year Commemorative Chips", and this one definitely deserves to be our chip of the day for today! I think (haven't checked) that this may be our first such chip not posted by the Wizard himself.

Quote: Doc

Your post is very appropriate to this thread, though I think it should be edited just a bit and a title block added. You see, we have a chip category called "Chinese New Year Commemorative Chips", and this one definitely deserves to be our chip of the day for today! I think (haven't checked) that this may be our first such chip not posted by the Wizard himself.

Thanks, Doc. I'm honored to have one to add. I'm on the run but will edit soon for headers and deleting extraneous chatter. Chips are still for sale. I will be editing the "ad" part out.

When you get the title block added, I will add this post/chip to the index.

Quote: Doc

Question: Did you just verify that the index is consistent with itself? I keep an active spreadsheet that shows the number of chips posted in each category and the total, so I don't think I'm likely to get that incorrect unless I miss seeing a chip post. The bigger problem is whether someone posted a chip-of-the-day somewhere in these 646 pages and I missed it. If you come across one of those, please let me know.

You won't tell me where you are traveling to? I had in mind to send you a P.M. to ask whether our outside-of-Las-Vegas wanderings might cross during that period. Guess I can just post my plans (taking up space in this thread) and you can decide whether we have opportunities to meet anywhere.

Monday 4/17: Fly to Las Vegas, arriving LAS at 7:44 PM. Pick up rental car and spend the night at the Rio.

Tuesday 4/18: Drive to Lake Tahoe. Stop off at Stagecoach (Beatty) for token-replacement chip, Paiute Palace (Biship, CA) for new chip, and Topaz Lodge (Gardnerville) for token-replacement chip. Stay at Harvey's Lake Tahoe for two nights, picking up a chip at the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe while I am in the area.

Thursday 4/20: Drive a long loop for sightseeing and collecting. Begin with a clockwise 3/4 loop of the lake, stopping at Grand Lodge (Incline Village) for a new chip. Then continue to Max (Carson City) for a new chip, Diamond's (Reno) for token-replacement chip, Nugget (Sparks) for a new chip, Stockman's (Fallon) for token-replacement chip, followed by Pioneer Crossing (Yerington), El Capitan (Hawthorne), and Mizpah Club (Tonopah) for new chips. Spend the night at the Mizpah Hotel next to the club. (That is the only hotel on the trip that is not comped, even though I will have to pay some resort fees at Rio and Harvey's.)

Friday 4/21: Drive on down to Las Vegas, where I am booked at the Orleans for Friday and Saturday nights surrounding the Spring Fling Main Event. As I arrive in the Las Vegas area, rather than going directly to the Orleans, I (tentatively) plan to loop the city, stopping at Texas Station for a new chip that says "Station" instead of "Gambling Hall", then continue to Silver Nugget, Poker Palace, Longhorn, and Skyline for token-replacement chips. I certainly expect to hit all of those spots while I am in town, but it might turn out that I don't really make that loop before going to the hotel.

Sometime while I am in town I will get to the Lucky Dragon to pick up a new chip. Perhaps there are several of us who want to do that and we could go together. Anyone interested in that? I think Lucky Dragon and Grand Lodge are the only casinos on my list for this trip that haven't been covered in the thread already, and it doesn't matter much who posts the Lucky Dragon chip.

Sunday 4/23: Move to Main Street Station. It's annoying to hotel hop, but I'm a cheapskate, and I try to take advantage of the comped rooms that are offered. MSS didn't offer me Fri/Sat nights; those were offered by Gold Coast, but they claimed to be sold out on Saturday night, and I got that offer transferred to Orleans.

Tuesday 4/25: Turn in rental car and fly home. Scheduled departure at 2:05 PM.

Am I likely to encounter you anywhere other than at the Spring Fling events?

When I check the index I go through thread and make sure that all entries were added to the index and added to the overall number. I basically make sure that no chip of the days go by not indexed.

As far as us meeting up other than Spring Fling that won't be possible since I will be in California when you are doing the Northern Nevada chips. I am doing Northern Nevada a week before you. As far as the new state I plan on keeping that as a surprise that I don't think you will figure out.

As far as Lucky Dragon, I had mentioned in the Spring Fling thread that we should head over there as a group after the Friday night dinner as that dinner only had the chippers last year.

Quote: PokerGrinder

When I check the index I go through thread and make sure that all entries were added to the index and added to the overall number. I basically make sure that no chip of the days go by not indexed.

