I really love the design of the Horseshoe Cleveland/Cincinnati chips, both spots and inlay (I'm a sucker for black), but...
- I'm not too fond of buying used chips to play with, even if they're Paulsons
- The train for most of them has already departed, availability has gone down a bit and prices are beyond good and evil for those higher denom chips
- I don't like oversized chips, especially I don't like different sized chips mixed in a set
- I don't like
all of the spots, and I like the Cleveland inlay style much more than the Cincinnati one
So I was thinking... why not have some custom lookalikes made by
CPC? I've seen others had lookalike ("Horseshoe Card Room") inlays produced for re-labeling, so I guess copyright won't be an issue for this.
Of course they're not Paulsons, and it's a real shame you can't get this awesome looking 4TSA18 spot with the extremely desaturated colors on the primary Cleveland $100, but this way I can pick exactly the spots I want while still having an uniform design, uniform chip size, brand new chips, and you can actually get a decent amount of high denoms to make a tournament set without having to be a millionaire.
I've grabbed an incomplete set of samples of the real thing, still to be delivered, for reference.
Tournament:
100k chip likely not even going to get ordered for the set size I've planned for (T30k, 20 players), but I designed one anyway while I was at it.
Cash:
(edited: real Horseshoe samples arrived. Fixed $5 and $25 colors to more accurately reflect the original)
This is something I will very likely actually roll sometime next year.
First in line is my yet-to-be-revealed "real" custom set (i.e. not copied/lookalike), getting ready to order soon.