MOVIN' ON UP!!!

To all of my faithful (all 2 of you) readers!!

Gamblin' Ramblin$ has a new home, it is:

http://www.jeffbuckner.us/mrchipper/

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Station acquiring locals casinos in Henderson
Liz Benston
benston@lasvegassun.com

Station Casinos Inc. announced an agreement Friday to buy two small casinos in Henderson, a deal that gives the company six locals casinos in the region.

And the big get bigger.

This is a gorgeous chip that I don't have...yet!

It's the Asian Moon Festival $5 from the Stateline Casino in Wendover. Isn't it awesome? I nominated this chip for Chip of the Year for 2002 and while it made the finals, it did not win. I'll bet if it was from Vegas it would have won...hummph!!

Anyway, this chip has eluded me for about a year and just recently one was upon eBay, but I was outbid (sniped) and was unable to get it. I will remain ever vigilant.

Sorry for the scan, I obtained it from Reno Casino Chips.com. The chip is much nicer than the pic.

Lots of stuff in the news.

Apparently there are some new regulations concerning the issue of Limited Edition chips. I'll post more as I find out. The Four Queens has discontinued its LE program. That's huge as it produced a bunch of chips. It seems the Gaming Commission is requiring that at least half of all LE's be released to the tables instead of simply having an event to release the chips to collectors. I see the biggest problems a the Hard Rock and Palms.

Hey, chips were meant to be played right?

I'm on vacation this week so that means I'll scan some recent acquisitions...really!!! Trust me! I've got Cal Neva's and Golden Nugget's and lots more to do.

How about that pic of me and Conor throwing side-kicks? Cool huh?

I'm wiped out! Tonight was supposed to be sparring night but we ended up doing a bunch a targeting practice, which is just as good but even more strenuous. I arrived about 15 minutes early for my class and Grandmaster had me join the ongoing class and they were sparring. I had to take it easy as I had no pads on but it was cool. I fought a couple of new people so I just circled them a bit and shot long range kicks at them to keep them at bay so I didn't need to go to fists. That worked well.

Ok, I got the cool pics that Conor and I had made, and Grandmaster had me show them to everyone at class (that was embarassing!). I'll scan one and post it but in the meantime I have a shot taken during our exhibition demo. I'm in the center and we've just "defeated" the "bad guys" and we're keeping them down. That was so much fun! The pic is a bit dark but it came out all right.

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!

I mean c'mon...I've got the Stairway to Heaven studio sessions on vinyl stashed away in a closet.




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New Release

Rio $5 March Madness Shoot Out
03-17-04
Limited to 500

It's Game Time and the Rio (and Harrah's) have released their tourney chips. A pretty simple design and as usual the artwork is the same for the two casinos. Looks like they are the only ones with March Madness chips too. Maybe the other casinos are simply raking in more money on bets.

A good chip day, eh?

Indeed, a day with chips in the mail is a good day! March 22nd arrivals included:

The $5, $25, and $100 Golden Nugget "owner" chip set...very nice!
The Kentucky Fried Chicken chip, also very cool...I dunno Charlie, I may have to hang on to this one!

Perhaps I'll get off my butt and scan some chips tonight after Leadership Class. I need to see what kind of pics MB got from the exhibition too! All in good time.