Good Morning Fellow Chip Collectors:

Since my time is short on this world, I would like to know if any of you have figure out who the chip horder(s) in the community are? In particular the 21st Anniversary chip of the Nevada Palace ($2.50) chip. Others are out there but that is the one that comes to mind.

For me, I like to play with my chips as does my dad. You gentlemen can have you higher end stuff, $10.00 face and up, and the higher rated chips and stuff them some where no one else can see them. By showing to the generations to come, others will be interested. Since I was born in the 60's I missed most of the mob connections, but made it a point to learn about it (Darn that is interesting).

Over half of the joy is getting the darn thing and they playing with it :-) As my dad start to list all of my chips (of which their are about 2,500 +/-) I can garentee they are slab free and have been fontlened.

I do have one "U" chip in my collection. Guess what I paid for it. Zero, Zip. A old pit boss from the 60's - early 70's gave me three of them. The two are in our collections, the third was traded for a value up to "H" value. I got screwed but we have shared.

In this past month or so, people that I haven't seen in years have wished me luck with my cancer and asked why I helped them earlied on. To last count, 5 are dealers, one is a pit-boss at the Tropicana.

I have been given a very rare chance to right some wrongs. I will be lucky to see next summer, but I hope like hell I do. I have decided that there are people out there who were nice I shunned. I am trying to find those and appoligize. To others, they were complete idiots, and yes I hope they make it

Let me leave you with one final idea. If you don't like what the person believes in, ingore them (don't buy their chips). Even if they are a&*()(*, they still have good quailties in them (in the chip communtity again). Murders and Gang Bangers, I doubt. Make them suffer in the wallet, not in the ridduling. Post their names so we all know, don't call them an idiot for all to read (e-mail is still semi-private).

THANKS FOR READING AND LISTING FELLOW CHIPS COLLECTORS

Richard Staeffler (Dick's son and damn proud of it)