Casino Chip of the Day

BTW, both of those Crazy Moose chips were made by Bud Jones. The 50¢ chip is the 8-suits mold, much like the white one I posted recently from the Carson Station. The $1 chip is similar, except for colors, to the chips I posted from the Yavapi casino in Prescott, AZ and the Harrah's in Metropolis, IL.

State: Washington
City: Arlington
Casino: Angel of the Winds

Angel of the Winds is the casino is run by the Stillaguamish Tribe. This is where I first learned to play craps, and where I got my Royal at Ultimate Texas Hold'em. It is also the casino where you can play Mulligan 21.

My favorite things to eat there are $.99 strawberry shortcake and $1.49 salmon and chips.

I acquired my 50 cent chip the same way I got my Crazy Moose 50 cent chip but was probably playing craps (A $3 6 pays $3.50).

Quote: Doc

State: Nevada
City: Las Vegas
Casino: Downtown Grand

I don't know what the inverted V logo for the Downtown Grand is supposed to represent. At first I thought it might be the peak of a skyscraper, but the top of their building is not shaped like that at all.

Could it perhaps be this building????



NOTE: This is the Ryungyong hotel in Pyongyang, NK. I'm still not sure it is open even though it has been slated to open about 10 times in the last 6 years......
It has widely been called the "Hotel of Doom" by foreign press corps.

:)

Quote: miplet

$1.49 salmon and chips.

What is this, "fish and chips"? If so sounds yummy compared to the cod/haddock normally used.

In case it isn't obvious to others, that 50¢ Angel of the Winds chip is a ceramic chip from Chipco International. Their CI logo is faintly visible in white or pale blue at the very top of the blue portion of the chip, just below the yellow/greenish outer ring.



Edit 3/1/16: And for those of you browsing the archives of this thread, some 2 years after this post, a $1 chip from the Angel of the Winds casino was posted here by Konbu.

Quote: Doc

In case it isn't obvious to others, that 50¢ Angel of the Winds chip is a ceramic chip from Chipco International. Their CI logo is faintly visible in white or pale blue at the very top of the blue portion of the chip, just below the yellow/greenish outer ring.

Using a Chipco ceramic for a half dollar seems a waste. The chip must cost .40 to produce.

Lemme bump this. If the Cromwell has a soft opening on 4/21 as rumored/scheduled those of us attending the spring fling can go next week and collect it!

Country:Mexico
City: Mexico City
Casino:Royal Yak

I went to the Royal Yak casino in order to gather material for my article about gambling in Mexico. The casino is located in the northwestern part of town, very near the border with the State of Mexico (Mexico City was carved out from that state, and it's almost completely surrounded by it), right on one of the main freeways. It is part of a complex which includes the city's only horse racing track, El Hipódormo de las Americas, and a convention center.

Actually it's rather close to my home and even closer to my office. In fact, I drive past the convention center entrance every day, and past the casino entrance often enough. For all that, I've been there only three times (the traffic around the area is really bad).

So here's a link to the chip:


https://plus.google.com/photos/105192455523341276135/albums/6003213737174130657?authkey=COOio6Kptres-AE

The chip is denominated in Mexican Pesos. At current rates this one is equivalent to about US $0.40. I collected it playing craps. For the particulars about it, see my article here: https://wizardofvegas.com/articles/gambling-in-mexico/

The minimum line bet at the craps table is 50 pesos, or close to US $4. the five peso chip here is used for making change, if any is required, and for placing 10 peso prop bets.

I judge the chip to be plastic, and it feels lighter than most Vegas chips. I've no idea who makes it. The reverse side is exactly identical to the obverse.

You will see the chip merely says "Yak" and not "Royal Yak." There are a number of plain "Yak" casinos here and there, so I assume they use the same chips.

Lastly I no longer have the chip. I gave it to a forum member, whom I won't name, as a souvenir. I don't collect chips, you see, or anything else besides books, really.

[Edited to add the image]

Quote: Nareed

The link works, but I can't get it to post the image here. Sorry about that.

