I started with some old chips passed down from my grandparents for my home poker games. I thought it would be cool to add $1 chips from my travels to the game as conversation pieces plus they looked cool. Then I started to collect some $5 and thought maybe it wasn't such a good idea to play with them any more. We usually had all chips .25 plus $ bills. And now 1000 or so chips later.... well you all know how it ends up.*vbg*