SpaceMonkey420
Full House
The story is long and might even be just crazy. This casino boat was closed off the coast of Florida and sold to a multi millionaire. He paid huge bucks and towed it to his mansion and ranch way up the the Tennessee river. Rumor has it he paid over a million bucks to build just the custom dock. Anyways…. Deep En route to the dock this boat SINKS in the most rural part of the river possible. Like brutal shallow bug infested no mans land. All the locals called it BFE. Anyways, it’s about 4 hours from the closest “gas” or launch soooo Said billionaire hires helicopters to retrieve the 200k worth of diesel engines and leaves the rest to rot. Most the slot machines are still in the river right now. Fast forward a year, Said billionaire goes thru divorce and says he wants nothing to with the boat, has no idea where it is and think it moved from the heavy rains. Local rumor was it was lost under water forever.
Years later A friend of mine who likes to dive actually found the boat. He was fishing and giving guidance on the river for a living. He called me as a chipper friend and….
He dove 15 feet to the third bottom floor and actually found the vault. Once inside he realized It had a HUGE air pocket in it and BOOM All the chips on the “top shelves” never took on water and believe it or not still in racks. THREE dive trips later I ended up with 5,000+ poker chips. They are dated from 1999 and most of the $1 and $25 denominations went to the bottom. There is maybe 2 racks of $25 and all but 60 of the $1 are buried in MUD. Good news is Lots of $5 and lots of $100 in almost perfect shape. Deff the old gritty Chipco. As a fill I have several white “chipco $1 racks” but I really don’t want to sell them as I use them and LOVE them a lot. I’m wondering what to do here. Use my $1 and $25 existing racks and make casino mixed sets? Sell all these cheap by the racks? I have pictures of the boat, and the chips being pulled out, and not much else to document the original story. I’ve only been told it by locals. Wish I had more and any clue what to do with these. I know a lot of ceramic sets that desperately need $100s as a fill (they are times hard to find as casinos that used ceramics used lesser denominations on most occasions) so I’m leaning towards just open rack sales but is this worth keeping this together as history? I guess any wisdom or mockery or anything here would be appreciated. Thanks for looking…. I look forward to reading your replies. Enjoy!
Years later A friend of mine who likes to dive actually found the boat. He was fishing and giving guidance on the river for a living. He called me as a chipper friend and….
He dove 15 feet to the third bottom floor and actually found the vault. Once inside he realized It had a HUGE air pocket in it and BOOM All the chips on the “top shelves” never took on water and believe it or not still in racks. THREE dive trips later I ended up with 5,000+ poker chips. They are dated from 1999 and most of the $1 and $25 denominations went to the bottom. There is maybe 2 racks of $25 and all but 60 of the $1 are buried in MUD. Good news is Lots of $5 and lots of $100 in almost perfect shape. Deff the old gritty Chipco. As a fill I have several white “chipco $1 racks” but I really don’t want to sell them as I use them and LOVE them a lot. I’m wondering what to do here. Use my $1 and $25 existing racks and make casino mixed sets? Sell all these cheap by the racks? I have pictures of the boat, and the chips being pulled out, and not much else to document the original story. I’ve only been told it by locals. Wish I had more and any clue what to do with these. I know a lot of ceramic sets that desperately need $100s as a fill (they are times hard to find as casinos that used ceramics used lesser denominations on most occasions) so I’m leaning towards just open rack sales but is this worth keeping this together as history? I guess any wisdom or mockery or anything here would be appreciated. Thanks for looking…. I look forward to reading your replies. Enjoy!
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