The last weeks I spend a lot of time with designing a custom ceramic set. The base idea is:
- single table tournament set
- 43mm ceramics
- chipco style; white ring on the outside; no edgespot alignment
I almost pulled the trigger on these
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-beach-chipco-tournament-set-abc.41337/
when they were available at the classfields. How ever. I realized that I don't need that many chips. In general I like it when the design of a tournament set has elements like Palms, the Ocean and so on. I think I am not the only one who likes to be reminded at a sunny place far away from daily live. A couple of years ago I visited the little Caribbean Island Dominica. While I have visited in the meantime many other places Dominica still stands out in many ways. An island that is covered with jungle, beautiful white beaches, wild black beaches, many many waterfalls, beautiful coral reefs and very friendly residents. And at least when I visited the island no mass tourism and no big hotels.
Regarding style I am into chipco ceramics like "The Beach" and Empress Star https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/favorite-casino-chipco-sets.49248/post-923928
and less into ceramics who mimic Clay or Plastic chips. My design got also a white ring and is without edge alignment.
First printing on paper is not bad. Only the colors of the T500 were not as expected.
I will leave the design as it is for a couple of weeks/ one month. If I still like it I will try to edit the grafic with the toucan/ leaves so that it looks a bit cleaner.
I am not that happy with the lettering "Dominican Poker Series". If you have an idea let me know
I will order at BrPro as it seems to me the best option on quality and communication. I already put enough hours into that project that I am willing to pay that extra money. I also shuffeled a couple of BrPro ceramic blanks @NeoViny23 place. Loved them. How ever I assume that the chips will feel different when printed.
A couple of thoughts regarding Breadown & Blind Schedule:
T25 based, Starting Stack T5000
1 rack of T25s
1 rack of T100s
1 rack of T500s
Blind Schedule will be
25/25
25/50
25/75
50/100
75/150
-- coloring up the T25s --
100/200
100/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
-- coloring up the T100s --
1k/2k
1,5k/3k
Why no 1ks? I am not huge fan of 500s and 1ks mixed in the same stack.
The schedule let each player start with 200 Big Blinds. The first 5 levels are heavily based on T25s what I like.
Players will not start with the same amount of chips per denom. Instead I will give out all of the T25s than all of the T100s and than fill up with the T500s until everyone got 5000 in chips.
Thanks for reading. Happy to hear your comments.
- single table tournament set
- 43mm ceramics
- chipco style; white ring on the outside; no edgespot alignment
I almost pulled the trigger on these
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-beach-chipco-tournament-set-abc.41337/
when they were available at the classfields. How ever. I realized that I don't need that many chips. In general I like it when the design of a tournament set has elements like Palms, the Ocean and so on. I think I am not the only one who likes to be reminded at a sunny place far away from daily live. A couple of years ago I visited the little Caribbean Island Dominica. While I have visited in the meantime many other places Dominica still stands out in many ways. An island that is covered with jungle, beautiful white beaches, wild black beaches, many many waterfalls, beautiful coral reefs and very friendly residents. And at least when I visited the island no mass tourism and no big hotels.
Regarding style I am into chipco ceramics like "The Beach" and Empress Star https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/favorite-casino-chipco-sets.49248/post-923928
and less into ceramics who mimic Clay or Plastic chips. My design got also a white ring and is without edge alignment.
First printing on paper is not bad. Only the colors of the T500 were not as expected.
I will leave the design as it is for a couple of weeks/ one month. If I still like it I will try to edit the grafic with the toucan/ leaves so that it looks a bit cleaner.
I am not that happy with the lettering "Dominican Poker Series". If you have an idea let me know
I will order at BrPro as it seems to me the best option on quality and communication. I already put enough hours into that project that I am willing to pay that extra money. I also shuffeled a couple of BrPro ceramic blanks @NeoViny23 place. Loved them. How ever I assume that the chips will feel different when printed.
A couple of thoughts regarding Breadown & Blind Schedule:
T25 based, Starting Stack T5000
1 rack of T25s
1 rack of T100s
1 rack of T500s
Blind Schedule will be
25/25
25/50
25/75
50/100
75/150
-- coloring up the T25s --
100/200
100/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
800/1600
-- coloring up the T100s --
1k/2k
1,5k/3k
Why no 1ks? I am not huge fan of 500s and 1ks mixed in the same stack.
The schedule let each player start with 200 Big Blinds. The first 5 levels are heavily based on T25s what I like.
Players will not start with the same amount of chips per denom. Instead I will give out all of the T25s than all of the T100s and than fill up with the T500s until everyone got 5000 in chips.
Thanks for reading. Happy to hear your comments.
