DrStrange
4 of a Kind
Something most people have never seen. Perhaps with good reason.
These are ceramic chips. Not really the most exciting chips. The venue was unremarkable and obscure. The "art" on the chips is nothing remarkable. They do have two things going for them. Quantity and price.
This is my set of choice when I hold limit games. There are 2,300 $1 chips in the set (1,900 shown). Oh, and 100 $5 chips and 25 $25 chips. I paid about ten cents each for these.
How did it happen? The seller had three auctions for the $1 chips all expiring within thirty seconds. I had asked the seller if he had higher denominations. He assured me he did and said I could add them on at the same price as the auctions if I won them. It never occured to me that I should check quantity, just assuming anyone with 2,300 $1s would have a reasonable number of $5s and $25s.
Because of the timing, I placed minimum place holder bids and watched the end of the auction sitting at a fast food joint. Turns out no one else bid. I was expecting to bid on one of the last two auctions to get ~600 one dollar chips but got the whole three auction lot.
And then I find the seller only has a rack of reds and a barrel of greens.
I wasn't happy until about a year later when my players asked for a quarterly dealer's choice game with a $1 - $4 spread limit. Now I had a use for several thousand $1 chips. No change ever. Easy as possible split pots. Sweet!
I have made runs at subsequent hordes of $1 chips but failed to win. It does make for an interesting and different game. Not to mention monster piles of chips being pushed to the winners of the big pots.
DrStrange
These are ceramic chips. Not really the most exciting chips. The venue was unremarkable and obscure. The "art" on the chips is nothing remarkable. They do have two things going for them. Quantity and price.
This is my set of choice when I hold limit games. There are 2,300 $1 chips in the set (1,900 shown). Oh, and 100 $5 chips and 25 $25 chips. I paid about ten cents each for these.
How did it happen? The seller had three auctions for the $1 chips all expiring within thirty seconds. I had asked the seller if he had higher denominations. He assured me he did and said I could add them on at the same price as the auctions if I won them. It never occured to me that I should check quantity, just assuming anyone with 2,300 $1s would have a reasonable number of $5s and $25s.
Because of the timing, I placed minimum place holder bids and watched the end of the auction sitting at a fast food joint. Turns out no one else bid. I was expecting to bid on one of the last two auctions to get ~600 one dollar chips but got the whole three auction lot.
And then I find the seller only has a rack of reds and a barrel of greens.
I wasn't happy until about a year later when my players asked for a quarterly dealer's choice game with a $1 - $4 spread limit. Now I had a use for several thousand $1 chips. No change ever. Easy as possible split pots. Sweet!
I have made runs at subsequent hordes of $1 chips but failed to win. It does make for an interesting and different game. Not to mention monster piles of chips being pushed to the winners of the big pots.
DrStrange
This casino just so happened to come up a few months ago at one of the local casinos here** that I was playing at and was confirmed as shady on a few managerial fronts, the guy that worked there wasn't a fan of somebody that was there. (Can't remember if it was manager/owner/or ?, I wasn't paying too close attention.)
