Official 2024 Custom Chip Set Hall of Fame Voting Thread (4 Viewers)

[MarquetteMonkey]

Thank you to all that have voted so far! Keep those votes coming in!

 

[BobCranberry]

It's Casa Mango! It's always been Casa Mango!

 

[MarquetteMonkey]

Less than 24 hours to get those final votes in!!

 

[BarrieJ3]

Oh lord.

It’s a race between The Tilted Donkey and Chipdust.

Let’s hope for a tie and 4 sets get in!

 

[surfik]

Moonlight ahead of Casa Mango because of 50c......

 

[MarquetteMonkey]

I'm pleased to announce the PCF Custom Chip Set Hall of Fame class of 2024:

• Casa Mango @Eloe2000
• Chipdust @Josh Kifer
• Moonlight Cardhouse @JeepologyOffroad
• The Tilted Donkey @wonderpuddle

Congratulations to all of this year's inductees!

Given the strong showing of The Tilted Donkey, the committee has decided to add a 4th set to this year's Hall of Fame class. The set received 63 votes which is a historically strong showing compared to past results.

Congratulations to all that were nominated this year. Thank you for sharing your personal creations with the community and allowing us all to celebrate them. Thank you to the HoF committee members - @Chippy McChiperson @cpac54 @wonderpuddle @krafticus @JeepologyOffroad - for all of your time and dedication to the process this year. Members committed significant amounts of personal time to diligently and thoroughly discuss the many great sets of PCF to get it down to the well deserving sets that were nominated this year.

On to 2025!

 

[Josh Kifer]

 

[kirchhausen]

Congrats to the HOF class. Very well deserved!!

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Congrats to the elected !

 

[MarquetteMonkey]

I am pleased to announce next year's HoF Committee:

@wonderpuddle (Chair)
@MarquetteMonkey
@cpac54
@krafticus
@Josh Kifer (new)
@Rieguy (new)

A big thanks to @JeepologyOffroad and @Chippy McChiperson for their multiple years of service on the committee!

 

[Josh Kifer]

I am pleased to announce next year's HoF Committee:

@wonderpuddle (Chair)
@MarquetteMonkey
@cpac54
@krafticus
@Josh Kifer (new)
@Rieguy (new)

A big thanks to @JeepologyOffroad and @Chippy McChiperson for their multiple years of service on the committee!

We're doing it thunderdome style next year. Didn't @Chippy McChiperson explain the side rules of me joining?

 

[Bacon Dad]

Cool!!
Two chips enter. One chip leaves.
This is going to be….

 

[MrNoir]

Chessie's Cove
Owner: @kirchhausen
Artist: @Toby
Manufacturer: CPC
Mold: Large Crown
Showcase Thread: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/chessies-cove.81032/

Thoughts from the owner:
When I moved back to Maryland in 2020 after a nearly 20-year hiatus, I wanted something to commemorate my joy in coming home... my goal was something whimsical and fun, but at the same time something that had special meaning to me. The idea of Chessie’s Cove covered all of the bases

For those of you not from Maryland, Chessie is a folkloric sea creature sea creature that roams the Chesapeake Bay area (think the Loch Ness Monster with a Bawlmer accent). As I live mere minutes from the bay now, I think Chessie’s cove has both whimsical and close to home covered.

The base colors and edge spots were inteneded to fit with the theme. Some remind of nautical themes, others remind of the local area (Naval Academy colors inspired the frac and the Orioles inspired the $100s), while the $25 are my version of Chessie herself.

I hope you all enjoy these chips as much as I do!

Thoughts from the committee:
The hurdle to be nominated as a HOF set is already high, but it goes up after already being nominated once. The committee decided that Chessie's deserved a second nomination after getting the nod for the first time in 2023. @kirchhausen delivers a unique set with a fun nautical theme centered on Chessie the monster that is expertly displayed in a cohesive and playful inlay. Subtle design choices like the denominations displayed in the water ripples push the inlay over the top. Great choices on the clay throughout the lineup, but the bold choice of the maroon $5 deservedly stole the show.

Set Denominations & Breakdown:

• 200 - .25 Base Color: Retro Blue; Spot Pattern 1/2 Pie; Spot Color: Yellow; Inspiration: These are the closest colors to the Naval Academy's sports teams, which is a 15 minute boat ride up the bay from my home.
• 400 - $1 Base Color: Bright White; Spot Pattern 3916; Spot Color: Imperial Blue; Inspiration: the imperial blue reminds me of the color of this part of the Atlantic Ocean. The white with the blue spot reminds me a little of a life preserver, you know Chesapeake Bay vibes.
• 1000 - $5 Base Color: Maroon; Spot Pattern 3DSA18; Spot Colors: DG Pink, Retro Lavender; Inspiration: when I play poker I like to think that I've got "moves like Jagger". Those who know, know.
• 200 - $25 Base Color: Light Green; Spot Pattern 4TA181418; Spot Colors: DG Yellow, Retro Green; Inspiration: Chessie, the old lady herself. These chipes recall her green scales, and monstrous yellow eyes.
• 200 - $100 Base Color: Gray; Spot Pattern 6DSA; Spot Colors: DG Peach, Black; Inspiration: who else then tha home town Bawlmer Os, hon. Biggest denim dedicated to dem birds, may they win another World Series before I shuffle off this mortal coil

