By the way, these Cleveland Horseshoe chips are awesome (1 Viewer)

[upNdown]

Amid all the crazy scrambling for the 43mm chips and the snappers, I've almost forgotten how great this sale was.

I've only been in the chip market for 3-4 months. When I found this site and found out how cool and available Paulsons are, I was excited. Then I was dismayed at the cost and effort it would take to actually assemble a decent Paulson set. Trying to find a few racks of $1's and $5's for a home game wasn't easy or affordable. Then these things came along and BAM!
Not only are chips available, not only are they in decent condition, not only are they actually good looking chips, but oh yeah, they're a fraction of the price.

Can't let the chip-envy over those higher denomination chips cloud the fact that this sale has put a lot of good looking chips into the hands of poker players like me, either new to the chip market, or poor and/or stingy.
Very cool stuff.

 

[GoStumpy]

Absolutely. The $1's clean up to be a stunning white. The primary $500's are just gorgeous. And my $25k primary chip capper ran my $140 into $603 last night at a 1/2 game

 

[mummel]

PICS!

 

[catalyzeme]

I agree. The reality is, if you wanted real mint casino $500 chips a couple months ago, you were going to be looking at probably $10-20 per chip. Then Jim dumps a ton of mint $500 chips at around $3/chip and now we complain that we have to pay $10-20 per chip for the $1000 chips. I don't even remember a $5000 chip being available in quantity except for maybe Winner's Club (which I find pretty hideous), and now there are a ton of forum members have barrels of them, and we are all complaining that there aren't enough.

I've been collecting for about 3 years at this point and before Cleveland Horseshoe I had exactly one barrel of a Paulson casino chip higher than a $100 denomination. Now I have 3+ racks of $500s, 3 barrels of $1Ks, a barrel of $5Ks, and 5 $25K chips.

The amount of complaining about scarcity and price of these chips on this forum has been frankly ridiculous, since Jim basically just gave us the most abundant set of these high denoms that's ever been dumped to the public as far as I can tell.

Plus, it's a great set from the dollar all the way up. Really nice looking chips, good condition for casino-used, and secondaries to boot. Jim hit it out of the park with this one.

 

[BGinGA]

I agree. The reality is, if you wanted real mint casino $500 chips a couple months ago, you were going to be looking at probably $10-20 per chip. Then Jim dumps a ton of mint $500 chips at around $3/chip and now we complain that we have to pay $10-20 per chip for the $1000 chips. I don't even remember a $5000 chip being available in quantity except for maybe Winner's Club (which I find pretty hideous), and now there are a ton of forum members have barrels of them, and we are all complaining that there aren't enough.

I've been collecting for about 3 years at this point and before Cleveland Horseshoe I had exactly one barrel of a Paulson casino chip higher than a $100 denomination. Now I have 3+ racks of $500s, 3 barrels of $1Ks, a barrel of $5Ks, and 5 $25K chips.

The amount of complaining about scarcity and price of these chips on this forum has been frankly ridiculous, since Jim basically just gave us the most abundant set of these high denoms that's ever been dumped to the public as far as I can tell.

Plus, it's a great set from the dollar all the way up. Really nice looking chips, good condition for casino-used, and secondaries to boot. Jim hit it out of the park with this one.

Nice accurate summary post. There are a few other sets with quantities of high denominations ($1000 and $5000), and NONE of those are cheap by any standard (PNY, Ritz, Aztar spotted tourney chips). Like nearly all ChipRoom procurements, this one was an incredibly good offering and affordably priced.

The chipping community at large would be much less happy/satisfied with their old recycled chip sets without the hard work done by Jim and his legal team to bring us stuff we could only dream of owning previously. Thank you @TheChipRoom !!

 

[Forty4]

I was in the position that I just assumed I would never own a Paulson set. I now have a set that I'm sure I'll never let go of. I won't say I'm done because I still find myself looking at this site way more than I should. I would have liked to get the high denoms for a tourney set but may in a few weeks I'll get an actual tournament set.

 

[Max D]

I agree. The reality is, if you wanted real mint casino $500 chips a couple months ago, you were going to be looking at probably $10-20 per chip. Then Jim dumps a ton of mint $500 chips at around $3/chip and now we complain that we have to pay $10-20 per chip for the $1000 chips. I don't even remember a $5000 chip being available in quantity except for maybe Winner's Club (which I find pretty hideous), and now there are a ton of forum members have barrels of them, and we are all complaining that there aren't enough.

I've been collecting for about 3 years at this point and before Cleveland Horseshoe I had exactly one barrel of a Paulson casino chip higher than a $100 denomination. Now I have 3+ racks of $500s, 3 barrels of $1Ks, a barrel of $5Ks, and 5 $25K chips.

The amount of complaining about scarcity and price of these chips on this forum has been frankly ridiculous, since Jim basically just gave us the most abundant set of these high denoms that's ever been dumped to the public as far as I can tell.

Plus, it's a great set from the dollar all the way up. Really nice looking chips, good condition for casino-used, and secondaries to boot. Jim hit it out of the park with this one.

that is a good post(y) :thumbsup:, I have been trying to understand the craze about the horseshoe chips:, I love the way they look, but this was a good post to explain the passion around the higher denomination one.

Thanks(y) :thumbsup:

 

[DrStrange]

I am sitting in my chair laughing . . . . DONE with buying chips, got all I need! Pffffff, don't talk silly talk. Next time we get a buying opportunity from the ChipRoom we will all get in line.

I remember the good old days when we got a new sale every two or three months, even then we didn't get the itch scratched.

 

[dew4au]

Yeah, you really do need to appreciate this sale. Great looking chips, mint chips, oversize, 5k and !25k! It pretty much had everything. Even some of the long timers seem to lose memory of the Bahamia sale with what seemed like 150k $5s and $25s with 400 $500s, 2000 $100s, and 1000 $1s. Combine that with no purchase limits that led to massive amounts of eBay scalping and it created a hostile witch hunt environment.

Yeah, this sale has been a dream.

 

[upNdown]

Even some of the long timers seem to lose memory of the Bahamia sale with what seemed like 150k $5s and $25s with 400 $500s, 2000 $100s, and 1000 $1s.

Also those are some of the gaudiest God-awful chips ever produced.
In my humble opinion, of course.

 

[whforde]

In a matter of minutes and for less than 1 dollar per chip I went from owning exactly 0 Paulsons to having 400 5s and 320 25s. Half way to a dope t1000 set that I'll cherish for decades.

I just need to secure a rack of 100s and half a rack of 500s and my set is basically feature complete. With the prices I paid for the workhorse chips I have no problem paying more for the 150 chips I need.

This sale was amazing for me. I have no idea how Jim does it but I'm glad he does. That said, if anyone has any primary 100s or 500s for sale I'm in the market

 

[GoStumpy]

I ultrasonic'd two racks of 5's and a couple barrels of 25's tonight while watching episode 11 of WSOP...

I love how the water turned red within SECONDS of starting the ultrasonic.. definitely some foreign red clay on those babies!

After cleaning them I had another look at my $1's that I ultrasonic'd...

Put them under a really bright light and noticed they still have a very slight red on the faces.

Tried 2 barrels in Oxyclean and they are SPARKLING white now! Definitely something to check out if you haven't yet, the whites can get BRIGHT!