CrazyEddie
Full House
I recently picked up some of these chips that were originally from the Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center in Hallandale Beach, Florida:
Not to be confused with any of the other Mardi Gras chips that have been produced, like the three sets shown here, or the Big Easy Bud Jones chips available here.
This casino was originally the Hollywood Greyhound Track, changed its name in 2006 to the Mardi Gras Casino, and changed its name again in 2018 to the Big Easy Casino (see Wikipedia).
It looks like these are made on the BCC Sun mold (you can see the suns if you look close) using oversized inlays. My understanding is that BCC reserved the Sun mold for casino use only, and didn't sell any to the home market. GPI bought out BCC in 2013, and not long after started offering the Sun mold as a GPI product, of course only sold to casinos.
My questions are:
Not to be confused with any of the other Mardi Gras chips that have been produced, like the three sets shown here, or the Big Easy Bud Jones chips available here.
This casino was originally the Hollywood Greyhound Track, changed its name in 2006 to the Mardi Gras Casino, and changed its name again in 2018 to the Big Easy Casino (see Wikipedia).
It looks like these are made on the BCC Sun mold (you can see the suns if you look close) using oversized inlays. My understanding is that BCC reserved the Sun mold for casino use only, and didn't sell any to the home market. GPI bought out BCC in 2013, and not long after started offering the Sun mold as a GPI product, of course only sold to casinos.
My questions are:
- Were these chips made by BCC or GPI? Given the timing, they could be either, unless anyone knows for sure when they were made.
- What other casinos did BCC make chips for
