Casino Chip of the Day

I’m currently in Goa collecting chips and they are going to be some of the most expensive chips with these dang entry fees. Oh well I knew about them going in.

Quote: PokerGrinder

I’m currently in Goa collecting chips and they are going to be some of the most expensive chips with these dang entry fees. Oh well I knew about them going in.

Wow, usually entry fees are to keep out the locals, so tourists get a heavy discount or comp back of the entry fee. What is the point of putting up a barrier to entry for everyone?

People pay, I’m not sure why they do. You get big buffet meals, snacks and drinks with entry. Also you get one time play chips. I wouldn’t pay it other than I want to collect chips so I’m not too worried.

Well I was able to collect all 13 chips I wanted from Goa with little to no issues finding them. The bike crash only set me back a tiny bit in my pursuit of my crazy collection. I now have 17 chips collected from Asia this trip with many more to come. I get back mid April so there should be new chip of the day posts by next Christmas or so 🤣

The $1 chips in Sihanoukville are so colourful, purple, pink, blue and sand coloured. I love it!

Have you come across more casinos using cash on the tables? I caught a bit of the old “The Gambler” movie with James Caan in the lead role, and there is a scene in Las Vegas where he is playing big table baccarat, and all the players are wagering with $100 bills. The spaces on the table are clearly marked with numbered spots to put wagers. The movie was made in the 70’s, so I guess it wasn’t that long ago when cash action was still accepted.

The last time I had cash accepted in Vegas was around 2005 or 2006,but those tables had chips and when you won they paid you in chips,what PG was describing though were tables that didn't have chips.
You bet in cash and get paid in cash .

I have come across a mixture of things. Only cash tables, cash or chips tables and only chips tables. Cash is so slow, I don’t get it.

I just got my first jeton, that was their main set of chips in play. Took almost 700 casinos to collect one.

So my final count for chips from Cambodia came to 50 including 49 not posted in this thread. I also have 3 from Sri Lanka, 13 from India and one from Thailand.

Wow 50 chips,I didn't realize there were so many casinos . I think I have only been to around 30 to 35 in Cambodia.

9 in Poipet
3 in Phnom Penh
28 in Sihanoukville as the Chinese just keep building. There are about 10 new casinos being built as we speak.
10 in Bavet

Quote: PokerGrinder

9 in Poipet
3 in Phnom Penh
28 in Sihanoukville as the Chinese just keep building. There are about 10 new casinos being built as we speak.
10 in Bavet

Last time i was in Sihanoukville there were only 6 casinos,since they are building more that will give you a good excuse to go back:)

Quote: PokerGrinder

9 in Poipet
3 in Phnom Penh
28 in Sihanoukville as the Chinese just keep building. There are about 10 new casinos being built as we speak.
10 in Bavet

Wow! 28 casinos and about 10 being built! Look out Macao. There's a new kid on the block in Asia.

Quote: Hunterhill

Last time i was in Sihanoukville there were only 6 casinos,since they are building more that will give you a good excuse to go back:)

I don’t know, I mean the poker scene kind of sucked and the area isn’t anything to write home about. The Chinese are ruining the beaches with the development, there won’t be much to visit by the next time I’m in Cambodia.

Quote: PokerGrinder

The Chinese are ruining the beaches with the development, there won’t be much to visit by the next time I’m in Cambodia.

Ummm... How are the Chinese "ruining the beaches" by building ocean-front casinos? Atlantic City and Biloxi highlight their waterfront casinos.

Quote: LuckyPhow

Ummm... How are the Chinese "ruining the beaches" by building ocean-front casinos? Atlantic City and Biloxi highlight their waterfront casinos.

Maybe stuff like this?:

Quote: Ayecarumba

Maybe stuff like this?:

This!

I collected a chip from the fifth country on this trip with one more to go. My collection is diversifying a lot on this trip.

Quote: PokerGrinder

I collected a chip from the fifth country on this trip with one more to go. My collection is diversifying a lot on this trip.

If there is a way to take a picture of the outside of the casinos (safety!), it would be appreciated if you could post those too. Thanks! I am enjoying the Asia round 2 thread very much.

All of the remaining casinos I’m going to are inside of resorts so there isn’t a way to get a picture of anything but the hotel.

Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying. I might even catch up at some point lol.

