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Page of the Day + 
Howdy folks, have the first of three California page(s). These always have some surprises in them. Have been busier than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. But, by this time next week I should be caught up. Have another guest author today, and another of my harvest stories except it is a listing of "Busts and Disappointments" This display will be long and fun. Thanks for checking in with me. Reggie
2) PAGE #2 PRICE OF ALL CHIPS ARE $5
3) PAGE #3 PRICE OF ALL CHIPS ARE $4
4) PAGE #4 PRICE OF ALL CHIPS ARE $3
5) PAGE #5 PRICE OF ALL CHIPS ARE $2
6) PAGE #6 PRICE OF ALL CHIPS ARE FACE VALUE ($1)
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS, please order by number, name and price. Numbered chips below correspond with position on the image page. Please email me direct. Please do not put a sold sign on the item you are buying, I may have more than one. First email in my inbox gets first considerations. P/H is $1 – 2 chips, $2 – 3 -4 chips, $3 – 5-8 chips, $4 – 9-12 chips, $5 – 13-16 chips, and 17 & up $6.50; this is the max P/H for the U.S. Foreign orders are more. Minimum orders are $4 pay pal accepted to my email. Check, cash or money order accepted, also. RANDOM DISCOUNTS OFTEN OCCUR. Hold service available. 4500+ Different Chips are Available. www.collectionlibrary.com/richardgummer PLMK when chips are received. TY
*Please remember there are minimum $ order requirements, as well as maximums available on cheap chips; ask.
INDIVIDUALLY PRICED CHIPS BELOW:
1) 55 Club San Jose –MOVED TO 25c BINDER
2) 133 Club Manteca - MOVED TO 50c BINDER
3) 19th Hole Antioch $9
4) Adolfo’s Lemoore $12
5) ARA Williams Los Angeles -SOLD-
6) B A Harrison’s CR San Diego $15
7) Big Pine Casino Big Pine $9
8) Black Bart Casino Willits $9
9) BOB Bob Wilson Club Colusa -MOVED SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN ODD DENOMINATIONS-
10) Busted Flush Nippomo $75
11) C&B Conroe & Brooks Bakersfield $9
12) California Games Sacramento $15
13) Cesar’s (red) Watsonville $25
14) Church St. Cigar Store Lodi -SOLD-
15) Crystal Mountain Casino Shingle Springs $12
By Dave Pawson
In the last week of May, an inquiry appeared on the Chip Board regarding the Choctaw Casino in McAlester, Oklahoma. A request was made for a chip from their tables.
As one who does not care for slots, and who has made the trip between Dallas and points in Missouri on a pretty regular basis over the last several years, I have had occasion to look in on the numerous Choctaw Casino locations that populate the sides of US Highway 69 through Oklahoma. I recalled that the last time I stopped, none of them had table games except their main location in Durant. However, the member directed me to their website, which indicates that the McAlester location does have table games.
On the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, having offered to pick up chips for other collectors, which resulted in about half a dozen requests for one or more chips from the place, I drove the two and a half hours to McAlester with my wife and sister for company. Along the way we passed by the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, with its multi-storey hotel, blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, poker variants, and slots, where we would normally stop. However, our destination was another 75 miles farther up the highway. Between Durant and McAlester are also several truck stop locations equipped with electronic slots operating under the Choctaw Casino umbrella. As we approached McAlester, we finally entered the address into the GPS – my sister on her phone, I on my Magellan. Both agreed that the casino was about five minutes farther north than it actually is. Do not let yours fool you: the McAlester Choctaw Casino is actually located on the South end of town, where Business US69 splits off from US69, on the northbound side of the highway.
Because we could find no address numbers on the building, my sister ran inside to make certain that we had found the right place, that this wasn’t just another satellite location. She came back out and reported that this was it, that they have a couple of tables that open at 4:00 against the back wall, and that she was assured the next nearest casino of any kind is about 30 miles away. I parked and we all went in to register for cards and have a bit of fun. We learned that, in addition to two blackjack tables, they have one three-card poker table, which opens at 5:30. There are, of course, also a mess of electronic slots.
