Ellis Island, Las Vegas - $5 "Big Game Day"

Gaming Ore · #1 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 11:58 AM

As announced on thechipboard.com by CC&GTCC member and Las Vegas NIS contact, Chuck Smores (aka: The Other General), the Ellis Island Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV has released a Limited Edition $5 chip to commemorate what everyone calls the Super Bowl Game.

Since the NFL strongly guards and defends it's copyrighted property, the term "Super Bowl" cannot be used with paying for it. There is a history of casinos issuing "Super Bowl" chips and having the NFL issue threatening cease and desist letters. The three have been the Tropicana, the Four Queens and Circus Circus. Most casinos use the terms: Big Game Day or Super Sunday for their commemorative issue chips for the Super Bowl.

(scan courtesy of http://thechipstop.com/chuck.html )

Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis

dajebriza · #2 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 12:42 PM

Interesting history and legality lesson, thanks Ore..

Man that Casino is a hole. Anyone ever stopped in there? I visited it to try to get a couple $1 chips but they wouldn't sell them to me at the cage, claiming they didn't have very many and they were not for sale to take out of the casino. It was dingy and very worn inside.

shadow520 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 12:45 PM

Yeah, it's second rate for sure, but the $4.95 steak dinner in the restaurant is a heck of a deal! It's not on the menu, you have to ask for it, but it's a deal. We get it at least once, mostly twice, everytime we go to Vegas.

Gaming Ore · #4 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by shadow520

Yeah, it's second rate for sure, but the $4.95 steak dinner in the restaurant is a heck of a deal! It's not on the menu, you have to ask for it, but it's a deal. We get it at least once, mostly twice, everytime we go to Vegas.

I know people that go there once a week just for that! They don't play and leave as soon as they are done, but are known as regulars!

I'll have to try it one of these days.

J(GO)F

dajebriza · #5 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 06:21 PM

That's a good bit of Intel! I'll have to remember that, thanks!

deuces empty · #6 (**permalink**) 02-05-2007, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by shadow520

Yeah, it's second rate for sure, but the $4.95 steak dinner in the restaurant is a heck of a deal! It's not on the menu, you have to ask for it, but it's a deal. We get it at least once, mostly twice, everytime we go to Vegas.

They also have $1 pints of their own micro brew and $1 blackjack mon-fri!

dajebriza · #7 (**permalink**) 02-05-2007, 09:16 PM

Woo hoo, it gets better!! Hole in the wall, here I come!

Gaming Ore · #8 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dajebriza

I visited it to try to get a couple $1 chips but they wouldn't sell them to me at the cage, claiming they didn't have very many and they were not for sale to take out of the casino.

I understand that NevadaCasinoChips has a couple of racks of uncirculated $1's. I know that getting them at face value is better, but if you want them uncirculated, give Andy a call.

http://www.nevadacasinochips.com/

J(GO)F