Welcome to the hobby. Just a word of advice, you will get more responses if you use your real first name when posting here.

If you haven't done it yet, please consider join the Casino Collector's Association, it's a great club that does out reach to publicize the hobby and publishes an incredible quarterly magazine.

Info here: http://www.ccgtcc.com/membership.html

They also have a good page of information and advice on how to collect here: http://www.ccgtcc.com/reference.html

Good luck!
- Bob