HARVEST ADVENTURES FROM AN ADDICTED CHIP COLLECTOR

BY RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER
SOME PEOPLE HAVE COMPULSIONS TO GAMBLE, SOME TO AMASS FORTUNES AND OTHER’S, WELL THEY JUST LIKE TO WRITE STORIES. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE ME. I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED TO WRITE, NEVER WAS VERY GOOD AT IT; BUT I HAVE DONE IT OVER THE YEARS JUST THE SAME.
IF ANY OF YOU WANT ANY INSIDE INFORMATION ON ANY CASINO THAT I’VE BEEN TO, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW.
REGGIE

PERSONAL HARVESTING STORIES

HARRAH’S TUNICA, MS (2008)

By:RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER

WHEN WE LIVED IN TENNESSEE, OVER THE YEARS WE AVERAGED ONE TRIP TO TUNICA ABOUT EVERY SIX MONTHS. ONE OF THESE TRIPS WAS PLANNED AROUND THE CHANGE OF THE GRAND CASINO BACK AGAIN TO HARRAH’S.
WHILE MAKING THE ROUNDS FOR THE FOLLOWING CHIP DENOMINATIONS: $1’s, $2.50’s & $5’s I DISCOVERED THE LADY BUG CHIP http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=MSTUH3 (CG LINK) HOWEVER, I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND BUT ABOUT 6 OF THEM. THEY WERE QUITE POPULAR AND I PLANNED ANOTHER TRIP OVER TO TUNICA SEVERAL MONTHS LATER.
THE SECOND TRIP TO HARRAH’S WAS NOT QUITE AS FRUITFUL AS FIRST AS A MATTER OF FACT IT WAS ALMOST A TOTAL BUST. IF NOT FOR THE NORMAL HARVESTING AND THE GRAND OPENING OF “THE ROADHOUSE CASINO” (FORMERLY THE SHERATON) IT WOULD HAVE BEEN. I SAT IN THE HARRAH’S POKER ROOM FOR 4 HOURS OR MORE WHILE THE OFF DUTY DEALERS AND THE CASHIER OF THE POKER ROOM WENT THROUGH ABOUT 30 RACKS OF CHIPS LOOKING FOR THE “LADY BUG”. I DID FIND 2 MORE OF THE LADY BUGS IN THE BLACK JACK PITS.
ON THE WAY HOME WE THOUGHT WE WOULD GO TO “GRACELAND”, NOT A GOOD IDEA; BECAUSE WE RAN INTO TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS, AND HEADED HOME.
NOT A TOTAL BUST, BUT IT WAS A CASE OF I WISHED I HAD FOUND MORE THE 1ST TIME…REGGIE