Controversial Chip & Poker Opinions (13 Viewers)

[Stufflymcstuff]

We also have two tone $2 coins.

Lucky for you - I recently harvested a rack. Excellent condition (sharp edges) thc denom mold with polar bear inlay for only $2.4/chip (usd).

 

[Machine]

I've thrown out my $100 chip for $75 chips, but I've also embraced not wasting money on chips when we have perfectly good coins

 

[bergs]

I'm going the non denom route so I can cover a variety of stakes on my fracs for future sets, but the coin idea is just lunacy. Have you not read the infamous MIT story?

Post#45

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...rd-at-the-poker-table.7167/page-2#post-291561

Love that entire thread.

 

[CrazyEddie]

I've thrown out my $100 chip for $75 chips, but I've also embraced not wasting money on chips when we have perfectly good coins

I will never understand what people see in these Jessie Beck chips.

 

[chipinla]

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I will never understand what people see in these Jessie Beck chips.

@RivieraDanny

 

[RivieraDanny]

Don’t start on ms Jessie!! They’re better than any fantasy nagb fake chips!!!

 

[Lil Tuna]

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I will never understand what people see in these Jessie Beck chips.

I can explain for you.
JBs are chips that have a “REAL” history to them and there are many in the chipping community that collect certain chips based on that.

 

[Machine]

I can explain for you.

but can you UNDERSTAND it for him?

I share the sentiment @CrazyEddie

 

[Josh Kifer]

I can explain for you.
JBs are chips that have a “REAL” history to them and there are many in the chipping community that collect certain chips based on that.

All chips have a real history to them, just sometimes the real history is freaking stupid.

 

[Rieguy]

What's not to understand?

Spoiler: NSFW

*Images courtesy of the Chip Guide.

 

[Lil Tuna]

but can you UNDERSTAND it for him?

I share the sentiment @CrazyEddie

I believe that I can.

 

[Bluegrass Poker]

Modianos are the best cards made for poker.

And bridge size is better than poker size.

And regular index is the best of all.

 

[JMC9389]

I've got another one.

I don't get the cards mold fad here. The guys that run the buys and have spearheaded the efforts are nothing short of herculean. I'm talking more about the chips themselves. The cards mold (the mold itself, not the feel of the chips) especially is gimmicky looking and completely turns me off from wanting a set.

Get some tribute sets made on a ceramic blank that will have a more squared edge and have a debossed mold like @BGinGA has been working on, and I may be interested, but even then, I would need samples first to see if I'd like them.

 

[JMC9389]

Love that entire thread.

Half of the thread was made up of your stories lol.

Funnily enough, I've heard as many stories of degeneracy or of hijinks going down among my circle of friends coming from CT casinos than Atlantic City. A friend of mine has told me some wild stories that went down at Foxwoods, both on the casino floor and away from it as well.

At the risk of getting too off topic, my one visit to a Connecticut casino was depressing as hell for me. May 2011. Senior week right before I graduated college. Yeah, yeah, get the baby jokes out of the way now. They bus us over to Mohegan Sun for six hours. Each of us got a $10 betting voucher and a $10 meal voucher as a part of the senior week package. It was some random Tuesday afternoon and even then, the floor is packed and there's lines of people two deep for each chair waiting to play the $10 blackjack tables. I take out my voucher and $40 from my wallet because I was a poor college kid and that's all I could afford at the time. I min bet the first hand and I win. I then proceeded to lose the next three hands and got felted. Got dealt 10 or 11 all three times, doubled down all three times, and bricked every single one.

Anyway, I walk away pissed off and my roommate takes my seat, and puts down $100 on the table. I went with another roommate to drown my sorrows in an 18 inch pie from Pepe's we split, so at least that was money well spent. Found out when we got back on the bus to go back to campus that my roommate that sat down in my chair kept doing double or nothing and ran his $100 up to over $3k. He didn't even buy any more alcohol for the apartment the rest of the week. Asshole.

