Services Sale of Classic Poker Chips Completed!! (8 Viewers)

shorticus said:
Would make for a great $2 limit set
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My limit set is a brownie the elf set. It's kinda dumb amazing.
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David Spragg said:
Just to clarify a few things. Mike has been a CPC customer for over 10 years. I have had lengthy conversations with him over the two months leading up to the completion of the deal.

My criteria for selecting the best offer (we received 4 competitive offers) was not $$ based, it was for the 'candidate' I felt provided the best chance of being successful in keeping CPC going, especially with what happened with ASM Las Vegas.
Over 50 people expressed an interest in buying CPC and 7 of them got as far as participating in the factory tour. (the 4 offers came from those). Each person had to demonstrate their vision for taking CPC forward. There will be a transition period of at least 9 months, and this will continue until Mike and I are comfortable with everything.
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Thanks Dave. This says alot about who you are and what we all knew you stood for. It has been a pleasure to work with you the last 2 years. Sounds like Mike was a great choice. Best wishes for whatever lies ahead.
 
Good morning PCF! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Amirault and, yes, I am the new owner of CPC. While I have been a CPC customer for over a decade and have placed a half dozen orders I am essentially an outsider of the chipper community. My PCF registration date probably already gave that away!

I realized before I purchased the company - and even more so now - that I essentially bought into a Public Trust. There is definitely a sense of community ownership of CPC. I plan to uphold that trust.

My goals for the company are simple:

1) Sustain or increase product quality
2) Substantially decrease time for order production. Instead of ‘x months’ I want ‘x weeks’ or even ‘x days’.
3) Modernize and simplify the web and ordering experience
4) Visibility into your order status
5) Upgrade the entire experience to be reflective of the premium product we’re producing
6) Don’t do anything that breaks goal #1

There will be a transition period before we can roll out most of the changes. Most changes won’t be visible until late summer or early fall. Please be patient as we work through the process and be assured that behind the scenes there is a lot going on to setup the company for the next 20 years.

I greatly look forward to producing all of your beautifully designed chips.

thanks,
Mike

ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
 
CPC_Mike said:
Good morning PCF! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Amirault and, yes, I am the new owner of CPC. While I have been a CPC customer for over a decade and have placed a half dozen orders I am essentially an outsider of the chipper community. My PCF registration date probably already gave that away!

I realized before I purchased the company - and even more so now - that I essentially bought into a Public Trust. There is definitely a sense of community ownership of CPC. I plan to uphold that trust.

My goals for the company are simple:

1) Sustain or increase product quality
2) Substantially decrease time for order production. Instead of ‘x months’ I want ‘x weeks’ or even ‘x days’.
3) Modernize and simplify the web and ordering experience
4) Visibility into your order status
5) Upgrade the entire experience to be reflective of the premium product we’re producing
6) Don’t do anything that breaks goal #1

There will be a transition period before we can roll out most of the changes. Most changes won’t be visible until late summer or early fall. Please be patient as we work through the process and be assured that behind the scenes there is a lot going on to setup the company for the next 20 years.

I greatly look forward to producing all of your beautifully designed chips.

thanks,
Mike

ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
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7) Add an 8V spot
8) Update yellows

Ha.. kidding.. plenty of other things to do before we hound you for those. :) Welcome!
 
CPC_Mike said:
Good morning PCF! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Amirault and, yes, I am the new owner of CPC. While I have been a CPC customer for over a decade and have placed a half dozen orders I am essentially an outsider of the chipper community. My PCF registration date probably already gave that away!

I realized before I purchased the company - and even more so now - that I essentially bought into a Public Trust. There is definitely a sense of community ownership of CPC. I plan to uphold that trust.

My goals for the company are simple:

1) Sustain or increase product quality
2) Substantially decrease time for order production. Instead of ‘x months’ I want ‘x weeks’ or even ‘x days’.
3) Modernize and simplify the web and ordering experience
4) Visibility into your order status
5) Upgrade the entire experience to be reflective of the premium product we’re producing
6) Don’t do anything that breaks goal #1

There will be a transition period before we can roll out most of the changes. Most changes won’t be visible until late summer or early fall. Please be patient as we work through the process and be assured that behind the scenes there is a lot going on to setup the company for the next 20 years.

I greatly look forward to producing all of your beautifully designed chips.

thanks,
Mike

ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
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Welcome!

Everyone here will gladly help you and give you advice!

Everyone here will though give you mostly different advice but it comes from a good place!
 
CPC_Mike said:
Good morning PCF! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Amirault and, yes, I am the new owner of CPC. While I have been a CPC customer for over a decade and have placed a half dozen orders I am essentially an outsider of the chipper community. My PCF registration date probably already gave that away!

