Casino chip collecting is the practice of intentionally taking casino chips (also called “checks”) from Casino premises or trading or collecting online, or in person, for the purpose of collection. Casino chip collecting is a variety of exonumia, or coin collecting. Before it became a more serious hobby, casino chip collecting was simply a case of people keeping them as souvenirs from a casino they may visit. The biggest boost to the hobby came with the creation of the online auction site eBay. eBay has now become the most popular way to collect and trade casino chips with listings in the casino category regularly including over 20,000 items for sale

If you are really interested in collecting Las Vegas casino Chips then better to start visiting as many casinos as you can so that you can have a wide range of variation of casino chips. It is recommended to pick up a dollar chip from each and every casino. You should give some more time to Hard Rock casinos as they are really release the chips constantly and release chips of their upcoming events and musical acts as well. You can even purchase such casino chips as anything can be purchased in this global world. The collection of casino poker chips is a very new in the queue of hobbies. This is a crazy hobby and has its effect on all over the world. This is really an increasing hobby. Collecting Las Vegas casino chip is a very innovative and popular hobby among the gambling mongers as well as many people who are not at all related with casino and gambling but they are very much attracted to this hobby and find him very much interesting. Many people are involving in this collecting hobby day by day all over the world. Most of them start this hobby by accident but the attraction and the process make them habituated in collecting the chips.

Las Vegas clubs such as the Moulin Rouge, El Rio and Carver House. Pete Rizzo, Casino Chip Collector
Rizzo won’t sell any of the chips in his collection, but he does trade duplicates. When The Venetian opened, he headed for the cage and purchased 40, $5 grand-opening chips. Within 16 hours, he had traded them to fellow collectors. “I could have gotten rid of them in eight hours,” he said. “Everybody wanted them.” But the growing popularity of chips on the Internet, particularly those sold on the eBay Web site, has its pitfalls. Rizzo said too many people deal nearly worthless chips to unsuspecting buyers. “There are some greedy people out there,” Rizzo said. “Like in any hobby, you have to be careful. Not everyone is honest.”
Like any collector, Rizzo dreams of finding the mother lode of forgotten chips. Somewhere out in Las Vegas is an old man or woman who went to the Flamingo opening and stuffed a couple of chips in a drawer. “I know they are out there,” he said. “I’d just like to see them.”