HARVEST ADVENTURES FROM AN ADDICTED CHIP COLLECTOR

BY RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER
SOME PEOPLE HAVE COMPULSIONS TO GAMBLE, SOME TO AMASS FORTUNES AND OTHER’S, THEY JUST LIKE TO WRITE STORIES; YEAH, THAT WOULD BE ME. I WAS NEVER VERY GOOD AT IT ; BUT I HAVE DONE IT OVER THE YEARS JUST THE SAME.
IF ANY OF YOU WANT ANY INSIDE INFORMATION ON ANY CASINO THAT I’VE BEEN TO, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TELL YOU WHAT I CAN.
REGGIE

PERSONAL HARVESTING STORIES

DEADWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA

By:RICHARD “REGGIE” GUMMER

DEADWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA IS A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE FOR ANY CHIP COLLECTOR. IT CONJURS UP THE FEELING OF THE OLD WILD WEST THE MINUTE YOU ARRIVE. AND IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT FEELING THEN IT WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU, BY THE SHOOT OUTS ON MAIN STREET BY THE LOCAL THEATER PLAYERS. I HAVE BEEN THERE SEVERAL TIMES. MY HARVESTING EXPERIENCE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME.
THREE THINGS COME TO MIND. THE FIRST IS WHEN I DISCOVERED HOW TO GET THE PEACOCK CLUB CHIPS. THAT WAS PROVIDED BY A LOCAL THAT OFFERED THE INFORMATION FROM BEHIND A BLACKJACK TABLE. HE SAID, SIMPLY JUST GO INTO MUSTANG SALLY’S AND ASK FOR THEM. I DID AND THE CASHIER PULLED OPEN THE BIG SAFE’S DOOR AND SAID HOW MANY DO YOU WANT? http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=SDDEPC
THE SECOND WAS A RAINY NIGHT AT THE SALOON NO. 8. THE ONLY POKER GAME GOING WAS “BUTTONS CHOICE” BETWEEN HOLDEM AND OMAHA. I THOUGHT I WOULD PICK UP A FEW HANDS, NOT MUCH LUCK FOR ME, THE LOCALS KNEW EACH OTHER AND I DIDN’T. LATER ON DURING THE NIGHT A WELL HEELED GENTLEMAN STUMBLED IN AND ANNOUNCED, I WILL GIVE $50 FOR A SEAT. SOMEBODY STOOD UP AND SAID YOU CAN HAVE MINE FOR $50. AND THEN ALL HECK BROKE LOOSE, HE PLAYED EVERY HAND BET EVERY ROUND AND ENDED UP WINNING ABOUT 3-4 HUNDRED DOLLARS, AT THAT POINT HE PUSHED ALL OF HIS CHIPS TO THE DEALER, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO DIVIDE IT EVENLY WITH THE OTHER DEALER. I NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE. http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=SDDESN
THE THIRD WAS THE MOST RECENT, AFTER WALKING FROM CADILLAC JACKS TO THE FRANKLIN HOTEL COLLECTING ONLY WHAT WAS NEEDED, I SETTLED INTO A TAME HOLDEM GAME AT THE GOLD DUST. WHILE TALKING TO THE DEALER ABOUT COLLECTING CHIPS I WAS INTRODUCED TO ONE OF THEIR MARKETING PEOPLE. I WAS INFORMED THEY WERE ABOUT INTRODUCE A NEW $2 CHIP IN A FEW WEEKS. I ALSO, WAS INFORMED THAT IF I LEFT MY NAME AND ADDRESS THAT THEY WOULD SEND ME ONE, COMPLIMENTARY. THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL AGAIN. THEY ACTUALLY SENT IT TO ME AND IS IN (somebody’s collection) TODAY. http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=SDDEGD
LOVE THOSE SOUTH DAKOTA CHIPS…REGGIE