I realized before I purchased the company - and even more so now - that I essentially bought into a Public Trust. There is definitely a sense of community ownership of CPC. I plan to uphold that trust.

My goals for the company are simple:

1) Sustain or increase product quality
2) Substantially decrease time for order production. Instead of ‘x months’ I want ‘x weeks’ or even ‘x days’.
3) Modernize and simplify the web and ordering experience
4) Visibility into your order status
5) Upgrade the entire experience to be reflective of the premium product we’re producing
6) Don’t do anything that breaks goal #1

There will be a transition period before we can roll out most of the changes. Most changes won’t be visible until late summer or early fall. Please be patient as we work through the process and be assured that behind the scenes there is a lot going on to setup the company for the next 20 years.

I greatly look forward to producing all of your beautifully designed chips.

thanks,
Mike

ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
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Thats one hell of a first post. Welcome to the community!
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CPC_Mike said:
Good morning PCF! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Amirault and, yes, I am the new owner of CPC. While I have been a CPC customer for over a decade and have placed a half dozen orders I am essentially an outsider of the chipper community. My PCF registration date probably already gave that away!

I realized before I purchased the company - and even more so now - that I essentially bought into a Public Trust. There is definitely a sense of community ownership of CPC. I plan to uphold that trust.

My goals for the company are simple:

1) Sustain or increase product quality
2) Substantially decrease time for order production. Instead of ‘x months’ I want ‘x weeks’ or even ‘x days’.
3) Modernize and simplify the web and ordering experience
4) Visibility into your order status
5) Upgrade the entire experience to be reflective of the premium product we’re producing
6) Don’t do anything that breaks goal #1

There will be a transition period before we can roll out most of the changes. Most changes won’t be visible until late summer or early fall. Please be patient as we work through the process and be assured that behind the scenes there is a lot going on to setup the company for the next 20 years.

I greatly look forward to producing all of your beautifully designed chips.

thanks,
Mike

ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
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I for one welcome our new clay overlord. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
Cratty said:
7) Add an 8V spot
8) Update yellows

Ha.. kidding.. plenty of other things to do before we hound you for those. :) Welcome!
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I've got 5 kids. Saying 'no' is par for the course. I also umpire baseball games so I'm used to having half the people think I make the best decisions and the other half thinking I'm a complete idiot.

Once we get #1's-6 addressed we'll get moving to more of the fun stuff. I love making stuff, tweaking it, perfecting it, starting again. Gonna be a fun ride!
 
CPC_Mike said:
Good morning PCF! I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Amirault and, yes, I am the new owner of CPC. While I have been a CPC customer for over a decade and have placed a half dozen orders I am essentially an outsider of the chipper community. My PCF registration date probably already gave that away!

I realized before I purchased the company - and even more so now - that I essentially bought into a Public Trust. There is definitely a sense of community ownership of CPC. I plan to uphold that trust.

My goals for the company are simple:

1) Sustain or increase product quality
2) Substantially decrease time for order production. Instead of ‘x months’ I want ‘x weeks’ or even ‘x days’.
3) Modernize and simplify the web and ordering experience
4) Visibility into your order status
5) Upgrade the entire experience to be reflective of the premium product we’re producing
6) Don’t do anything that breaks goal #1

There will be a transition period before we can roll out most of the changes. Most changes won’t be visible until late summer or early fall. Please be patient as we work through the process and be assured that behind the scenes there is a lot going on to setup the company for the next 20 years.

I greatly look forward to producing all of your beautifully designed chips.

thanks,
Mike

ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
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Congrats and welcome to CPC.

2 questions:

1. Will Ewing mold remain available?
2. Will CPC production/logistics be moving to the PNW?

Follow-up to #2: if the company moves to the PNW, will you be hiring for logistics/billing/etc or any of my skill set? :sneaky:
 
Saoliver said:
Congrats and welcome to CPC.

2 questions:

1. Will Ewing mold remain available?
2. Will CPC production/logistics be moving to the PNW?

Follow-up to #2: if the company moves to the PNW, will you be hiring for logistics/billing/etc or any of my skill set? :sneaky:
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1. Yes
2. Can't comment at this time although someone has certainly done the math.
 
CPC_Mike said:
ps. That Hendon Mob bio is not me. I live in Woodinville, WA. They have me confused with a different Mike Amirault. Although that $1400 *was* from a tournament that I cashed in.
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Really glad to have you aboard! You’ve set many a mind at ease on this forum. Maybe that Mike Amirault is your evil twin?
 