I've never used the google photos, so I have no idea what works and why this one doesn't. I tried a couple of variations of the link, but I couldn't find one that works. Perhaps some other member has a suggestion.


We had thought that miplet might post a third chip, so Nareed held off a while before posting this Royal Yak chip. Maybe miplet will share that third chip with us eventually.

The only other chips I know of waiting in the queue for this thread are a few that rdw4potus has offered to share. They are from casinos that have already been covered in the thread but different from any of the chips we have seen here before. If Konbu is correct about that soft opening, we should have that one right after the Spring Fling. Then, assuming that rdw4potus makes that extended side trip, we should see a few more. I'm still looking for others who have chips to share with us. Other than that possible chip from a soft opening in Las Vegas, I don't anticipate adding any more chips to my own collection until June.


Edit 5/24/15: Nareed has given me a Royal Yak chip of a different denomination, and I have posted it much later in this thread here.

From the linked page on Google:
1. click the image to open the larger version
2. right click and select "copy image URL"
3. Use that URL here.
4. Did the same idiots who designed windows 8 make Google Plus images? That process should be much easier & more intuitive...

Quote: rdw4potus

From the linked page on Google:

Thanks. That worked

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4. Did the same idiots who designed windows 8 make Google Plus images? That process should be much easier & more intuitive...

No, I'm sure it was a different set of idiots. :)

Quote: Doc

The only other chips I know of waiting in the queue for this thread are a few that rdw4potus has offered to share. They are from casinos that have already been covered in the thread but different from any of the chips we have seen here before. If Konbu is correct about that soft opening, we should have that one right after the Spring Fling. Then, assuming that rdw4potus makes that extended side trip, we should see a few more. I'm still looking for others who have chips to share with us. Other than that possible chip from a soft opening in Las Vegas, I don't anticipate adding any more chips to my own collection until June.

Maybe things will slow down a while, but consider this thread's been going on for two years, one month and two days. That's quite an accomplishment all by itself. Nor will anyone here, I trust, forget you've contributed the vast bulk of the chips and commentary on them.

Quote: Nareed

Nor will anyone here, I trust, forget you've contributed the vast bulk of the chips and commentary on them.

Plus all the coordination and index/record keeping. That's really great work by Doc.

Quote: rdw4potus

Plus all the coordination and index/record keeping. That's really great work by Doc.

Yes, all that too. Indeed a great deal of work.

Attaboy, Doc!

(inflates thread post count...)

Quote: chickenman

(inflates thread post count...)

And one more from me.      ;-)

Thanks for the support, guys.

Quote: Nareed

Nor will anyone here, I trust, forget you've contributed the vast bulk of the chips and commentary on them.

If you count chips posted in reply, I'm almost certain that rdw4potus has posted more chips in this thread than I have -- his collection is larger than mine. I just came up with the casino-chip-of-the-day idea first.

Given time, I will add to my collection and post more, as I am rather certain rdw4potus will also. We just don't seem to be in a position to keep the "of-the-day" part going every day any more. Along the way, a lot of folks mentioned that they had chips that they could post at the right time, but those members seem to have faded into the sunset. I really don't know how many folks continue to follow this thread closely. At one time, it was noted that this was the fifth-most-blocked thread in the forum. Some folks don't want to read about the same kind of thing everyday, particularly since we don't have spirited, nasty arguments going on in this thread. (And I am very thankful for that!)

Quote: Doc

I just came up with the casino-chip-of-the-day idea first.

That counts for a lot (no slight intended on RDW). Ask any inventor who was second to file a patent, or a scientist who was second to publish a finding.

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Some folks don't want to read about the same kind of thing everyday, particularly since we don't have spirited, nasty arguments going on in this thread. (And I am very thankful for that!)

We could start some ;)

Quote: Nareed

Quote: Doc

I just came up with the casino-chip-of-the-day idea first.

That counts for a lot (no slight intended on RDW). Ask any inventor who was second to file a patent, or a scientist who was second to publish a finding.

