Hello from Essex, UK (1 Viewer)

[Syzygyy]

Hi there, discovered this forum whilst researching new poker chips as i am intending to upgrade my poker chip collection. Was delighted to see such detailed analysis by users on here and has already been very helpful in identifying potential chips for my new set.

I am getting back into the hobby after being a very casual home game tournament player at college with friends. now i've hit my 30s i'm having one of those crisis people talk about and well, i foresee spending a lot on poker chips in my near future being mine.

hope to speak to you all further. I am eyeing up the tina Aria ceramics that are widely talked about on here but like many have seen the eyewatering amount on shipping so would like to find others to potentially split the cost with.

I've always had 14g 'slugged plastic' chips as they seem to be described as on here so am ideally looking to find some samples from tina first before pulling the trigger. @Accrualgame i need to hit my post count before i can DM but i see you are looking for others...!!

@sweetpotatofishing noticed you also were looking - i could be in market shortly

 

[Mushmanchuman]

Welcome Mate! Show off some pictures of your stuff. Man cave, chipsets, (even if they are sluggos) bourbon, etc. Make a post about your favorite poker vlogger in the right section.

All that stuff will get your posts up or you can throw down $25 to be a supporter to bypass some of that. Helps out the cause, no ads.

If you want some chips you will get the chips! We have a bunch of cool people here that will happily assist in getting you some playable chips over there!

 

[Fran]

Welcome to PCF !

 

[Syzygyy]

This was my set when my friends and I were at school. 300 piece set, fairly cheap. We bought the additional 100 and 500 chips separately - at the time it felt like high roller stuff

Very recently bought this set as my upgrade set, 700 chips total. Seems to be mid range in terms of price - I liked the additional colours and I have ordered some plaques separately and got the table top mat too which I think will give a nice feel to things. Both sets are 14g - I believe advertised as clay but realising they are not actually clay. This is a very recent purchase and yet to actually be used (700 pcs + mat) but was before discovering this forum

Whilst I love the yellow and purple chips, I was always tied to and loved the look of some of the chips you’d see on WSOP or the old school high stakes poker video. I started researching to see about getting some custom white red and blue like the aria style in a different denomination but was not having much luck in the UK, hence looking further afield. My mrs is understandably warning me from pulling the trigger on a new set but this forum is like poker chip porn and very difficult to not want to pull the trigger on sets like the below.

I’ve always played tournament games with max of 8 people, (besides that one infamous night in 2012 where we got 17), but have always liked the idea of having enough chips for a multi table event and think with enough advertising or researching I can probably find people locally outside of immediate friends to make that happen.

Anyway that’s a bit about me and my poker journey ✌

 

[Mushmanchuman]

Yeah buddy! That’s a nice spread of sets. I like odd and fun tourney sets myself.

Nice table top too!

What I meant by posting that stuff was in other categories. I think this thread is only one post. If you post in “man cave pics” that’s another post towards opening up dm’s.

 

[Syzygyy]

Ahhhh haha thanks - I will visit some of the other sub forums. Thanks for the guidance

 

[Bronson]

Hi!

Good starting set anyway! Yes we UK chippers are not having easy/cheap access to quality stuff, brace yourself and keep looking.

 

[Kam]

Welcome!

The Web mold hybrid is the one of the newer popular Tina options, also a sun mold. Recommend these over the older card mold.

There’s also a new custom Tina Hybrid option in the final design stages:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/tangiers-and-the-quest-for-a-tina-hybrid-faux-inlay.123415/

Also recommend searching for posts in the Tournament subs by @BGinGA for how to size your chipset & quantities.

GL!

 

[SSTB2213]

Welcome to the PCF!

 

[Tonysquander]

Welcome to PCF!

 

[allforcharity]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Sway]

Welcome!

 

[Just1Better]

Hello and welcome!