Casino chip collections
 

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Just a random thought, does anyone collect a dollar chip from every casino they go to? Just wondering as I have a few and thought it might be cool to have a big diverse pile to look at someday....

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I take 1 dollar chip from everywhere I play poker at. I dont take one from every casino I go to.

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I often like to take a pink, rather than $1, although the last new place I was at, the pinks were baby blue.

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I have about 150 different 5.00 and 25.00 chips from various places on the East Coast and from Vegas. Only a few 1.00 chips.

One of my good friends in CT has over 1500 different chips. .10 all the way up to obsolete 500.00's

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There's a good club for people who like to collect chips.

http://www.ccgtcc.com/

There are a lot of collectors out there. Just check eBay to see how many are being sold.

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I keep a $1 or $5 chip from every casino I've won at. I've been to 30 casinos and so far I have 2 chips.

I use the first $5 chip I won in Vegas as a card cap in my home games. I finish down every time I forget to bring it.

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the last new place I was at, the pinks were baby blue.

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Baby blue is the new pink...

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There's a good club for people who like to collect chips.

http://www.ccgtcc.com/



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My friend has been a collector for years. I know about that site and the chip board site.

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I do this, but I have a pretty small collection...right around 60 chips. California, Reno, Tahoe, Vegas + surrounding, and Atlantic City.

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I've been collecting $5 red chips (primarily) from all the casinos I've visited. For many years I played blackjack, and recently started playing poker.

But I've got 150+ chips from all over the world. They're about 80% Paulsons, but lots of Chipcos and some Bud Jones, and some other types from foreign casinos. For some places that have commemorative chips in addition to their regular chips, I've been a sucker and kept some commems, too. In fact, yesterday I did some "drive by" collecting at 2 casinos in California on the way to a meeting -- just ran in and got a chip cause I didn't have time to play. Not as much fun, but I got some more chips!

I put a chip in my pocket when I get my first stack, then take it with me when I leave. If I only kept a chip when I won, I wouldn't have nearly as many (like JerseyNick)! So some of those $5 chips cost me quite a few bucks, but then some of them paid me to take them. But all in all, they're pretty cheap souvenirs.

Over the years I've picked up some $1, $2.50, and other small denoms, too. It's a fun collection, and I get to look back and see some cool places I've visited.

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When I went to Vegas for my Honeymoon in 99 the wife and I got a $1 chip from 40 casinos. We bought a poster of the vegas strip and took it to a frame shop. They glued all 40 chips around the outside of the poster and framed it very nicely. It now sits on the wall in our dining room and is the coolest thing I own.

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