Foxwoods playable set (1 Viewer)

[upNdown]

These are pretty special. The first casino I ever played in, and an East coast poker Mecca. Leaded THCs with some shaped inlays. Aside from the $25s (which I still need to take some nail polish to) I don’t know anybody who has these in quantity, because they were presumably all destroyed when they moved to house molds, back in the early two thousands. So I’ve got a lot of work cut out for me, filling up those racks. if you’ve got some, PM me, please.
I play a small quarters game - we can use these on nights where we only get 5-6 players. Without the $25’s, there’s a bank of over $500 - that will cover the initial buyins. $25s can handle it the rest of the way, as I search for more $5s.

So the big question - WHAT SHOULD I DO FOR FRACS? I’m thinking a rack of blurple starbursts. I feel like a darker color would work with these. Although I’m also tempted by a teal, which would match the roofs at Foxwoods. What do you think?

Gonna need a new case, when I get the frac issue sorted out.

I just love this alternative $1. Normally I don't like giant inlays. But this is a giant inlay on a THC, which you rarely see. And that giant textured inlay just feels really cool. I have a barrel, and they’re segregated for the pictures, but when we play these chips, they’ll be mixed in.

 

[Coyote]

Any shade of blue, from light blue to blurple, should go well with these.

 

[churlbut18]

I agree. Sky Blue starburst would make a nice frac.

I’ve spent many hours over the years playing $2/$4 and $4/$8 limit at the Foxwoods poker room. This chip also has sentimental value to me. Maybe another frac option. $200 a rack.

 

[72o]

Damn man when you said that you were looking for these, I had no idea you already had this many. Beautiful! Nicely done hunting those down. My eyes are peeled for ya going forward.

 

[upNdown]

Damn man when you said that you were looking for these, I had no idea you already had this many. Beautiful! Nicely done hunting those down. My eyes are peeled for ya going forward.

I just made a big trade that more than doubled what I had. Somebody else who had been collecting them like me, but for a lot longer, decided to let them go.

 

[Rieguy]

Beautiful set and nice work on that cancellation stamp removal on the $25. I have been doing stamp removal on two racks of chips and I would say ~75% of them are an absolute pain in the ass.

As far as fracs go, I agree with others in that a light blue would slot in nicely here.

 

[72o]

I just made a big trade that more than doubled what I had. Somebody else who had been collecting them like me, but for a lot longer, decided to let them go.

Awesome!
I mean I love the house mold chips as well, esp. the dollahs, but these inlays are FAR superior IMHO. I think I remember reading about the inlays way back before I even started chip collecting that that symbol on the bottom part is the signature of the tribe's chief or something like that. Pretty cool.

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[upNdown]

Beautiful set and nice work on that cancellation stamp removal on the $25. I have been doing stamp removal on two racks of chips and I would say ~75% of them are an absolute pain in the ass.

As far as fracs go, I agree with others in that a light blue would slot in nicely here.

I first though of a purplish color, just inspired by the spots on the snappers and the fives. But the color that really reminds me of foxwoods is this teal you see, as you're heading there on the highway, so I thought something like that might work too.

 

[72o]

I first though of a purplish color, just inspired by the spots on the snappers and the fives. But the color that really reminds me of foxwoods is this teal you see, as you're heading there on the highway, so I thought something like that might work too.
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Yes definitely a light blue/teal frac. You thinking label or hot-stamp?

 

[RudysNYC]

After several instances of belligerently drunk Massholes ruining not just great hands but entire shoes for the rest of the blackjack table, I swore off Foxwoods for good (who the f*ck splits 10s? Massholes.)

This set might make me retire an institutional grudge for the first time ever

 

[upNdown]

Yes definitely a light blue/teal frac. You thinking label or hot-stamp?

I think just starbursts. I have this weird thing where I don't like relabels because they seem fake to me.
I thought about just playing the snappers as quarters, once I get enough. But I can't live with playing a chip for a different value than is printed on it. I never thought about murdering the snappers because that would be wrong. And I thought about overlabeling them, but to me, much of their glory is tied up in that orginal textured inlay -I can't cover that up. Which brings me back to relabeling some other chip as a Foxwoods quarter, but like I said, that's just not my thing. I'd just rather use a starburst and say it's worth a quarter. Though some generic hot-stamped fracs would work too, if they were a thing that existed.

 

[mathewsarcher83]

Any shade of blue, from light blue to blurple, should go well with these.

I’d do sky blue.

 

[upNdown]

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You and your knolls . . .

 

[churlbut18]

Awesome!
I mean I love the house mold chips as well, esp. the dollahs, but these inlays are FAR superior IMHO. I think I remember reading about the inlays way back before I even started chip collecting that that symbol on the bottom part is the signature of the tribe's chief or something like that. Pretty cool.

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“the lone tree on a knoll...”. Hmmmm... Where have I seen this before... I can’t quite put my finger on it... @72o? Lol...

 

[buffalojim]

Cool chips, I used to have a few of these but now I can't find them, sadly.

 

[TheBigTater]

I think just starbursts. I have this weird thing where I don't like relabels because they seem fake to me.
I thought about just playing the snappers as quarters, once I get enough. But I can't live with playing a chip for a different value than is printed on it. I never thought about murdering the snappers because that would be wrong. And I thought about overlabeling them, but to me, much of their glory is tied up in that orginal textured inlay -I can't cover that up. Which brings me back to relabeling some other chip as a Foxwoods quarter, but like I said, that's just not my thing. I'd just rather use a starburst and say it's worth a quarter. Though some generic hot-stamped fracs would work too, if they were a thing that existed.

