gopherblue
Straight Flush
The only reason I don’t have 27 keeper sets is that I only have 16 sets.You have 27 keeper sets after narrowing it down?
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luvpokerchips
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RainmanTrail
Straight Flush
Crystal Parks are very under rated IMO. I thought they were hot trash before I got to see/feel them in person. I'm not an RHC fan or a giant inlay fan, but something about these just works. Plus, who doesn't love Pink Floyd?
Just had a talk about this today with @natumes .
coolguy101
Two Pair
Literally same thoughts. I didn't realize there were subtle color differences in the spots either. Still wouldn't be keeper status for me, but I learned some things at COTS (unrelated to 1990s wrestling, of which I learned a lot, including how to use it as a random number generator for degenerate gambling)
COTS is a degen wildcard master class.
Keeper sets, hmm, if I had to think about, are:
CDI98 THC tourney and cash
Grouse Mountain Lodge THC cash
Big Easy Bud Jones S2 cash
James Bond Casino Night Custom OWPS ceramic blackjack set
Casino Royale Custom LCrown CPC with MSK plaques tourney set
everything else I have is negotiable
CDI98 THC tourney and cash
Grouse Mountain Lodge THC cash
Big Easy Bud Jones S2 cash
James Bond Casino Night Custom OWPS ceramic blackjack set
Casino Royale Custom LCrown CPC with MSK plaques tourney set
everything else I have is negotiable
MilouPilou1
Flush
Relatively new to the hobby, I'm very happy with my few sets which are obviously keepers:
Cercle Concorde B&G cash - The one that got me into the hobby. A closed card room where I experienced my first emotions playing live NLHE back in 2007.
Bourbon Street THC Relabel cash - My first Paulson set, the one that got me into PCF. Hadn't planned to land here at first, but the result is quite satisfying.
Mixed Paulson THC cash - When I finally found Bourbons OG's (initially planned above), I decided to keep the relabel set as it and to build a 3rd (and last) cash set.
Came here for the chips, stayed for the friends. Nothing would have been possible without you.
Cheers!
Cercle Concorde B&G cash - The one that got me into the hobby. A closed card room where I experienced my first emotions playing live NLHE back in 2007.
Bourbon Street THC Relabel cash - My first Paulson set, the one that got me into PCF. Hadn't planned to land here at first, but the result is quite satisfying.
Mixed Paulson THC cash - When I finally found Bourbons OG's (initially planned above), I decided to keep the relabel set as it and to build a 3rd (and last) cash set.
Came here for the chips, stayed for the friends. Nothing would have been possible without you.
Cheers!
Ben8257
Royal Flush
Monday Morning Ben book time! Yes Be Warned!! Hahaha
I really don't see the issue with 27 either honestly... we have 39 (I think) and sure we could easily cut a few of the lower end stuff (maybe get down to 34 ish) but 27 would be a monster cut. For @ovo Getting down to 27 would definitely hurt. Have to do some reserch but sounds like someone with 2 playable sets making a statement like "27 is after narrowing it down" lol
This addiction is real! For some it is just liquid funds, buy a full set, never clean your chips... just play them a couple times. Do you really have a connection to them at all or are they just another form of currency to you like monopoly money?
To those people that never fully understand, I hope someday you decide to take on a project that is nearly impossible, that seems absolutely insane at the start. One of those "man... this might take me 10 years, but I don't care! I absolutely love these chips!" Once you get there and you realize one day that your forever build is playable for 4 people then 5... watching it grow. Hand cleaning each and every chip as you pay ridiculous amounts for shipping of single chips. Yes this is in reference to ONE set. But do that a couple times, or build a set of customs from absolutely nothing, just a concept in your head,watch it grow into something amazing as you get feedback from fellow chippers and work with a designer.
What's the point? Make the chips yours, make a personal connection to them before thinking that someone else having 27 sets after cutting the collection down is insane. The time an effort to get to that point is well beyond many members understanding.
Not sure why but this comment made me think about the Jonny Depp movie "The 9th gate" these older people that have absolutely insane library's of books. There is absolutely no way they could have ever read all of them. Some of the anquie books in those collections were worth tens of thousands of dollars each. How about a Gutenburg Bible at an estimated $35 million dollars? Is anyone that owns that ever going to actually read it?
At least in our hobby we can play and actually enjoy our collection, share it with others. "Art is in the eye of the beholder" right, they have book shelves and beautiful walls filled with paintings! We have chip trays, bird cages, barrister cabinets. Ours is meant to be mobile and enjoyed, while also observed and cherished!
