In reference to Mark Todd's post of 8/26 re the Cache Creek 888 chips issued August 8: these were created for this day in reference to the date 8/8/08, eight being an auspicious or "lucky" number for the Chinese. (lucky it wasn't 666). I was at cache creek on the 8th of Aug and it seemed that there were a great deal of the chips on the tables. However, I went out yesterday, and after finding none in the racks on several tables, I went to the cage. Noone could tell me how many were made, but 2 gals were nice enough to search through the chips in their drawers and found 3.which I bought. Holding one for Mark Todd, and whoever wants the other 2, trade or sell at face plus postage.