Friends hosting with dice chips (3 Viewers)

What do you do when you have friends who want to host poker games, but they only have dice chips?

  • Don't say anything, and just take their money

  • Work on them to get "better" chips

  • Bring a travel set of mint chips

  • Bring a travel set of more worn chips

  • Donate chip sets

  • Added: Bring a travel set of ceramics

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saleen121212 said:
Honestly not a single person I have played with appreciates the chips, they could literally be cardboard as none of my friends are as materialistic as I am. Most of them just make fun of me for spending so much money on chips when I could have paid 20 dollars on Craigslist or gone to Walmart. The truth is most people don't care and just want to play poker and or drink and hangout. I on the other hand appreciate the finer things in life and go all out with hobbies. If I asked someone who plays in my games how much I paid per chip they would probably think 25 cents each on the high end.
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This echoes the experience I've had over here since starting in the chipping game. The few people who have noticed that my chips are nicer have reacted with pure astonishment at what I've paid for them. As you say, in the end, each person has their own hobbies or preferences for how they spend their money. Heck, in comparison to my road cycling hobby, I could almost argue that chipping is cheap! At least I can make money back from time to time while playing with them! :D:LOL: :laugh:
 
Just remembered something funny from a few months ago. I invited a guy from a poker league I’m in (which uses dice chips and paper cards) to play a small cash game at my place. About 30 mins before the start I get a text from him asking if had chips. If not he could bring them. I’m pretty sure he has dice chips. I told him thanks but I was good ;).

I honestly think my whole setup intimidated him a bit. He is normally a hyper aggressive loose player but played conservative the whole night. He has never come back.
 
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When I first started playing, we started with a set of dice chips. To somebody whose only experience with poker chips were the interlocking plastic chips that got used when I was a kid, dice chips were amazing. Remember, before the poker boom, you couldn't get slugged chips at every Wal-mart or drugstore.
 
Puzzlemonkey said:
When I first started playing, we started with a set of dice chips. To somebody whose only experience with poker chips were the interlocking plastic chips that got used when I was a kid, dice chips were amazing. Remember, before the poker boom, you couldn't get slugged chips at every Wal-mart or drugstore.
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I agree. I next thought the AK suited slug chips were higher end. (If only I still thought that, my wallet would be much safer.)
 
Puzzlemonkey said:
When I first started playing, we started with a set of dice chips. To somebody whose only experience with poker chips were the interlocking plastic chips that got used when I was a kid, dice chips were amazing. Remember, before the poker boom, you couldn't get slugged chips at every Wal-mart or drugstore.
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In 1996 my roommate in college bought a few hundred solid 8.5 gram diamond chips, a six deck card shoe, and a blackjack felt that covered our kitchen table. We ran a very lucrative blackjack game with poker after 11pm our senior year. Never had to touch my savings account the entire time!

Anyway, when that package came he was ridiculously excited. “Wait to you see these chips I got!” We were blown away as the cheap interlocking chips were the only thing we had ever seen outside a casino. I remember telling people about how cool they were and our set up was so “legit”. I bought a set for something like $.25 a chip and thought it was a steal!

That same guy found a ASM a few years later and ordered a set. We were like “holy shit! How do you find this stuff?” Within a few years a whole bunch of us had custom sets. Between that and Kem cards, were the envy of many of our poker friends for years. I bought some slugged chips as a back up set and people still thought they were amazing. I can buy those same chips for a fraction of what I paid.:vomit:
 
Jimulacrum said:
You've seen players smuggle outside chips into other games? This is one of those things that's always been a sort of phantom threat to me. I know it's possible, and I'm sure it has happened numerous times, but I've never personally witnessed it. The times you've seen it happen, how did the host know someone smuggled chips? How did it go over? I feel like these could be interesting stories.

As to my vote in the poll, I once donated a set of these to a friend who hosted only occasionally with dice chips: https://www.amazon.com/Trademark-Casino-Poker-Acrylic-Carrier/dp/B000J2CWAK. (Aluminum case, not birdcage. I had 850 total chips, IIRC.) I had been trying to sell them, but I decided it would be better to give them to someone who could use a modest upgrade, rather than selling them to a stranger for a pittance.