Well, then, I definitely appreciate your efforts. I am way too lazy to go through all 640+ pages looking for chips that hid from me before. Probably the one that went unnoticed the longest was the one that aluisio slipped in on page 52, right in the middle of my original postings of Nevada chips in April 2012. That chip, from the Enjoy Casino in Chile (we later discussed some uncertainty about the proper name of the place), went un-indexed until you pointed out the oversight to me some three and a half years later.

I went ahead and indexed the commemorative chip post from BBB, in anticipation of her making the edits.

Well I did the majority of it last year when I listed the errors, I think there were seven. At this point I check it every 30 pages or so.

Quote: Doc

BBB, your post is very appropriate to this thread, though I think it should be edited just a bit and a title block added. You see, we have a chip category called "Chinese New Year Commemorative Chips", and this one definitely deserves to be our chip of the day for today! I think (haven't checked) that this may be our first such chip not posted by the Wizard himself.

Au contraire mon ami! Remember who posted the CNY commemorative from the, now under new ownership and renamed Normandie?

Also, while dreaming of west to east luxury cruising, did I miss the annual "sometime around March 15" thread stat recap?...

Doc,

I looked at your list and did not see the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, DR. I obtained a chip from there as well as stayed there. I can give a trip report and an overview. Please let me know if it has already been done as I might have missed it while using my phone.

Quote: Ayecarumba

Au contraire mon ami! Remember who posted the CNY commemorative from the, now under new ownership and renamed Normandie?

Also, while dreaming of west to east luxury cruising, did I miss the annual "sometime around March 15" thread stat recap?...

My apologies, Ayecarumba. At least I acknowledged that I hadn't checked and was going from memory as to who posted what chips. As for the annual recap, I guess I'm just falling down on the job. Or was asleep while standing. I didn't even think about it this year. Fortunately, PokerGrinder gave us a very nice summary just 10 chips ago when he posted chip #1,000 for the thread, so we're not too far out of date.

Trying to cover up my error, I will now say that as of 3/16/17, the fifth anniversary of the beginning of this thread, we were on pages 645 and 646 of discussion with 6,476 posts (as of the end of page 645), had covered 1,009 official Casino Chips of the Day, and the thread had more than 1.1 million views. Plus gobs of entertainment for the OP.

Is that a sufficient summary?

Quote: beerseason

I looked at your list and did not see the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, DR. I obtained a chip from there as well as stayed there. I can give a trip report and an overview. Please let me know if it has already been done as I might have missed it while using my phone.

No, beerseason, we have not covered that Hard Rock at all. In fact, there are only three casinos from the Dominican Republic that have been covered in the thread, all by PokerGrinder (and none at all from the Haitian side of the island, although CasinoCity.com says that the Royal Hatian Hotel and Casino in Port-au-Prince has table games.)

Please do share with us your Hard Rock chip and tales about the casino. We (and particularly PokerGrinder) have been expecting Konbu to show up with a supply of chips to post for us, but in his absence, please take this opportunity!

Doc you usually list how many chips were posted in the past year along with all the previous years totals. I don't think we did but did we hit 100 chips this last year? I know we talked about how it would be tough.

I will take pictures and try to do the write up at work tomorrow as I will have a desktop to work with. I think I still remember the format from the last time I did it.

Quote: PokerGrinder

Doc you usually list how many chips were posted in the past year along with all the previous years totals. I don't think we did but did we hit 100 chips this last year? I know we talked about how it would be tough.

Last year my recap came two weeks late, and only then because you reminded me. For anyone interested, that post is here. Yes, you predicted then that we would not see 100 new chips in the next year, and you were correct. The count was 916 back then, so I think we had 93 new ones during the fifth year.

So close to the 100 mark. I'd be surprised if we ever see a 100 year again. Just not enough left out there.

So here's a plan: You live in Canada, in a province that at least some of us consider to be western Canada. Western Canada borders Washington state. Your own list shows 75 (if I counted correctly) casinos from which to collect chips in Washington. We only have 18 Washington casinos represented in this thread thus far. If you would just make a little loop around that state to collect (and post) those chips, that alone would get us more than half way to 100 new chips in the sixth year of the thread.

;-)

Quote: Doc

So here's a plan: You live in Canada, in a province that at least some of us consider to be western Canada. Western Canada borders Washington state. Your own list shows 75 (if I counted correctly) casinos from which to collect chips in Washington. We only have 18 Washington casinos represented in this thread thus far. If you would just make a little loop around that state to collect (and post) those chips, that alone would get us more than half way to 100 new chips in the sixth year of the thread.

