Best Green Chips of All Time? (1 Viewer)

[jbutler]

One constant problem in custom set design for me is the green chip. I can never seem to find one I totally love, particularly in the context of having to work with the (very often) white, red, and black chips I'll also be using with it.

So what are everyone's favorite green chips of all time? Maybe I can come back to this thread for inspiration next time I find myself stuck scrolling through the various spot patterns and colors choices.

One of my favorites is a chip that I didn't like at all the first time I saw it. But once I had some in hand in real life, I realized how great they looked and ever since then, even in photos, they've been beautiful to me.

 

[churlbut18]

I'd love to contribute to this thread, but the pic/choice you posted above in the OP (PCA Secondary $25) would be the pic that I also would have posted... (y) :thumbsupy) :thumbsup:

 

[upNdown]

It's probably not for everybody, but I love how the Dunes baccarat $20 goes with the $1's in my mixed set.

 

[Mr Tree]

Green chips are TOUGH. Part of the problem to me is the color palat that works with them is limited and most color combos feel done to the point of cliche.

 

[MegaTon44]

To most, it's just a hotstamp solid, but to me, it's the $25 from my favorite set (also the highest denom in the set). Soft, leaded Paulson goodness. Extremely difficult to find as well.

 

[acl1904]

PCA secondaries. Pictures don't do them justice.
I also really like these casablancas.

 

[manamongkids]

It's probably not for everybody, but I love how the Dunes baccarat $20 goes with the $1's in my mixed set.
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too bad it says baccarat on it, the regular version is much nicer imo

 

[TheBigTater]

too bad it says baccarat on it, the regular version is much nicer imo

Got a pic of this regular version of a Dunes $20 you speak of?

 

[gopherblue]

 

[jbutler]

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Reading is fundamental.

 

[Poker Zombie]

When I get stuck on a chip color I look for colors that work both with the theme and work well with the base color.

For example:

The first chip in the Zombie Foodie series started with a cheese course. I relate cheese with Wisconsin. I almost cannot think of one without the other. When I think of cheese and Wisconsin, I eventually think of the Green Bay Packers. So yellow and green became a very easy selection for the first chip in the set.


The last chip in the set was going to cap a set where the T25,000 would see little play. I almost wasn't going to make a T25,000, but david informed me that the T5000 was only going to be made in very small quantities. So I built a chip that combined all the elements of our iconic Zombie - Green (his skin) and Pink (his shirt). The center spot ran through Yellow (closest CPC color to gold, which was the spot color and inlay background color on all our original chips) Black (visor color) and Brown (cigar), but when the inlay looked decidedly like nacho dip, we decided to color the chip to look like the Mexican Flag (Green White Red), but retained the Pink instead of the Red.

TLDR - green is tough, but if you can see what you've done, then you will always have a chip that will make you smile.

 

[upNdown]

too bad it says baccarat on it, the regular version is much nicer imo

I like it because it's BIG (43mm) - this is the set I use for .25/.50 games, so the $20 is the biggest chip that hits the table.

 

[jbutler]

I thought that I would be a little annoyed having to use an oversized $20 in a $1/2 big bet game, but when we used @bergs' old Dunes cash set (now @GrumpyCatMalaka's) at BBotB one year for that game, I LOVED shuffling and betting with the oversized $20s. And I couldn't care less that it says baccarat on it.

 

[courage]

$25 can be tough to design, esp in a cash set that starts out with complex spots where fav spot colors are used on the workhorse chips. Here are a couple favs:

 

[jbutler]

@courage I almost included the Cajun Cup quarter in the OP. That's a great one. Maybe I need to break myself of the aversion to using an orange spot on a chip that follows a red chip.

 

[detroitdad]

I'm a fan of my dayglo green sunset chip. I agree @Poker Zombie I worked to get it to fit within the my design.

 

[Ben]

This is probably (ok, definitely) the chip I put the least effort into in this set and didn't expect all that much out of, but in the flesh it turned out to be my favorite of the bunch.

 

[gopherblue]

Reading is fundamental.

Well, it is a $25....

 

[gopherblue]

Better?

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Keeping with the monotone theme of my set, and because green is my favorite color:

 

[rowlin]

Three of my favorite are the Dunes with 818 spots, High Sierra, and Maxamillion. Le Noir are also purdy.

 

[ssanel54]

Since you didn't specify... These are some of my favorite $2 chip

 

[jbutler]

Since you didn't specify... These are some of my favorite $2 chips
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Absolutely wanted all denoms. Green is green.

I put together a set of 600 of those Crystal Park $2s at one point and then could find no more and so sold them off. Wish I'd been successful in getting 1k+ of them.

 

[Toby]

I started a super popular thread to explore favorite combos here:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/base-and-spot-color-inlay-design-reference.14560/

Don't post any replies in the thread tho or you break forum.

Some of my preferred greens are there, e.g.

I like me some green on green action. Also peach, white, some of the brighter purple/lavenders, gray, a bright blue (Peacock, if we're talking CPC, or Light Blue as it's part way blue/gray in some combos).

Gratuitous T1k snaps:

 

[k9dr]

 

[manamongkids]

Got a pic of this regular version of a Dunes $20 you speak of?

was prety certain Bergs cash set had one, I could be wrong though

 

[jbutler]

was prety certain Bergs cash set had one, I could be wrong though

No his was the same oversized baccarat $20 chip.

 

[Ronoh]

One of the reasons I initially decided to go cali colors on my customs was to avoid dealing with red and green base colors... I find both of them very difficult to work with.

 

[ChaosRock]

One of the reasons I initially decided to go cali colors on my customs was to avoid dealing with red and green base colors... I find both of them very difficult to work with.

Totally agree!

 

[mike32]

The pic doesn't really do it justice, but they look great in person.
I believe this chip was also offered in other Paulson fantasy lines.