Gila River casinos in Arizona - Same chips or different? (1 Viewer)

[MainEventCTB]

Hello all. New poster, hope this is the right place to post it.

I'll be in Phoenix for about 24 hours this weekend and was looking to hit up as many casinos as possible to collect some chips. Almost every picture I've seen shows a generic 'Gila River Casino' design.

In the interest of saving time, does anyone know if every Gila River casino has the same chips? So if I visit one, I don't need to go to the others? I also collect any special edition chips, so finding those would be worth going out of my way.

 

[Phoe9x]

Not from Arizona, but you can look at the chip guide on the museum of gaming history’s website and search for all the casinos in that area. That should give you a good idea as to the chips they use. I highly doubt multiple casinos use the same chips.

Link to the chip guide: http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_home2.php

 

[allforcharity]

I highly doubt multiple casinos use the same chips.

Sometimes they do. Harrah's and Harvey's casino use (or as of a few years ago, used) their chips interchangeably, because they are owned under the same umbrella and the casinos are connected.

I also have some private card room chips from Montana that used almost identical inlay shape and colour (but different logo) among two co-owned properties.

 

[bergs]

Seeing this late, but there are both generic chips and property specific.

Lone Butte, Wild Horse Pass, Santan Mountain, and Ves Quiva all have their own chips. They are Paulson house mold chips.

Both Casino Arizona properties (CAZ 101 and Talking Stick) share ceramic chips. Pretty boring.

Harrah’s Ak-Chin is 45 min south of Phoenix in Maricopa and has table games and blackjack but no poker with their own plastic chips.

We-Ko-Pa in Fountain Hills also has shitty plastic chips. This is the former Fort McDowell property that did have clay Paulsons.

There are some properties north of Phoenix in the mountains with clay chips (example - Cliff Castle Casino). These are going to be micro small properties that have table games going later in the day.

Tucson has a couple properties as well with clay chips (Casino Del Sol) but no poker.

Desert Diamond has 2 properties west of Phoenix that have ceramic chips. Their Glendale property has a banging O8 game that goes on weekends.

Lone Butte and Talking Stick also have poker. The other properties are table games and slots.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

Tucson has a couple properties as well with clay chips (Casino Del Sol) but no poker.

Del Sol has poker, but they use Chipco's in the poker room.

 

[Frogzilla]

When I was at Gila River wild horse pass this year there were like 3 or 4 different versions of each chip in play. so I think the best answers to your questions

-yes they use different chips
-but you may not have to go to each of them to get them all.

 

[upNdown]

This reminded me of this picture @AK Chip posted, where the cash chips he was given as payment for a tournament win came from two different properties.
I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from this other than that maybe nobody cares about $1 chips.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/tourney-cash.85689/post-1758543