I'm going to defer this question to @Nanook actually. I think he may know more than me on this one.
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They got introduced in the pit about they time they started offering baccarat. I assume there must be some 30-1 wager, not being a baccarat expert. Poker players started trading for these instead of cashing out stacks of $100 bills in the higher stakes games.
Close....
Ah. That makes sense. If the racing commission isn't going to allow $500 wagers, there's no need for them to ever allow a $500 chip. So $300 was the next best idea.
Lol, again close....
Based on this reference: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/bud-jones-chip-reference.79/
they look like BJ S2 chips. They don't look anything like the V7 chips in the reference and they look exactly like the S2 chips so that is what I thought they were. One would think that the guy ordering chips would know what type of chips he was ordering so something seems off. I am not sure what it is, the reference or the guy ordering chips.
For what it is worth, here is my pic of the lineup minus the $10 which is brown and the $300 which is white. If anyone cares I can post a pic of those chips too, but I'd have to grab 1 of each the next time I am there as I do not have a pic handy. It seems to me like it is pretty easy to pick out each of the CP chips from the Reference guide S2 page, but I don't see any on the V7 page that look anything like the CP chips. What do I know... Pretty much nothing
Thanks for the help and excellent pics. Do those come in at around 12g then? Curious about the weight as my memory says they were nice and hefty. I think the V7s are only 10.5g or something.I'm going to defer this question to @Nanook actually. I think he may know more than me on this one.
I have always been under the impression they were S2, but I haven't met the VP of Casino operations believe it or not.
FWIW, here is a chip I got in 2018 that lost it's inlay, so I'm not sure if that helps you figure it out.
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I will say, regardless of which line their chips belong, the room is now 23 years old and it's been the same chips all along
I used to be one of those guys
. I closed my box in March of 2020 knowing they were going to shut down soon. It was two days before they closed their doors.
I'll weigh a stack and post the results
Big Bossman told me this maybe 2 weeks ago
Most here aren’t plastic fans, but I always have been. I substituted CPs in my weighted S2 set.
That is a fantastic set and hits all the right buttons
This is very intriguing. The weighted S2 line shouldn’t be this light. Arent SJ intercontintals v7 and come in at that same weight?
The Intercontinentals are weighted S2s.
Look at the shapes on the mold of the SJ Intercontinentals, they sure look like S2's to me too. Here are a couple pics of 10 of each of the $1's and $2's from CP which, as others have said sure look like they are S2's. Weight pic from the reference I linked above too. Not an exact match, but I suppose my scale could be off. idk, but weight lines up more with weighted S2's than anything from the V7 line too.
really clears things up for me! I found Tomb1's word doc explanation on here https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/bud-jones-informational-thread.17609/#post-321725Look at the shapes on the mold of the SJ Intercontinentals, they sure look like S2's to me too. Here are a couple pics of 10 of each of the $1's and $2's from CP which, as others have said sure look like they are S2's. Weight pic from the reference I linked above too. Not an exact match, but I suppose my scale could be off. idk, but weight lines up more with weighted S2's than anything from the V7 line too.
dang those chips are freaking awesome. The size of the inlay makes me think they could be V7s, anyone else know?
That would actually explain a lot, and the tournament set is somewhat recent, like mid-2010s I believe. The Cash chips have been the same since 2000.
For many years in MN the max bet on any blackjack table was $199 because it allowed the casinos to have one floor person for every 4 tables, had it been a dollar more, state law required the ratio to be one floor for every two tables. So it was an effort by Mystic Lake at the time to reduce labor costs. At some point years ago, the limit was raised to $300. Max betting for baccarat is $300 per spot, but that rules has a hilarious loophole. Each player is allowed to wager 3 spots for a total of $900 per hand. But wait, there's more. At every bacc table there are what I call squirrels. These guy sit and wait for a big player who wants to bet the whole spread. He can achieve this by giving 3 $300 chips to a few squirrels and once they touch the chips and place the bet, it's now their wager. If the big player wins, it's customary to throw the squirrel a green for their service.
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