FearlessFred
High Hand
Hi Everyone
I'm extremely pleased to have just received my first custom order. Some friends and I got back into poker at the beginning of the year and have been getting by just fine with some sluggos playing 6 max micro cash. A quick google however sent me to this forum and a reasonable sized rabbit hole and sample set purchase later ended up with me ordering a custom set via Justin's group buys; the web mould were standout winners compared to anything in the price bracket.
The overall remit was a small cash set with simple colours, designs and as few denoms as possible. In my head I like the idea of cash chips just representing the money in play in as simple a way as possible rather than being its own 'mini-game' like it is with multi-denom tourney sets. Colour wise I also didn't want anything that truly looked like a modern 'poker chip' and was rather hoping to make something that could have been used maybe any time in the last 100 years and not looked completely alien.
The initial inspiration came from the early Binions sets. I love the connection to the WSOP (initially a cash game) and the general poker mystique around the era of cowboy hat wearing players rather than today's backpack and hoodie lot. I picked the simple black chip variant as I felt the colours went really well with the other too, even at the risk of dirty stacks. I had a bit of back and forth and my post on this forum helped me narrow down my options.
Next up was the label design. I quickly decided I didn't want a fake casino name or "my card room, est. yesterday" type thing. I found some inspiration online whilst searching for C19th antique chips and mid-century designs from London casinos. The concentric circles really appealed and a tweaked version of the denom font was taken from these '60s London chips. The circle idea was reinforced as I have many a coaster from a favourite bar with the same design.
After initially considering a standard 5p/25p/£1 breakdown like we currently use for our 5p/10p £10 buy-in I stumbled across an idea I preferred. I had noticed that equal blind breakdowns frequently allowed for a starting stack with only 2 colours. ie 25c/25c, $25 buy-in, equalled a barrel of each; this really appealed for its simplicity. Keeping our stakes basically the same with some room for growth is what also lead to my choice of 10p/50p/£2. I loved that there was basically a blind chip and a betting chip with the 3rd being a deeper bank chip. Also, the fact that they are all UK coins added to the appeal and the icing on the cake was that I could purchase full racks to make a perfect breakdown; this sealed the deal.
I ordered:
10p x 100
50p x 200
£2 x 100
First 5 players get 20/16/0, next 6 buy-ins get 0/20/0, then all in £2s and finally £10 notes playing if we ever get there (we won't).
Now for the chips!
Thanks for reading
P.S after months on this forum i've only just realised that 'mold' is the US spelling of 'mould', it's been confusing me for ages!
I'm extremely pleased to have just received my first custom order. Some friends and I got back into poker at the beginning of the year and have been getting by just fine with some sluggos playing 6 max micro cash. A quick google however sent me to this forum and a reasonable sized rabbit hole and sample set purchase later ended up with me ordering a custom set via Justin's group buys; the web mould were standout winners compared to anything in the price bracket.
The overall remit was a small cash set with simple colours, designs and as few denoms as possible. In my head I like the idea of cash chips just representing the money in play in as simple a way as possible rather than being its own 'mini-game' like it is with multi-denom tourney sets. Colour wise I also didn't want anything that truly looked like a modern 'poker chip' and was rather hoping to make something that could have been used maybe any time in the last 100 years and not looked completely alien.
The initial inspiration came from the early Binions sets. I love the connection to the WSOP (initially a cash game) and the general poker mystique around the era of cowboy hat wearing players rather than today's backpack and hoodie lot. I picked the simple black chip variant as I felt the colours went really well with the other too, even at the risk of dirty stacks. I had a bit of back and forth and my post on this forum helped me narrow down my options.
Next up was the label design. I quickly decided I didn't want a fake casino name or "my card room, est. yesterday" type thing. I found some inspiration online whilst searching for C19th antique chips and mid-century designs from London casinos. The concentric circles really appealed and a tweaked version of the denom font was taken from these '60s London chips. The circle idea was reinforced as I have many a coaster from a favourite bar with the same design.
After initially considering a standard 5p/25p/£1 breakdown like we currently use for our 5p/10p £10 buy-in I stumbled across an idea I preferred. I had noticed that equal blind breakdowns frequently allowed for a starting stack with only 2 colours. ie 25c/25c, $25 buy-in, equalled a barrel of each; this really appealed for its simplicity. Keeping our stakes basically the same with some room for growth is what also lead to my choice of 10p/50p/£2. I loved that there was basically a blind chip and a betting chip with the 3rd being a deeper bank chip. Also, the fact that they are all UK coins added to the appeal and the icing on the cake was that I could purchase full racks to make a perfect breakdown; this sealed the deal.
I ordered:
10p x 100
50p x 200
£2 x 100
First 5 players get 20/16/0, next 6 buy-ins get 0/20/0, then all in £2s and finally £10 notes playing if we ever get there (we won't).
Now for the chips!
Thanks for reading
P.S after months on this forum i've only just realised that 'mold' is the US spelling of 'mould', it's been confusing me for ages!
