Some cool info about Vegas catholics

It depends what you count as a casino. I grew up in Las Vegas and there's slot machines in most grocery stores and gas stations. Also the airport has slot machines. If that counts as a casino then there's hundreds if not thousands.

But there aren't 150 catholic churches in Las vegas

There are the BIG casinos, which only take up a finite space, but there are also little casinos pretty much everywhere you look. Even gas stations will have slot machines. That's true of most of nevada, tbh.

Sure, but that one took a lot of work to get there lol

While gaming tokens do turn up in the collection plates of Las Vegas churches, those churches (Catholic or Protestant) don't all send them out to a "nearby Franciscan monastery" for sorting and redemption by designated "chip monks." Churches generally accumulate gaming tokens until they each individually tab one or more of their workers to take the chips around to casinos and redeem them for cash.

It is true that one church in Las Vegas, the Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer, once had a Franciscan friar on staff who made the rounds of casino cages and thus, in the fashion of the joke, he was dubbed "the chip monk." Church Employees tasked with handling chip redemptions at various Las Vegas-area churches are sometimes also referred to as "chip monks" in furtherance of the joke, but they are neither real monks nor are they employed by monasteries that sort and redeem the tokens.