Several day ago, I said when I received my 1500th chip for my collection (excluding traders), the person who sent it to me would get a drink at splashbar3.

I went to the post office today and there was a ton of chips there for me. I still did not expect there to be enough to get me to the magic number. I opened the packages containing chips I bought first (so I could check them against what I ordered, These were:

The Karli's, who sent me 9 wonderful chips (thank you).

Jim Munding, who sent me two great harrahs odd values.

John Zoesch, who must have hand delivered the Indian casino chips they got here so fast (5 more). John was the first person I did a trade by mail with. THanks buddy.

That left me within 9 chips of the magic number. I received personals from my friends:

Eric Rosenblum
Ron Lammer
Steve 'The Whiner' Bedo
Charles Kaplan

I also received in trade chips from these wonderful folks:

Jim Steffner-3 great chips including a Stardust CIC. What shall I do with that?

Dennis Shoop-who sent me a great chip I wanted in exchange for two Stardust CICs, since I only had one in my traders, good thing I got another from Jim.

and Finally two fun chips from Von (still waiting for my nominee for COTY to arrive ).

Since one of them is going out as a trader, that makes it exactly 1500 chips. But who do I owe the drink to? I have picked a number between (and including) 1 and 10. Each of the folks who are listed in this email have till next Monday at noon my time to select their number, first come first served. Winner is entitled to drinks at one of the Harrah's diamond lounges.

Thank you all.