CPS chips (2 Viewers)

[Wils]

Quick favour required - I need to see pix of CPS stacks, of T100 and T500 denoms. Basically I'm concerned they're too similar so I'd really appreciate seeing them under different lighting and so on....

Have seen one pic already and they're hard to tell apart, but I'd like to see more, more, M O R E !

If anyone can help I'd probably remember them in my will. Or sumfink.

 

[PAZ]

 

[hod]

I had the same concerns, but in reality have had no issues, and there is more contrast in the faces than the stacks imo. That may just be an optical illusion though...

 

[RowdyRawhide]

No problem IMO. IIRC the base color of the five hundred is the same as the light blue spot on the hundo

 

[MD Mike]

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That is so sexy. Especially the way there is a little reflection on the surface. F-ing art.

 

[CdnBeerLover]

Took some pics of 10-chip stacks, both with flash and without. Room is lit with 6x60w equivalent overhead lights, and is where we normally hold games.

1) Clean stacks, flash

2) Clean stacks, no flash

3) Evenly mixed stacks, flash

4) Evenly mixed stacks, no flash

5) 1-chip mixed stacks, flash

6) 1-chip mixed stacks, no flash

Lighting makes a huge difference. It all depends on the room and the shadows being cast. If the light is poor, it is not difficult to have a T500 sneak into a stack of T100's.

 

[Poker Zombie]

This is the one pic you have already seen, but in case someone else is hunting through the threads for this info, it's best to have it here too...

125w bulb, about 8' away. 1 dirty stack, 1 clean stack. Shadow swallows the edgespot if the stack isn't very straight. Your lighting may vary.

 

[links_slayer]

curious what other chips look like under ^^^that lighting.

 

[Poker Zombie]

curious what other chips look like under ^^^that lighting.

I will take other pics tomorrow. Or is this just an attempt to see more pr0n?

 

[Wils]

Great replies, truly grateful for the help.

 

[Wils]

I will take other pics tomorrow. Or is this just an attempt to see more pr0n?

Could you take some pics of chips washing a sports car, or on a tropical beach?

 

[Trihonda]

For this very reason, I had some custom 500's made using the lavender chip base. I'll snap some pics in the next couple hours. They look much better, but purists will argue that it deviates from the true WSOP colors.

 

[Wils]

For this very reason, I had some custom 500's made using the lavender chip base.

Did you have "personal experience" problems with the stock colours, or did you just decide to buy the lavenders (and not the blue 500's) to avoid any possible issues?

 

[links_slayer]

I will take other pics tomorrow. Or is this just an attempt to see more pr0n?

Just wondering what other stacks look like under candle light conditions.

 

[Trihonda]

Here's the issue... 100/200. There's a bunch of hundos in the pot, post flop, there's a few limpers for 200, and then someone raises to 600 (using a 100/500 combo). To many, it's hard to ascertain immediately that there was a raise.

Or, blinds are at 300/600, and people are pot splashy, and did that guy just call for 600, or did he just throw in 2 hundo chips? hard to tell.

The chips just look too close in color, especially in splashed pots. For the record, I had all my lights (a mix of halogen, incan, and CFL) turn on high. In a darker room, (or from viewing across the table) the problem is much more pronounced. I actually had complaints from people getting them mixed up or having difficulties telling them apart. Yes, if people are paying 100% attention, then they'll be just fine. However, why make it harder for people, and when's the last time you played a game where people were paying 100% attention?

As to the orange chips having the same spots? The chip is freakin neon orange. There's no issue telling the two apart, lol.

 

[Wils]

Just wondering what other stacks look like under candle light conditions.

Maybe some under moonlight, a roaring fire, a glitterball?

No. Now I'm just being stupid! Or am I?

 

[Wils]

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Ah but do you get issues now between the 500's and 5000's? Both have the exact same edge spot and "sort of under the right light " base colours...

 

[Poker Zombie]

For your viewing pleasure:

Stack 1, clean stack
Stack 2, CPS Black / Blue
Stack 3, CPS Black / Lavender
Stack 4 CPC Zombies.

I will add, my CPS sets have not been oiled. This may or may not help. I will also add that I am old, and my vision isn't where it used to be.

Again, this was shot with a 120 watt bulb - a far cry from candlelight. If anything, the light reflecting off the label hinders the photo (taken on an iPad). If you really, really love these chips because of their similarity to the WSOP chips, the blue 500 is little more than a bump. You can get past this by having the room lit from multiple angles (as seen in CdnBeerLover's flash photos). If you love these chips simply for their price, I would relabel.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Ah but do you get issues now between the 500's and 5000's? Both have the exact same edge spot and "sort of under the right light " base colours...

I used the Salmon colored chip for the 5000, but in real life, that orange pops so much, I doubt there would ever be confusion. The orange was relegated to my cash set as a nickel (kind of sad, because it's the highlight chip of the set).

 

[MD Mike]

For this very reason, I had some custom 500's made using the lavender chip base. I'll snap some pics in the next couple hours. They look much better, but purists will argue that it deviates from the true WSOP colors.

Lavender is probably my favorite chip color.

 

[lherron]

I always thought it was really odd they would do this with the color scheme. Regardless of whether you think it's a big deal, the fact this conversation has been had so many times is all you need to know. Just don't make an edge spot that takes up almost 50% of your edge circumference the same as a neighboring chips' base color. It's basically the only SINGLE rule of chips design you shouldn't break. People re-use colors in neighboring chips all the time, but it's usually much smaller spots or more obvious clashing.

You're not always going to have great lighting and unsplashed pots/bets. These two chips were bound to cause issues.

 

[Poker Zombie]

It was truer to the WSOP though.

Even there, my eyes take a brief pause. Of course, if you really want true to the WSOP, you need to add a metric shit-ton of hand gunk to the chips too.

 

[bentax1978]

Of course, if you really want true to the WSOP, you need to add a metric shit-ton of hand gunk to the chips too.

That comment reminds me of the chips that @Tommy posted a couple months ago that kind of looked liked used WSOP chips.

 

[Trihonda]

It was truer to the WSOP though.

True... except the beveled edges, crosshatching, and T&S mold

The beveled edges and extreme x-hatching really took this from an epic set to an 'ok' set.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I don't mind the beveled edges, though I think it makes them feel "thinner". The cross hatching was supposed to make them less slick, but that was a bit of a fail.

 

[Wils]

I actually like the cross-hatching. Although the bevelling on some chips make them look like UFO's... Check out the bottom of the photo, compare right side to left.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Interesting - now I need to look to see if mine have that same unevenness. I suspect that messes with shuffling a perfect stack.

 

[Trihonda]

Interesting - now I need to look to see if mine have that same unevenness. I suspect that messes with shuffling a perfect stack.

Ya, a good number of mine are unevenly beveled. It's Chinese craftsmanship at it's finest... Eager to see how the Majestics turn out, with their promise of no beveling. I actually tried to sell the CPS tourney set I own locally in order to fund a purchase of Majestics, but it never panned out.

 

[Wils]

And on the subject of "what were they thinking?"

To be fair, the edge spots make them very easy to tell apart in a stack, but in a splashed pot, I dunno...

 

[MD Mike]

Ya, a good number of mine are unevenly beveled. It's Chinese craftsmanship at it's finest... Eager to see how the Majestics turn out, with their promise of no beveling. I actually tried to sell the CPS tourney set I own locally in order to fund a purchase of Majestics, but it never panned out.

Uneven products? How do they do it?


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