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Some folks don't want to read about the same kind of thing everyday, particularly since we don't have spirited, nasty arguments going on in this thread. (And I am very thankful for that!)

We could start some ;)

Giiiirl...slight taken. Cue the fake internet fight! :-)

I want to make sure that I've read correctly - we're out of other chips, and today is the day I should start posting the odds-and-ends portion of my collection?

Quote: rdw4potus

Giiiirl...slight taken. Cue the fake internet fight! :-)

Oh, but a fight of that magnitude should wait until they establish a Nobel Prize for Gambling ;)

Quote: rdw4potus

I want to make sure that I've read correctly - we're out of other chips, and today is the day I should start posting the odds-and-ends portion of my collection?

Have at it! (Without the catfight.)

A couple years ago, Harrah's AC dropped the "Marina" name. At that time, they also dropped the metallic center from their chips. Doc posted his new chip here, but I was traveling at that time and neglected to catch up when I got home. Here is my chip from Harrah's Atlantic City.

Edit: I guess I could tell a story about the property. I stayed at Harrah's last night. I didn't get to town when I wanted (3pm) and instead arrived at about 6pm. The Gold & non-member hotel check in line went through the switchbacks in the lobby, past the mall entrance, looped around the valet entrance, and doubled back to the hotel lobby again. Some of those folks at the end of the line could have pretty much turned around and ordered Gelato while standing in line. I got in that line and stood there for about 5 minutes. Then I realized that there WAS a platinum line, but it had 0 people in it. Score! I've been at Harrah's for Memorial Days, 4th of Julys, Labor days...I've never seen it as busy as it was on this Wednesday night. Spring break is a big draw, I guess?

"Royal Yak Casino", what an unofortunate name :)

Is it named after the animal or the sound you make when you had too much to drink?

LOL

Is there a comprehensive list of North American casinos? Perhaps we can start a "punch list" of casinos that need to be added. There may be members of the board who are geographically close to a missing chip, but not aware that an image is needed.

OK, if by chance there is someone who is interested in contributing a new chip image to this thread (and a little story about the chip/casino/whatever) and they don't know whether their nearby casino has been covered yet, that's a very easy point to resolve. (And I hope there are members in that situation.)

If such a member is reading this post, just go to the bottom of this page, where it says "page 443 of xxx" and click on the spot that says "<< First". That will take you to page 1 of this thread. The thread begins with a discussion of my original intent for the thread, a few comments with later updates, then a complete index of every casino that has been covered. They casinos are grouped by categories, which are the States listed alphabetically, followed by other alphabetized categories that are either geographic regions or some special category (Cruise Ships, Chinese New Year Commemoratives). Within each category, the name of the casinos are alphabetized as best I can. Just click on the name of the casino, and you are taken to the post where that casino is presented.

Indexing the thread is intended to present a lasting resource that you can check out whether you are really interested in casino chips or just want to see what someone had to say about their visit to a particular casino. Don't just check the one post with that chip image -- look on to see what others had to say in reply!

As for a comprehensive list of North American casinos, I think someone has discussed a similar venture on this forum. Unless there is an associated revenue stream (such as may be generated over at CasinoCity.com), I doubt anyone would want to go to the effort to try to keep such a list updated -- especially if the list needs to include all of those former casinos that no longer exist. Even the commercial sites seem to be out of date.

I'm up to around 270 chips thanks to inspiration from this thread and have quite a few I could contribute that aren't in here yet. My stories would be cut and pastes from wiki since most places I run in grab a chip check the place out and jet. Most are in 99 chip frames so I'd only have front images. Acceptable though?

Quote: wezvidz

I'm up to around 270 chips thanks to inspiration from this thread and have quite a few I could contribute that aren't in here yet. My stories would be cut and pastes from wiki since most places I run in grab a chip check the place out and jet. Most are in 99 chip frames so I'd only have front images. Acceptable though?

interesting nickname.. did you have anything to do with music videos from the early 2000s?

