“I think the reaction oftentimes is, ‘I didn’t know there was one. on the second Tuesday of the month at El Cortez Hotel and Casino.īrad Smith, the club’s publicity chair, said many locals don’t even realize the social group of gaming and history aficionados exists.

(Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) likely hundreds of thousands of poker chips inside the Gold Coast’s California ballrooms, and to some, their value is priceless.Ĭollectors and dealers from the Southern Nevada Casino Collectibles Club showed off their poker chips, tokens, drink stirrers, card decks, matchbooks and more on Friday, the first day of its first memorabilia show.Ĭlub leadership hopes showing off the history of old Vegas will encourage more people to join or visit a meeting, which is held monthly at 6 p.m. The Southern Nevada Casino Collectibles Club hosted the show. Eric Freedner, who travelled from Sun Valley, California, smiles while sifting through poker chips during a memorabilia show at the Gold Coast hotel-casino on Friday, Sept.

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