In general, though, I wouldn't say or do anything—just appreciate the person's hospitality and shrug off the fact that I'm playing with dice chips.
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Probably the nicest looking of the cheap chips.
 
Coyote said:
Probably the nicest looking of the cheap chips.
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Yeah, they're not bad, and they have a feel that's more like a clay chip than a typical sluggo. My only reservation is that I wish they'd gone with a less tacky / more interesting mold than the word "CASINO" repeated three times, especially considering they're obviously geared toward the home-game market.
 
Indeed. Perfect gift for the non aficionado, however, probably together with some labels.
 
Coyote said:
Probably the nicest looking of the cheap chips.
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Blast from the past. When I was in high school Texas Holdem went through like a ridiculously popular phase and everyone was playing after school or at lunch. We had no idea what we were doing back then. Anyway, I remember being on vacation with my parents and passing a poker store somewhere that sold chips (these were popular back then), after much begging I finally got them to take me in and buy me a set of these chips, I think they still have them in their basement. I remember everyone thinking they were the coolest and how expensive they were, now walmart has them for next to nothing. They did feel and sound nice at the time compared to all the other plastic junk.
 
Jimulacrum said:
Yeah, they're not bad, and they have a feel that's more like a clay chip than a typical sluggo. My only reservation is that I wish they'd gone with a less tacky / more interesting mold than the word "CASINO" repeated three times, especially considering they're obviously geared toward the home-game market.
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Blame that on the marketing guy. Apparently the chips labeled "Kitchen Table" repeated three times, especially considering they're obviously geared toward the home-game market, didn't seem to sell as well. :confused:
 
Poll needs another option: don't go to those games.

I got invited to a neighborhood tourney group a couple years back... showed up and it was all dice chips on table toppers. I invited the group to my games in return, and they didn't even flinch at my setup (Paulson chips, felted tables, etc.).

To make a very long story short, I realized that offering to bring chips to their games would be rude, and so I just decided to stop going to them. In turn, they stopped coming to mine. It's all good though, because the CO PCF crew has a long list of great hosts with great chips and killer setups.

It sucks missing out on a weekly neighborhood game (it's literally 10 blocks from my house), but those dice chips just tilt me to no end. Oh... and they don't even match the chip colors correctly to the denoms. :eek::mad::confused:
 
justsomedude said:
Poll needs another option: don't go to those games.

I got invited to a neighborhood tourney group a couple years back... showed up and it was all dice chips on table toppers. I invited the group to my games in return, and they didn't even flinch at my setup (Paulson chips, felted tables, etc.).

To make a very long story short, I realized that offering to bring chips to their games would be rude, and so I just decided to stop going to them. In turn, they stopped coming to mine. It's all good though, because the CO PCF crew has a long list of great hosts with great chips and killer setups.

It sucks missing out on a weekly neighborhood game (it's literally 10 blocks from my house), but those dice chips just tilt me to no end. Oh... and they don't even match the chip colors correctly to the denoms. :eek::mad::confused:
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I wish I had that game selection. I struggle to get 6 players together ever.
 
markleteenie said:
I need to get into some of these games. I'd love to see some of these different setups in person.:bigbucks:
I know there was one just this last Saturday, but I was out of town. :mad:
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Plenty of pics in here from @slisk250's summer meetup ... https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...d-circus-championships-august-2-5-2018.22634/

Here's my 2 table setup in Denver ...

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Jimulacrum said:
You've seen players smuggle outside chips into other games? This is one of those things that's always been a sort of phantom threat to me. I know it's possible, and I'm sure it has happened numerous times, but I've never personally witnessed it. The times you've seen it happen, how did the host know someone smuggled chips? How did it go over? I feel like these could be interesting stories.
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Jim, very early in my poker playing days, I was one of several victims of this. I think I've told the story before on PCF. In short, 5 of us started a game, while 2 guys allegedly went home to get some cash. When they returned, they bought in and retrieved some chips. They were those plastic interlocking chips that at the time you could even get in a grocery store. It was an informal game at a party. I didn't know the other players.