 

[bergs]

^ all I read was infinite sadness.

 

[Coyote]

(And let’s be honest - nobody, I MEAN NOBODY, bought any of the stars chips because they loved the inlays.)

With proper re-labelling or over-labelling they can produce marvels

 

[Pinball]

Well, it might be not enough controversial because it's so clear.

Matsui > Paulson and any other chip.

 

[Marius L]

Fleabites dont bother me at all.

 

[Thomacetti]

With international shipping being so cheap, I love to spend an arm & leg to keep all USPS/UPS/DHLe/BPOST executives in diamonds & furs

 

[detroitdad]

I've got another one.

I don't get the cards mold fad here. The guys that run the buys and have spearheaded the efforts are nothing short of herculean. I'm talking more about the chips themselves. The cards mold (the mold itself, not the feel of the chips) especially is gimmicky looking and completely turns me off from wanting a set.

Get some tribute sets made on a ceramic blank that will have a more squared edge and have a debossed mold like @BGinGA has been working on, and I may be interested, but even then, I would need samples first to see if I'd like them.

I thought I was in the minority with this opinion. The colors of the card molds chips are fun. That is really the only nice thing I have to say about them.

 

[chipinla]

I thought I was in the minority with this opinion. The colors of the card molds chips are fun. That is really the only nice thing I have to say about them.

Agreed

 

[B2rad]

I've got another one.

I don't get the cards mold fad here. The guys that run the buys and have spearheaded the efforts are nothing short of herculean. I'm talking more about the chips themselves. The cards mold (the mold itself, not the feel of the chips) especially is gimmicky looking and completely turns me off from wanting a set.

Get some tribute sets made on a ceramic blank that will have a more squared edge and have a debossed mold like @BGinGA has been working on, and I may be interested, but even then, I would need samples first to see if I'd like them.

I'm sure loads want that as well but don't know when it's coming. Would be sick.

 

[CrazyEddie]

I'll chime in on not liking the way cards molds look. I like the diamond mold ceramics, though, from either Tina or Sun-Fly.

 

[Marius L]

I find it funny how people laugh at "official casino weight" 13g sluggers, yet at the same time post "weight pron" of heavy leaded trks and paulsons.

Maybe the producers of the official casino weight sluggers were actually on to something and are quietly having the last laugh?

 

[ktran]

The Top Hat and Cane (THC) mold feels like they should put Penn and Teller on the inlay. It feels too much of a magic trick vibe for me and throws off the theme of the chip. The Pips mold seemed more suiting with most themes.

 

[CrazyEddie]

The Top Hat and Cane (THC) mold feels like they should put Penn and Teller on the inlay. It feels too much of a magic trick vibe for me and throws off the theme of the chip. The Pips mold seemed more suiting with most themes.

Not magic...

Show a little class, why dontcha!

 

[ekricket]

I find it funny how people laugh at "official casino weight" 13g sluggers, yet at the same time post "weight pron" of heavy leaded trks and paulsons.

Maybe the producers of the official casino weight sluggers were actually on to something and are quietly having the last laugh?

My next set is going to use weight progression. Each denomination will weigh more than the previous

 

[Marius L]

My next set is going to use weight progression. Each denomination will weigh more than the previous

Solid idea. I was thinking of another option earlier today: INLAY progression. All chips have same base and spot colors, but the inlay changes completely from chip to chip.

 

[chipinla]

Solid idea. I was thinking of another option earlier today: INLAY progression. All chips have same base and spot colors, but the inlay changes completely from chip to chip.

Maybe I should redo my back to the future set inlay to something like this ha. Watcha think @Marhault

 

[allforcharity]

Solid idea. I was thinking of another option earlier today: INLAY progression. All chips have same base and spot colors, but the inlay changes completely from chip to chip.

I think this is good for a limit set. If you're going to have 2000 chips on the table, why not make some interesting different inlays of the same denom?

Same chip for different denoms = road to Hell