I hope all here find that type of connection/passion for something in their lives.
OP
OP
3 completed sets in and working on this now as my final. Absolutely sucks at the moment but I can't imagine how it will be if I ever finish them. This part of your post was like a motivational speech to me to keep it going.
OP
OP
I've been building some sets for 15 years. There's no rush.
Ben8257
Royal Flush
While just another Ben book, I put a lot of heart into that one brother! I hear from people all the time that it is obvious how passionate I am about the hobby. There's a ton of people that love nice chips, only a select few that reach that next level of compassion (obsession unfortunately). I have been a collector on many things in my life (take a peak at the old posts in the Lego thread! Haha), but nothing has ever brought as much joy as the chipping hobby. Pretty damn honored that others enjoyed that Monday Morning read! Haha
Many of us feel your pain brother. At this point we have a few projects that we check all over online daily, maybe one chip comes up on eBay every 3 months... what we used to pay $12 for now we have to stomach a bid of $30 just to get outbid and watch that chip we wanted and needed slip through our fingers. It sucks and not much we can do when someone else needs it more than we do! It can leave you sick for days, weeks even thinking about the one that got away!"
I'm sitting at 172 of these, would love to finish the second rack but
Someone definitely needed that chip more than I did! Matter of fact it seems like two or more needed it more than I did. But I don't think anyone else owns a playable quantity of those, hopefully the singles guys get their samples and move on. Nothing we can do but keep up the good fight at reuniting our babies that have been split up and spread across the earth. They want to be reunited and back on the felt together, enjoyed as they were originally intended.
I say thank you all that contribute in your own efforts for bringing them back together!
Fellow Chipping (Nerd) Ben
RainmanTrail
Straight Flush
Assuming our mail lady (she's a damn Queen! btw) has what my tracking info says she has on her truck today, then the final piece of my holiest of holy grails should arrive today. I haven't been this excited for clay circles to arrive in the mail for a very long time.
I'm at 4 sets and stopping here. This hobby obsession is taking too much time and money LOL
Tourney Set Jack white Label to eventually be a custom label
Tourney Set AST
Cash CDI 98 THC Set (what I came here for LOL) I'm over 2,000 chips
Custom Cali Solid THC Set (work in progress, should keep me on this site for another 3 months LOL)
Tourney Set Jack white Label to eventually be a custom label
Tourney Set AST
Cash CDI 98 THC Set (what I came here for LOL) I'm over 2,000 chips
Custom Cali Solid THC Set (work in progress, should keep me on this site for another 3 months LOL)
buffalojim
Royal Flush
bet they cost more than $26
buffalojim
Royal Flush
This is the appropriate response lol
Totally agree! I avoided them for years but after I bought that starter set off Travis a year ago, I have been slowly adding to the set to now have around 1400 chips. Here’s my travel set for home games
Love the Floyd reference just never can get over how the inlays are giant and part of the spots. I know I’m in the minority here but just never cared for that on the Crystal Parks.
My keeper sets (sorry no updated pics, but I should do that one weekend). Enough chips tp spread between a 0.25/0.50 - 1/2 or maybe 2/5 game.
1. PNY
2. Aurora Star
3. Crystal Park
4. BCC Protege
5. Mixed THC set 1 (Nevada Hotel 5 is the main chip)
6. Mixed THC set 2 (Casablanca Aruba 5 is the main chip)
7. CPC Cali color cash set late this summer hopefully?
8. ES/RPC mixed set (in progress)
I have a card mold Aria tournament set just in case.
Sometimes I think that's too many sets but I'm glad I have you guys here to make me realize it might not be enough haha. Maybe if I really love my CPC set I'll make a standard color set later on in a diff mold and theme. Went with DSQ for my first order.
1. PNY
2. Aurora Star
3. Crystal Park
4. BCC Protege
5. Mixed THC set 1 (Nevada Hotel 5 is the main chip)
6. Mixed THC set 2 (Casablanca Aruba 5 is the main chip)
7. CPC Cali color cash set late this summer hopefully?
8. ES/RPC mixed set (in progress)
I have a card mold Aria tournament set just in case.
Sometimes I think that's too many sets but I'm glad I have you guys here to make me realize it might not be enough haha. Maybe if I really love my CPC set I'll make a standard color set later on in a diff mold and theme. Went with DSQ for my first order.
