PERSONAL HARVESTING STORIES

LIGHTHOUSE POINT GREENVILLE, MS

By:RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER

LIGHTHOUSE POINT IS LOCATED IN GREENVILLE, MS. NANCY AND I WERE ON THE WAY TO HOUSTON OVER A THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY. SO WE HIT ALL OF THE RIVERBOAT CITIES ALONG THE WAY TO NEW ORLEANS AND WEST.
WHEN YOU BOARDED THE LIGHTHOUSE POINT CASINO, YOU HAD TO NEGOTIATE SEVERAL CATWALKS AND WALKWAYS. IT WAS QUITE A LITTLE TRIP FROM THE PARKING LOT TO THE RIVERBOAT ITSELF.
THIS PARTICULAR MORNING, LITTLE DID I KNOW; BUT I WAS IN FOR A SURPRISE. THIS WOULD BE MY SECOND AND LAST VISIT TO LIGHTHOUSE POINT CASINO. BECAUSE, 2011 IT BECAME THE TROP CASINO.
BY NOW FOLKS SOME OF YOU HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO MY DESCRIPTIONS OF MORNINGS IN THE CASINOS. THIS IS WHAT WAS HAPPENING, THE CRAPS DEALER AND BLACKJACK DEALER KIBITZING, THE PIT BOSS READING THE PAPER AND DRINKING COFFEE. PICTURE THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS EXACTLY THE WAY I REMEMBER IT WHEN COMING ABOARD THE LIGHTHOUSE POINT CASINO.
I WALKED UP TO THE CRAPS TABLE AND ANNOUNCED THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BUY SOME CHIPS FOR MY COLLECTION AND TRADING WITH OTHER COLLECTORS. THE TWO DEALERS LOOKED AT EACH OTHER THEN LOOKED OVER TOWARDS THE PIT BOSS WHO HEARD IT WHAT I SAID AS WELL, THEN; THEY ALL SMILED. THE PIT BOSS SAID I JUST BROUGHT OUT SOME UNUSED ONE DOLLAR CHIPS AND PUT THEM ON THE TABLES EARLIER THIS MORNING. I SAID CAN I HAVE 20 OF THE $1 CHIPS AND A COUPLE OF THE COMMEORATIVES. THEY SAID IT IS YOUR LUCKY DAY. I WAS IN AND OUT OF THERE IN LESS THAN A HALF AN HOUR. I STUCK AROUND AND TALKED THE HOBBY AFTER I HAD BOUGHT THE CHIPS. USUALLY IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND. YES, I DID GET ENOUGH CHIPS THIS TRIP. AND I STILL HAVE A COUPLE OF THOSE MINT $1 CHIPS…REGGIE
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