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Robert P

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I am quite a noob when it comes to poker chips -- I'm glad I found this site!


I will be opening up a card room within 6 months and I am researching the best chips/tables. Premium is paramount. 4 tables to start (our facility fits 8-10). Cash and tourney will be running daily. There are other poker rooms in my city. My goal = make mine nicer.



Thanks for all the help! I've really liked The Hitching Post's room. Keep it up!
Robert
 
Welcome aboard Robert! There are lots of great vendors and an incredible amount of knowledge here. Looking forward to seeing your choices.
 
Robert P said:
I am quite a noob when it comes to poker chips -- I'm glad I found this site!


I will be opening up a card room within 6 months and I am researching the best chips/tables. Premium is paramount. 4 tables to start (our facility fits 8-10). Cash and tourney will be running daily. There are other poker rooms in my city. My goal = make mine nicer.



Thanks for all the help! I've really liked The Hitching Post's room. Keep it up!
Robert
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Great to welcome another Texan!

When are you opening and where?

I might have to come visit.

You should go with customs but first how many chips? Tourney and cash sets? And most importantly what is your budget?

David O
 
SE Austin off 71
Before Dec 1. Ideally Oct/Nov
4 tables (we are 90% sure we want to start with this many)
I was thinking 3K tourney chips and 3-4K cash chips
Ideally <$7500 for everything (including freight and artwork)
I really want nice chips


Do you play in the legal SA rooms?
 
Welcome Robert

I think you shot me a text last night regarding some tables (Matt @ JDC), sorry I couldn't help but being from NJ you're a hair out of my delivery range :) The recommendation I gave last night is a sponsor here: @Nick@TPS, I know they carry supplies and I believe still offer full builds as well, and he's located in Austin.
 
I think your budget will cover chips and art, but not tables, if you're going first class.

In fact, I'd say with your budget, GOCC is probably your best option. Ceramics at those volumes are around .60 each (I think).

If there is more money in the budget, CPC is the highest quality custom available IMO, but they're spendy.

Since you care about quality, get samples. Be sure you're happy with what you're getting.
 
Robert P said:
Thanks! The 7500 budget was just for chips. I'm still debating ceramic/clay.
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This is clearly a preference issue, and samples will help, but if you're doing custom clays, 7500 is gonna be tight for 7k-8k chips, or maybe even impossible.
 
Hello Robert and welcome.
I live in south Austin and play in 2 local / legal cardrooms.

What would set your cardroom apart from them is clay chips. At this point, the only clay option is CPC. Solids or level 1 chips might be in your budget and I bet you can get free art design here at PFC.
http://www.pokerchipsonline.com
 
If you want a nice poker room, then ceramics are NOT an option, IMO. It will cost you players if you get ceramic chips. They are absolutely terrible to play with. Sure, there are some players who like them, and more who don't mind them, but there are enough players who hate them, that it's just not worth it if you're running a legit card room. Especially if your goal is to make your card room better than the competition. It's hard to get a new room started. It's even harder with ceramic chips.

Also, 3-4k cash game chips is no where near enough for a 4 table card room. That's only 100 chips per player if all 4 games are going. You'll likely need at least 10k chips. As for they tourney chips, you probably only need about 2k chips.

Not trying to be negative here, just a realist. If you'd like my help, shoot me a PM. I used to manage a couple of 5 table poker rooms in Seattle.

Also, BGinGA is great with tourney chip stack options and breakdowns. I'd shoot him a PM as well.

Good luck!
 
RainmanTrail said:
If you want a nice poker room, then ceramics are NOT an option, IMO. It will cost you players if you get ceramic chips. They are absolutely terrible to play with. Sure, there are some players who like them, and more who don't mind them, but there are enough players who hate them, that it's just not worth it if you're running a legit card room. Especially if your goal is to make your card room better than the competition. It's hard to get a new room started. It's even harder with ceramic chips.

Also, 3-4k cash game chips is no where near enough for a 4 table card room. That's only 100 chips per player if all 4 games are going. You'll likely need at least 10k chips. As for they tourney chips, you probably only need about 2k chips.

Not trying to be negative here, just a realist. If you'd like my help, shoot me a PM. I used to manage a couple of 5 table poker rooms in Seattle.

Also, BGinGA is great with tourney chip stack options and breakdowns. I'd shoot him a PM as well.

Good luck!
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I've never run a card room, but I've played in a lot of them. Ceramic chips have never seemed like a favtor to me. I've played in card rooms with cheap metal slugged plastic chips that could barely stack 10 high, with awkward denominations that ran strong games.

I agree CPC is the best going right now if you can swing it, but id like to hear others weigh in here about not playing with ceramics.
 
I personally would focus more of my $$$ on nicer (and more) cash chips. Even if you plan are to run 4 table tourneys, you can easily get buy with a 1,500 to 2,000 chip tourney set. I haven't played in a ton of casinos or private card rooms, but for the ones I have, most have nicer clay or ceramic cash chips and much cheaper tourney chips. Maybe something like unicorns or those 8 suit plastics (hot stamped for for the tourney chips and then CPC clays for cash (solid or simple edge spots). I would think you're making your money on the cash games, the tourneys are often just to bring in the fish to get them hooked. I would also think your premium/high $$$ players would more so be cash players, so you cater to them (i.e. nicer cash chips), but again that's just my opinion.

My 2¢ worth, good luck with your venture. If you do end up purchasing several thousand custom ceramics/clays, make sure you post some pics!
 
I'm wondering why nobody has suggested a call to GPI...? There have definitely small cardrooms with Paulsons in places like Washington. CPC is great, but you might as well inquire about going big.
 
Irish said:
I personally would focus more of my $$$ on nicer (and more) cash chips. Even if you plan are to run 4 table tourneys, you can easily get buy with a 1,500 to 2,000 chip tourney set. I haven't played in a ton of casinos or private card rooms, but for the ones I have, most have nicer clay or ceramic cash chips and much cheaper tourney chips. Maybe something like unicorns or those 8 suit plastics (hot stamped for for the tourney chips and then CPC clays for cash (solid or simple edge spots). I would think you're making your money on the cash games, the tourneys are often just to bring in the fish to get them hooked. I would also think your premium/high $$$ players would more so be cash players, so you cater to them (i.e. nicer cash chips), but again that's just my opinion.

My 2¢ worth, good luck with your venture. If you do end up purchasing several thousand custom ceramics/clays, make sure you post some pics!
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Yes, indeed!


I will be getting the 4-color card decks guys!!!
 
You should also visit Nick at Texas Poker Supply located in North Austin. They make unbelievable tables.
512-836-8365
Texas Poker Supply 1200 E. Applegate

They've helped me on several builds and their wood components are machine milled for precision.
 
atomiktoaster said:
I'm wondering why nobody has suggested a call to GPI...? There have definitely small cardrooms with Paulsons in places like Washington. CPC is great, but you might as well inquire about going big.
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Agreed. If you can get GPI to deal with you, that is. And if they do, I'd love to piggy back on your order for your "secondary" cash set.
 

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