I just collected two more chips, one purple and one yellow/black. I’m loving the diversity with all the different colours. My collection is getting prettier.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the creation of this thread. I have the intent to commemorate this event each year to note what progress has been made in documenting all of the casinos of the world and having fun in the process. Yes, I have the intent, but I have done a terrible job on the implementation. Most years, we seem to be a week or more past the anniversary before someone reminds me to get my act together.

This year, I received a reminder by PM about a week ago. That reminder came from someone who has been banned from the forum repeatedly but who has always behaved quite decently toward me. I just replied to his PM to suggest that he keep a low profile this time so that we might be able to get in touch with him if someone wanted to.

Anyway, back on page 648 of this thread, I made a post (a few days late) noting that as of 3/16/17 the thread had accumulated chips from 1,009 casinos (93 more than a year earlier) and more than 1.1 million views.

Well before that, PokerGrinder had predicted that we would not reach 100 new casinos for that year. He was correct, but he noted that we came closer than he expected. He also predicted that we would never again reach 100 CCotD posts in a single year, because the degree of difficulty would be increasing for finding and visiting new casinos to include.

Well, we now have 1,082 casinos represented in the thread – 73 new in the past year. I believe that PokerGrinder posted the majority of those, and I really appreciate that. On the other hand, if PG really had his act together and had posted the chips from his current excursion to Asia as he collected them, we would indeed have exceeded 100 chips in this sixth year of the thread!

On the other hand, all of those chips will give us a decent start on attaining that annual total in the seventh year. That, of course, assumes that PG does indeed get his act together and doesn’t take more than a year to get that group posted!

We are now on page 698 of the thread, with a total of 7,014 total posts prior to this one. Before making this post, I checked and found that the thread has had a total of 1,249,229 views, which will go up a notch as I view the thread to make the post. (I didn’t record the precise number last year, only the “>1.1million”, but it seems likely that we have hit ~100,000 views in the past year. That’s more than 1,300 views per new chip posted, a slightly increased ratio from the past.

It’s a thread with longevity, a seemingly significant level of community interest, a reasonably useful contribution to a discussion forum (I think), a lot of fun all around, and not one serious argument nor any suspensions ever!

Great anniversary post Doc! As you know I love this thread and I’m thankful that you created it. This thread is actually how I found WoV, I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned that. I’m happy to have been able to contribute so many chips to this wonderful thread. We should come very close this year to 100 chips but I’ll need some help from other people. I have collected 71 chips on this trip and I have plans to collect 4 more. That would leave us needing 25 more chips posted by other people. I have been looking into backpacking around Europe for a 4-6 weeks in the fall so that is a possibility. Come on Doc go collect from Oregon or something.

Quote: PokerGrinder

Come on Doc go collect from Oregon or something.

To the best of my recollection, I have never in my life been to Oregon. That situation is unlikely to change in the coming year.

I had tentatively planned a trip to Mississippi and Florida in late March or early April, but that isn't going to happen. It's quite possible that we will make that trip later this year. If so, I will expect to get the new chip from 1st Jackpot in Tunica and post it if no one else does so first.

Our upcoming cruise will be on Holland America's Zuiderdam, but I have already posted a chip from that ship's casino. There are casinos in several ports in which we will stop, but it is not clear at all that any of them will be open while we are in port and that I will be able to get by them.

I have "plans" that are extremely preliminary for a trip that would allow me to visit casinos in New Jersey, New York, and possibly Ontario to collect new chips, but there are forum members who live much closer to those places who could probably post those CCotD reports easier and before I can.

Other than that, I don't know that I will be adding to my collection in 2018. Some day I will drive from Reno to West Wendover to add to my collection, but I think the thread already covers all of the candidates on that route.

Doc a random thought just crossed my mind and I figured I’d ask you since you travel a lot. How many different curencies do you have chips in? I have USD, Canadian, Hong Kong dollar, Singapore dollar, Malaysian ringgit, Indian rupees, Sri Lankan rupees, Thai baht and Chinese Yuan.

Most of my travel is domestic. I think the chips in my collection are limited to U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars, Euros, and Chilean pesos. I also have two gift chips (not considered part of my collection) that are labeled with the $ symbol. I was told that on the chip from Royal Yak casino in Mexico, this symbol means the Mexican peso, which surprises me. The other is from the Naga casino in Cambodia, and while you would know much better than I would, I think the $1 on that one does indeed mean U.S. dollars.

