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General Discussion / Bug report: Numeric overflow o...

Last post by Sanford Moskowitz R-9455 - Mar 10, 2026, 12:24 PM

I seems that the denom field on ChipGuide has a numeric overflow for values ≥1B.

Probably not a big issue since very few chips would have such crazy values, but thought it would be good to report the bug just in case! I've been curious about extremely high denom chips and noticed this.

Screenshot attached.

#2

General Discussion / Meet & Greet starting in 10 mi...

Last post by Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin) - Mar 09, 2026, 05:42 PM

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#3

Events / It’s Nomination Time for the 2...

Last post by TWar - Mar 08, 2026, 05:21 PM

Howdy Fellow CCA'ers,

Can you believe it?  It's that time of year again already!  Do you have some favorite casino collectibles released in 2025 that you have been eager to nominate for an OTY award?  We are officially opening our annual OTY nomination period, so I hope you all selected some great pieces that you think deserve the coveted honors, so please send me your nominations! 

For any of our new CCA Members that have joined since our last contest, the OTY Awards ("Of the Year") are an annual tradition that started in 1990 and is proudly continued today.  Each year our membership nominates casino collectibles in 3 specific categories that they believe qualifies as the best collectible released in the previous year, and then our members vote to decide which nominees are the final victors.  The winners are announced at our annual convention in June at our traditional OTY Awards Ceremony.  In addition, a Club archive collection of previous winners are showcased on display in the CCA exhibits during the convention for all to enjoy. 

If you would like to join in the fun and participate in OTY nominations, please review the contest rules below:

As a reminder the 3 open nomination categories for the CCA OTY Awards are:
1. Chip of the Year (COTY).
2. CCA Silver Strike of the Year (SSOTY).
*As a point of clarification, this is the CCA Silver Strike contest.  There is a separate annual award contest held by the Silver Striker's Club which often causes some confusion. I am a member of both clubs, if you enjoy collecting Silver Strikes and are not a current club member, I encourage you to consider joining the Silver Striker's Club.  You can find additional information or complete a membership application on Silverstrikers.com if you are interested in exploring membership.
3. Slot Card/Room Key of the Year (CKOTY).

Here are our current nomination rules:

• To submit CCA OTY nominations, you must be an active CCA member in good standing.
• Your choices for nominations must have been released in a casino in the year 2025 to be eligible for the contest.
• Nominations are limited to 3 eligible casino items per member, per category.  You may nominate less if you wish.
• Nominations must be received by the deadline to be counted, prior to midnight (CST) April 5th, 2026.
• Please submit all nominations through email only.  If you would like to submit a nomination and do not have access to email, please reach out to a fellow CCA Member that can submit your nominations on your behalf.
• Any items that were not released in 2025 will not be considered valid and will be disqualified from nominations.
• After the nomination period has closed, I will share our finalists in April, along with details on our voting process to choose the final winners that will be announced in June at the 2026 CCA convention.

If you need help reviewing options to choose your nominees, here are some helpful tips on locating images of chips, silver strikes, room keys, & player's cards that were released during 2025:

If you'd like to review 2025 COTY casino chip options to nominate:

You can Search the ChipGuide website for new releases.
1. Go to the The ChipGuide. (www.chipguide.com).
2. Click "ChipGuide Query Facility" from the options under the "Features" section on the left side of the page.
3. In the filter section, for Casino Status, select "Open".  There are 2 filters that you will need to check, for Collectible Type, choose "Table Chips", the Date Range needs to be "Equal", and finally type "2025" in the Date 1 section.  Then click "Query".  After you review the options presented from your first search, you will need change the Collectible Type filter to "Limited Edition Chips" and click "Query" again to see the remaining nomination options.
 
**Take note of the "Issued" date to make sure your choice is eligible.

To review eligible 2025 SSOTY silver strikes nominees, access each of the following links online:

•   https://www.silverstrikers.com/Web/Catalogs/SilverStrikes/Nevada/PlazaLVnv/Plaza-LVnv-Page-12.php/
•   https://www.silverstrikers.com/Web/Catalogs/SilverStrikes/Nevada/FourQueensLVnv/Four-Queens-LVnv-Page-27.php/
•   https://www.silverstrikers.com/Web/Catalogs/SilverStrikes/Nevada/FourQueensLVnv/Four-Queens-LVnv-Page-33.php/
•   https://www.silverstrikers.com/Web/Catalogs/SilverStrikes/Nevada/FourQueensLVnv/Four-Queens-LVnv-Page-50.php/

**Pay special attention to the "Issued" date to assess item eligibility.

To browse player's cards/rooms keys that were released in 2025:

1. Go to the The ChipGuide. (www.chipguide.com).
2. Click "ChipGuide Query Facility" from the options under the "Features" section on the left side of the page.
3. In the filter section, for Casino Status, select "Open".  There are 2 filters that you will need to check, for Collectible Type, choose "Player's Club (Slot) Cards", the Date Range needs to be "Equal", and finally type "2025" in the Date 1 section.  Then click "Query".  After you review the options presented from your first search, you will need change the Collectible Type filter to "Room Keys" and click "Query" again to see the remaining nomination options. 

