Spent about a year on the startup of Chipguide Europe, being me the administrator in charge (October 2011 - then the order number of chipguide was about 45,000, being now 95,000 - is the great work of all chipguide administrators and all who contribute with their precious information) I have been especially thank all those who contributed to that Europe chipguide have now almost ten thousand items, I I think.
This was possible with the special contribution of all these friends:
SPAIN- Manuel Blesa (839), Carlos Oller (484),Fran Alejandre (101), Marc Fontbona ( 66), Daniel Torres, Robert Jamaers Pino ( 93); GERMANY - Klaus Seifert ( 158), Björn Zabel ( 106). Heino Bohringer (107),Thomas Kuhr ( 139) ,Wolfgang Wollborn ( 59); FRANCE- Jean-Claude Taddei ( 637); GREAT BRITAIN-David Spragg ( 976); CROATIA- Drazen Damjanovic ( 108); LITHUANIA- Denis Starinyn ( 189); PORTUGAL- Jaime Salgado (52) and myself (3775); from USA the bigger contributor for Europe was Leonidas S.Tan ( 747) who make possible to have now registered a lot of casinos and chips from Russia and ex USSR countries. Lots of other friends from US had contributed to Europe chipguide, some with dozens of contributions (I hope I did not forgot anyone, and if that happens I'm so sorry ): Tim Harry, Roy Klein, Terry Schaffer, Doug Smith, Bruce Key, Lee O´dell, Dennis Berry, Charles Kaplan,Virgil Foss, Tony Inzerillo, Al Scalzo, Jeremy Kriegel, John Benedict. Vic Galante, John Genualdi, John Chamberlain,Jordi Badia Roig, Desmet Jeremy, Gary Acquistapace, Robert Eisenstad,John Kalmann, Alan Borenstein.
Note: The numbers of contributions can include some contributions for other geographic areas.
For all of you many thanks and MERRY CHRISTMAS.
I wish the next year will be great for everyone and please continue to contribute.
All other friends are welcome with their contributions.