detroitdad
Royal Flush
I'm not judging. When's the next game?
I'm hosting on Friday if you want to come out.
These babies are hitting the felt.
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How many of your chip sets actually get played? (2 Viewers)
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I'm hosting on Friday if you want to come out.
These babies are hitting the felt.
You know if I lived closer we'd be regulars at each other's games. Lots of poker and lots of bourbon every damn week lol.
detroitdad
Royal Flush
I'm only hearing excuses
Sorry, it's too much $$ and time to fly out for games. An evening out is fine, but I got the kids on Saturdays while the wife is at work. They know not to bother me in the morning if I've had a poker night, but flying out for a game digs into my wife points capital that I'm saving for meet ups.
detroitdad
Royal Flush
So the kids have money? They can't be worse poker players than us
I've been trying to teach them lately. Their tendency to bluff is too high lol. I've played with you at least a couple times already. You're not a bad player. I'm way worst since I calculate my odds after I already lost the hand.
This
It’s a lot more fun when you felt the chips … even rare ones … all my sets are in rotation, but some see the felt less frequently for various reasons…
And thislike to play with my chips and believe the hobby is way more fun when felting what you have worked towards. Bonus points if it is with other chippers who can appreciate them. If there are chips I cannot ultimately find a spot to use or felt, the intention is to sell/trade them when the time is right. I would recommend starting small and ripping the band-aid off at least one of those minty sets and go from there.
Ultimately do what you want though; PCF will find a way to bitch about whatever that is
It’s a lot more fun when you felt the chips … even rare ones … all my sets are in rotation, but some see the felt less frequently for various reasons…
I guarantee more than 1 set of the TCR Harrahs gets resold without ever being used
Really going out on a limb there.
By the PCF purchaser, more than likely. Only here will you find chippers that buy a fully playable set that will sell them before even receiving them. At a loss, too.
All. I’ve never bought chips without the intent of putting them in play. And though I’ve owned some expensive, some rare, and some mint chips, I’ve never considered any restrictions on who to play them with, or even where.
Chips are meant to be played, and this shouldn’t be a secret, but they’re not fragile.
Chips are meant to be played, and this shouldn’t be a secret, but they’re not fragile.
That could be because it’s a lot easier to buy a set of cool tournament chips than it is to host a damn tournament. What a pain in the butt that is. Off the top of my head, I’ve owned at least two tournament sets (BCC fun nites and non-counterfeit DDLM) that never saw full table full session play. Not because I wasn’t eager to felt the chips and not because I don’t love tournaments. But hosting a tournament? (Insert poop emoji here)
Moxie Mike
Full House
I admit in the beginning of my PCF days, I fell into the trap of picking up 'a barrel of this' and a 'rack of that' pretty much for the hell of it. Then after a while I had accumulated a bunch of random stuff sitting in non-descript white boxes on a shelf in my office. Why TF do I own all of this?
Luckily, this is a fortunate hobby in the sense that a poorly conceived impulse buy can often be resold at or near what I paid for them, so that barrel of mint Jack Cincinatti $500 chips that I just had to have despite having no use for them whatsoever could find a new home without me losing my ass on the transaction lol.
I don't know how everyone looks at this hobby, but for me, it's about owning a piece of functional history. There's a story behind every chip in my cabinet. From the Empress $5s I bought on eBay for 39 cents apiece after the casino burned, to the Bally's $1s I harvested out of the card room and eventually had to explain why my carry-on was so heavy to TSA, to the Cali chips such as the Garden City's, Lake Elsinore and Eldorado Club chips we felt during low-stakes circus games, my group appreciates what goes into acquiring these chips in playable quantities.
That's not meant as a criticism for all you guys and gals who have Apache cases stacked to the ceiling in your living rooms full of playable sets, or to the collectors who can't get enough of the one-offs. To each their own.
Huskerchipper
Straight
Like you I used to not use my best chips. I eventually went thru some REALLY difficult times that included a couple of hospital stays. When I started hosting again I knew that was 100% going to change. Everything is in rotation now. Yes they are beautiful but a couple hours of play isn't going to change them into something else. All of my chips are All In...Play them sumbitches!!
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It’s an interesting comparison because I’d imagine that once you crack open a bottle and take a drink, it becomes nearly worthless. But Paulsons? You can bust them out for a monthly session and it would take quite a few years to put enough wear on them to significantly affect their value. It’s like having your cake and eating it too.
ChipFinderSK
Full House
NGL I don’t really need any chips - I don’t host (lack of dedicated gaming space), and all the home games I play at are hosted by chippers who have their own custom/HOF/NAGB/grail/other sets. So there’s never a need for me to bring my shittier chips to play.
If/when I do host in the future, I know at least 10-20 chippers that I’m sure would lend me a set to host a game.
I might as well be collecting stamps.
But I have no plans to sell any sets, and the only time I even think about selling chips at all is to raise funds to buy other chips that probably won’t see felt time anytime soon (without the wife realizing what I paid for said new chips). And yet I still want to buy chips if I see them at good prices in the classifieds/TCR sales.
There are dozens of us on this forum.
If/when I do host in the future, I know at least 10-20 chippers that I’m sure would lend me a set to host a game.
I might as well be collecting stamps.