I do, I used to have a hugely popular website when I was in high school ripping numetal videos from mtv2. Cracks me up on random forums when people recognize my name.

Last July, I posted a chip from the Lodge casino in Blackhawk, CO. That chip is part of a special set of state-themed chips and features Washington State on the reverse. I usually don't collect special chips, and I'm not quite sure why I have that one. I thought at that time that I also had a regular chip from the Lodge, but I couldn't find it so I posted the special one instead. I've now found my standard chip from the Lodge.

Quote: wezvidz

I'm up to around 270 chips thanks to inspiration from this thread and have quite a few I could contribute that aren't in here yet. My stories would be cut and pastes from wiki since most places I run in grab a chip check the place out and jet. Most are in 99 chip frames so I'd only have front images. Acceptable though?

So you've been a member here for four and a half months and have made a total of three posts, all of them in this thread? Have you checked out the rest of the forum yet?    j/k   ;-)

In response, yes, we would very much like to see your chips from casinos not yet covered in this thread. It is, of course, OK to post casino details that you have gathered from around the web -- I have posted info from Wiki, CasinoCity.com, the Museum of Gaming History, the casinos' own web sites, and lots of other places.

It's always nice, though, if you can add a little info of your own, not just cut and paste. If you made a brief stop and don't remember what the place even looked like (believe me, I understand that experience), maybe you can add some comment about how you even came to visit that spot -- rdw4potus has told us many times about his travel experiences just trying to get to the casinos.

Also, if you're going to be a collector, you should learn at least a little bit about the chips. In your posts, you could try to identify the manufacturer of the chip or discuss the number/color of edge inserts, or any logos you can find on the chip, or anything else special about that chip. Just having the chip in your hand (or in a display frame) gives you a resource to talk about!

Have you checked out how to post images to this forum? The trickiest part is that the forum doesn't provide space to store the images -- you need to have the image hosted on a publicly-accessible site elsewhere on the web and link to it in your post. I host my images at my own domain; rdw4potus and others have used Photobucket.com, and Nareed recently used Google photos (with just a little difficulty). Once you have an image stored and available for the link, check out the formatting codes that are available (click on the "Click here for formatting codes" link right below the frame where you enter a new post). You can also look at the details of someone else's post of an image by clicking on the quote button for their post -- examine their post and then hit cancel.

BTW, some of us post just a small image of the chip to appear directly in the post, with a link that lets you see a larger image by clicking on the small one. If you have the images in two different resolutions (I use 180x180 pixels for the small ones and 600x600 pixels for the large ones), check out one of my chip posts to see how to combine the image post with a link to another image.

I suggest that you get your chip images together, get them stored on the web, and check out how to post an image during these next few days while rdw4potus is posting his "extra" chips from casinos we have already covered. When you are ready, let us know, and we will turn the lead role over to you.

And thanks for offering to share with us!

I had heard from rdw4potus that he had "a few" extra chips to share with us this week from casinos we have already discussed, though he said the number would be in single digits. He posted one on the 17th and another on the 18th, but he did not post yesterday or so far today. I'm thinking he might be busy with other things this Easter weekend.

With that in mind, I thought I would post a chip image that I just received from member JW17. This is a token from Mandalay Bay. While we covered that casino long ago in this thread, I don't think we have previously seen a token from there.

At about the 4:00 position in the first image below, you can see the mint mark. Or at least you should be able to if you click on this small image to see the larger version. I'm not at all certain, but that may be the CT logo of Casino Tokens, Inc. We have seen several tokens from that company earlier in this thread, including both the Barcelona and Silver Nugget in N. Las Vegas, the Skyline in Henderson, and the Crystal in Aruba. I told just a little bit that I had learned about that company when I posted my token from the Barcelona. In the case of this token from Mandalay Bay, the mint mark doesn't look exactly the same, but I don't know whether it is a different mark from another company or just some problem with image resolution and token wear.

I received another chip image from JW17 that I will share with you soon, but I don't want to break up too much the sequence that rdw4potus has started. Thanks for sharing these with us, JW17.

