May Update

Four new chips added to the collection that I bought online.

1.  Aladdin - Lionel Richie.  Hello?  Is this the chip you're looking for?  From New Year's Eve 2004, this chip was limited to 5,000.  The opposite side is a "Coming in 2006 Planet Hollywood" design.  I'm kind of surprised it took me this long to get the Lionel chip though.  Always a strong jukebox play at the Pub.

2.  Aladdin - Grand Opening.  This is the 2000 second opening of the Aladdin.  It originally opened in 1966 and was imploded in 1998.  It reopened two years later and then in 2007 finally changed to Planet Hollywood.

3.  MGM Grand - Ty Murray.  This is another of the red/white edge chips that looks just like their Grand Opening, Julio Cesar Chavez and Betty Boop chips.  He's a 9-time World Champion rodeo cowboy and he's married to Jewel.  Not sure which accomplishment the chip is commemortating.

4.  Pioneer Club - Vegas Vic/Hoover Dam.  The Pioneer Club has a series of chips with the same Vegas Vic back and a historic Vegas fact/photo on the other side.  This one is for the completion of the Hoover Dam in 1936.  But I really like the Vic side of it, so I chose to go with that one.  The Pioneer Club was a downtown casino that closed 20 years ago.

Monte Carlo BrewPub

When the Monte Carlo fist opened on the Las Vegas Strip, they had a Brew Pub/Restaurant in the back near the tram stop.  I don't remember much about the place, but they did put out a commemorative chip for each of the six beers they brewed on site.  Each one was limited to 1200 chips and for the longest time I only had the Brewmaster Special.  But thanks to eBay, I was able to get the other five giving me the complete set.  They new five are:

1.  High Roller Red
2.  Silver State Stout
3.  Jackpot Pale
4.  Las Vegas Lites
5.  Winner's Wheat

Being I am mostly (but not always) a Miller Lite drinker, I would have probably been a fan of the Las Vegas Lite.  The area where the BrewPub was has been a couple different things in the last ten years but is now a sports bar called "The Pub."  Which is probably pretty much what they wanted the Brew Pub to be originally.  The new place has 300 beers on menu.  Seriously, look:

http://www.montecarlo.com/files/restaurants/the-pub-beer-menu.pdf

That's a lot of beers.  But none of their original microbrews.

Hollywood, FL

My second chip from the Sunshine State is in the books.  While on Spring Break in southern Florida, @LangeM77 and @taralayne0412 got me the house chip from the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL.  Looks just like the Tampa one except for the location print.  Doesn't have the grim history of the Tampa location, which is where Anna Nicole Smith died, but I'm sure impromptu dance contests pop up at any moment.  Maybe if Anna Nichole Smith had been in Hollywood and not Tampa, David Caruso would have found the killer.  Anyways, glad to have this chip in my collection and glad those two are still going on Spring Break - even though they've been out of high school for nearly 20 years.  Woo!  Spring Break!