How the #*^@ did I miss this post on Friday??? Yeah I was busy with some data analysis work, but it's not like I didn't visit PCF!!

Mike, congratulations on the purchase of CPC. From the few posts you have made here, it's obvious that you aren't just a chipper like the rest of us, but you also have a vision for the future of CPC. Like everyone else, I'll watch with anticipation for what you do with the company once your "training period" is complete.

David, thanks for everything that you and David did to rescue the company from the near fatal disaster that was ASM Vegas. Over the last decade, your steady hand at the helm brought countless brilliant customs to the group, myself included. You brought in new colors, spots and molds for us to work with and use. It's clear from your post in this thread, you had a vision for the kind of buyer you wanted to hand CPC off to and it sounds like you were lucky to have many to choose from.
 
Congrats… My only suggestion would be to offer more enticing off-the-shelf options — preferably with an option for either in-house inlay options, or blanks that buyers can create their own labels for (with @Gear or Sticker Mule etc.).
 
Taghkanic said:
Congrats… My only suggestion would be to offer more enticing off-the-shelf options — preferably with an option for either in-house inlay options, or blanks that buyers can create their own labels for (with @Gear or Sticker Mule etc.).
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Compression molded clay chips can't be made with recesses for applying your own inlays. Because inlays are inserted into the blanks before pressing it makes it inefficient and expensive to hold too many off-the-shelf options.
 
David Spragg said:
Compression molded clay chips can't be made with recesses for applying your own inlays. Because inlays are inserted into the blanks before pressing it makes it inefficient and expensive to hold too many off-the-shelf options.
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Mill, baby, mill!
 
David Spragg said:
My criteria for selecting the best offer (we received 4 competitive offers) was not $$ based, it was for the 'candidate' I felt provided the best chance of being successful in keeping CPC going
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I think this right here is the most comforting tidbit of news.

One final act of greatness to chippers.
 
chipinla said:
We need pics of your sets!
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All right, since you demanded so nicely.... But now that I own the Chocolate Factory I'll have to revert to being the mysterious Willy Wonka.
Here were the first chips I had made 11 years ago. Our cash game chips in front and tournament chips behind. The chips are fairly basic and design isn't my specialty. Fortunately, I'm now a manufacture and not a designer! We've used these chips weekly for about a decade and they still look brand new.

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We play in a barn at my house that I renovated so the home game is called the Poker Barn. There's a ghosted image of the Barn on the inlay. As you can tell, the 5000 tournament chip and $100 cash chip don't match the sets. I had these done recently to test out some ideas. I absolutely love the pink dayglo color and I think I like the 7/8 inlay size better as well.

Here's some of the other things I built. As you'll quickly realize, yes, I'm obsessive. I believe if somethings worth doing it's worth overdoing.

This was the first poker table I built almost 20 years ago. Yes, those are Bicycle cards and chips. We now only use Copag cards.

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While I loved the look of the racetrack I quickly learned to hate the utility of it. It made way too much noise when people shuffled chips on it and I certainly didn't want to encourage drinks on the table with the cup holders. But I made the center section so it could be replaced with different surfaces to try out. I'm not sure what felt this one was in the picture but I eventually settled on 'gaming suede'. There's nothing better. I also designed it so the entire railing can be replaced and I built a bunch of different railings with different fabric to find the best.

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This was with the 'speed cloth' center section. Speed Cloth has too rough a feel for me.
The next version got rid of the racetrack, widened the rail, and used better material, added a card shuffler and added LED lights. The lights are fully configurable with software I wrote and in tournaments I can have them automatically flash at the end of levels, etc.

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But the shuffler was too loud, had to be constantly filled, and got in the way of the cards so I removed it.

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Still wasn't perfect. Too many folks at my home game suck at dealing and would have a lot of trouble dealing from seats at the end. So I built a round table.

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This is what we currently use. It can hold about 10 people but it gets uncomfortable with more than 8. I built it around the max size of gaming suede I could get. It's much simpler for folks to deal and pots are generally within arms length for folks. the biggest thing it's missing is a Poker Barn logo. Like I said, design ain't my thing.

Okay, the Mustang. Classic Mustangs are my favorite cars. When I turned 50 my wife bought me a 1968 Mustang as a restoration project. I had never welded, done any real automotive work and had never painted.

I stripped it down to nothing and cut out all of the rusted parts.

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Then rebuilt it completely

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It took me about 5 different choices of red before I found one that liked. Remember this when I'm crafting a new yellow!

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Then I did infinite spray outs to perfect my technique and learn the best methods for sanding that would give the best shine

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The result:

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Okay, that's all you get. Back to being Willy Wonka!
 

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