Yeah, I know, why am I starting this thread, I seem to keep them all, but if I had to narrow it down, and this is subject to change, not in any particular order, but the vegas sets have a special place in my heart, sorry, no pics, not enough time.
1 ASM customs : Not sure why anyone would sell their custom set and I'm not even crazy about mine.
2 Desert Palms BCC : always looking for more 1k, 5k, need to create some higher denom labels
3 Casino de Isthmus '98: still looking for more 1k want to relabel 5k
4 Park Place GB : already looking forward to the add on Tommy
5 Empress Star: anyone in the original nagb would understand the excitement they felt
6 Aztar Caruthersville : would like to do a 5 relabel
7 PCA: would like to do a 1k,5k,25k relabel
8 Delta Club: need to find a frac
9 Terrible Twain: I like a mix of secondary, St. Joe and Lagrange, but would pick Lagrange , need more 25 st joe and 100
10 Santa Ysabel: need a frac
11 Condado Plaza cic : need a frac and 25k relabel
12 Playboy: need more cic dollars
13 Casino de Malta(Dragonara) cic: need frac and dollars
14 Dunes: always looking for more, especially ncv 100's
15 Riviera: always looking for more , especially ncv 100's
16 Golden Gate: need to add 5's
17 Caesars Palace: need a frac
18 Aladdin: always looking for more
19 Sahara cic: need dollars
20 Flamingo: need a frac
21 Speedway: need more 5's
22 Kings Crown: need more original 5's
23 Desert Inn: need a frac
24 stardust cic: need a frac
25 El Cortez: need hotstamped dollars and more 5's
26 Castaways cic: need to add 5's and a frac
27 Tropicana: need dollars
I’m defining “keeper” in this case as complete sets that have enough for a variety of game stakes, and are sets I would never sell in part or whole. If I even have the slightest inkling that I might sell or trade them even in the distant future, they’re not listed below.
*Some of the sets below, I do have some extra racks of some denoms (either worse condition than the others, or from a different purchase, that might come available for trade or sale.)
They are listed in no particular order, just as I remember them, not in order of importance.
1. Sacramento Casino Fun Room - THC leaded, leaded extensions
2. Starlite Cruises - THC leaded
3. Alcazar Oceans - THC leaded
4. Nevada Lodge / Club TRK
5. El Cortez TRK
6. Sunrunner Coastal Cruises - THC leaded
7. RVCLs - THC leaded
8. Binion’s WSOP - THC leaded
9. Gulfport Grand Casino - THC leaded
10. Regency Cruises - THC leaded
11. Aviation Club de France - THC unleaded
12. Mapes Casino TRK
13. Outpost Casino - THC leaded
14. Genesis Seas - THC leaded
15. Bourbon Street - THC leaded
16. Sea Goddess Casino - THC leaded
17. Savannah Sun - THC leaded
18. Silver Star - THC HS leaded
19. HP - THC leaded ($5s are unleaded relabels)
20. Back Alley Micro Stakes - THC HS leaded
21. Lakeshore Inn - THC leaded (unleaded extensions)
22. President Casino on the Admiral - THC leaded
23. Aruba Palm Beach - THC leaded
24. Jessie Becks TRK
25. South Tahoe Casino TRKs
26. Normandie Casino TRKs
27. Truman’s House - THC unleaded
28. Sunset Beach - THC unleaded
29. Casino Aztar - THC leaded, with leaded extensions
30. Epirotiki Lines - THC leaded
31. Sands Las Vegas TRK
31. San Diego Sunsetter - THC leaded
32. Tropicana First Edition TRK
33. El Morroco TRK
34. Atlantic Maritime Seascape - THC leaded
35. Cajun Cup - THC leaded
36. Chandris Cruise Lines - THC Leaded
True. I was doing a virtual mind walk through the cabinets. I know there are sets I’m missing in here, but oh well.I personally might have thought of this one before #32.
Amazing list, Krish.
MrCatPants
Full House
I try to keep my number of sets down but do have a few that I don't see ever selling...
Customs - CPC Heritage Club Cash and Tourney Sets, and Relabeled Solid THC Tourney Set that I worked on with my kids
West World cash
The one I don't think I'd sell but might if the price was ever right - Paulson Le Noir multi-table tourney set
The others, they're just long term rentals.
Customs - CPC Heritage Club Cash and Tourney Sets, and Relabeled Solid THC Tourney Set that I worked on with my kids
West World cash
The one I don't think I'd sell but might if the price was ever right - Paulson Le Noir multi-table tourney set
The others, they're just long term rentals.
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