Yes the Cambodian chips are in USD because that’s the currency they use. I thought you’d have a bunch of different currencies from the islands you visit while cruising.

Usually, the casinos (and most of the tourist activities) in the Caribbean Islands operate on U.S. dollars. One of the casinos where I played in either Aruba or Curaçao was accepting wagers in both dollars and the local currency, florin I think. They did NOT have chips marked in the two currencies. Like many of the casinos in that area, as I have noted previously, they didn't seem to care whose chips they had in play. They kept two separate racks of chips at each table, one for dollars and one for the local currency. Except they were all marked in dollars and just had the names of different casinos on them, as I recall. If I could remember which casino that was, I could check my CCotD post for it to see whether I commented upon this issue there.

I think the only time a cruise enabled me to visit an island casino outside of the Caribbean it was at Funchal, in the Madeira Islands, where I played at Casino da Madiera. There, the casino currency was marked in Euros, and I picked up the only casino jeton in my collection.

Hmm interesting, for some reason I thought you posted a 1000 chip or something like that. I’ve never gambled in the Caribbean since I was 14 last time I was there.

Yes, that was my $1,000 chip.

When I posted it, I let it hang even longer than that before I noted that the symbol $ is also used for Chilean pesos. That's South America, not a Caribbean Island. If you confuse the two, you must have studied geography in a U.S. school.

The chip was from Casino Arica, so you can check it out again via the thread index, if you like.

Lol no I know the difference between South America and the Caribbean/Central America. Canadian schools aren’t great but they kick the crap out of American schools.

I did something today in a casino that I’ve never done before. I don’t collect commemorative chips and yet I left the casino in Ha Long Bay today with 12 chips. I’m heading down a slippery slope, well maybe not but still. You will learn of my haul once I post them as a chip of the day.

1. maybe Eastern Canadian schools are good, but Western Canada is shady AF.
2. collector chips frustrate me. They're so common at the $5 denomination. In some places, that's all they have. Hooters was that way for sure. And somewhere in AZ or CA made me pick between motorcycle pictures.
3. Not sure any of us collects this way, but wanted to mention it - Mystic Lake has new chips. No name change or anything, and the old set was in startlingly good shape for 20 year old chips. But they've replaced them with a new style.

1. I’m from central Canada so I don’t know meh about western schools. Why are they shady af?

2. You’ll understand why I kept the whole set of these chips when I get around to posting them in a couple years... I mean when I get back.

3. Nope not I said the cat. Only on name changes, I would lose my mind trying to pick up a new chip with every new set that’s used.

Side note - I have now collected 7 chips from Vietnam casinos when I was only planning on getting 2... yay!

1. Shady because they seem to make their students think that central Canada is a thing.
2. What happens with a set of chips? is that multiple days of CotD posts?
3. Why does Mystic still have O/U 13 on their tables? Do they want to lose? Also, when did Canterbury start offering spread limit games?

1. Oh we’re back to the central Canada thing again lol.
2. No, one casino so one post.
3. Why would they lose on o/u 13? I think they have offered them for a while because I remember them having them and I haven’t been there in years.

Quote: Doc

State: California
City: Funner
Casino: Harrah’s Resort Southern California

More than five years ago, I posted a Casino Chip of the Day from Harrah’s Rincon, explaining that the location designation (stated on the chip) as “San Diego” was reasonable if you interpreted that as the county and not the city proper. The casino was, perhaps more properly, located in Valley Center, CA, (much as the MGM Grand is NOT located in Las Vegas but instead in Paradise, NV. The casino belongs to the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, and I gave a little info about them in the older post.

The casino’s web site now claims that the place is located in Funner, CA. Now you just try to find that in your atlas! Well, maybe if you search hard enough. The ever-reliable Wikipedia has a page with this bit of trivia:

And here is a link to a Forbes article that gives some more background on the name change. Anyway, that is why I have listed the casino location as being in Funner. No matter how silly that sounds to me, I will try to acknowledge the wishes of the Rincon band.