I went immediately to the blackjack table, which had opened about fifteen minutes prior to our arrival, and told the dealer and pit boss that I am a collector of chips, a member of a chip collectors’ club, and that we had no information about the chips in use at this casino. I said I would want first to buy a $500 chip to take aside and document, then return to break it up first into chips to bring home for distribution among several collectors, and then chips to actually play at the table. I told them that when last I visited, they didn’t have table games. The pit boss said that they have had the tables for maybe eight or nine years. I realized then that the last time I had been there was on the drive to Sarcoxie, Missouri, in January 2006, for my uncle’s funeral. Ten years ago.
They thought it was cool that there is such a thing as chip collectors, and I showed them on my phone pictures of some of the chips in my collection. I also opened the ChipGuide, and showed them that the only information we had on McAlester was a TITO. At this point, the pit boss said, "Perhaps I should warn you, though, that we use chips from Durant.”
Poof! That sucked the wind out of my sails! What? I didn't think that was even allowed! Chips are supposed to name the casino and location where they are used! I pulled up the ChipGuide on the phone again, went to the Choctaw Durant page, and showed him the chips catalogued there. He pointed at the wave chips, those of designs listed as CG018453 and similar. “That’s what we use. They even still say Durant on them, not McAlester.” These chips are three generations behind the Game On chips in current use at Durant. The only exception is the $500 chip. They use the same chip that is currently in use down the highway, leading us to believe that there was never a purple wave design chip.
On the bright side, we discovered that the $100 wave chip had not yet been photographed and posted to the Durant page. The dealer looked through the rack and came up with one of their better condition blacks, which I purchased and photographed down near the soda dispenser. Sadly, because they are using these ancient chips, even the best looks shabby.
Well, I e-mailed everyone who had asked for chips, advising them that there were no unknown new chips here, and that I would not get any or hold anyone to their prior requests, unless they got back in touch and said to get them anyway. Just to be sure, I bought a handful of chips to bring to Vegas for anyone who might not have the old (and formerly hard to get) Durant chips yet. It never hurts to have trading goods.
I also left the table about $40 ahead.
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FEATURED CHIP OF THE DAY
MOST OR ALL OF THESE HAVE BEEN ON A PAGE A DAY, OR WILL BE IN THE FUTURE. THE PRICE THAT ACCOMPANIES IT WILL BE THE FULL PRICE NO SHIPPING CHARGES ON THIS CHIP. TRADE OFFERS ACCEPTED. INSURANCE WILL BE EXTRA SHOULD YOU WANT IT. THE SELECTION OF CHIPS FEATURED WILL BE BASED ON SEVERAL THINGS INCLUDING: UNIQUENESS, SCARCITY, BEAUTY AND CONDITION.
NOTE: See the Chip Guide for reverse side image and additional information… reg
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BUSTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
SOME ADDITIONAL HARVEST STORIES ARE ONES THAT ENDED IN DISAPPOINTMENTS AND/OR COMPLETE BUSTS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO OR VERY FEW CHIPS AND AN EMPTY GAS TANK. I WILL TRY TO KEEP EACH NOTE TO ONE OR TWO LINES AND DESCRIPTIVE AS POSSIBLE.