You've got to get over your fear/dislike/whatever it is with relabels. As long as your not defacing a casino chip and using a starburst/cancelled chip or some other home/hotstamp chip what the hell is the difference. A nice gear labeled frac that matches the rest of the set will make it fantastic.

And generic Paulson HS fractionals are pretty rare especially if you want a particular color. Mostly you're going to find Red or Gray if any.

 

[RudysNYC]

You've got to get over your fear/dislike/whatever it is with relabels. As long as your not defacing a casino chip and using a starburst/cancelled chip or some other home/hotstamp chip what the hell is the difference. A nice gear labeled frac that matches the rest of the set will make it fantastic.

And generic Paulson HS fractionals are pretty rare especially if you want a particular color. Mostly you're going to find Red or Gray if any.

I agree that relabeled chips can be great, but I agree with @upNdown in the case of milled and relabeled chips. I can always find the bias of the milling machine, which sucks, but if you use an xacto and nail polish remover to yank the inlay it can look incredible

 

[upNdown]

You've got to get over your fear/dislike/whatever it is with relabels. As long as your not defacing a casino chip and using a starburst/cancelled chip or some other home/hotstamp chip what the hell is the difference. A nice gear labeled frac that matches the rest of the set will make it fantastic.

And generic Paulson HS fractionals are pretty rare especially if you want a particular color. Mostly you're going to find Red or Gray if any.

We all love chips, and I think we all love poker, but other than that, we all come at this hobby from different places. Like, Paulson is king here, but the guy who started the site prefers plastics, go figure. So we’ve all got our things. And for me, I think maybe my biggest thing is owning relics - these little pieces of history fascinate me. So I think that’s what influences me - I’d rather have an imperfect set of genuine relics than a perfect set of some relics mixed with some copies (or some creations that never existed.) it’s just my thing.
And as far as this set goes, it will play just as well with some cool colored starbursts as fracs as it would with relabeled fracs. So if some of you guys think it would be cooler with reliabled fracs, I get it, I just happily disagree.

 

[TheBigTater]

We all love chips, and I think we all love poker, but other than that, we all come at this hobby from different places. Like, Paulson is king here, but the guy who started the site prefers plastics, go figure. So we’ve all got our things. And for me, I think maybe my biggest thing is owning relics - these little pieces of history fascinate me. So I think that’s what influences me - I’d rather have an imperfect set of genuine relics than a perfect set of some relics mixed with some copies (or some creations that never existed.) it’s just my thing.
And as far as this set goes, it will play just as well with some cool colored starbursts as fracs as it would with relabeled fracs. So if some of you guys think it would be cooler with reliabled fracs, I get it, I just happily disagree.

I get it, I do. I have a lot of my own OCD's when it comes to chips, like the same denomination of chips that have slight color differences, and a few others quirks that probably make no sense to anyone else. We all bring our opinions and quirks to the hobby just like we do IRL.

Just don't understand that you can use a starburst that doesn't belong with the set, has no connections to the history of the set (or relics as you say) but have such a disdain for the same chip relabeled to match & could look like it is part of the set and IMO could make the set look more complete as a whole. Neither chip is original or part of the history of the set.

But it's cool, you do you. As many have said, like would be boring if we all thought the same way. Sorry for hijacking.

 

[upNdown]

I’ve made some progress:

I haven’t been able to fill the $5 rack and the $2.50 rack yet. I’m still searching daily, but what’s the short term solution? A 600 chip case that has 75 chip rows. Perfect!

 

[jpietrella]

Dibs

 

[Sambukan]

I’ve made some progress:
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I haven’t been able to fill the $5 rack and the $2.50 rack yet. I’m still searching daily, but what’s the short term solution? A 600 chip case that has 75 chip rows. Perfect!
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Sweet good luck on your continous hunt

 

[upNdown]

They’ve outgrown this Paulson 600 case. Guess I’m in the market for a Paulson 1,000 case - I’d keep busy for a couple of years, trying to fill one of those.
Here they are in their case, before I found the last five $5s.

And here they ALL are, racked up.

Totals as of today:

$1.00 - 352, 77 of which are giant inlay
$2.50 - 83
$5.00 - 100
$10 - 20 (15 Sinatras 4 Pavarotti 1 Bennett)
$25 - 101, 1 of which is secondary
$100 - 1 - it’s a “prototype,” it’s shot, and it’s RHC. But it’s also leaded, stunning, and the only Foxwoods hundo I’ve ever seen for sale.

I still like the purple (or whatever color they are) starbursts as fracs. I guess the only thing I can imagine switching too, is if anybody ever found a rack of these nondenominationed ncv tournament chips. But Chipguide only lists then in red, green, and gray, none of which are great frac colors, and if they even still exist, they’re probably locked up so far in the back of a vault in Connecticut, that they’ll never see the light of day. Still, a guy can dream.

 

[ovo]

Nice, I love seeing someone grow a set like this over time, really rewarding , especially when you can remember how it started.

 

[upNdown]

Nice, I love seeing someone grow a set like this over time, really rewarding , especially when you can remember how it started.

And you can get a feel for how scarce certain chips are. It looks like since my last update, I’ve picked up 9 snappers, in 7 months.
I mean it’s not like these are Dunes $1s or anything, but finding around 1 per month feels like slow work.

 

[upNdown]

I’ve been spending too much time on eBay. (Yes, I’m the guy who recently said poker room theming wasn’t for him. I’m an ASS.). There is A LOT of Foxwoods crap available on eBay. Do I need hurricane glasses? Probably not. But my case absolutely needed customization:

Also, if anybody owns one of these Zippos, hit me up. I’d be happy to pay 10% of what this delusional ebayer is asking: