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*Official* Empress Star PRON (3 Viewers)

Took some recent close ups. Adding to the thread to help archive them.

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Jeevansluck said:
Figured I'd give this thread a bump, as I've recently reached 200 fracs for my set, I wanted to snap a few pics...

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Easily the best frac ever.

They say light cannot escape the gravitational field of a black hole. That is simply because the ES 25¢ has never been sucked in - they're bright enough you could probably still see them.

...also, a black hole isn't strong enough to pull them out of any respectable ES owner's set.
 
pltrgyst said:
Maybe if your set is all 8Vs, or you don't care about spot progression.


Dang, now you tell me -- I sold my two racks. :cool

Different strokes, etc. ...
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - spot progression is perhaps the dumbest concept in chipping.

Why put the best spot on a chip that rarely sees play? Oh look, the $100 has a beautiful design, but it will never see play. At least not in the next 10 years, but I built the set to have spot progression and to be "future proof", so I guess we just don't get to see that chip, much less in stacks. Spent a fortune on it though, since that chip had the most elaborate spots. Hope you enjoy the solid fracs though, you will see them every single hand.

Yep - brilliant. :rolleyes:

The only idea that is worse is a T5, T10, T25, T50, T100 tournament set - but it's close.

...unless the T5, T10, T25, T50, T100 tournament set also uses spot progression
 
I guess if (like a casino) you are pitching both a $1/$2 game, and a $100/$200 game, it makes perfect sense. All chips get in play on a regular basis that way.

I'm still looking for a use of my $5 chips (other than for board games).
 
Poker Zombie said:
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - spot progression is perhaps the dumbest concept in chipping.

Why put the best spot on a chip that rarely sees play? Oh look, the $100 has a beautiful design, but it will never see play. At least not in the next 10 years, but I built the set to have spot progression and to be "future proof", so I guess we just don't get to see that chip, much less in stacks. Spent a fortune on it though, since that chip had the most elaborate spots. Hope you enjoy the solid fracs though, you will see them every single hand.

Yep - brilliant. :rolleyes:

The only idea that is worse is a T5, T10, T25, T50, T100 tournament set - but it's close.

...unless the T5, T10, T25, T50, T100 tournament set also uses spot progression
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I have never agreed with anything more in my very young adult life.
 
I don't think spot-progression is a dumb concept at all, although it's certainly not the end all be all for rating or judging a set either. Edge spot complexity increasing with the denominations is both practical numerically and visually appealing for a set. I've seen a lot of sets that are amazing without it, including one that I am working on myself, but some semblance of flow/fit is nice even if spot-progression is not kept. I think that is the key and more important than a strict adherence, but it obviously comes down to personal preference like everything here.
 
Rieguy said:
I don't think spot-progression is a dumb concept at all, although it's certainly not the end all be all for rating or judging a set either. Edge spot complexity increasing with the denominations is both practical numerically and visually appealing for a set. I've seen a lot of sets that are amazing without it, including one that I am working on myself, but some semblance of flow/fit is nice even if spot-progression is not kept. I think that is the key and more important than a strict adherence, but it obviously comes down to personal preference like everything here.
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Agreed, generally. I have a couple of all-solids sets that I like as much as any other I own.

I have seen some sets with denom spots that just jump around all over the place, and still look pretty cool, but they're generally so extraordinary in terms of some other design element(s) -- say, extremely vivid colors -- that the spots get overlooked.

But just imagine a set with an 8V frac, 312 $1, 818 $5, 4d14 $25, and a solid $100 -- just unacceptable to me. I love the ES cash set, but those quarters drove me nuts, so they departed quickly.

Luckily I have my racks of Puggy's Colony Club quarters, so I'll never need any others... :cool

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I appreciate the aesthetics of spot progression and back when I owned an ES cash set I saw the quarters as being amazing . . . but wrong :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
The idea that any particular use of spots or colors is wrong, is pretty funny to read.

There is no 'Hoyle' book on how to make chips or sets from those chips.

Like nobody on this site can tell me what I want in a set is right or wrong.
 

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