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How many years did you wait before investing in a high quality chip set? (1 Viewer)

Right quick (less than 1 when I found ASM aka CPC), but I went with customs and didn't put enough thought into them which was a waste (I sold them). If you go the custom route, I'd recommend taking your time and coming up with something better than "[your name]'s poker room." Get samples and don't rush it.
 
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My first set were the dice chips. I then moved onto a metal slug set. I used that set for over 10 years. I stumbled upon BR Poker and after buying many samples, I purchased 1700 semi custom Nevada Jacks set. That was in August of last year. I loved them so much! Then came the rabbit hole. The BR chips led me to this forum. In December of last year I decided to make two custom Tina sets. I purchased them in the Feb and March group buys. Now I’m almost done putting together a 1000 chip Paulson RHC cash relabel set. I also have plans to order two CPC sets, probably next year. So yeah. The rabbit hole.
 
Shortly after I joined this forum I purchased sets. All the sets that were showcased here really gave me the fear of missing out. My advice would be to buy tons of samples to shuffle and compare. Clay is the way (Paulson).
 
One year sit‘n‘go with dice chips.
Then i found a shop with Paulsons and ordered a set of Pharaoh‘s.
One year later we found out that cash game ist much easier to handle/organize.
Got me a WTHC set for cash game (€1.20/pc.)
and we played this set for over 15 years.

Last year i joined PCF, and now i got 4 sets in rotation. Wich is perfect for the amount we play.
 
19 years. Started hosting with my sister when we were 18 with "dice chips". Then I bought a nicer looking set of "clay composite" chips (plastic...) which lasted me all these years. I was considering hosting again and some of my chips were lost by a friend, so here I am at 37 completing a larger set of Apache Majestics (2,500+ in total) thanks to this forum!
 
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plain_sauce said:
Hi,
Been playing poker for three years and i’m obsessed with everything about the game. I’ve been a long time reader and a short time member and was wondering how long everyone waited before dropping such a pretty penny on these high quality sets and if you wish you waited or bought sooner? Thanks!
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Welcome!!

If I could go back and do it again, I would have saved up for the "grail" set/sets I wanted and skipped all the lower priced sets that I "thought" would get me by. I basically spent a shit ton of money on lower rated sets, and then ended up dropping a SHIT TON on more expensive sets because the lower rated sets just didn't fully satisfy.

Just find a grail set or two that you LOVE; start with a small number of chips; and add a rack or two as needed. You will save a crap ton of money in the long run.

Enjoy!!
 
About 6 years is the short answer. Less if you count Sun-Fly ceramics.

Dice chips
Plastic chips
Other plastic chips
Joined older/other chipping site
Sun-Fly ceramics (about 2 year mark)
Miscellaneous chips that I always sold before “finishing” a set
Joined PCF
The Chip Room sale of Horseshoe Cleveland Paulsons
 
Right away. Once my dice chip came in I wasn’t happy w them. The year was 2001. I forgot what site it was but the best at the time I could find was BCC CDIs. I remember my friends thought it was nuts paying 70 cents or so per chip.
 
Started hosting in '07 with sluggos, picked up an excellent set of China clays (Palm Private Cardrooms) in '08, and then saved up for my first Paulson purchase in late '09. By that time I knew I wanted to continue to host and had a viable game running steady for a couple of years.

Take enough time to both get some samples to get a feel for what you'd ultimately like, as well as confirm you enjoy hosting (its definitely not for everyone), then go build it :). At this point in the hobby (unless we see another terrible recession) sets won't be getting any cheaper with time.
 
I bought some CC from someone here and knew right away they weren't a keeper. So I started my clay journey and it probably took at least a year to put something playable together, but I couldn't afford the stuff I wanted until I transacted about a hundred times and met lots of good chippers on the way. And this was during the fallout of the first NAGB when tensions were running high.
 
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I got a relatively high quality set of BCC chips when I started playing poker about 20 years ago. I had no idea it was a high quality set other than it wasn’t “dice chips” and I thought it looked good and stretched my budget. I stumbled into this forum 4 years ago and as a result started building some other sets and getting into closed casino chips and the like, but the original one from 20 years ago still holds up well in terms of being a legit quality set.
 
MattyA said:
I got a relatively high quality set of BCC chips when I started playing poker about 20 years ago. I had no idea it was a high quality set other than it wasn’t “dice chips” and I thought it looked good and stretched my budget. I stumbled into this forum 4 years ago and as a result started building some other sets and getting into closed casino chips and the like, but the original one from 20 years ago still holds up well in terms of being a legit quality set.
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You’ve been on this site for 3 years and you haven’t learned that you can’t drop something like that without pictures?
 
Three years and 18 posts (19 now!) so yeah you could say I’m not exactly learning the group norms lol.
 
I first started hosting a home game with plastic metal slugged chips about 15 years ago. A friend who started attending my game was a member here (I think it was an older version of these forums though). He said I needed better chips for the game, so he sold me a set of 600 World Top Hat and Canes for a song. My world was forever changed.

I may not have been a member here yet, but this community was still responsible for showing me the way.
 
I was playing with Dice chips for 10 years since college. Bought some Casino Royale chips the same time I found this forumn. Upgraded to ceramics, and 6 months later I have my first set of Paulsens. Man, the chip creep is steep. Lol :)
 
plain_sauce said:
Hi,
Been playing poker for three years and i’m obsessed with everything about the game. I’ve been a long time reader and a short time member and was wondering how long everyone waited before dropping such a pretty penny on these high quality sets and if you wish you waited or bought sooner? Thanks!
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I joined a few months before Covid hit with a goal of purchasing my first Paulson set. I purchased several sets within my first 4 months and a year later had about 10 sets. Now granted, this was early pandemic and everything was shut down so the forums were very lively and lots of sets were getting traded and sold etc. Prices do fluctuate (quite a lot sometimes), so today is actually a much better time to buy your first set than it was in 2021-22 for example. But over time generally things do increase in price, so as others have said, if you can afford it, you will always be happy with that first Paulson clay set… happy, but perhaps (never?) satisfied.
 
Something like 6 months I think.
I started reading here and on the blue site. Then I joined each site after a couple of months and read everything. I think I might have held off another 3-6 months, but the Chiproom Cleveland horseshoe sale happened and people were freaking out like the second coming, so I decided to see what it was all about.
(I believe those THC $1s were 59 cents?)
 

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