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[Jimulacrum]

Want to get 490 poker chips and still not have a truly playable set? Buy this bloody monstrosity! Comes with 2 dealer buttons, so you can fail at hosting 2 tables at a time.

https://westernmass.craigslist.org/spo/d/490-premium-assorted-clay/6704323162.html

 

[Psypher1000]

I Want to Scream at This Photo

Go right ahead. Nobody would blame you.

 

[mike32]

Every chip is worth 25 cents (or a buck). It’s how I used to play poker 30 years ago and we had a blast.

 

[Rhodeman77]

We always say get samples! This guy listened hahahahaha

 

[BGinGA]

He'd probably have better luck selling them that way, too.

 

[Highli99]

According to the add he stores them in a Grand Manarnier bucket. Lol

 

[WedgeRock]

Not so fast! There are some real high-end gems in.... Um... Nevermind.

 

[warewulf]

Every chip is worth 25 cents (or a buck). It’s how I used to play poker 30 years ago and we had a blast.

I played in a game like that a few times. The guy had decent chips that were 4 colors. Though he made them ALL worth $1. Of course, we would run out of chips and there would end up being $5's and $20's in each pot. We still had fun, but it hurt my OCD.

 

[Thomacetti]

dibs on the aluminum Grand Marnier bucket

 

[rowlin]

I played in a game like that a few times. The guy had decent chips that were 4 colors. Though he made them ALL worth $1. Of course, we would run out of chips and there would end up being $5's and $20's in each pot. We still had fun, but it hurt my OCD.

At that point, I’m using Lincoln Logs for the big denoms.

 

[Beakertwang]

I played in a game like that a few times. The guy had decent chips that were 4 colors. Though he made them ALL worth $1. Of course, we would run out of chips and there would end up being $5's and $20's in each pot. We still had fun, but it hurt my OCD.

We play nickel/dime games mostly. One guy offered to host, and they just had a bunch of mixed dice chips, and every chip is a nickel. Until they didn’t have enough chips for 8 buy ins. I guess every chip is a dime now. I suggested that they pull the black chips out and call them quarters, and they acted like I suggested we drink toilet water. I’d much prefer to play with dice chips on a Lifetime table, than a pile of mixed TRK’s that all count for one value on a Chanman custom.

 

[Jimulacrum]

We play nickel/dime games mostly. One guy offered to host, and they just had a bunch of mixed dice chips, and every chip is a nickel. Until they didn’t have enough chips for 8 buy ins. I guess every chip is a dime now. I suggested that they pull the black chips out and call them quarters, and they acted like I suggested we drink toilet water.

For some folks, the idea of running a game in a manageable and logistically sound way is just nuts.

I'm not vehemently opposed to using all chips as one denom and shoveling big, messy piles back and forth all night. Hell, that's half the fun of a limit game. But you gotta have enough chips to make it happen, and that can be an unreasonable number for big-bet games, where the chip value is the SB. Even my relatively shallow weekly NLHE game would need like 2,000–4,000 chips for a single table.

 

[glom]

I lived in greenfield ma as a kid. And plan to move back to the county next spring. Small world.

 

[warewulf]

We play nickel/dime games mostly. One guy offered to host, and they just had a bunch of mixed dice chips, and every chip is a nickel. Until they didn’t have enough chips for 8 buy ins. I guess every chip is a dime now. I suggested that they pull the black chips out and call them quarters, and they acted like I suggested we drink toilet water. I’d much prefer to play with dice chips on a Lifetime table, than a pile of mixed TRK’s that all count for one value on a Chanman custom.

I hear ya. When I suggested just making every color worth a different amount, I got the standard "we've been playing like this for years" response. So I watched people pull in pots and put the bills in their pockets, so I started to do the same. So no way to win your $20 back lol.

 

[WedgeRock]

FWIW, you can get 4000 shitty chips on CL/Let go/OfferUp for under $100...

 

[allforcharity]

Doing something the same way for years doesn't make it right, good, efficient, or logical. It's just a behavior.

 

[jbriod]

I don’t know what all the fuss is. If I can’t play a decent poker game with these...the colors would at least go great with my ugly Christmas sweater. I’d be rockin the chips and sweater on my holiday card!