Illegal Casino Chips
Typically, chips become obsolete in one of three ways: (1) the casino that issued them goes out of business-the Playboy casino in Atlantic City or the Dunes in Las Vegas, for example; (2) the casino changes its name or ownership and issues chips under the new name; or (3) the casino changes chip design or manufacturer. The casino would have made far more money from us had we enjoyed the experience (we had a budget of 1000 euro's for the night), than the 10 euro's they extorted from us upon enetering! Most defnately and categorically the worst casino i have ever been to in my life!!!
Illegal club chips. Robert Eisenstadt's. Antique Gambling Chips & Other Gambling-related Items Web Site. Home Page: ordering instructions, e-mail, policies, etc. ILLEGAL CLUB CHIPS - FOR SALE AND TRADE. FAMOUS '500 CLUB,' 6 SOUTH MISSOURI AVE, ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY. In the 1930's to 60's it was the leading nightclub in Atlantic City. It was frequented by the most influential people. This is a lot of 24 chips from illegal casinos in Texas. I collected these over a 10 year period and have been out of collecting for several years. These have been in. The Greg Susong Digital Media Center is dedicated to Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club Hall of Fame member Greg Susong.Greg is one of those who brought the Internet to chip and token collecting. His website, The ChipGuide, was one of the first sites devoted entirely to chip and token collecting, and serves as a tremendous resource for collectors throughout the world.
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This website is dedicated to those around the world that collect chips from unlicenced (illegal) clubs.
There is nothing worse to an illegal chip collector than having an initial chip and not knowing where it was in use.
The old manufacturers records on this site can be attributed to many of us researching initial chips over the years. Those of us involved in illegal chip collecting have invested many research hours and dollars accumulating these records. We now share them with the world.
The main focus of the website is the distributors cards for the companies that supplied a large proportion of illegal gaming pieces. These distributors also supplied many licensed gaming establishments and home orders in their own right, and records for those are also included. This website will be a constant 'work in progress'. As of October 2009 over 600 man hours has been spent formatting and indexing nearly 7,000 records detailing orders of over 15,000 different chips and other gaming supplies. In addition, we present various other articles, documents and catalogs from the maunfacturers, and a memorial tribute to the late Janice O'Neal.
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Research articles by Gene Trimble
Research articles by Dr. Allan Myers
Ed Hertel's website and Illegals guide (available for download)
Credits
Gene Trimble, joint author of The Records of The HC Edwards Company
David Sarles, chip collector and historian
Mark Lighterman, joint author of The Records of The HC Edwards Company
Allan Myers, joint author of The Chip Rack and The Gaming Table
Michael Knapp, joint author of The Chip Rack and The Gaming Table
Ernie Wheelden, joint author of The Chip Rack and The Gaming Table
Steve Goodrich, author of The Casino Chips of Montana & The Casino Chips of Washington State
Ed Hertel, author of Price Guide for Illegal Casino Chips
Rick Olsen, author of The Collectors Guide to Casino Dice
Jim Linduff, Roy Klein & Larry Trapp, Northern KY chip collectors and historians
Dave Brown, Illegal chip collector and historian
Pete Lowell, Black Clay Industries
Paul Bender, Indiana chip collector
Dennis O’Neal, TR King
Jerry & Janice O'Neal
Matthew DeMichele & Gary Potter, Eastern KY University
David Spragg, Webmaster
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Wanted: $6 million in missing gaming chips. Last seen: The lavish Wynn casino in Macau.
Police are hunting for millions of dollars in casino chips after they were stolen -- allegedly by one of Wynn's own croupiers -- raising security concerns in the world's biggest gambling hub.
The heist happened Tuesday at the Wynn Macau(WYNMF), one of the marquee destinations in a Chinese territory whose gambling revenues dwarf those of Las Vegas.
Macau police told CNNMoney that a dealer at the Wynn Macau and a potential accomplice have been arrested and that they are not currently looking for other suspects. They declined to identify the two people by name.
Police didn't say how the stolen chips were taken past casino security. But local media reported that the suspect allegedly stuffed them into a bag in a VIP room and simply carried them out.
To turn the chips into hard cash, the thieves or their associates would eventually need to bring them back into the casino.
Wynn Macau is controlled by Wynn Resorts(WYNN), the Las Vegas casino firm founded by billionaire mogul Steve Wynn. Wynn Macau didn't respond to requests for comment Friday.
Casino operators could face pressure from authorities to tighten up oversight of gaming rooms following the theft, according to Vitaly Umansky, an analyst at investment firm Sanford Bernstein.
Rules around gambling in Macau are more relaxed than in Las Vegas, he said. Most of the high-stakes action in Macau takes place in so-called VIP rooms, which aren't run by the casinos themselves but by separate junket operators from mainland China.
That makes it difficult for casinos to manage exactly what goes on inside.
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'The junkets get a lot of leeway inside the rooms in terms of how money changes hands and how chips change hands. That's something that may need to get evaluated,' Umansky said.
Big heists in the city's casinos are rare, but they do happen. In 2015, a junket operator said it had been scammed out of more than $30 million. That incident also happened at a Wynn casino.
Gambling is a big business in Macau, a former Portuguese colony.
The city's revenues from games like baccarat and blackjack are about five times bigger than those generated on the Las Vegas strip.
Macau's casinos raked in just over $33 billion last year, an increase of about 20% from the year before.
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That snapped a multi-year losing streak for the gambling industry in the city. Macau is popular with visitors from mainland China, where gambling is illegal.
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Revenues began falling in 2014, hurt by a far-reaching crackdown on corruption by Chinese President Xi Jinping. That deterred some big spenders from visiting Macau's VIP rooms.
-- Qiaoqiao Yu contributed to this report.