In 2001, I interviewed Larry Long, then owner of the Regency Casino, Laughlin, NV. At the time he was doing redemption duties of the closed Regency and I spent several hours with him at the emply casino, doing an interview for a planned article for the Club's Magazine, entitled, A Tale of Two Closings.

During the interview, Larry took me to a back room and showed me boxes and boxes of Regency Casino dice, chips, playing cards and the like.

"Being a collector, I asked Larry what he was going to do with the Regency chips and he said that he too was going to make them available to the chip collecting community, by bringing them (and other residual material from the other Soper casinos) to the various chip shows."

If I'm not mistaken, his wife inherited the Soper operations and he was involved with closing them. (That part is very fuzzy!) But I did see all of the Regency stuff, which I don't think has hit the collector's market. Larry was retiring and planning to move to Oregon and taking the casino memorabilia with him.

Here is a link to the article, which juxtaposed the closings of the Regency Casino (owner retirement) and the Sports World Casino on the Vegas Strip (owner bankruptcy/refinancing).