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Dr Newnham

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Hi fellow Chippers,

Does anyone know much history about the Paulson Le Noir line?

Does anyone know how many chips were produced or any denomination that are rarer than the others? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
 
Produced by Paulson for Sidepot on the paradise (pineapple) mold. I think the inlay design (and possibly mold design also) was a contest on CT, but do not recall the designer(s). No idea on order totals, but i'd expect that it was somewhere between 50K and 100K for Paulson to even consider taking the order. Only chip ever produced on the paradise mold. All color/spot combos are from other Paulson home chip sets. There used to be a brief history on Sidepot's web site. Logic would dictate that fewer 10 and 5000 chips were produced than the others.
 
Produced by Sipepot Gaming & Paulson around 09' using the "Paradise" mold (only time this mold was ever used to my knowledge). Not sure on the production run numbers (someone here may chime in with that info, J5?). The $10 & the 5K are probably the rarest of the denoms (feel free to sell me any 5K's you have ;))

oops, BG beat me to the punch.
 
@Dr Newnham, in the picture I included in my sale (chips are en route to Oz btw), there was little brown envelope in one of the cases. In that envelope was the business card of the CEO of Sidepot Gaming. So naturally I kept that shit for my bin of special poker stuff :D Just wanted to provide a little color to complement @BGinGA's excellent history lesson.

These chips are still chalky and I will certainly regret selling them. I truly hope you enjoy them.


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How does the Paradise mold handle? I know I (and some others) were turned off by how slippery the suits mold chips (Avalon, PCR, GCR) chips are.
 
One of the best chips I have ever played with...a friend somehow found a true bargain and bought a 1000 piece set for $800, barely 18 months ago. Would love to buy a set, but prices to accumulate a decent set have become ridiculous.
 
My favorite chip, period. Sold 1,000 three years ago for $1.60 a chip and ill never forgive myself...
 
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Hi fellow Chippers,

Does anyone know much history about the Paulson Le Noir line?

Does anyone know how many chips were produced or any denomination that are rarer than the others? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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Ok, I was trying to be patient in letting you leave this other picture up. However, you've had 1000 brand new Noirs for several weeks now, so I expect to see the pr0n :D
 
SteveHNo96 said:
Pro level instead of casino level. you know the ones that work just fine and cost about 1/3 the price? :p
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You're doing it wrong! You should be in the Dicechiplivesmatter forum instead.
 
72o said:
You're doing it wrong! You should be in the Dicechiplivesmatter forum instead.
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I'm poor, not desperate. Besides that, there are some Paulson chips I don't even remotely like the design of (the Horseshoe Casino for one) and I honestly can't see plunking down over a grand just to get 300 chips even if they are as kick-ass as Le Paulson Noir.
 
SteveHNo96 said:
I'm poor, not desperate. Besides that, there are some Paulson chips I don't even remotely like the design of (the Horseshoe Casino for one) and I honestly can't see plunking down over a grand just to get 300 chips even if they are as kick-ass as Le Paulson Noir.
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I hear ya man. I felt the same way at first too...we all did as a matter of fact (probably). I mean how many times have you read on here about someone saying "if I knew back then what I know now, I would have bought a huge set at those prices".

This is why I went the mixed casino route. I could afford a rack or two of nice Paulsons but I couldn't afford a full set. So over the course of about 4-5 years, buying a rack at a time, I was finally able to get a full mixed casino Paulson set together that I was proud of.
 
MegaTon44 said:
Ok, I was trying to be patient in letting you leave this other picture up. However, you've had 1000 brand new Noirs for several weeks now, so I expect to see the pr0n :D
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I'll post it up when I get some time lolz, Christmas is a crazy period (y) :thumbsup:
 
The mold was the result of a design contest that ran on homepokertourney.com. the winning mold was designed by austin5string and J5 did the inlay

http://forums.homepokertourney.com/index.php/topic,6839.0.html

BGinGA said:
Produced by Paulson for Sidepot on the paradise (pineapple) mold. I think the inlay design (and possibly mold design also) was a contest on CT, but do not recall the designer(s). No idea on order totals, but i'd expect that it was somewhere between 50K and 100K for Paulson to even consider taking the order. Only chip ever produced on the paradise mold. All color/spot combos are from other Paulson home chip sets. There used to be a brief history on Sidepot's web site. Logic would dictate that fewer 10 and 5000 chips were produced than the others.
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K ALL IN 9 said:
the winning mold was designed by austin5string
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austin5string's rope design did win the HPT contest, but the design submitted by Fins (below) is what was actually used for production of the Le Paulson Noir chips:

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J5's runner-up inlay design submission in SidePot's earlier Protege contest on CT was the basis for the Le Paulson Noir artwork.

http://forums.homepokertourney.com/index.php/topic,6569.0.html
http://forums.homepokertourney.com/index.php/topic,10402.0.html
 
More history for the OP, from the sidepot.com web site archives:

The Paradise Mold

Our Le Paulson Noir chip line (discontinued) utilizes our artistic and intricate paradise mold design, which was selected from more than a dozen entries into a mold design contest on a popular chip collector community website. The mold features four repeating series of scroll artwork and pineapples, a smooth inlay surface, and a slightly textured, cross-hatched clay chip surface.
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Wait so Paulson made this mold just for this group buy? Incredible. Those must have been the days...
 
Not a group buy. Sidepot ordered the mold (and the chips) from GPI, and sold them commercially on his web site.
 
BGinGA said:
More history for the OP, from the sidepot.com web site archives:
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Adding to that from archives.

Le Paulson Noir was added to the buypokerchips.com site in October of 2007. The original price was $1.39/chip.

The Le Paulson Noir clay poker chip line is the culmination of two very talented artists and two very reputable companies coming together to create one outstanding poker chip line. Joining Sidepot Gaming Company on this project were Kevin Finnegan (mold designer), John Faulhaber (inlay designer), and Paulson.
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Twenty-four talented designers from around the globe competed in the design contest, incorporated community feedback into their designs, and ultimately faced-off in a series of voting rounds to determine the best designs. The winning designer walked away with a $750 prize package of our Protégé chips, and we ultimately ended up going into production with the runner-up crowd favorite by Kevin Finnegan that fit well within the Sidepot product mix. The Paradise mold was born.
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So they ended up taking the runner up design. Interesting.

The Le Paulson Noir inlay design came from a separate, and perhaps even more competitive, design contest on a highly specialized poker chip aficionado forum. The design we based the Le Paulson Noir inlay on was a runner-up crowd favorite by John Faulhaber in the inlay design portion of the Protégé contest. We commissioned John to adapt his inlay to the Le Paulson Noir concept and work out the details on chip colors and inlay design elements with feedback from the same online community responsible for the Paradise mold design. The end result is what you see here.
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So J5 was runner up in the Protege contest and got tapped for this project.
 
dew4au said:
Le Paulson Noir was added to the buypokerchips.com site in October of 2007. The original price was $1.39/chip.
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Although Stephan did initially offer the chips to HPT members for just 95c/chip. :) The line was discontinued in 2011.
 
BGinGA said:
Although Stephan did initially offer the chips to HPT members for just 95c/chip. :) The line was discontinued in 2011.
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The real knee slapper here is that when I started chipping in 07, I picked up 05 JBs as my first Paulson set over the Noirs. The reason? I could get them for $1.05/chip. Nowadays I wouldn't even flinch over a .34/chip difference. Probably the biggest "one that got away" story of my chipping career. JBs were gone long long ago, but I still wish I had a set of Noirs...
 
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