;-)

First off I've never heard anyone refer to where I live as western Canada lol. That's the equivalent of saying Kansas City is western USA. As far as the Washington chips I do have a trip planned out on Microsoft word but it's one of a few trips that I've planned with no actual idea of when it might happen.

From the viewpoint of someone (i.e., me) in the southeastern US, anything west of Ontario is "western" Canada. Except Alaska. And other continents.

Well I have booked my travel for Spring Fling. I got 3 free nights at the Golden Nugget, although I couldn't get any free nights for the Friday and Saturday so I am staying at Arizona Charlie's Boulder. I got 7 free nights for my chip collecting part of the trip with my points on my grocery shopping card. I paid for the other 6 nights. Not too shabby I would say!

In no particular order:

People do consider Kansas City to be in the western USA. Yes, that's nuts. Also, if it's west of Ontario, it's basically all the same thing, eh?

I need to go to Skyline and Lucky Dragon. I'd be more than happy to go to those (and others) with a group.

At some point, I'm going to drive out to Tortoise Rock. After that, I think only I'm missing two chips from south of I-80: Bruce's (Blythe) and Tommy's (El Centro).

I land in Vegas at about 2pm on Friday & leave Tuesday morning. Staying 2 nights at Sunset and 2 nights at GVR.

To do 100 chips/yr, we'd have to hit northern Cali, Washington, and Oregon hard. And someone who lives in western Canada would probably have to go play in Deadwood SD & stop at a few bars in ND on the way down.

Just checked a map, and Kansas City is the farthest west I have driven since 1971 when I was separated from military active duty out in New Mexico. Anything more to the west than KC now involves a plane ride. And I loved the "eh?" quip!

I haven't checked the Spring Fling thread: Have we discussed plans for Friday night? That might be a great time to visit Lucky Dragon. I suspect that I am far too cheap to go for a dinner outing to Golden Steer, but we could probably figure out some sort of group outing that includes the new "Asian" casino.

The Skyline is the next-to-last stop planned for my token-replacing loop of Las Vegas upon our return to town on Friday, right before heading to the hotel, if I stick with the draft plan. It's conceivable that could be later than 2pm, but I really don't have a schedule set for the day. The previous day will have involved a lot of driving for a geezer like me. If I should leave that whole loop until Sunday after the nugget challenge/demonstration or even Monday, someone should let me know.

Ok so I'm going to respond to everything here:

Yes Doc we had discussed making a group trip to Lucky Dragon after our dinner on Friday. I would still like to do that, I'm probably not interested in going to Skyline again though since I went with Konbu last Spring Fling. Make sure you check the table games hours cause I remember them being odd. Any preferences on dinner? Are we going to 777 again or do we want to look at going somewhere off the beaten path. I know of a bunch of good locals restaurants from when I lived in Vegas. There is an Italian place called Nora's about ten minutes from the strip. Really good family restaurant.

RDW I am going to be visiting Tortoise Rock too just before Spring Fling. I have been in contact with Tommy's and they aren't running poker right now but I'm hoping they have it back up by the time I am passing through there in a few weeks. They seem to think they will. I have never heard of Bruce's, are you sure they are still in business. I couldn't find much to guarantee they exist. I'm planning on finding a phone number to call later when I get home.

I will actually be in Deadwood on my way home from Vegas. I haven't been in a few years but there no new chips to collect there. I don't ever plan on visiting random ND bars to collect. I've played in a few of those before and they all seem to use the same generic chips that look like they are about 765 years old.

it's been a couple years since I last tried to go to Bruce's. At that time, the schedule was posted on the door. it was supposed to be open, but the door was locked. Not sure if it's still in operation or not. That's also the last time I tried to go to Tommy's. Tommy's was at least an open and busy bar - they just didn't have the table open. Bartender made it sound like that was a rarity.

I think there's about 20 charities that are associated with ND bar blackjack. Each bar/table is supposed to use chips that state the name of the charity since they're technically the operator of the game. But there's blackjack in something like 100 bars across the state.

Quote: rdw4potus

it's been a couple years since I last tried to go to Bruce's. At that time, the schedule was posted on the door. it was supposed to be open, but the door was locked. Not sure if it's still in operation or not. That's also the last time I tried to go to Tommy's. Tommy's was at least an open and busy bar - they just didn't have the table open. Bartender made it sound like that was a rarity.

