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Haven't seen those silver sevens before. Are they all in that great shape, or did you have to pick through a bunch?
 
Wow man, that pic from your window is sick. Great collection.

Thanks :) The view was sweet, great view of the Bellagio fountain show at night. Best part was, the upgrade only cost me $20 total for all 4 nights, which was well worth it IMO.

Haven't seen those silver sevens before. Are they all in that great shape, or did you have to pick through a bunch?

I think Silver Sevens used to be Terrible's. The name may have changed, but the casino itself was true to its original moniker. I spent 20 minutes there (just to harvest the chips for @Gear), and I don't think I could have stayed much longer. Very smokey and the only poker there was 2/4 limit, which isn't my preference. Those were cherry picked, and had already been cleaned in the picture above. In hindsight I should have taken more even though they weren't in near-mint condition; I clearly wasn't thinking straight (I blame the clouds of thick smoke).
 
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I think Silver Sevens used to be Terrible's. The name may have changed, but the casino itself was true to it's original moniker. I spent 20 minutes there (just to harvest the chips for @Gear), and I don't think I could have stayed much longer. Very smokey and the only poker there was 2/4 limit, which isn't my preference. Those were cherry picked, and had already been cleaned in the picture above. In hindsight I should have taken more even though they weren't in near-mint condition; I clearly wasn't thinking straight (I blame the clouds of thick smoke).

Thanks again for that! Great-looking chips.
 
Thanks again for that! Great-looking chips.

You're welcome! I just wish I could have grabbed more (EX+ condition ones for you), but I don't think I could have spent much more time there. As it was, I actually texted and delayed picking up my wife at the stadium by 15 minutes just to make sure I could get at least a full barrel before I left to pick her up. :oops:
 
have you guys ever been turned down trying to harvest, going to Vegas beginning June and might try to see if I can get a couple of mint racks of 1's.....great thread.
 
Really like those Peppermill singles....a combo chip of the older Bellagio version and the modern Paris, except better with the 618 spots!
 
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Flamingo tries to keep their chips in the poker room but just wait until the poker room cage is closed and you have to cash out at the main cage.
 
have you guys ever been turned down trying to harvest, going to Vegas beginning June and might try to see if I can get a couple of mint racks of 1's.....great thread.
On a similar note, what are currently the best Vegas casinos to visit to harvest mint $1's (both because they have a $1 chip and those on the floor are new). Given the life of a chip, I'm assuming some are much better than others depending on when their new chips have hit the floor.
 
I can't show you my harvest pron from 15 years ago. :rolleyes:
Well it is the only pic I know of that my mom ever took of me at harvest and it was handy on this computer.......

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Harvested these playing 2-4 limit at the Flamingo back February. Just picked them out and pocketed them as I played



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Went to Bally's and New York New York and got some straight from the cashier. Told them straight up that I wanted them for my home game in Kansas. Bally's sent me to the poker room and after some discussion they agreed, I told the gal I would giver an extra $20 to sort some nicer ones, she agreed and said to give her 15 min. Done. Gave same story to NYNY cashier and he called the manager over, and manager said he would go in back and check to see if they had any NIB......they did. Awesome. Tipped them $20 as well. Here they are. The Bally's are going to need a bath but are excellent shape.
 
went to Vegas over the weekend for my little bros bachelor party, and ended up getting in a little bit of poker while they were effin off at the pool. got coolered in NLHE at caesars so headed over to the flamingo for some limit with the sole intention of harvesting spotted ones. Sat down at the table and start chatting with people and old guy next to me (regular that I recognized form being there in Feb) seems pretty cool notice he has about ten spots in his stacks so I ask him if I can trade him straight across for them and he says "sure but why" so I explain to him about my home collection and that I want them for that. Gal next to me (later find out she's a dealer at the Aria) starts busting my balls about taking his chips, I can tell she is totally perplexed and doesn't believe me about my chip collection, so it just so happens I have pics of my chips on my phone (I know right) and show them to her...amazingly she is impressed and actually notices my hot stamp quarters and comments on them too. Next thing I know she is digging through her stack and trading me her spotted ones now, and between her(kelly) and cool old dude (john) they start asking the whole table to trade out spotted chips to me, no shit here but John is sitting in 6 and some guy he knows is in 10 and they are actually tossing chips accross to each other over the "area of play" I can only imagine the guys in the security room looking at this table wondering WTF is going on "we got people passing chips to each other around the table for the last ten minutes, and NOW they are through them over the table," So we clean out all of the table and few players come and go over the next two hours and we get a few more ones out of fresh racks showing up, so John asks me to see "one of those spotted chips", and gets up and walks away, Kelly is amazed I gave him one and didn't throw a fit when he walked away with it. well he comes back about four minutes later with nine more, and says "i just bought these from the gal at the poker desk and tipped her a dollar, she's pretty nice and I bet you could get her to go through the cabinet and get a 100 if you give her a tip." so we exchange chips again, and I say that is a hell if an idea so I go ask her and she says do you need them now..... i say no not for another hour..... she says OK. So I play a little longer and get to use the restroom and go grab a set of souvenir cards and ask if the can put them in a big sack, and head back to the poker room, sit down and play for another 30 min and go up to the desk and check. She has a disappointed look on her face and says she can only find 99.....I say that's close enough...she says are you sure and I give her $120...she says that's too much...I smile and wink at her and tell her she earned it. I head back to the table, they (the players at the table) all see me coming and they are all smiling (I am too) I set the chips on the ground for a few minutes and then slip them in the bag. 6 hours after I initially sat down I got up to go, the players at the table were happier than pigs in shit that they helped me in my quest, and any one around me shook my hand and wished me good luck.

Gotta love Flamingo 2/4 limit......this day was one of the funnest games I have ever played

I cashed out down about $40 (I was surprised because I thought I was playing fairly tight however there were a lot of distractions at the table on this day).....

we were staying at the Mirage so I had snag a couple of racks from the cashier and put them on top and them taped the shit of them (I bought a small tool of packing tape from home just in case this came to fruition

I guess you guys deserve some pRon after that book I just wrote

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ended up with 172 range from Good to pretty beat up

Got pulled to the side by airport security and told they want check my bag, I immediately tell them that is probably the chips, they so OK but they still have to check it. The show me the X-ray image....little cylinders all lined up with a bunch of phone charging and headphone wires overlaid on top in the image....well you can imagine what that looks like....they check it, swab it and tell me to have a safe flight home. My dad was standing there and later said I was lucky there weren't 20 little red laser dots on me... LOL

Oh yeah turns out I had all of those chips in my pocket from harvesting at the table........72 that didn't get cashed in.....looks like I was actually up $72 not down $40
 
Got pulled to the side by airport security and told they want check my bag, I immediately tell them that is probably the chips, they so OK but they still have to check it. The show me the X-ray image....little cylinders all lined up with a bunch of phone charging and headphone wires overlaid on top in the image.
I have a feeling that happens in Vegas more often than you might think. I made a Spinnetti's run and picked up a case of double dice chips that are great when the bust outs want to play their own games or my kids want to "play poker" and I don't want to have a care in the world about the chips. Those went into my seriously overweight suitcase. I fully expected to get the TSA love note thanking me for doing my part to keep air travel safe by letting them search my bag, blah blah, but there was nothing.
 
Are all the Paulson chips the same thickness and width, regardless of mold or what casino they come from etc? For example, will a $1 Aria have the exact same dimensions as a $1 NYNY chip?
 

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