New Casinos / New Chips Thread (9 Viewers)

[GodStillBlesses]

These chips are the future, altough ugly. they are cheap and durable, with RFID technology

Just read Fountainebleau 3d https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/fontainebleau-las-vegas.110364/page-2#post-2333825

Wow….. in handling these chips, it was awful. If these tracked the denominations, it did not help the dealers. Bless their hearts, most of them were not very good at the “math”. Second, stacking these chips was a nightmare. They were so slippery that the stacks would fall all over the place. Third, when they were sat in the craps tray, they did not stay. They slid all in the rack. Fourth, they did not feel like the chips we love. You felt like you were playing with plastic toy chip. Heck the old plastic bicycle chips would be close, but they would beat these. The bicycle chips with their groves at least stay in their stacks.

 

[AutoDonk5000]

Mohegan Sun CT just dropped some minty 5s. No new 1s.

 

[Paul Schaffer]

Mohegan Sun CT just dropped some minty 5s. No new 1s.
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Got to love Minty Fresh chips.

 

[allforcharity]

I giant inlay the way forward out of Icons?

 

[AutoDonk5000]

I giant inlay the way forward out of Icons?

Hm?

 

[acezag]

New to chip design elements, so forgive the newbie question, but what's the reasoning behind oversized inlays? Is it a security feature?
It's so odd to see someone intentionally covering up Paulsons with cheap looking graphics.

 

[allforcharity]

New to chip design elements, so forgive the newbie question, but what's the reasoning behind oversized inlays? Is it a security feature?
It's so odd to see someone intentionally covering up Paulsons with cheap looking graphics.

Larger space for brand advertising. Though with the amount of thought casinos put into inlay design, most of the time it is wasted space.

 

[Poker Zombie]

It provides some security. Low denomination chips have been painted to match higher denominations. Then you pop out the old label in put in a label that looks like the higher denom. Since the oversized label goes into the mold, it cannot be removed without trashing the mold.

I doubt anyone here can accurately say if the motivator was the increased branding space or security, but both are benefits.

 

[Huskerchipper]

Larger space for brand advertising. Though with the amount of thought casinos put into inlay design, most of the time it is wasted space.

This is sadly true. Virtually zero thought gets put into the chips. Those decisions are being made by a Director of Table Games that is way too busy and could care less about what chips look like. Can you think of a better Marketing tool?

 

[mike32]

I can think of a couple examples where the Grand Opening $5 chips had oversized inlays (Detroit Jack and Indiana Grand) but the normal chips had normal inlays. I’d say in this instance it was definitely for graphics.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I can think of a couple examples where the Grand Opening $5 chips had oversized inlays (Detroit Jack and Indiana Grand) but the normal chips had normal inlays. I’d say in this instance it was definitely for graphics.

In that instance, it's about chip souvenirs. Make it oversize to make it more noticeable. Non-chippers may never notice a Grand Opening chip, but that oversized label on the $5 chip is an instant profit for the casino.

 

[ekricket]

It provides some security. Low denomination chips have been painted to match higher denominations. Then you pop out the old label in put in a label that looks like the higher denom. Since the oversized label goes into the mold, it cannot be removed without trashing the mold.

I doubt anyone here can accurately say if the motivator was the increased branding space or security, but both are benefits.

Printing technology has evolved a lot.

 

[allforcharity]

that oversized label on the $5 chip is an instant profit for the casino.

And the $25 is even more instant profit!

 

[Poker Zombie]

Printing technology has evolved a lot.

To replace the missing part of the chip that gets broken peeling out the old label?

 

[ekricket]

To replace the missing part of the chip that gets broken peeling out the old label?

Don’t peel anything. Just print directly on it. The future is here.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Don’t peel anything. Just print directly on it. The future is here.

What do these printers cost? The actual publicized counterfeits have had cheap Stickermule labels (or equivalent). Counterfeiting is always possible, but the barrier to entry is usually the stopping point.

 

[puglia82]

Non-chippers may never notice a Grand Opening chip, but that oversized label on the $5 chip is an instant profit for the casino.

Back in 2013, my first trip in Las Vegas. I was not a chipper at the time. I went to the cage and asked for a 1$ chip as souvenir. The girl at the cage was much nicer than average Vegas cashier: not only gave me the chip (THC version) but said "don't you want the old one?" Thanks!!
..and yes, at the time I found large-inlay RHC much better and appealing than THC 1$, because of Palazzo building picture

 

[fishfan77]

Back in 2013, my first trip in Las Vegas. I was not a chipper at the time. I went to the cage and asked for a 1$ chip as souvenir. The girl at the cage was much nicer than average Vegas cashier: not only gave me the chip (THC version) but said "don't you want the old one?" Thanks!!
..and yes, at the time I found large-inlay RHC much better and appealing than THC 1$, because of Palazzo building picture

I started chipping back in 2013 on my first trip to Vegas. I would ask the cage for a couple $1 chips to buy at every casino I went to. I would say overall the employee was pretty nice about it. A few asked i I was a collector and would get me "new" unused chips. Some would look at me like I was insane lol

Steve

 

[ngmcs8203]

This place looks super nice:

Copa Club in West Lake, TX

Chips look like ceramics with bland edges but nice labels. Table design is clean and the room looks super comfy.

 

[AutoDonk5000]

This place looks super nice:

Copa Club in West Lake, TX

Chips look like ceramics with bland edges but nice labels. Table design is clean and the room looks super comfy.

Hmm going to Texas next week to play TCH Las Colinas. This is only 20 minutes away

 

[ngmcs8203]

Hmm going to Texas next week to play TCH Las Colinas. This is only 20 minutes away

Yea this place looks super nice.

 

[AutoDonk5000]

The card design though. Ick!

The room looks ok to me. Kinda like an HGTV home makeover show vibe? Give me the old black mold basement at foxwoods

The 65o 3bet is what got me excited. But from what I hear that's to a large extent, Texas poker.

 

[ngmcs8203]

Yea cards are gross but id rather have that HGTV vibe over an elks club vibe lol

 

[LeLe]

This place looks super nice:

Copa Club in West Lake, TX

Chips look like ceramics with bland edges but nice labels. Table design is clean and the room looks super comfy.

Look like metal slugged plastic chips from the video and $12.50 an hour at 1/3 seems high to me

The Cards look like low quality and easily mark with the side/back of the card as shown @ 1.45 mark