Neal...Mike had a hard time convincing the Orleans to even have a chip for the convention. Hopefully, they will be convinced now. With over 90 dealer tables its easy to say they may have been able to purchase a lot of the chips. Most had less than 4 when I looked through the books etc. If you had a spouse you could probably get 8 (mine was out shopping) etc. I'm not a dealer just a collector who's oberservations were that with the attendence of collectors & growth of the club 1000 chips dosen't go very far. 250 collectors purchasing 4 chips ea buy the run. There were a lot more than 250 people at the trade session on Aug 12th when the announcement was made that the chips were available.