The Chip Room offered the chips and cards from the Grand Victoria for sale a little over 12 years ago. The chipping community at the time was used to seeing leaded TH&C chips (often with shaped inlays) and some were less than thrilled by the use of the RHC mold with faux shaped inlays. Chippers were concerned about the increased use of faux shaped inlays; we hadn't yet learned that shaped inlays weren't really an option for casinos anymore. After all, back then we still had ready access to World Top Hat and Cane chips with shaped inlays. Despite the concerns above, the overall reception was positive. The Grand Victoria casino opened in 1996 which means that these chips have some texture on the inlay and are leaded.
Jim announced the sale of the secondary chips on February 15th, 2012 and they went on sale on February 25th. The chip limits for the initial sale were:
$1 - 500 chips
$2.50 - 200 chips
$5 - 500 chips
$25 - 300 chips
$100 - 200 chips
$500 - 50 chips
$1000 - 20 chips
I really liked the look of the $5-$1k secondary chips and decided to build a tournament set. I bought my limit of $5-$1k chips and continued adding on over the next several months through TCR sales on eBay, additional chip offerings from TCR on Chiptalk, and purchases from other forum members. As I was building the set some of my players noticed the new chips, loved their look, and wanted to put them into play. We were playing cash that night and my games were decidedly lower stakes so that didn't happen. At the time I was hosting multi table cash games and multi table tournaments. I generally used a T10k structure which wasn't really viable with a maximum denomination of 1k, but I didn't let that stop me from trying. It turned out that I didn't have a good plan for my end goal when I set out building the set and I wound up building a set that more or less works for an eight table T2k game. That might have made sense if I actually hosted eight table T2k games.
On to the showcase!
This was the only TCR sale that I built a set from and it was a big enough of a deal to me that I took some pics upon receiving the chips:
Jim shipped some of the chips in 500 chip bags, which was pretty cool:
The set in its final form:
This set has my favorite lineup of any RHC set from $5-$1k. The $1k and $500 chips are standouts are are likely my favorite IHC $1k and RHC $500. The $25 is probably my favorite RHC $25, and the $5 would make my short list. The $100 might not be my favorite RHC $100 by itself as I'm generally not a fan of green in the $100, but it works well in this lineup (especially with the green theme showing up on all the chips except the $500). The $25 through $1k chips have metallic flakes added to the clay as a security measure, and the $100 through $1k chips have a so-called "alpha dot" microdot in the inlay.
Some of you may have noticed one significant issue with this set: it's in un-played condition. I bought this set to put into play, but I haven't had the opportunity to host a tournament (never mind an eight table T2k!) since completing the set. I hope to host tournaments again in the near future but I'm planning to use some BCC chips when I do so. As such, this set is slated to ship out once temperatures cool down enough to safely ship chips. I have it on good authority that these chips will then be put into play.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed!
Jim announced the sale of the secondary chips on February 15th, 2012 and they went on sale on February 25th. The chip limits for the initial sale were:
$1 - 500 chips
$2.50 - 200 chips
$5 - 500 chips
$25 - 300 chips
$100 - 200 chips
$500 - 50 chips
$1000 - 20 chips
I really liked the look of the $5-$1k secondary chips and decided to build a tournament set. I bought my limit of $5-$1k chips and continued adding on over the next several months through TCR sales on eBay, additional chip offerings from TCR on Chiptalk, and purchases from other forum members. As I was building the set some of my players noticed the new chips, loved their look, and wanted to put them into play. We were playing cash that night and my games were decidedly lower stakes so that didn't happen. At the time I was hosting multi table cash games and multi table tournaments. I generally used a T10k structure which wasn't really viable with a maximum denomination of 1k, but I didn't let that stop me from trying. It turned out that I didn't have a good plan for my end goal when I set out building the set and I wound up building a set that more or less works for an eight table T2k game. That might have made sense if I actually hosted eight table T2k games.
On to the showcase!
This was the only TCR sale that I built a set from and it was a big enough of a deal to me that I took some pics upon receiving the chips:
Jim shipped some of the chips in 500 chip bags, which was pretty cool:
The set in its final form:
This set has my favorite lineup of any RHC set from $5-$1k. The $1k and $500 chips are standouts are are likely my favorite IHC $1k and RHC $500. The $25 is probably my favorite RHC $25, and the $5 would make my short list. The $100 might not be my favorite RHC $100 by itself as I'm generally not a fan of green in the $100, but it works well in this lineup (especially with the green theme showing up on all the chips except the $500). The $25 through $1k chips have metallic flakes added to the clay as a security measure, and the $100 through $1k chips have a so-called "alpha dot" microdot in the inlay.
Some of you may have noticed one significant issue with this set: it's in un-played condition. I bought this set to put into play, but I haven't had the opportunity to host a tournament (never mind an eight table T2k!) since completing the set. I hope to host tournaments again in the near future but I'm planning to use some BCC chips when I do so. As such, this set is slated to ship out once temperatures cool down enough to safely ship chips. I have it on good authority that these chips will then be put into play.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed!
