Spinetti’s doesn’t offer chips to the casinos, which order specially made ones with sensors implanted in them for counting as required by Nevada gaming officials. It’s very unique - I don’t think anywhere else in the world.” “You can get a brand new set of chips or you can get a set from the Nevada Club in Reno that’s a real set of chips, used in the casino. “It’s a candy store for real gamblers,” Melander said. Its inventory includes about 7 million chips, 300,000 decks of cards and 20,000 pairs of craps dice. Twenty years later, business is still good for new and vintage poker chips and retired poker and blackjack decks at Spinetti’s warehouse and store at 810 S. “That’s really when the business grew exponentially.” “Everyone and his mother wanted to be poker stars and everyone wanted to play poker at home,” said Mikko Melander, 40, co-owner of Spinetti’s Gaming Supplies in Las Vegas. It was a time when games like Texas Hold ’Em became a sensation.

(Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) was 2003 when an amateur poker player with the ironic name of Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker. The family-owned business has been providing Las Vegas with casino memorabilia and gaming needs for decades.

Poker chips embedded in concrete foundation salvaged from the demolition of the Frontier Hotel & Casino are on display at Spinetti Gaming Supplies on Tuesday, Sept.

Retired casino poker chips