CPC Semi-Custom Rounders CSQ Set (Cash and Tourney) - Submitted (1 Viewer)

[Benjaminotaur]

I've been watching from the design sidelines for a while now, but no longer! Dipping my toe into the waters with a semi-custom Rounders set. I've loved the look of the chips that appeared in the movie for a long time, but I thought the chip and spot colors and spot progression fell off a hair from the sharpness of the $25, $100, and $500 that we all know and love.

The impending price jump at CPC did play a factor in the timing of this set. I got my money in good for the stock options on the $1, $5, $25, $100, and $500, and figured that would give me some time to figure out the custom side of things. But once the seed was planted, I couldn't shake the idea of getting things squared away. So a few days after the price increase, I submitted the order in the hopes of squeezing into this CSQ run. (I hear it's a coin flip, which I can live with)

I wanted all the chips to look like they belonged together on the felt. Forgive the inlays I used in the mock up tool. I promise I went with the CPC options over my screen grab job I did on the fly haha.

It'll be 2 sets in function, a cash set (25¢ - $25)

and tourney set ($25 - $10k)

The 4 custom chips are all OK in some ways, but I felt they could be improved in the following ways:

25¢ : The color and spot progression are fine with this, but all the other spot colors from $1 - $500 are fluorescent. Personally, I like bright frac base colors, but I wanted to stay away from the super bright options since I would be continuing to use those for my spot colors. Orange happens to be my favorite color , so it won the race.

$1000 and $5000: Similar to the 25¢, the base color of the $1000 is fine here, but the spot color and progression could use some touching up. The $5000 base color I find to be totally flat against the rest of the original set, so I knew I wanted to change that. Increasing to the 614 spot kept them in line with the $500, and in some bright colors to boot, the higher denom chips are drawn into the fold.

$10000 : (Imagine another zero on the inlay haha) I like to have a color up chip at the end of a tourney to get rid of a lot of the clutter on the table when 3 handed or heads up. They don't see much felt time, so I wanted to go bold to make it worth it when they do make an appearance. So the big 814 spot seemed like a natural place to go, even if it is a touch busy. That imperial blue belongs in this color palette though. I couldn't resist leaving it out. (It almost made the cut as the frac base color)

Quantities are as follows:

25¢ - 400
$1 - 300
$5 - 100
$25 - 200
$100 - 200
$500 - 200
$1000 - 200
$5000 - 125
$1000 - 75

All in all, I'm pretty happy with the results on paper. The spots may look a little busy on the higher denoms when you get a bunch together at once, but I think the base colors are different enough to avoid dirty stacks. The only one I'm really concerned with is the $500 and $10k, but they shouldn't really ever be felted together

If you've read this far, I'm guessing you're at least a little invested and probably have some opinions. I'm here for it, good or bad! This is my first (semi) custom job, but it surely wont be my last!

 

[LinkyBabe]

Why so heavy on the .25 denom? I'd reduce that and increase your $5's. You also don't need as many $500's and could use the extra chips on the higher denoms.

 

[Benjaminotaur]

Why so heavy on the .25 denom? I'd reduce that and increase your $5's. You also don't need as many $500's and could use the extra chips on the higher denoms.

Unlike most poker players, my guys have really small bank rolls. Our house buy in for years was $3. It's snuck up to the $5 - $20 range in the last couple, but I'm still trying to warm them to the cash game. I figured I'd hit the frac hard for the custom order and supplement with the stock chips later if their wallets loosen up or our dynamic changes.

As for the $500, I had to order the stock options by the 100, so I was a little hog tied there. Likely I'll store a bunch of them to make room for some awesome buttons I've got coming from the GB @Himewad put together.

 

[LinkyBabe]

As for the $500, I had to order the stock options by the 100, so I was a little hog tied there

You only need 100 so I'm not sure how you're hogtied there. The extra 100 could go towards the higher value chips.

 

[Benjaminotaur]

You only need 100 so I'm not sure how you're hogtied there. The extra 100 could go towards the higher value chips.

I should have been a little more specific about my breakdown. We play 20k 8/8/6/6/2 and I wanted to make sure I had enough to cover either 2 tables of 10, or one table with 10 rebuys (My guys won't put their $ in all at once, but that never stops them from getting it all in a bit at a time).