Quote: rdw4potus

Last July, I posted a chip from the Lodge casino in Blackhawk, CO. That chip is part of a special set of state-themed chips and features Washington State on the reverse. I usually don't collect special chips, and I'm not quite sure why I have that one. I thought at that time that I also had a regular chip from the Lodge, but I couldn't find it so I posted the special one instead. I've now found my standard chip from the Lodge.

Is there supposed to be a white ring around the faces, or is it simply wear? If it is wear, it seems unusual that the two faces are not wearing evenly.

Quote: Ayecarumba

Quote: rdw4potus

Last July, I posted a chip from the Lodge casino in Blackhawk, CO. That chip is part of a special set of state-themed chips and features Washington State on the reverse. I usually don't collect special chips, and I'm not quite sure why I have that one. I thought at that time that I also had a regular chip from the Lodge, but I couldn't find it so I posted the special one instead. I've now found my standard chip from the Lodge.

Is there supposed to be a white ring around the faces, or is it simply wear? If it is wear, it seems unusual that the two faces are not wearing evenly.

Some Chipco chips have a designed white line around the edge and others don't. These do. Usually, it helps mask the presence of the typical Chipco wear on the faces of the chip. I'm not sure why the faces of this chip have worn unevenly.

Quote: rdw4potus

Quote: Ayecarumba

Quote: rdw4potus

Last July, I posted a chip from the Lodge casino in Blackhawk, CO. That chip is part of a special set of state-themed chips and features Washington State on the reverse. I usually don't collect special chips, and I'm not quite sure why I have that one. I thought at that time that I also had a regular chip from the Lodge, but I couldn't find it so I posted the special one instead. I've now found my standard chip from the Lodge.

Is there supposed to be a white ring around the faces, or is it simply wear? If it is wear, it seems unusual that the two faces are not wearing evenly.

Some Chipco chips have a designed white line around the edge and others don't. These do. Usually, it helps mask the presence of the typical Chipco wear on the faces of the chip. I'm not sure why the faces of this chip have worn unevenly.

Amount of use, dealing style, chip cutting styles, players chip shuffling. I'm sure there is a myriad of reasons why they will wear differently. Left is newer and right is older but that goes without saying I would assume :)

I like the chipco chips for chip handling. They are much easier to handle and work with than other ceramic type chips. They are definitely easier to work with than the plastic Matsui and ICON chips.

Quote: Tomspur

Left is newer and right is older but that goes without saying I would assume :)

I think those two images are opposite sides of the same chip. When I post my own chips, I only post images of both sides if they are distinctly different designs. In contrast, rdw4potus has started showing us both sides even if they are the same -- to prove that they are, I suppose. So I don't think newer/older is the answer in this case.

Since rdw4potus dropped by the thread to comment on his earlier chip post and did not say anything about my interrupting the flow with that token from JW17, I'm going to go ahead and post the other chip image that JW17 sent to me. Besides, tomorrow morning I'm hopping a plane to the WoV 2014 Spring Fling, so if I don't post this today, I might forget about it later.

I should note that in the case of each of these contributions from JW17, he sent me a single image that showed both sides of the chip, one above the other. I tried to separate them as individual images to post beside each other in the thread and to provide links to larger images. Obviously, I didn't do a very good job of editing the images to look right side by side.

This is a 50¢ chip from Casino Arizona in Scottsdale. At least I assume it's that one -- the chip doesn't really say where the casino is located. We had that casino represented initially by a $5 chip posted by rdw4potus, and I later edited my post right below that one to show the $1 chip.

All three chips are from Ikon. If you visit this Ikon page, you can see that the manufacturer uses the Casino Arizona chips on their own web site. That page has an image of the $500, $100, $25, $5, $2, and $1 chips together, but it doesn't show the 50¢ chip that JW17 has shared with us.

Thanks again, JW17.

