PERSONAL HARVESTING STORIES

CC (CROSSCUT CASINO) LIBBY, MT

By:RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER

NANCY AND I WERE DRIVING FROM SPOKANE, WA AND HEADING TOWARDS GLACIER NATIONAL PARK.
WHILE DRIVING SLOWLY THROUGH THIS SMALL TOWN ABIDING BY ALL SPEED LIMIT SIGNS, ALSO LOOKING FOR SIGNS LIKE “LIVE POKER ACTION”. IT WAS HERE IN LIBBY WE SPOTTED THE SIGN LIVE POKER ACTION AND ABOVE THAT SIGN WAS A LARGE SIGN THAT READ CROSSCUT CASINO. OF COURSE, IT WAS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHERE WE SPOTTED IT. WE WHIPPED A U-TURN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND PULLED IN TO THE FRONT PARKING LOT. IT WAS ABOUT NOON SO I DID NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH.
THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN BEHIND THE BAR, AND I ASKED HIM ABOUT THE POKER GAME, AND WHEN HE HAD LIVE ACTION POKER. HE SAID IT USUALLY IS ONLY ON THE WEEKENDS AND; OF COURSE, IT WAS MID WEEK AT THIS TIME. THE YOUNG MAN SEEMED VERY KNOWLEDGABLE AND I ASK IF THEY USED CHIPS, AND IF THEY DID COULD I SEE THEM AND POSSIBLY BUY A FEW. BEAR IN MIND ALL THIS WAS HAPPENING WHILE NANCY WAS STILL SITTING IN THE CAR. HE SAID, I WILL HAVE TO ASK SOMEONE ABOUT SHOWING THE CHIPS BEFORE I CAN DO IT. I GUESSED IT WAS THE OWNER, AND WHEN HE CAME BACK HE SAID I HAD TO ASK MY DAD.
SO HE SAID LET’S GO OVER TO THE POKER ROOM, IT WAS BARELY BIG ENOUGH FOR THE TABLE AND CHAIRS AND IT WAS LOCKED. HE UNLOCKED AND LET US IN AND ABOUT THAT TIME NANCY DECIDED TO COME IN AND LOOK AROUND, I SAID I WILL JUST BE A MINUTE, SHE HAD ALREADY SPOTTED A MACHINE SHE LIKED AND WHAT I SAID FELL ON DEAF EARS. WE WENT IN AND HE SHOWED ME 3 CHIPS 50c, $1 & $5. HE SAID I CAN SELL ONLY A FEW OF EACH. I SAID HOW ABOUT 5 50c, 10 $1 AND 2 $5 CHIPS, THAT SEEMS REASONABLE AND I PAID HIM, LEFT HIM A FEW BUCKS FOR HIS TROUBLE, BOUGHT A COLD DRINK TO GO AND GATHERED NANCY AND WE WERE ON THE ROAD AGAIN. NO I DID NOT GET ENOUGH OF THESE PRETTY CHIPS.
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