My understanding (perhaps in error) is that the casino was originally just Rincon Casino, before the affiliation with Harrah’s led to the name Harrah’s Rincon. Then, in 2014 the name of the casino supposedly changed again, this time to Harrah’s Resort Southern California. Except not much changed to let one know that the casino name had changed. Perhaps a bit like how much/little changed to let us know that the location is now called Funner.

I had played card craps at Harrah’s Rincon back in 2009, and my wife and I visited the place again in November 2017, the day after Thanksgiving Day. I again played card craps for an hour and a half, losing $25.

Many of the signs around the place still say Harrah’s Rincon, and almost all of the chips in play still have that designation on them. They did have one limited-edition $5 chip design in play (in limited numbers) showing the new name, and I picked up one for my collection. Hey! I mean, that’s why I went to the place! Some of the dealers assured me that they will have a full set of new chips with the new name within the next year, but I doubt I will be back.

The chip is a red, plastic injection molded, Bud Jones model with four pairs of yellowish edge “inserts” separated by four yellow squares. The center inlay on one side is white with purple lettering for the name of the casino, the name of the owning band, the denomination, and the designation “Limited Edition 2014.”

The other side of the chip shows a photo of a fountain or artificial waterfall that I assume is located on the grounds, but I have never seen it myself. Overlaying that photo is a purple label with the denomination and “Grand Opening 2014”, so this is basically a grand opening commemorative chip. Nothing on the chip fluoresces under UV light.



It has been so long since I have posted the Casino Chip of the Day that I will remind folks that you just need to click on each of those small images to see the larger images of the chip.

New chips for here are out.

https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/showthread.php?16925-Harrah-s-Resort-Southern-California-(formerly-Harrah-s-Rincon)

Thanks for the update, IBYA. I doubt that I will make another trip out to "Funner" to add a new chip to my collection, since I already have the commemorative one that I posted, but other collectors might want to pick up a "real" one now that they are available. From the comment in the link that you posted, it seems that the poster holds an opinion similar to mine regarding the new name of the location. (At least I provided a couple of links to some additional background info on that change.)

Thanks IBYA I will add it to my list when I get home.

You're all welcome.

P.S. still no confirmation date on when Greektown here in Detroit is regarding to JACK and if there will be new chips.

I collected my last chip of my trip today. Over/under on me starting to post them before spring fling? Doc is taking the bets on this one lol.

I highly doubt that I would ever try to set a line or place a wager on anything for which PG has the power to decide on his own just which side wins and which loses.

;-)

Quote: Doc

I highly doubt that I would ever try to set a line or place a wager on anything for which PG has the power to decide on his own just which side wins and which loses.

;-)

Lol even if I had money on it I still probably wouldn’t get it done before spring fling.

Question for you collectors as i know nothing about chip collecting:

If a company purchases a casino and rebrands it to a new name, will the first 5 or so chips have more collectability if they are issued with paperwork showing that they are chips #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 released?

Quote: DRich

Question for you collectors as i know nothing about chip collecting:

If a company purchases a casino and rebrands it to a new name, will the first 5 or so chips have more collectability if they are issued with paperwork showing that they are chips #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 released?

I'm not sure about the paperwork route. But in numbered collectors sets there's usually a modest premium for the first and last numbers in the series. In a 100 item collection, I'd expect the values to be ranked something like 1, 100, 2, 8, 88, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 9, 99, 10. Not sure of your situation, but special numbering may also elevate a certain rank. For example, the #29 chip from Spotlight 29 might carry a premium the same way #23 carries a premium in numbered sets of Michael Jordan memorabilia.

Quote: DRich

Question for you collectors as i know nothing about chip collecting:

If a company purchases a casino and rebrands it to a new name, will the first 5 or so chips have more collectability if they are issued with paperwork showing that they are chips #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 released?

The short answer is “yes.”

The longer answer is, “it may not be feasible to produce these, as the Gaming Control Board frowns on chips being sold as collectibles.”

Park MGM has new chips out, I bet Doc will have posted this one before I get to posting Asia chips.

Quote: PokerGrinder

Park MGM has new chips out, I bet Doc will have posted this one before I get to posting Asia chips.

What kind of odds are you offering? We could wind up in a competition, trying to out-wait each other. ;-)

Just got back in the country and have a very small number of chips to post. Don't yet know whether I will get photos and posts prepared before I leave for the Spring Fling.

I sure won’t, mine are still sitting in a bag. I’m being extremely lazy.