Quote: Doc

I think those two images are opposite sides of the same chip. When I post my own chips, I only post images of both sides if they are distinctly different designs. In contrast, rdw4potus has started showing us both sides even if they are the same -- to prove that they are, I suppose. So I don't think newer/older is the answer in this case.

For me, it's more of a process standardization thing. I just follow the same process with every chip. Two pictures, 4 images, copy and paste into the post, etc.

Thanks for posting these two chips. I do have some more to share, so I can pick back up starting Tuesday. No promises about posting/consistency when I'm also in Vegas over the weekend (as if I was consistent this last weekend...oy).

OK, so posting yesterday didn't happen. I managed to damage my laptop, which affected my ability to access the new chip images. I was reviewing and formatting old hard drives, and an ancient external HDD brought the whole system to a halt. That was pretty scary, since I've been terrible about backing up personal files. Anyway...

I've visited the Isle of Capri in Lake Charles, LA two times. That casino is interesting. Back when it was a cruising casino, two boats used the same dock area. When we first covered this casino, I posted a chip from the Grand Palais boat. On my more recent trip, I picked up a proper Isle of Capri chip. I think there's just the IoC boat at the site now.



As a side note, Landry's is building a Golden Nugget in Lake Charles. I guess that means I'll need to head back to town when that casino opens.

Also, I'm headed to Vegas tomorrow. I'll post a chip before I leave PA, but I'm not sure about a schedule for the rest of the weekend.

State: Louisiana
City: Bossier City
Casino: Margaritaville

Today's chip of the day comes from the Margaritaville casino in Bossier City, LA. I could have sworn we'd covered this casino before, but I don't see it in the index. I guess I missed this one when I posted my last batch of chips. My chip from Margaritaville is a Paulson RHC.

Quote: rdw4potus

State: Louisiana
City: Bossier City
Casino: Margaritaville

Today's chip of the day comes from the Margaritaville casino in Bossier City, LA. I could have sworn we'd covered this casino before, but I don't see it in the index. I guess I missed this one when I posted my last batch of chips. My chip from Margaritaville is a Paulson RHC.

The Las Vegas version is here.

Yes, the Bossier City Margaritaville is still on my list of chips to get -- probably this summer.

I looked back and could not find anywhere this chip has previously been posted. I'll add it to the directory when I get home. If you locate an earlier post, let me know, and I will update the link.

Edit 7/1/15: I finally made it back to Bossier City and got my chip. I posted the image (with some others) here.

State: Nevada
City: Las Vegas
Casino: Cromwell

What with the supply of new chips running low around here, and with the distractions of the WoV 2014 Spring Fling, this thread had been severely neglected recently. I think that rdw4potus added a few to his collection in conjunction to his most recent trip, at least one of which is from a casino that I have not yet visited. Hopefully, he will share that with us soon.

The only chip added to my own collection during the Spring Fling is from the Cromwell, Caesars Entertainment's resurrection of Bill's Gamblin' Hall which was itself a resurrection of the Barbary Coast, both of which have been discussed previously in this thread. There are at least two currently-active threads about the Cromwell (or at least they started off about the Cromwell), located here and here. There was even some discussion of the place in the Spring Fling Head Count thread after the Wizard proposed it as a place for a straggler dinner, for those folks still in town. Unfortunately, that thread wandered off course down a dark road.

My own experiences at the Cromwell were limited. The outside of the building looks very nice. The inside of the casino area is a step up from the Bill's days and a huge leap up from the Barbary Coast days. I played there at mid-day on Thursday prior to the Spring Fling. It certainly seems as if I posted about my experiences somewhere in the forum, but I can't find such a post, so maybe I just told people that I saw.

I arrived at 11:30 and played $5 min. craps at the only table they had open. The table was crowded, and I had to squeeze in. I only planned to play a little while, since I was attending Nareed's birthday party across the street at the Burger Brasserie between Bally's and Paris at 12:30. The dice got to me just barely after noon o'clock, which gave me plenty of opportunity to throw them a few times and get out of there in time for the party. "Unfortunately", I didn't PSO as usual, and I wound up being late. I only made two points and failed while working on the third, but with a crowded table and brand new dealers (who were really quite good for the very limited experience they claimed to have), there was quite a delay between rolls.

