Casino Chip Show - Battle Creek (part 4 of 4)

The final installment of my four part series on my brother's and my trip to the Great Lakes Casino Chip Show in Battle Creek is just one final chip.  It's a chip I won via the 11:30am raffle.  And it's the one I've had the most trouble tracking down information on.

1.  Atlantic Maritime.  The AM was a management company that ran casinos on cruise ships off of Florida.  More or less.  There's more information on it here.  Thanks to collectors Albert Scalzo and Ricky Pushkin for pointing me in the right direction on this chip's background.  It joins a growing section of cruise chips I have.

Casino Chip Show - Battle Creek (part 3 of 4)

On to the chips I actually purchased from actual dealers at the actual show!

1.  Mandalay Bay - Rahman/Lewis November 17, 2001.  Limited to 2,500.  You might remember the $25 version of this chip from this post.  I had no idea there was a $5 version until I saw it in a display case.  It took me roughly .2 seconds to decide to buy it.  This was the rematch which Lewis won, meaning we had a new heavyweight champion who was NOT from the United States.  Fans of Jim Lampley will know what I am talking about.

2.  Luxor - Anubis.  The Luxor had three chips out at once that had a mythological theme.  I had Egyptian Queen one already, 19th one down here.  This one is Anubis, which is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with the afterlife in Egyptian religion.  That makes one want to gamble, no?

3.  Luxor - Sphinx.  The final of the three, this one is designed to look like the entrance of the Luxor.

4.  Binion's Horseshoe Club - Stu "The Kid" Unger.  I think they spelled his name wrong, as everyone else goes with "Ungar."  A three time winner of the World Series of Poker's Main Event, Ungar had a book written about his life by Nolan Dalla that I thought was really good.

5.  Planet Hollywood - Grand Opening November 16 & 17, 2007.  Limited to 3,000.  A two day opening event!  That must've been quite a party.  #sarcasm

6.  Monte Carlo - Happy New Year 2005.  I'll collect just about any Monte Carlo chip that doesn't have Frank Caliendo on it.

7.  Silver Sevens.  Former Terrible's Casino, just off the strip.

8.  Silver Sevens - Grand Opening.  Opened in 2013.  Wonder how long it'll stay Silver Sevens?

Casino Chip Show - Battle Creek (part 2 of 4)

The second batch of chips from my brother (@ATRoss14) are all horse racing themed.  2014 will mark my 10th straight trip to the Kentucky Derby, so these are pretty cool to me.  They are:

1.  Riviera - The Run.  Undated, limited to 1,000 chips.

2.  Riviera - Kentucky Derby 2001.  Limited to 800 chips.  This race was on May 5 and won by Monarchos.  Giacomo in 2005 was my first Derby and the only year I haven't won a bet in the main race.

3.  Palms - 2005 Kentucky Derby Winner Giacomo.  Limited to 1,500.  Hey, what do you know, I was at that race.  Talk about your foreshadowing.  Giacomo was roughly a 50-1 shot and touched off a string of long shots winning the Derby in recent years.  Mine That Bird (50-1), Animal Kingdowm (21-1) and I'll Have Another (15-1) have all cashed tickets for me.

4.  Palms - 1977 Belmont Stakes Winner Seattle Slew.  Limited to 1,000.  The second to last Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew accomplished that feat in 1977.

5.  Palms - 2004 Kentucky Derby Winner Smarty Jones.  Limited to 1500.  This was the year before I started going and the thing I remember most about this mega-favorite winning the race was an episode of the Nick and Jessica Simpson show where they went to the race and bet on Smarty.  At 4 to 1.  Big time.

6.  Palms - 1977 Preakness Winner Seattle Slew.  Limited to 1,000.  See #4.

7.  Palms - 2004 Preakness Winner Smarty Jones.  Limited to 1,000.  Wonder if the Simpsons made it to Baltimore for this race?  Smarty would finish second at the Belmont in 2004, narrowly missing out on the first Triple Crown since 1978 (Affirmed).

8.  Palms - 2003 Kentucky Derby Winner Funny Cide.  Limited to 1,500.  Funny Cide was a 13-1 winner in Louisville and won the Preakness before finishing third in the Belmont.

9.  Palms - 1977 Kentucky Derby Winner Seattle Slew.  Limited to 1,500.  The race that started Seattle Slew's march to the Triple Crown.  Seattle Slew was an incredible 1 to 2 to win the Derby.

Casino Chip Show - Battle Creek (part 1 of 4)

For the second consecutive year, I made the trek down to Battle Creek to attend the Great Lakes Chip Show.  This year my brother came along as well.  Before we even left for Cereal City, I got a handful of chips from him.  Some he just gave me out of the goodness of his heart and some he charged me for ($1 under face!).  First, the non-Las Vegas ones:

1.  Overland Hotel Reno - This chip looks old and I would have thought this was from a now-closed Casino but a quick google search shows that you can still book a room at the Overland Hotel on your next trip to Reno!  What?  You don't have a trip to Reno in the works?  Oh.

2.  Hilton Resort Reno

3.  Clarion Hotel Casino Reno

4.  Boomtown Hotel Casino - Jamboree Country - Verdi, NV.  Verdi is about 10 miles west of the Reno/Sparks metroplex.

5.  Gold River Gambling Hall & Resort, Laughlin, NV

6.  Golden Nugget, Laughlin, NV.  Man I wish Tim and Tom would come back and do a Fox reality show on this.

7.  Harrah's Tahoe.

Shower/Wedding Update

Received a total of 7 new chips as Wedding Shower and Wedding gifts.  I didn't even register for them!  They are:

1.  Seminole Casino, Immokalee, Florida (courtesy of Colleen).
2.  Celebrity Cruises (courtesy of Patty)

And the next 5 courtesy of my Aunt Denise and Uncle Tom, frequent contributors to my collection:

3.  Midnight Star, Deadwood, South Dakota
4.  Silverado, Deadwood, SD
5.  Mineral Palace, Deadwood, SD
6.  Four Aces, Deadwood, SD
7.  Cadillac Jacks, Deadwood, SD