Key West 2025 chip prices (1 Viewer)

[dennis63]

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I am pleased to announce Key West chips prices for 2025 are finally here.

We've offered Key West chips here on Poker Chip Forum since the site began. I haven't had any direct contact with the new owner of Classic Poker Chips, but I'm happy the company will be in good hands and looking forward to working with him to continue to offer Key West chips in the future.

About Key West pricing:

The PCF member price is the average price I paid for each chip in the inventory. When new chips are added, like they were in February, their quantity and total are added to the existing inventory and a new "average" per chip is calculated. That way, members here are buying Key West chips for cost, similar to an old-fashioned group buy.

Ordering Key West chips:

You can order here on PCF by sending a PM to dennis63. Please include exactly what you want, your shipping address, and how you'd like to pay, and an email address or PayPal email (for payments via Square or PayPal).

Payment is by PayPal or credit card through Square, a secure credit card processor. I can send an invoice to your PayPal account or a Square invoice to your email address. You pay with a click and the chips ship soon after -- usually the next business day after payment. I then email a tracking number, so you'll know when your chips arrive.

Insurance is optional and available, but recommended for higher-value packages.

Prices of items other than chips (playing cards, chip racks, bird cages and other things) may be subject to change through the year.

There is no minimum. Quantities of chips in stock and available may be limited.

Retail prices on the Key West public website are set at the current price of Classic Poker Chips, so as not to compete with them or cut into their orders.

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Awesome. Thank you!

 

[OnTiltAlways]

Glad CPC is still available... have more time to procrastinate...

 

[menapamw32]

Sorry for my ignorance but what are these? Is this a custom design that cpc makes for you?

 

[dennis63]

Sorry for my ignorance but what are these? Is this a custom design that cpc makes for you?

Yes, exactly. But Key Wests are considered "semi-custom," and have a long history that pre-dates me.

In 2004, the old Atlantic Standard Molding of Portland, Maine, dusted off a chip mold called the H mold, which had been used to produce chips for some of the earliest casinos of the Las Vegas Strip (and plenty of illegal chips for speakeasies in the early 1900s). The mold had been sitting on a shelf for more than 20 years. Josh Shore at Apache Poker Chips (a retailer here on PCF) had the idea to make a retro-1960s-style chip, exact in every detail.

He worked with J5 Design (also here on PCF) and they came up with the Key West design selecting the name because there was never a "Key West" casino in Las Vegas, Florida, or anywhere else, ever. (There was a Key West casino that was all slots in Florida later, but it was north of Tampa somewhere and didn't last.)

They dreamed up the Key West inlay, added some classic Vegas retro color combinations that were popular in the 1950s and 60s, and put it all together on the H mold. The result looked like you stepped back in time and grabbed a chip from a table where Frank Sinatra might have played.

The original chips were offered on Chiptalk in September, 2004.

Around 2010, I got some samples from Josh and bought a set of Key Wests. When I wanted to add on, I called Josh, who said he was running out and was getting ready to end the Key West design. He put me in touch with Jim Blanchard, then owner of ASM in Portland -- the precursor to today's Classic Poker Chips. Jim suggested I offer to buy the design from Josh, and he'd keep making Key West chips for me.

Josh agreed, and I ended up owning the design in 2011.

Since then, I've added a few denominations to the original 9, and added playing cards, dealer buttons, solid roulette chips in 9 colors, a bounty chip, dice and other things. The check to pay for the playing cards was over $10,000, so I had to get a business license to stay on the right side of state law and the IRS. To date, I've sold around 70,000 Key West chips to about 600 players in every U.S. state and 32 countries. Most are sold right here on PCF, though a few customers find the chips through a public website.

The chips are sold at my cost and the business "keeps the lights on" through sales of the other things, classes and hosting casino parties using some (you guessed it) really nice Key West tables and chips.

But Key Wests are essentially Classic Poker Chips on the H mold with the Key West inlay, standard base colors, spot colors and denominations.