Poker Chip Condition Rating (1 Viewer)

[SendThatStack]

Assuming you only play once a week or less, do mint chips ever go any worse than near mint chips just with home game use? How many years would it take?

 

[warma]

Common terms used for various clay chip conditions have long included:
- ZOMG amazing (Bike Tires)
- Mint
- Near-mint
- Excellent
- Good
- Casino-used
- Poor (aka Beaters, Chunkies)

FYP

 

[upNdown]

Assuming you only play once a week or less, do mint chips ever go any worse than near mint chips just with home game use? How many years would it take?

Great question. I’ve never had a consistent game with the same chips long enough to say anything useful here. And considering how many sets the typical PCF host owns, I wonder what kind of feedback we’ll get.

I have to think it depends a lot on how many of your players are chip shufflers? If you have 9 guys shuffling chips all night, that would put exponentially more wear on the set than if nobody at the table is shuffling chips.
But my best guess is that on average, you could go years playing once a week and not see much more that slight rounding of the edges usually associated with an excellent type of rating.

 

[allforcharity]

Flea bites also happen more frequently on RHC than THC.

 

[ArielVer18]

Assuming you only play once a week or less, do mint chips ever go any worse than near mint chips just with home game use? How many years would it take?

“Hours” may be a better unit of measurement. In my opinion, mint or new means it hasn’t been played so shuffling mint chips is rough. After 5-10 of play, shuffling is easier, so I’d call that near mint or like new. Near mint and mint are indistinguishable in photos. It takes about 100 hours of play for mint chips to look like excellent condition.

 

[SendThatStack]

Great question. I’ve never had a consistent game with the same chips long enough to say anything useful here. And considering how many sets the typical PCF host owns, I wonder what kind of feedback we’ll get.

I have to think it depends a lot on how many of your players are chip shufflers? If you have 9 guys shuffling chips all night, that would put exponentially more wear on the set than if nobody at the table is shuffling chips.
But my best guess is that on average, you could go years playing once a week and not see much more that slight rounding of the edges usually associated with an excellent type of rating.

My game doesnt have a lot of shufflers. At 149.5 hours my GPI monacos are still as near mint as can be.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

That opening post above is nearly two years old, and the topic has been extensively discusssed here many times in the past (and most probably since).

Common terms used for various clay chip conditions have long included:
- Mint
- Near-mint
- Excellent
- Good
- Casino-used
- Poor (aka Beaters, Bike Tires, Chunkies)
Plus a few combinations of those terms, like 'Good-to-Excellent condition', essentially creating another category without actually doing so.

Imo, the definitions listed in the OP are too vague and ambiguous, and five categories is simply not enough to adequately cover the typical conditions found in bulk chips.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

I agree. No need to reinvent the wheel. I do think that the gripe many of us have is how loosley "mint" gets thrown around. Therefore I do think having the descriptions written out and saved as a resource could be helpful. If that already exists somewhere, I haven't seen it. Please enlighten me if it does.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Assuming you only play once a week or less, do mint chips ever go any worse than near mint chips just with home game use? How many years would it take?

Great question. I’ve never had a consistent game with the same chips long enough to say anything useful here. And considering how many sets the typical PCF host owns, I wonder what kind of feedback we’ll get.

I have to think it depends a lot on how many of your players are chip shufflers? If you have 9 guys shuffling chips all night, that would put exponentially more wear on the set than if nobody at the table is shuffling chips.
But my best guess is that on average, you could go years playing once a week and not see much more that slight rounding of the edges usually associated with an excellent type of rating.

I would say that once you can see even a hint of the edges beginning to round, they are no longer near mint.

I hope it doesn't take too long. I'm getting ready to order a set of CPCs and start hosting regular games. I prefer my chips to be a little bit more worn than my definition of near mint.

I'm attending my regular host's game this Thursday. I will try to remember to talk to him about this in regards to his own custom CPC set. They are still fairly sharp after a couple years or more of use, but I will pay a little closer attention.

 

[upNdown]

I would say that once you can see even a hint of the edges beginning to round, they are no longer near mint.

I hope it doesn't take too long. I'm getting ready to order a set of CPCs and start hosting regular games. I prefer my chips to be a little bit more worn than my definition of near mint.

It seems almost universally unanimous here on PCF that CPCs take longer to show edge wear than Paulsons. I have no significant personal experience to share, but I've read tons of it.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

It seems almost universally unanimous here on PCF that CPCs take longer to show edge wear than Paulsons. I have no significant personal experience to share, but I've read tons of it.

I hadn't seen that yet, so thanks. Not sure it changes my decision though. I guess I will just have to deal with "minty" chips for a few years...

 

[SendThatStack]

I would say that once you can see even a hint of the edges beginning to round, they are no longer near mint.

I hope it doesn't take too long. I'm getting ready to order a set of CPCs and start hosting regular games. I prefer my chips to be a little bit more worn than my definition of near mint.

I'm attending my regular host's game this Thursday. I will try to remember to talk to him about this in regards to his own custom CPC set. They are still fairly sharp after a couple years or more of use, but I will pay a little closer attention.

I just went and looked at mine again. They are barely broken in, nowhere near as easy to shuffle as the RHC that are used at my local casino. The edges are still very sharp. But again, not everyone is shuffling chips constantly at my game, probably less than half the table usually.

 

[ovo]

thanks for this post, too many people use mint as a description when they are not mint, people that should know better. I got sold mint chips a long time ago, by someone that had been around a long time. When they came , they had dirt on them, sure , edges were decent, but no where near mint, and I was upset, rightfully so, never outed the dude.