• Again, please reference the "Issued" date to confirm nomination eligibility.

Credit for these images go to our fellow collectors that are members of both the CCA & Silver Striker's Club that love our hobby and kindly submitted them to both the Chip Guide & to the Silver Striker's Club for sharing on the websites.  Since both websites rely our fellow collectors for image submissions, every piece released in 2025 may not be represented at this time.  If you notice that a favorite item of yours that was released in a casino in 2025 is missing from any of the search queries, you are still welcome to nominate the piece for the 2025 CCA OTY Awards contest. Please send a scan of missing item when you submit your completed nomination form for eligibility verification.

I have 2 different email addresses that you may send your nominations to:
OTY@CCGTCC.com & link2179@juno.com.   

Please submit your 2025 CCA OTY nominations in the following ballot format below (You can copy and paste this table if you wish):

Don't forget, your name & CCA Member number must be included!

CCA Chip of the Year (COTY)
   Casino Name                  Denom.   Description   City/Locale   State/Country
1.               
2.               
3.               
CCA Silver Strike of the Year (SSOTY)
   Casino Name                  Denom.   Description   City/Locale   State/Country
1.               
2.               
3.               
CCA Slot Card/Room Key of the Year (CKOTY)
   Casino Name                  Description   City/Locale   State/Country
1.            
2.            
3.            

If you were unable to attend our convention last year or are unaware what pieces took the crowns for 2024, the attachment shows are our OTY winners as announced at our 2025 convention.

I hope that all CCA members will enjoy this year's contest and send in a nomination!  Please stay tuned for additional 2025 CCA OTY Award updates in our newsletter, future issues of the CCA Casino Collectible News, and on our chat boards as well.

See you in June!
Trey Warren
CCA OTY Chairman

#4

General Discussion / Re: New club auction details

Last post by Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin) - Mar 08, 2026, 03:19 PM

AUCTION IS FULL (with some exceptions and request for feedback):

My thanks to everyone who stepped up to donate lots to this year's auction.  At this time, I'm considering the auction full.

HOWEVER, I would gladly make room for additional non-chip items such as silver strikes, chip sets (large/full sets, not like just one each of $1, $5, $25 chips from a casino), ashtrays, dice, slot machines, etc.

It is at this time that I would like to announce that The Atlantis Casino in Reno Nevada has agreed to donate 2 ROULETTE WHEELS to our organization to be auctioned off.  I'll do one this year and one next year.  These are brand new, never used wheels still in the box.  They are the wheels only, not full tables.  I don't believe they have the Atlantis logo.  I've peeked into one box and nudged one into a slow spin (feels awesomely smooth) but haven't taken them out.  I'm just waiting on Atlantis execs to provide conditions of the donation (they want to make sure we don't sell them to buyers in states that don't allow personally owned gambling devices, for instance).  Once I have that, I'll pick them up, take some pics, and add one to the auction catalog.  I will probably make it the last item up for bid.

I was also thinking of peppering the auction with some club items like bundles of old magazines (we will have full-year bundles of back issues for sale at the club table, subject to availability), pins, and other items.  Or a 2027 convention package that would include a grab bag of 2027 stuff: show registration, 2 night stay at the SouthPoint, convention pin, Tshirt, raffle tickets, banquet ticket, etc.  Do you like these ideas or does it take away from "the good stuff"?

-- barry

#5

General Discussion / New club auction details

Last post by Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin) - Mar 08, 2026, 08:46 AM

I've come up with a multi-faceted buyer's premium table that incentivizes live bidding, paying in cash, and of course, club membership. I'll go into a few details below.

Lowest premium is same as previous years - come to the auction in person, be a CCA member, pay in cash - 10% buyer's premium. Best value.

Highest premium - Bid remote (online), be some rando person with no club memberships, and pay by credit card - 20%. Pretty standard BP in spite of all that.

Lots of combinations in between. I'm allowing those with bona-fide memberships in affiliated hobby clubs to get 1% off their BP. It's not a lot, but hey, let's recognize support for our hobby no matter where it is, shall we? Of course, joining the CCA nets them an extra 4% discount, so...

