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The Chip Board Archive 18

Cuba's Plaza Casino - New Info


There have been some hot stamped SMKEY chips around for quite a while that simply say "Plaza Casino" on them. No location is given. Some thought that it might be from Cuba and others had a variety of different opinions, including a Montana card room. Well, I may have uncovered some additional information that will establish these chips as Cuban.

Here is a link to a January 2, 1959 N. Y. Times article about the fall of the Batista regime that mentions that there was a casino in Havana's Plaza Hotel.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuban-rebels/batista-flees.htm

Along with the known Plaza Casino chips, you can see them all on the Caribbean ChipGuide, just click below, I think we have pretty good proof that these chips are from Cuba. Note that card rooms do not have roulette, so that would rule out Montana as a likely location. If these chips are not from Cuba, then where are the chips from Cuba's Plaza Hotel? I know that the information is not perfect, but I think it is pretty convincing.

Link to Cuba's Plaza Casino
http://www.caribbeanchipguide.com/chip2.php?primarykey=CUBPLA&sort=type



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