After all the favorable feedback over the past several months I've gone ahead and totally reorganized the Slot Card Guide for the next release !

First of all the name will be changing from "The Slot Card Price Guide" to simply "The Slot Card Guide" since it's now much more than a price guide. It's a small change in the name but it reflects a huge change in the information included.

With all the work we've done adding scans of thousands of slot cards on the ChipGuide, the next Slot Card Guide will tie that all together with the CG#'s added for every card we've added on the ChipGuide and those CG#s at the end of every entry will be hot links. If you click on one of the listed CG#'s in the slot guide you'll get the scans of the front and back of that card in your web browser. Additionally, every casino name is a hot link that will display the entire ChipGuide listing for that casino, showing slot cards, roomkeys, chips, etc. And every state, province and country name in the slot guide is also a hot link that will display the list of casinos from that area.

But the biggest change is that all US casinos are now listed together in one area alphabetically by casino name within each state, with the states listed alphabetically. So all the land based, riverboat and Indian casinos as well as card rooms and racetracks are now listed together. The Cruise Ship section still remains for now since that includes both US and foreign entries and many are roomkeys that were also used in the onboard casinos, so it seems to make sense to keep it separate for now.

The Canadian cards were moved from the foreign section into a new section just for Canadian cards and those are listed alphabetically by province, similar to how the USA cards are now organized. And again, all the different types of casinos were merged into one place, including the Canadian racetracks.

There's been a lot of reorganization throughout the guide involving cards that were used at multiple locations, such as some of the early Argosy cards, which are now listed in one place in the Universal Slot Cards section or what the ChipGuide refers to as Casino Management listings. There were a lot of areas were the slot guide and/or the ChipGuide were reorganized to get things in sync or to simplify how things were listed. Hopefully this makes finding things a whole lot easier once you get used to the new format. The biggest advantage of the new integration is that you can use the slot guide to search for anything you're trying to find and then click on the CG# to see the images and check if that's the card you're looking for. It's something the slot guide and ChipGuide couldn't do by themselves but together they now can!

On the ChipGuide, we've finished all of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand slot cards as mentioned awhile ago. We're now working on the slot cards from other countries as time permits. The slot guide and the ChipGuide slot card listings will continue to evolve as we finish up the rest of the world on the ChipGuide, not to mention all the new additions to areas already finished as they come in.

One last thing -- I'm also going to change the way the Slot Card Guide is distributed -- so more news on that in a separate posting.