My Virtual Personal Chip

Ever since this personal chip thing started, I've struggled with whether to have a chip of my own made. It's a pretty cool idea to use a chip like a business card, especially since that's what a lot of the early casino executives did. And having submitted a design for the last CCGTCC convention, I knew I could come up with a design.

And, even if I couldn't come up with a design on my own, I could always use Debby Meister, who has volunteered her skills to dozens of chippers wanting personal chips.

Still, the money kept holding me back. I'd much rather spend what it would cost to have personal chips made on actual casino chips to add to my collection than on having a personal chip made. And, the more the personal chip craze kept growing, the less and less I wanted to have one made.

The Chip Board, the online chip-collecting hangout, began to fill up with posts that weren't about collecting casino chips anymore, but instead all about personal chips. It seemed to me that collectors were spending so much time on trading personal chips with other collectors that I wondered if they were interested in casino chips anymore. I even whined about it in this blog.

I knew I was missing out on lots of fun from trading personal chips with other collectors, but the way I saw it that only added to the expense of having personal chips made. Not only do you have to pay to have the chips made, but then you've got the postage expense of mailing your chip to dozens of other collectors.

Still, my ego cried out for a personal chip of my own. What kind of chip collector was I if I didn't have my own unique individual chip? Eventually, the weight of my own obscurity was too much to bear.

I sat down at my computer and designed my own Virtual Casino Chip. At this point, I have no plans to actually pay to have this chip produced, but it's now my digital calling card when I post on The Chip Board. And, I no longer have to suffer from chip-envy when I see other folks posting pictures of their personal chips.

If you'd like to add my personal chip to your collection, just right-click and save a copy. That way, it will save us both postage.