BAD RIVER-ODANAH, WI NO CASHIER SALES & TABLES OPEN MUCH LATER
CASINO ESTORIL-LISBON, PORTUGAL CASINO CLOSED, TOO EARLY
SEMINOLE COCONUT CREEK-FL WENT TO PICK-UP THE NEW $2.50, THEY SAID NEXT WEEK
WILD GOOSE CASINO-ELLENSBURG, WA CASINO CLOSED FOR NO REASON
COULEE DAM CASINO-COULEE DAM, WA NO CHIPS, NO TABLE GAMES
OJIBWA CASINO-BARAGA, MI THRASHED CHIPS ALL DENOMS
OJIBWA CASINO-MARQUETTE, MI NO CASHIER SALES, NO TABLES OPEN
4 BEARS CASINO-NEWTON, ND NEVER GOT THERE WAS VERY CLOSE BUT HEADED SOUTH
BLUE LAKE CASINO-BLUE LAKE CHIPS WERE TOTAL THRASHED AND UNREADABLE
CAHTO BINGO CASINO-LAYTONVILLE, CA THEY USED TO HAVE THEM BUT ARE N/A NOW
BLACK BARTS CASINO-WILLITS, CA DOLLAR TOKENS ONLY, NO CHIPS ANY MORE
PRAIRIE BAND CASINO-MAYETTA, KS MISSED A BAD BEAT JACKPOT BY 20 MINUTES HIDEAWAY CASINO-BOZEMAN, MT RUN BY TJ, USED GENERIC CHIPS
CRYSTAL PALACE-NASSAU, BA TABLES WERE CLOSED UNTIL A FUTURE DATE (GAMING COMM) SILVER TIP CASINO-MISSOULA, MT CHIPS WERE THRASHED THIS TRIP, NEW RACK LATER JACKSON RANCHERIA-JACKSON, CA POKER ROOM CLOSED, NO COOP. TOKES ON BJ TABLES THE KORNER CLUB-BOZEMAN, MT WOULD SELL ME ONE SET, ONE OF EACH
ALTURAS CASINO-ALTURAS, CA NO TABLES ANY MORE, SO NO CHIPS, THEY’RE IN THE VAULT GULFSTREAM PARK-HALLENDALE, FL 3 TRIPS TO GET A $2 CHIP, NO WAY, 4TH TRIP SUCCESS WIN-RIVER CASINO-REDDING, CA WOULD SELL ONLY 5-$1’S, NO 50c CHIPS, ALL $5’S I NEEDED KEGLERS CASINO-E. WENATCHEE, WA ALL CHIPS WERE THRASHED $1’S AND $5’S
SEVEN CEDARS-SEQUIM, WA TOTALLY CLOSED NICE TOTEM POLE CARVINGS OUTSIDE THO’ TREASURE CHEST CASINO-KENNER, LA THRASHED CHIPS, ALL DENOMS
RHYTHM CITY CASINO-DAVENPORT, IA THRASHED CHIPS ALL DENOMS
THERE WERE MANY MORE. NO I DIDN’T GET ENOUGH CHIPS…LOL…REGGIE
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GRAND OPENING CHIPS
When I first started the category of Grand Opening, I included everything that had “Grand Opening” printed on the chip. There are a lot of Hotel, Restaurant, “L” Wing (Additions to existing Hotels) and Poker Room openings that seem to have taken an advantage of the collector along with the utilization of the advertising value of this special occasion, as well as being an announcement chip. In the future I will not include these “types” of chips.
I am going to try to keep only the true Grand Opening chips under the Grand Opening category. This will include Grand Re-Opening chips, which announces their Re-Opening (w/a different name) new ownership changes, after floods, fires etc. It will continue to include all Inaugural Voyages from cruise boats and gambling boats, also.
The other types will be sent over to one of the appropriate denom chip categories.
Hope this is something that will make the Grand Opening “Page of the Day” even more special when they are the Page of the Day.
If you notice something amidst the pages of the “New Grand Opening Chips”, that is not a true Grand Opening Chip, please identify it to me and send the information that makes it clear why it isn’t a G. O. And let me thank you right now for pointing this out to me.
Reggie
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This is a chip I would like to acquire through trade or purchase please email if you have one available or know someone who has one available. Even if you do not have the denomination or mold shown, you should know that it is possible that I may need other denominations or molds from this casino. Please email me with any items that you would like to sell or trade. Thanks, Reggie
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I will endeavor to provide these free personal chips shown below to everyone that makes even a minimal order. There are a few of other peoples personals, these were acquired by mistake or given to me by someone other than the sponsor of the chip. They need a good home, and to those of you that are thinking of having a personal chip made for the first time let me say it always a good idea. We have 2 or 3 people that make these within our club. This is always fun around a poker table, people are genuinely impressed with the fact that “you” have your own personal poker chip.
So let me elaborate a little more on the way you can own one or more of these chips shown below. First they are FREE to any one that makes a purchase.
Also, if you do not want to make a purchase and are more into trading, I will trade any personal chip for any chip in slightly used condition; that is not older than 6 months, common, or special it makes no difference. Please know I will trade personals for personals that I do not have.
Hope we can find some common ground to get these nice looking personals into your hands. Thank you for your interest in our ‘Very Fun Hobby” Sincerely, Reggie
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