I think there's about 20 charities that are associated with ND bar blackjack. Each bar/table is supposed to use chips that state the name of the charity since they're technically the operator of the game. But there's blackjack in something like 100 bars across the state.

For this reason I have little to no interest in collecting from ND bars. I don't like when two casinos use the same chips don't mind 10-20 bars using the same ones. I'll pass lol.

Tommy's told me they were planning on having the poker table going in the next month or so (about 5 weeks ago) I'll be passing right through El Centro so I will stop and check but I'm not holding my breath. I'm planning on checking on Bruce's later since I will be going right past there.

Also RDW you don't have Seven Mile Casino, Lucky Lady Casino (former Normandie) and the new Hollywood Casino Jamul.

Quote: rdw4potus

it's been a couple years since I last tried to go to Bruce's. At that time, the schedule was posted on the door. it was supposed to be open, but the door was locked. Not sure if it's still in operation or not.

Well I called and the number goes to nothing, their facebook page is unmanned and World Casino Directory lists them as closed so I think you can scratch that one off your list of chips to get.

Great. Now I'm considering driving 800 miles on Sunday. That's a reasonable and rational reaction to receiving that information, right?

But that might mean that you would miss the McNugget challenge! How can you take such a risk?

Quote: rdw4potus

Great. Now I'm considering driving 800 miles on Sunday. That's a reasonable and rational reaction to receiving that information, right?

Totally reasonable! 800 miles in one day, I have done that multiple times. Not saying it was a good idea but very doable lol. Also nothing that involves long distances to collect poker chips is rational so don't worry about that.

Quote: PokerGrinder

Totally reasonable! 800 miles in one day, I have done that multiple times. Not saying it was a good idea but very doable lol. Also nothing that involves long distances to collect poker chips is rational so don't worry about that.

OK, I think I could check into GVR, drop off most of my stuff, drive to Rincon via LA, stay at Harrah's for the night (are there new chips after the name change there?), grab the Hollywood and Tortoise Rock chips on Monday, and be back in Vegas by early afternoon. That at least splits the drive between two days.

Quote: rdw4potus

... drive to Rincon via LA, stay at Harrah's for the night (are there new chips after the name change there?)....

There is at least one; scroll down on this page. I don't know whether the old ones are still in play or whether there is a full new set.

Ok maybe I'm blind but I don't see any chips with Harrahs Southern California on them.

Quote: PokerGrinder

Ok maybe I'm blind but I don't see any chips with Harrahs Southern California on them.

Obviously, the person that I directed to that MoGH page was able to find the chip and post the image above. Perhaps the explanation is that since I was specifically responding to a question from rdw, I just posted a link that only worked properly for him and not for you. Maybe?



;-)

Quote: Doc

Obviously, the person that I directed to that MoGH page was able to find the chip and post the image above. Perhaps the explanation is that since I was specifically responding to a question from rdw, I just posted a link that only worked properly for him and not for you. Maybe?



;-)

It's that western Canadian education system. Don't know they're in the west, can't read websites...:-)

Ya know, I'm really glad that the chip collectors around here are good friends, go out to dinner together, sometimes coordinate their travel plans, etc. I'm glad because in a heck of a lot of the threads on this forum, these kinds of friendly barbs lead to blowups, over-the-top arguments, followed by suspensions and such. It's really nice to be able to have some fun here!

I have no idea how I missed that chip. I swear I looked twice and didn't see it. In my defense I assume I only looked at the one side of the chip and not the one that had the new name on it. I do enjoy the fact that we can rib each other and nobody gets there panties in a bunch.

anyone know where this chip is from?

It looks like your standard gift shop chip.

crap, so it's not worth anything. What is the most valuable chip?

Quote: alphastorm

... What is the most valuable chip?

By face value, many large casinos carry 25k chips but I think the largest is $100k


By collector value? I don't know if there are rare specimens worth more than $100k.

I have no idea what is the most valuable, only that it doesn't belong to me. Most of the ones in my collection are worth no more than face value and some perhaps less.

In terms of high face values, I made a little joke when I posted my $1000 chip from Casino Arica. (That's a thousand Chilean pesos.)

If you scroll down on this page , you can see the Bellagio chips valued at $25,000 and $100,000, and those are U.S. dollars.

Many of the highest​ value script, particularly from European casinos, are plaques, which look much different from the chips/cheques posted in this thread. On that MoGH site, you can search for the Casino de Monte Carlo, scroll down the page then click to expand the section on plaques. Some interesting stuff there, including gaming plaques produced for use by one specific patron.