Wanted High Quality Recognizable Name Home Game Set Wanted (3 Viewers)

[kk405]

Kadrik, most baller live chip set everView attachment 114314

very nice set!

 

[kk405]

And don't forget the guy who made a home set of live Bellagio chips. Would only run you chip face value of $9,200, and a few weeks of harvesting time (plus the cost of any fracs you'd want to add on)...

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wow... impressive

 

[Oddpac87]

And don't forget the guy who made a home set of live Bellagio chips. Would only run you chip face value of $9,200, and a few weeks of harvesting time (plus the cost of any fracs you'd want to add on)...

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Mother of god....

 

[Shaggy]

Newbie question here, but if it's state law to destroy chips from closed casinos how to large sets get out for sale on PCF? Are most simply harvested or sold off when a casino changes its chips without shutting down?

As stated above, it depends on the state. In Nevada, my understanding is the ships must be destroyed... so how did large sets come about (like the Dunes or Tropicanas)? In the case of the Dunes, the chips were destroyed by burying them on the property. When the building was demolished to build the whatever, the chips were discovered. Mike Spinetti then purchased them and now offers them for sale. How the Trops came about, I don't know. Most likely someone who was responsible for getting them destroyed "lost" them temporarily.

For the lower denoms and certainly the live chips... they were harvested.

 

[MaxB]

When the building was demolished to build the whatever,

Bellagio, I think

 

[Kasper Storrs]

Haha, there must be a fair few cases of large defunct casino sets somehow getting lost...

Thanks for the info!

 

[PokerMike]

So I was giving this challenge some thought. Your goal is "name" casinos in near mint condition. I propose the following:

A Vegas casino mixed set similar to what @David O showed above. This will allow you to have multiple name casinos in one set without repeats. Don't have two denoms from the same casino because then it feels like a set from that casino with a few chips from somewhere else.

This allows you to acquire Vegas fracs from known (Binion's Horseshoe) or lesser known (Joker's Wild, Railroad Pass, or Main Street Station) casinos in very good condition. You can then get mint/near mint live dollars from places like New York New York, Paris, Venetian (or a host of others). You can get mint/near mint live fives from the same list of casinos (just don't repeat). Perhaps a member in Vegas can harvest these for you for a small fee. For your $25 and $100 you can look into the more collectible chips (since you are buying fewer) from closed casinos. This would include the Dunes that you have excluded, but also Tropicana. If you opened the location up to other venues, you could include Horseshoe Cleveland/Cincy... there are a host of other casinos but I don't believe they are known enough for your criteria (Empress, Casablanca, Grand Victoria...)

Good idea!

 

[PokerMike]

I have some Binions Horseshoes I might sell....there would be some mixing of molds, etc., but playable vintage chips from old Vegas.

I would definitely be interested