Wanted Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino - 25 cent (1 Viewer)

[Timmy501]

Ho Ho Ho. It's time to reward Santa for Christmas. I've been looking for 25 cent chips for my cash game and happened to stumble upon a thread about the best looking frac. There's one that I really like and it appears to be from a live casino.

Is there's anyone out there who lives near the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino? Are these chips real? Could you mine a rack for me? Santa would be very grateful and I'm sure he'd put you on the nice list!

 

[guyfleegman]

So, I already put these on my list.
I have been good this year but “Santa” told me to piss off!
Best of luck

 

[arch3r]

http://themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=INHCHO

Seems they are live chips.

 

[FDLmold]

I think they realized their error of putting out THC inlaid quarters at this casino shortly after opening, and quickly switched to ceramics. I doubt these were on the tables for even a year, though I could be wrong.

 

[FDLmold]

I spent a year scouring eBay and thechipboard for these. Net result, one chip.

 

[Perthmike]

There’s definitely some racks out there, but I think you’d have to pry them from cold dead fingers.

That or make them an offer that can’t be refused.

 

[arch3r]

I spent a year scouring eBay and thechipboard for these. Net result, one chip.
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So you're saying there's a chance?

 

[FDLmold]

Yes, Timmy has a chance. Save your pennies and when a rack of these comes up for $450, pony up and pay your rental fee! (Or your I'm-dying-with-these-chips fee, probably this one.)

 

[BGinGA]

Are these chips real?

Yep. Pretty scarce, though.

Could you mine a rack for me?

Not a chance. I doubt there is an entire rack still in the casino's possession.

Seems they are live chips.

Correct.

I think they realized their error of putting out THC inlaid quarters at this casino shortly after opening, and quickly switched to ceramics. I doubt these were on the tables for even a year, though I could be wrong.

I don't think the casino ordered very many clay quarters -- maybe three racks total; maybe just two. Not sure when they were first introduced -- I suspect it was well after the casino opened, maybe 2010? (the ceramics were introduced in mid-2008 when the casino opened). The clay quarters were still on the tables as of 2014 or so. However, there weren't very many, and they wouldn't even put them in play. The dealer wanted to pay me in real US coin quarters at the Pai Gow table until I pitched a fit to the pit boss. Walked out four hours later -- and $357 poorer -- with all 37 chips they had at the table. The other Pai Gow table had none, and only ceramics were on every other game table I checked out. Afaik, they don't have any clay quarters left at all -- Elvis has left the building.

I spent a year scouring eBay and thechipboard for these. Net result, one chip.

I don't think I've ever seen one for sale.

There’s definitely some racks out there, but I think you’d have to pry them from cold dead fingers.

I think I'm 17 chips short of two racks total, and I don't know of anybody else that has more than one or two chips total. I got most of mine from @courage who had harvested the casino hard back in 2011 or so. And as a native Hoosier, I don't plan on ever letting them go.

That or make them an offer that can’t be refused.

It would have to be quite an offer.

So you're saying there's a chance?

Realistically, probably not.

Yes, Timmy has a chance. Save your pennies and when a rack of these comes up for $450, pony up and pay your rental fee!

Sorry folks -- my chips are already spoken for, if/when I ever decide to sell (and chances are pretty high that @PokerChipWidow will be selling them after I'm dead and gone). As far as pricing goes, I expect they'd hit $10/chip in an open auction, maybe more.

 

[Perthmike]

@BGinGA i deliberately opened with the cold dead fingers part because it seemed more likely than making an offer that you wouldn’t refuse

If they were in my possession i certainly wouldn’t be releasing them. I love that chip so much. definitely my favourite frac ever.

 

[FDLmold]

I knew @BGinGA had almost two racks. I'm not aware of anybody else who has any. I know *member redacted* has an incredibly impressive collection of racks of casino fractional chips, but I'd have to ask *member redacted* if he had one of these. I doubt it.

$1g a rack? Sounds about right I suppose. Unobtainium is expensive.

 

[FDLmold]

I got mine from Reggie on thechipboard. He broke up his Indiana collection one day and about 5 seconds after he did that, I bought it from him.

 

[BGinGA]

By far, the largest collection of casino frac racks I know of belongs to @HaRDHouSeiNC -- I don't think he has one of these.

 

[moose]

I was going to say Courage but now that I see bginga has his supply I guess you are SOL.

On a side note, what did *member redacted* do to become, *member redacted*?

Wait, bginga just outed *member redacted* ???

 

[FDLmold]

I didn't know if Hardhouse wanted it known that he had a million racks of fractional chips. He shared it with me in private messages but I don't think I ever saw him mention it in public. Just being careful. If he starts selling fracs I want to be on the "nice" list.

 

[BGinGA]

I was going to say Courage but now that I see bginga has his supply I guess you are SOL.

On a side note, what did *member redacted* do to become, *member redacted*?

Wait, bginga just outed *member redacted* ???

lol, I dunno if he was just wanting to save him from getting bombarded with "Please sell me xxx" requests, or if he's talking about somebody else.

 

[BGinGA]

I didn't know if Hardhouse wanted it known that he had a million racks of fractional chips. He shared it with me in private messages but I don't think I ever saw him mention it in public. Just being careful. If he starts selling fracs I want to be on the "nice" list.

Yeah, he's been public about it before, although his presence on PCF has been relatively minimal. Even had a large gallery on CT, iirc. Very impressive collection.

 

[Timmy501]

I guess this Santa wasn't very good after all. Thanks all for the info. Knew it was a shot in the dark, but I had to ask. Is there any place that has some REASONABLE 25 cent chips?

Thanks everyone for the feedback and funny conversation. I especially liked the Goodfellas reference!

 

[BGinGA]

Most spotted casino Paulson 25c chips with inlays sell for $350/rack and up..... IF you can find somebody willing to sell. And there aren't very many of them.

For those reasons, a lot of people go the re-label/inlay-replacement route for cash set quarters.

 

[Timmy501]

Thanks for the info. Didn't want to spend that much, but it is what it is. I had already purchased some day blue solids. Guess I'll have to save some money for relabeling.

 

[ParrotheadMZ]

Yeah BG nailed it. As far as I know he has the only lot of these chips.
All the dealers and waitress has been frisked clean of any Paulson chips.
This ship has sadly sailed
If only the 200+ chips I harvested were Paulsons instead of chipcos

 

[FDLmold]

I can't think why this casino even ordered these in the first place. Maybe the manager was a chipper and needed some quarters for his or her home game?

 

[ParrotheadMZ]

I can't think why this casino even ordered these in the first place. Maybe the manager was a chipper and needed some quarters for his or her home game?

Maybe I harvested too many Chipcos lol

I wish I knew who was in charge of that we could offer more money and he could order more:

 

[mike32]

Gear labels on Paris 1’s!

 

[Timmy501]

OMG, I can't tell you how much I like those chips. WAY out of my price range. Total cost would be close to $5 a chip. They would be perfect though.

 

[Timmy501]

Well everyone, I guess you can tell that I'm pretty new to chip collecting. I posted a stupid question, but learned a lot!! Thanks again for all the great info!

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

Happy new year
Yah those are nice but never came across any when I was buying up racks years ago when I had extra play money

Well everyone, I guess you can tell that I'm pretty new to chip collecting. I posted a stupid question, but learned a lot!! Thanks again for all the great info!

Merry Christmas everyone!