So, 120 was going to be my minimum, leading to the 2 box order.

 

[LinkyBabe]

I should have been a little more specific about my breakdown. We play 20k 8/8/6/6/2 and I wanted to make sure I had enough to cover either 2 tables of 10, or one table with 10 rebuys (My guys won't put their $ in all at once, but that never stops them from getting it all in a bit at a time).

So, 120 was going to be my minimum, leading to the 2 box order.

Yes I understand what you're saying... and what I'm saying is your breakdown could be more efficient by reducing your $500's. You can achieve the same 20K with an 8/8/4/7/2 breakdown which reduces your 500's by 2 and increases your 1K by 1 per person. And this is achieved simply by reducing your $500's from 200 to 100 without doing anything else. And realistically, you only need a $500 chip once for any single bet/blind you're putting together, whereas you'll need more of the other chips to do the same task.

You could then take that extra 100 chips and distribute them to the higher denoms thereby giving you more flexibility with even more re-buys/big blinds. I also forgot to mention I would ditch the $10K and instead opt for a $25K... again more flexibility and efficiency.

 

[ChipFinderSK]

You definitely should reconsider having the $25 and T25 as the same chip. Since you’re doing semi-customs, I’d go with a custom $20 chip at the top of the cash set.

Also agree with Linky that your breakdown could be more efficient. Can’t speak to the tourney breakdown, but 400 quarters seems like overkill - most single table sets can work with 100-200 blind chips.

 

[Eloe2000]

As for the $500, I had to order the stock options by the 100, so I was a little hog tied there

You have to order the stock chips only by 100x quantities? Are you sure that is right? Is that new?

 

[TKEUofM]

Everyone’s game is different so order the quantities you want and feel comfortable with for your game and your wallet.

We play T5000 and my starting stacks are 20/20/3/1. My players love stacks and seeing lots of chips on the table.

If your groups plays heavy on quarters for cash games, then make sure you have what’s right for your game. There’s definitely “ideal” quantities for both cash and tourney but not everyone’s game is the same.

You can always buy/sell chips if your game changes over the years.

Enjoy whatever you get!!!!

 

[Benjaminotaur]

Yes I understand what you're saying... and what I'm saying is your breakdown could be more efficient by reducing your $500's. You can achieve the same 20K with an 8/8/4/7/2 breakdown which reduces your 500's by 2 and increases your 1K by 1 per person. And this is achieved simply by reducing your $500's from 200 to 100 without doing anything else. And realistically, you only need a $500 chip once for any single bet/blind you're putting together, whereas you'll need more of the other chips to do the same task.

You could then take that extra 100 chips and distribute them to the higher denoms thereby giving you more flexibility with even more re-buys/big blinds. I also forgot to mention I would ditch the $10K and instead opt for a $25K... again more flexibility and efficiency.

I see where you’re coming from as far as the efficiency is concerned, and I might look into it if we grow our game some more. The $500 change would make more sense for our game now just to clean things up a bit.

If our game grows the way I would like (more than one table consistently) I might float the concept of a 25k chip a little more heavily. As it stands, we’re already going to use the 10k only on a rare occasion, pretty much at the end. I’m not sure it would ever be feasible to have a $25k chip on the table when 1/2 of a barrel would more than cover all chips in play. I only did the 10k chip mostly because I loved the color in the set and felt like it could use a capper denom since the spot progression was so stagnant.

 

[Benjaminotaur]

You definitely should reconsider having the $25 and T25 as the same chip. Since you’re doing semi-customs, I’d go with a custom $20 chip at the top of the cash set.

If we were ever going to run both styles of play at once, I’d consider it. If I’m being honest (and if you couldn’t tell from the massive amount of quarters ordered) I don’t anticipate ever needing a single $25 (or $20 for that matter) chip for our cash game as it stands.

It was more of an efficiency move than anything. And even though I had the flexibility to buy in a lower quantity for the custom options, I feel like it probably would have been throwing money into a hole.

On the other hand, throwing money into a hole would probably save me a ton of money in the long run hahaha

 

[Benjaminotaur]

The way that I read the website is that the stock options are sold by the rack or by the 300 or 500 using the specified breakdown listed for each.

