I joined the cc>cc!!!! It's been fun and I still love collecting chips and other gaming memorabilia, probably more and more each day!!! When I started I really didn't know what specific area I wanted to collect, just Vegas and from my home state of PA, to a newer collector that may seem to be a pretty narrow collection until you realize just how much Vegas stuff is out there, I've since narrowed down to mostly Vegas $1 and my main focus which is getting every possible PA chip out there. I think I may have one of the most complete PA sets out there, except for maybe Al McCurdy, who I would like to give a special thanks to, he has helped a ton with my PA collection!!! I just wish there were more PA collectors out there to help complete our collections!!! Over the past year I've traded, sold, and purchased a bunch of chips from a lot of different chippers, too many to list but I would like to thank everyone, don't think I had one bad experience. I would also like to thanks Charles Kaplan for allowing a newbie help out on the chipguide project, it's been fun and hopefully I'll be able to contribute a lot more once some things in my personal life settle down. I'm looking forward to meeting a bunch of you at the convention!! I can't believe it's only a few days away.

Eric R-8181