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Does Paulson make the best Chip?? (3 Viewers)

BGinGA said:
Yes.
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liftapint said:
No.
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Ben8257 said:
Still very new to the chipping world, but I have herd it many times that Paulsons will last you a life time!! But recently I basically gave away some 98 CDIs that elwere total bike tires, how is that possible in the home market? Easy the chips aren't very dense, they wear pretty quickly! Also seen several times where people use mint chips for shuffle stacks and within a month or 2 the square sharp edges are rounded off. And let's not even go there on flea bites on THC chips! I have yet to witness any of this on CPC chips, I'm sure they are out there but I haven't come across any yet!
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Highli99 said:
I'd still pick well used CPC chips over well used Paulsons in a heartbeat. They hold up very well and become buttery.
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I bought some random barrels of old chips recently, and it included about 10 red square-in-circle or CSQ mold chips (maybe made by ASM, before CPC took those molds over) that were worn to bicycle tires and also had fleabites. I had never seen chips in that mold or other ASM/CPC molds in such worn condition before*.

But maybe a reason for that is just because Paulsons are the predominant chip used in casino and poker club settings where the chips get abused/worn down the most. [like at poker tables with metal dealer trays, where the dealers have to 'tap' (bang) any tip on the tray before dropping it in the - the Cleveland Horseshoe $1 chips were flea bitten to pieces likely because of that].

Just a guess, but any chips (Paulsons, ASM, CPC) that are worn to bike tires were probably used in a poker club that ran games several times a week to daily. So maybe these CDIs were used in that setting, (or were a shuffle stack/rack for someone with OCD about shuffling).

Maybe CPC chips are more resistant to flea bites, I don't know about that one.

[EDIT - I posted pics of the 10 well-used CSQ chips I had later in the thread here: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/does-paulson-make-the-best-chip.55040/post-1057977]
 
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I have also bought bike tire CDI98s. They probably weren't just used in home games. They could have had regular play in (un)regulated card rooms over years and decades to get that way.
 
Forty4 said:
I believe BCC was essentially an offshoot of Paulson. If memory servers me correctly it was started by former Paulson employees. So basically the same/similar process/formula. @BGinGA or someone else can correct me.
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I have one BCC chip in my collection from Golden Gate Casino in Las Vegas, circa 2005. Outside of being compression molded clay, it’s nothing like a Paulson. The BCC Chip is much more similar to an ASM than a Paulson—more tightly compressed material leading to a harder, higher pitched chip.
 
I always slightly leaned ASM over Paulson for one reason: ASMs don’t bleed darker blue & black colors onto other chips. Paulsons have been known to do that, especially when I was playing a lot of poker from 2003-2008.
 

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