After playing about 2 hours or so, they both cashed out and left. About half an hour later, the rest of us quit. While trying to cash out, the first problem was there was nowhere near enough cash to cover the chips still in play. So we took the cash and proportioned it by chip counts. I want to say we each got around 1/4 of our chip stack. Then we started putting the host's poker chips back in the rotating racks they came in. Not all the chips would fit. Then we realized we were way overloaded on the blue (highest value) chips from what we started with.

I assumed because the chip values had changed, someone just counted the cash wrong. Some players were really upset. One player explained what happened. They probably didn't go get cash, they got chips. They brought the chips in, played a while, and cashed on on the honor system. There was no banker. Others speculated they took way more cash than their chips represented, and brought in pocket fulls of chips to bring to the game. No one actually saw them put cash in the kitty, but maybe they did.

The host wasn't playing, but it didn't go over well with the players. I personally wasn't hurt by it -- in fact I cashed for way more than I put in, so I didn't lose anything.

I was too new and too naive to realize someone might bring in chips or be dishonest with the money (or more correctly, that someone wasn't checking the money). I learned several lessons from it. One of them was to try to have chips not readily available so someone could bring them into the game. While I've played with commercially available chips, I've tried to have sets that weren't easy to find, or get semi-customs (custom labels). Another was to ALWAYS have a banker who is responsible for the chips and the money.
 
Last Saturday I was roped into BUYING dice chips. Never thought that'd happen.

One of my regulars suggested he host the next game. I could use a break so I was happy with the idea. I knew he had hosted games with other players so didn't ask him if he needed any supplies. The afternoon of the game he sends out a group message desperately asking "if anyone has some nice chips, please bring them as I've mis-placed half of my set...". Meh, I'd already left home as I was meeting a couple of the lads for dinner. Jumped on our Facebook group (it's a convenient way of organising games) and noticed a bunch of missed calls in the Facebook messenger but I guess since I don't have the app, I didn't receive his calls.

Anyway, I gave him a buzz and mentioned I'm driving past Kmart and offered to grab a set OMW to the game. He was grateful. It took a buddy and I about 10 minutes to find them as they were hidden on the bottom shelf (where they belong) with a Monopoly set blocking their view (as it should). I expected to pay around $5 for these POS. $29AUD they cost me for a tiny little 300chip set! I couldn't believe it. I can't even describe the pain I was feeling as I took them to the counter. It was sort of like pain crossed with immense feelings of shame. Then there were all sorts of problems at the self-service check-out requiring staff assistance. I nearly had a toddler's tantrum. It was all too much.

The chips didn't tilt me quite as much as expected, though. Last time I went to a dice chips game they tilted me so bad I lost about 4 buy-ins. This time I won almost everything on the table which made me feel better about it all. I think I'll try to sell the CC Pharaohs to this guy if he wants to get into regular hosting.

Here they are... 11.5g of official casino weight goodness :vomit:

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Yeah, they 're slippery and have a cheap feel and a fake thud, but they 're indestructible, and nobody seems to appreciate their beatiful 614 edge spot pattern:D
 
the shame...:oops::oops::oops:

jk, I was at a friend's game within the last year, when we realized that no one had chips...I think the host is usually responsible for providing chips, unless explicitly stated otherwise.....I would have been happy to bring some over.

Anyway, one of the guys ran out to walmart and bought a 300 dice set so we could play... hey whatever it takes to get the game going. Good on you. (y) :thumbsup:
 
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Nex said:
My airgun has a different opinion on that point.
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I hate firing (or airing :p) upon chips. Luv them all. I 've done that (with an airgun) mostly against coke cans, increasing the distance as much as possible.
In the Army, some 24 years ago, I scored 80% at 300 meters in automatic firing mode (with a Heckler und Koch - HK11 light machine gun).
 
DoubleEagle said:
IMO, you run the risk of insulting the host if you ask if you could bring chips to the next game. First thing crossing their mind would be, “My chips aren’t good enough for you?” I would never do it.

I have been playing in a game for over ten years that uses dice chips. No one except me gives a damn. They just want to play and have a good time.
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this. i was flat out told by the host that it was insulting to offer.
 

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