I might have just passed the dice to the next player in order to leave and get across the street on time, but I think that might have been a dangerous action. You see, while I only wound up $60 ahead for the session, I was winning a bunch of money for some other players. They might not have cared for my abandoning my roll. One player had made two absurd bets along the way, hopping the point (for $5, I think). Those just happened to be the two rolls on which I made my two points, so everyone at the table thought he must be a psychic. My third point was a 10, and it seemed as if I rolled forever without either a 10 or a 7 showing up. Several of the players at the table had placed $5 bets on the hard 6, and when I hit that, they all parlayed their bets! That almost seems like throwing winnings away, but as luck/variance/whatever would have it, I immediately rolled another hard 6! The $5 they each put at risk paid each of them $450. None of them was crazy enough to parlay again or rational enough to take $500 and down. In any case, they were extremely happy with my roll, and I didn't think I could get away with just walking away from the table with the button still saying "ON".

The souvenir chip shown below is a white ceramic chip with two brown edge "inserts" and red printing on the center "inlay". One side includes the casino name twice, the city/state, and the denomination. The other side has the casino name (just once), the Total Rewards name and logo, and the denomination. I think this is the only chip I have ever seen with the Total Rewards designation right on the chip.

Below the denomination on each side is a small gray mark that I think is an outlined, white block "I". My guess is that this is a logo for the chip manufacturer Icon, but I have never seen this logo before, and I cannot find this exact chip design on their very limited web site. The MOGH chip guide does not indicate a manufacturer of this chip, so all I can offer is my speculation.

Edit 1/28/15: Got to thinking about this "block I" logo and looked at the Icon web site again. Their "phase two" chip page located here has this very Cromwell chip on display. Uncertainty now resolved.

UV light reveals an extremely faint fluorescence of the red ink in a pinker shade than shown under visible light. This is so faint that I suspect that it is just a natural characteristic of the ink and not a security feature of the chip.

Quote: Doc

I arrived at 11:30 and played $5 min. craps at the only table they had open.

I think you got lucky. I looked in vain for a $5 table n my last full day, arriving at 11 am. it was $10 at the sole open craps table.

State: Florida
City: West Palm Beach
Casino: Palm Beach Kennel Club

"The Palm Beach Kennel Club. 60 Hot Poker Tables, 185 Exciting Simulcast Races, 133 Thrilling Live Races, 2 Fabulous Restaurants, ONLY 1 PLACE."

I've been playing here for 5 years now, best poker action in south Florida. Dog races and terrible poker players, has the WSOP circuit visit 2 times per year. Not much else to say other than this picture is from a frame of 99 chips so it's not the best quality. Also all the chips here seem to be dirty so this is a better one I found.



On a side note, thread resurrection! I have a ton of Florida chips (mainly poker rooms) not posted so I'll contribute, along with some cruise chips and possibly some Denver-area chips in a few weeks. My iPhone pics aren't great so bear with me.

Quote: wezvidz

State: Florida
City: West Palm Beach
Casino: Palm Beach Kennel Club

"The Palm Beach Kennel Club. 60 Hot Poker Tables, 185 Exciting Simulcast Races, 133 Thrilling Live Races, 2 Fabulous Restaurants, ONLY 1 PLACE."

I've been playing here for 5 years now, best poker action in south Florida. Dog races and terrible poker players, has the WSOP circuit visit 2 times per year. Not much else to say other than this picture is from a frame of 99 chips so it's not the best quality. Also all the chips here seem to be dirty so this is a better one I found.



On a side note, thread resurrection! I have a ton of Florida chips (mainly poker rooms) not posted so I'll contribute, along with some cruise chips and possibly some Denver-area chips in a few weeks. My iPhone pics aren't great so bear with me.