 

[Phish1321]

A couple of us had these customs made that I think go well with the rest of the set.

 

[Benjaminotaur]

Everyone’s game is different so order the quantities you want and feel comfortable with for your game and your wallet.

We play T5000 and my starting stacks are 20/20/3/1. My players love stacks and seeing lots of chips on the table.

If your groups plays heavy on quarters for cash games, then make sure you have what’s right for your game. There’s definitely “ideal” quantities for both cash and tourney but not everyone’s game is the same.

You can always buy/sell chips if your game changes over the years.

I’m not sure about everyone in our group, but I love having chips in front of me!

When we first started playing, we had the 200 count tin of dice chips and 5 guys. 30 chips was the most chips we could get and still have a buy in behind. If the buy in was already used and you were really desperate, you could buy in at the same price for the remaining 20 chips. So 30 chips feels really familiar to us.

Other than myself and one other guy, no one from our group really has any desire to play in a casino for cash or tourney, and if I hadn’t pushed for denominational chips, we’d probably still be playing with blank slugged chips!

 

[Benjaminotaur]

View attachment 842950A couple of us had these customs made that I think go well with the rest of the set.

I would agree!! Those look great! I especially like the $1000.

I would have done a bounty chip, but I should have a bunch coming from a GB in a couple months.

 

[TKEUofM]

The way that I read the website is that the stock options are sold by the rack or by the 300 or 500 using the specified breakdown listed for each.

If you email them they will break them down anyway you want.

 

[Colquhoun]

If you email them they will break them down anyway you want.

Agreed. I made my own breakdown of the 500 chip set as I wanted, and even added an extra 100 chips. David also applied the per-chip cost of the 500 set for the extra 100.

 

[Benjaminotaur]

If you email them they will break them down anyway you want.

Great to know for future reference. Thank you!!

 

[Benjaminotaur]

Agreed. I made my own breakdown of the 500 chip set as I wanted, and even added an extra 100 chips. David also applied the per-chip cost of the 500 set for the extra 100.

Oh man! That 1000 chip order would have been even better had I known. To be fair, I got the order in on the 31st, so with the price increase, it was probably a wash since he wouldn’t have gotten back to me until this year.

 

[Benjaminotaur]

Chips are in! Getting in just under the deadline meant a really short wait for the customs. And I am very thankful I did! After giving the edges all a wash and a quick oiling, they’re ready for their first action, hopefully in the not too distant future.

All in all, I’m really happy with how they turned out. I’m not necessarily a die hard spot progression guy, but they way the chips from the movie progressed in their spots, I think the custom chips follow that flow really nicely.

If I have a little concern for a dirty stack possibility with the $0.25 and the $5, so I’ll have to keep an eye open for that. If I had to do it all over again, I might swap the base and spot colors for the $0.25 just to avoid any issues. That said, with 4 racks of custom quarters, that dirty stack issue would need to be pretty bad before I switched them out.

I was starting to come to the side of “that’s way too many quarters” but I don’t think it’s all bad now. I’m thinking it might be a good way to introduce a limit game into the mix and keep things fresh. Personally, I kind of like my sets to be flexible enough to accommodate several purposes. It doesn’t allow me (allow is totally the right word) to buy a whole brand new cool chip set, but I’m ok with that.

The set isn’t quite done yet. I’ll probably grab at least 2 (maybe 3) more racks of $5 and another rack of $100 to add some flexibility. The $5 will make the cash set more versatile if I can get the players to go 2/5 some day. The extra $100 rack is solely because I know people will ask about the three stacks of high society

I’ll post some washing and oiling pictures a little later. Some of those colors just really pop with some TLC. CPCs really are an unfinished product until you work them a little bit!

If you’ve come this far, thanks for reading!

 

[SteveEH]

Love how you went heavy with the quarters! My game doesn't play big either, and my current Casino Nacional set doesn't even have $5 chips. 6 start with 2 barrels of quarters each, and the rest in nickles and dollars for 10/25 blinds.

I also ordered in late December and was surprised when David said I'd get in on this run too because he was extending the run for another large order. Thanks for that!