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Quotes from the community:
"Congrats man! This is truly a master piece and extremely well done!" - @Thisfiendis138

"They turned out awesome!! Love the inlay, love the mold, love the colors. Homerun!" - @Highli99

"Fantastic! Congrats. The set has a nice theme and an old school feel." - @superchromix

That's a sexy set of chips

 

[MrNoir]

Just Because It's Wednesday Night
Owner: jbutler
Artist: Christian Steinbacher
Manufacturer: CPC
Mold: Small Crown
Showcase Thread: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...esday-night-cpc-small-crown-cash-chips.76244/

When we moved back to Atlanta in 2016, we bought a house built in 1940 and updated only occasionally since, so we had a bit of work to do. One of the contractors we brought in saw my poker paraphernalia and offered to introduce me to a golfing buddy who had been in the same home game for decades. I took him up on it and within a week had connected with a group of great guys who had played every Wednesday for more than 40 years. I was an occasional guest for a few months until one of the regulars died and I've had a weekly spot ever since.

We play a rather idiosyncratic dealer's choice structure with games changing hand-for-hand and playing $1-$10 spread limit with a four-bet cap and occasional calls for three rounds of big bet (alternating rounds of NLHE, NLO, and NL Big-O) where the initial buy-in for the round is capped at $50 and blinds are $1/2. Needless to say, given that shallow big bet structure, it's a very, very gambly game, but it's the perfect home game stakes. The big winners/losers are typically up/down around $500. Good for bragging rights and needling, but no one goes home hurt. Often heard are the words, "Just because it's Wednesday night," as a player tosses in chips with barely a prayer to win half the pot.

I've always (always as in I remember talking about this concept with Marsha back on Chiptalk circa 2006) loved the idea of making a limit set with a uniform base chip color and alternating spot colors within the primary working denomination. During covid, it occurred to me to use that concept in a set in which each player would be featured on a chip. It took a bit to work out who would be where (see my original post for details as to who is who and where and why and other various notes about the $13 denom, etc.) and it's not exactly a 1-to-1 with my original limit set idea because the game doesn't play strictly limit, but once I settled on the basics, the rest fell into place.

Big shout out to Atlantic City chips which, in the recent past, were required by law to be white with 1/8” spots. I’ve seen a few people put together racks of mixed AC $1s which always look beautiful.

Tremendous credit to the graphic designer, Christian Steinbacher (@tssteinbacher on socials), for the player face illustrations and all layout work. This was his first-ever chip design and he destroyed it. He has since done three other designs for me and they've all been excellent.

Even though the standard denominations used for years in the game were $1, $5, and $10, my original order did not include a $10 chip because I thought $10 chips were generally useless. I might ought to have thought that a game running for more than four decades ran well using $10 chips was good evidence to the contrary, but I'm stubborn. It took a few months using a $20 chip to learn my lesson, so when I ordered an add-on, I had a $10 chip made. I also added a new chip for a new regular in the game ("Methe") and a couple others for guys from a Tuesday game many of us play in who sometimes guest on Wednesdays ("Judge" and "Russ," whose chips are defaced by the graffiti of "Tuesday" on the alternate side).

I've never used the frac and probably never will, but figured since I was ordering a set, why not? So they sit in utterly mint condition in my cabinet along with the rest of the chips that are feeling very nicely worn in after a few years of play. I've got another add-on on the way with a couple of other new faces from the Tuesday game who have begun making rare appearances. Mostly I just wanted another excuse to get some more colors within the $1 chips.

SET DENOMINATIONS & BREAKDOWN:
100 x .50 - group shot 1.0 - blurple/lavender
40 x $1 - "Doc" - bright white with dg peacock spots
40 x $1 - "Randy" - red spots
40 x $1 - "Garo" - dg saturn spots
40 x $1 - "Moscow" - dg tiger spots
40 x $1 - "Lou" - green spots
40 x $1 - "Larry" - grey spots
40 x $1 - "Brad" - light chocolate spots
40 x $1 - "Methe" - retro blue spots
40 x $1 - "Greg" - dg pink spots
40 x $1 - "Josh" - black spots
40 x $1 - "Jack" - lavender spots
40 x $1 - "Judge" - dg yellow spots
40 x $1 - "Russ" - dg green spots
40 x $1 - "Vinnie" - *on order, light blue spots
40 x $1 - "Kid" - *on order, arc yellow spots
500 x $5 - "Wade - In Memoriam" - mandarin red with light blue spots
200 x $10 - group shot 2.0 (adding Methe) - green with dg yellow spots
40 x $13 - "Fessie" - arc yellow with chocolate spots
200 x $20 - group shot 1.0 - charcoal with dg green spots
100 x $100 - group shot 1.0 - dg pink with retro blue spots

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Quotes from the community:
"This is the epitome of a custom chip set! Nicely done!" - @Beakertwang

"This is so kick ass it's beyond words, bravo sir! - @Irish

"And thats how you do a custom set! Love the personal touch and connection to your regular playing group." - @davislane

That's a great story of friends getting together; it's what God had in mind when he created the mid-week home game and issued the command, "Thou shall not draw to the inside straight."