But I have no plans to sell any sets, and the only time I even think about selling chips at all is to raise funds to buy other chips that probably won’t see felt time anytime soon (without the wife realizing what I paid for said new chips). And yet I still want to buy chips if I see them at good prices in the classifieds/TCR sales.
There are dozens of us on this forum.
AlbinoDragon
Flush
All of my sets* get used. The tourney sets get used less as I have stepped back on hosting those, but all my sets were bought and built to see the felt.
(* there is one set that's never seen the felt and is in a box, but that's a story for another day.)
(* there is one set that's never seen the felt and is in a box, but that's a story for another day.)
Both of them.
I only have 2 sets. I don't belong here.
I only have 2 sets. I don't belong here.
Probably closer to hundreds. But most of them have been shamed into silence. Between people like you and people who play with some chips but lock up the good stuff and people who are actually investing/speculating, and who knows what other kinds of people, I think it’s likely that fewer than half the chips on this forum actually see any kind of significant play.
And personally I’m not sure why I should feel any kind of way about that. Because that means there are still mint chips of every variety out there. And maybe someday I’ll want to buy them.
Right now I have two cash and two tourney sets, plus several hundred other murdered solids.
One cash set is getting played regularly. I sold a third one recently and am contemplating either murdering or selling the two full tourney sets since I no longer use them as such.
But it’s hard to let go of my babies
One cash set is getting played regularly. I sold a third one recently and am contemplating either murdering or selling the two full tourney sets since I no longer use them as such.
But it’s hard to let go of my babies
Definitely think you should felt all your sets. What's the point of collecting chips in playable quantities if you're not even planning on using them? Might as well go for singles at that point imo. Plus the wear from a few nights use is near negligible, casino chips get worn because they're being used 24/7 365 days a year. The main two exceptions would be if you have so many sets you can't feasibly use them all with your hosting frequency, or that you're holding them as financial speculation and maintaining absolute immaculate condition is important for resale vlaue.
ChipFinderSK
Full House
What do you mean - “people like me”?
I can’t speak for others that have sets that aren’t being played, but I’ll try to answer your question based on my own situation.
The plan is to use the sets eventually, but I need the space to host, and shit’s expensive (wife/kids/housing/etc). Yet I still feel compelled to build 5+ sets for whenever I do start hosting (beater/loaner set, travel set, mint Paulson set to be part of the club, mixed set, Cali mixed set).
To your latter point, I also have a bunch of random singles that I use as cappers when I do play, but that still doesn’t scratch the itch of me wanting to finish building in-progress sets or thinking about building new sets (BCC, CPCs, TRKs, custom ceramics, etc).
Chipping is addictive - I should find a safer hobby, like smoking crack
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It is kinda funny how we semi jokingly shame the folks that don’t get chips in play.
I might be way off, but I’d guess the majority of chips don’t see play. Just between the 10% largest collections here is probably a not small amount of chips that never see felt.
Funnily enough, I think we see more of the half shaming publicly because it’s become more normalized to just buy and hold. Interesting to watch the hobby ebb and flow.
My answer is none of my chips at the house see felt, hopefully next house has space to host and I spend time building a game.
Edit - in a true degen fashion, I’m currently paying off a $6k+ set, that when paid and I “own” it, I’m just leaving it at the other chippers house. Because I don’t have fooking space for it and it won’t get played here. Meanwhile, he doesn’t ever host either
I might be way off, but I’d guess the majority of chips don’t see play. Just between the 10% largest collections here is probably a not small amount of chips that never see felt.
Funnily enough, I think we see more of the half shaming publicly because it’s become more normalized to just buy and hold. Interesting to watch the hobby ebb and flow.
My answer is none of my chips at the house see felt, hopefully next house has space to host and I spend time building a game.
Edit - in a true degen fashion, I’m currently paying off a $6k+ set, that when paid and I “own” it, I’m just leaving it at the other chippers house. Because I don’t have fooking space for it and it won’t get played here. Meanwhile, he doesn’t ever host either
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The plan is to use the sets eventually, but I need the space to host, and shit’s expensive (wife/kids/housing/etc). Yet I still feel compelled to build 5+ sets for whenever I do start hosting (beater/loaner set, travel set, mint Paulson set to be part of the club, mixed set, Cali mixed set).
To your latter point, I also have a bunch of random singles that I use as cappers when I do play, but that still doesn’t scratch the itch of me wanting to finish building in-progress sets or thinking about building new sets (BCC, CPCs, TRKs, custom ceramics, etc).
Chipping is addictive - I should find a safer hobby, like smoking crack
I don't begrudge anyone who works on building sets and never gets a chance to play them before moving on but for me the goal is to eventually get them in play. Obviously it can take a lot of time to put certain sets together, and you may not actually get a chance to felt them due to life circumstances. It can be tough if you have sets you want to play but can't seem to find the chance for, and I get not wanting to let them go. You may only have the opportunity to host a few games a year, if you have enough sets that means some may very rarely even be an option. I only take issue of the mentality of buying sets with the explicit intention to never playing them. I suppose some people may also acquire sets to treat as trade material, which I don't love but I understand why people do it.
ChipFinderSK
Full House
Agreed then - fuck the flippers
All of these?
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