Awesome! Good to see the thread resurrected. What do you think about the poker players in FL in general? Are the games at tracks generally weak?

Thanks, wezvidz, for this contribution and those to follow. I will update the index when I get home from Niagara Falls and can post from a real computer.

I have added five new chips to my collection thus far on this trip, and I expect to get two more before I make it home. I'll be posting them soon.

RDW, whatever happened to the chips you were going to pick up on your WOV Spring Fling trip?

State: Florida
City: West Palm Beach
Casino: Island Breeze

Another one close to my home area, and who knows how long it will exist. 5 years ago or so, the "Princess" casino cruise operated out of the port of Palm Beach before going out of business. This is a new casino cruise that opened in March 2014 and this is my rundown straight from the Yelp review I made:

"Went on a Saturday night cruise, booked online for $10 boarding and $15 buffet. Boarding was quick and seamless, through a metal detector and on.

Setup - First floor had 2 $10 craps tables going, lots of slots and blackjack. Also 3 card poker and roulette. All non smoking on first floor where the buffet is also located. Second floor is smoking, has the mini sports book, another craps table and the best video poker I could find. Third floor has outdoor deck to hang out, large lounge and the "poker room" awkwardly smashed up against the dancefloor of the lounge. 3 poker tables, 1 was going all night with 1/2$ no limit cash games.

Gaming - Craps were packed all night on all tables, 3/4/5x odds, $10 min. Dealers were hit or miss, one kept making mistakes and I had to watch my payouts like a hawk. Best video poker I could find were 2nd floor upright machines. 9/5 Double Double Bonus and 7/5 Bonus Poker. Not great

Overall, had a good time, but their A/C was not working properly and it was SWELTERING all night inside the entire casino. Very uncomfortable, I imagine I just got unlucky. The 6 hour night cruise was a little long for my taste, in the future I would opt for the 5 hour weeknight/daytime cruise."

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Awesome! Good to see the thread resurrected. What do you think about the poker players in FL in general? Are the games at tracks generally weak?

From what I read, it's probably one of the softest markets in the country, along with LA.

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Thanks, wezvidz, for this contribution and those to follow. I will update the index when I get home from Niagara Falls and can post from a real computer.

I have added five new chips to my collection thus far on this trip, and I expect to get two more before I make it home. I'll be posting them soon.

RDW, whatever happened to the chips you were going to pick up on your WOV Spring Fling trip?

I have a couple new chips from the vegas area (but not from any previously un-covered casinos), but I wound up not making any sidetrips at all. I think I still have a couple uniquely styled chips from the midwest as well. But all my chips are in a box in Philly and I'm in Columbia. I'll be reunited with my possessions on the 17th, and may be in a position to post those few chips by the 21st if needed.

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But all my chips are in a box in Philly and I'm in Columbia.

Welcome to the South! Maybe we should schedule a WoV regional meet at Harrah's Cherokee. RaleighCraps is there now, and perhaps others would be willing to come in for a gathering.

The big problem would likely be that the casino hotel offers essentially NO rooms to mortals on the weekends. My wife and I either go midweek, make it a long day trip, or book a room at a near-by hotel.

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Welcome to the South! Maybe we should schedule a WoV regional meet at Harrah's Cherokee. RaleighCraps is there now, and perhaps others would be willing to come in for a gathering.

The big problem would likely be that the casino hotel offers essentially NO rooms to mortals on the weekends. My wife and I either go midweek, make it a long day trip, or book a room at a near-by hotel.

I would actually be kind of up for that. It's one of the few Caesars casinos I haven't visited yet, and they are still offering me free rooms at any time.

I think a regional meet sounds like fun. I wish I could have made it to NY this weekend. By the time I knew what city I'd need to travel from, ticket prices had skyrocketed. That system really frustrates me. The seatmaps suggest that a few of the options that I looked at involved half-full planes. I'd like to think that would mean that the next ticket sold, especially only 1 or 2 days in advance, would be priced pretty close to the marginal cost of accommodating one more customer. But, WOW, was that ever not the case.