I guess saving a chip from the poker room I played in is the real start of my chip collecting. At the time I did not think of it as collecting. My real chip collecting started with snappers in those days it was just Nevada, so I thought well this will be easy with just a few snappers to collect. The 4 Queens is probably the first casino poker room I played in over 50 years ago. One time I was playing and there was a power failure, complete darkness.