Bona-fide clubs include those that are organized with a 501(c)3 or 501(c)7 status, have a paid dues structure, and focus on casino related collectibles, including: Silver Strikers Club, SNCC

Having an account on a website, facebook page, or other unincorporated, non-dues-paying entity will not qualify for a discount. Best to join the CCA to maximize that benefit anyway.

We're up to 157 items and I have 2 shipments coming with unknown quantities of items. I will also be perusing the list of items I inventoried from the club's storage units for donations that some club members said they made specifically to be in the auctions but were not labeled as such in storage. I'm going back to Vegas at least twice before the convention and should be able to pull everything while there.

Question: In the past, we've had 20 items in the silent auction on the show floor and ~180 items in the live auction. With post-auction work dropping by an estimated 95% due to using software to do the heavy lifting, how do you all feel about having more items in the auction? And how many? Or more specifically, how late should we let the auction run? One suggestion would be to have the live auction be for the first 200 items, and we'd just let the remaining items take place online (only). Not sure I can flip the switch to auto-pilot like that, but I'll find out if people are interested.

#6

General Discussion / Re: Coming soon (I hope)

Last post by Dan M R-9148 - Mar 07, 2026, 06:14 PM

Close anyway I'd guess.


The AI going to put said "programmers" under sooner than we think. Lol

#7

General Discussion / Re: Coming soon (I hope)

Last post by Dan M R-9148 - Mar 07, 2026, 06:12 PM

It looks like the person is showing output from a script that is scraping or importing forum threads.

What the Output Suggests

The program appears to:
   1.   Fetch a forum page
   •   Found 14 threads on page 1
   2.   Iterate through each thread
   •   The script reads each thread title.
   3.   Import or process each thread
   •   Imported thread: <thread title>

Likely End Game

Given that output, the script is probably doing one of these:

Most likely:
➡️ Migrating or archiving forum data

Examples:
   •   Importing old forum threads into a new forum platform
   •   Creating a local searchable archive
   •   Converting data from one forum system to another

Clues
   •   Repeated "Re:" threads → typical of older forum reply titles
   •   Sequential logging → common in data migration scripts
   •   "Found 14 threads on page 1" → indicates pagination scraping

What the teaser implies

The author is hinting that he wrote a custom script to automatically import old forum content instead of doing it manually.

⸻

💡 Since you work with XenForo / forum software, this looks exactly like a forum importer or scraper used during a migration

for each forum page:
    find threads
    open thread
    import posts into database
    log progress

⸻

If you'd like, I can also show you how someone would write this in Python or PHP in ~40 lines (the type of script this almost certainly is).

#8

General Discussion / Re: Coming soon (I hope)

Last post by Bob Pardue CLM-0003-40 - Mar 05, 2026, 09:13 AM

Something  with the old format message archives, going back to 2010: They're now (or soon?) searchable through the new Forum message board format? Some of those go back to a Doug Smith incentive chip giveaway to new members; a prior year auction results list (including a Kactus Kate and Pop's Oasis chips); likely a discussion about TCR and its 3 authors (SSS) and their respective responsibilities, and other stuff.

So, close enough to win a free South Point hot dog at the Convention?  

#9

General Discussion / Coming soon (I hope)

Last post by Barry Sherwood R-9037 (admin) - Mar 05, 2026, 04:33 AM

Do you know what you get when you elect a software programmer and nerd as your President?  You get a hammer always looking for a nail.  Or in my case, fingers looking for a keyboard.  In this episode, I'm going to tease you with a little output from a program I wrote.  Shouldn't be hard for you to figure out the end game, but I'll leave it to you to discover and discuss...

Found 14 threads on page 1
Imported thread: NEW MEMBER INCENTIVE For 2010...
Imported thread: Re:NEW MEMBER INCENTIVE For 2010...
Imported thread: Re:NEW MEMBER INCENTIVE For 2010...
Imported thread: Re:NEW MEMBER INCENTIVE For 2010...
Imported thread: Kactus Kates and Pops Oasis
Imported thread: Steve, can we make payment via PayPal?...
Imported thread: If you renew online at the club website
Imported thread: "I" Did Jay Sands & David Sarles sell their...
Imported thread: No, but we only have one salesman
Imported thread: ...and one guy who does all the work
Imported thread: Re: ...and one guy who does all the work
Imported thread: Re: ...and one guy who does all the work
Imported thread: Re: ...and one guy who does all the work
Imported thread: Re: ...and one guy who does all the work

#10

General Discussion / Re: Interviewed on the CCA, Mo...

Last post by Bob Miksztal R-8909 - Mar 04, 2026, 05:59 PM

Great publicity for the club, thanks for doing that Charles!