I put this mixed set together on the cheap. Average price was about $0.80/chip
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You can buy the $1s, $5, and $25, and buy the lucky derby $1s. Have @Gear make you $.25 labels and you have yourself a casino "micro" limit set. You may have to shave down any high spots in the LD$1s, and will need Gear's thinnest label, but will complete your goal and should be less than $1/chip total.
Just a thought,
BiGGyT
You can buy the $1s, $5, and $25, and buy the lucky derby $1s. Have @Gear make you $.25 labels and you have yourself a casino "micro" limit set. You may have to shave down any high spots in the LD$1s, and will need Gear's thinnest label, but will complete your goal and should be less than $1/chip total.
Just a thought,
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WedgeRock
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These mixed AC $1's looks crazy good together, IMO. I'm not particularly a fan of any of them individually, but stacked up like speckled gumballs looks awesome.
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This is great advice.
If you can let go of them.
This was my original plan. Now I have close to 10k chippies.
Thank goodness for justsomedude and Warneke for the box gb.
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chubbyone
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These mixed AC $1's looks crazy good together, IMO. I'm not particularly a fan of any of them individually, but stacked up like speckled gumballs looks awesome.
I keep looking around my house for things I could sell to attain those. It’s really tempting....
That is where I got my orange LDs and the Garden City $5s. Got the $1s and $25s from Apache and others. And the rest from peeps selling in the classifies. The $100s cost me more than $1/chip but averaged out, it was still about $0.80/chip for the set. And getting used, and not mint, chips helps with my anxiety of people shuffling and splashing the pot.
WedgeRock
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Do you still have two kidneys?
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chubbyone
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Where do I sign?
...Looks like I got a pretty good lead on some 1's and 5's from a member to get me started. HS Cinncy's. So I'll likely be shutting this down and posting a thread Looking for quarters soon. The LD 1's don't do it for me... I see someone used argosy .50c, and some LD 2's.... gonna keep looking around a bit. The Garden City 5 could work...
Thanks to everyone for the help so far! This place is awesome, exactly the enabling I'm looking for....
I’m trying to get a return on my Chinese investments right now. Was able to sell the Yaks and the CPS chips immediately but having trouble with Scrolls and Majestics.
Unlike a bank or stocks, you have to wait for demand I guess. Someone will roll along eventually. I hope...
Mental Nomad
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That advice was based in the notion of buying used Paulsons, though!
The supply is fixed; the demand is well-established.
It's not the same with Scrolls and Majestics... they're a ceramic and a China clay, both of which types are being produced for retail, today, and can be bought new from several resellers. You need to be selling at a substantial discount to new to sell them used, when affordable new ones are easily at hand.
Another example: Matsui hundo plaques. Those things were hot, hot, hot. IMHO, the only reason individuals selling theirs are not getting more than $20 a plaque is because Apache is selling them, new, for $19 each. I'm not complaining, mind you - I'm glad I can buy a set any time for $19 each! But I also understand that, no matter how much people like them, the price won't appreciate while they're in production and there's a supplier who can profitably bring us more.
The supply is fixed; the demand is well-established.
It's not the same with Scrolls and Majestics... they're a ceramic and a China clay, both of which types are being produced for retail, today, and can be bought new from several resellers. You need to be selling at a substantial discount to new to sell them used, when affordable new ones are easily at hand.
Another example: Matsui hundo plaques. Those things were hot, hot, hot. IMHO, the only reason individuals selling theirs are not getting more than $20 a plaque is because Apache is selling them, new, for $19 each. I'm not complaining, mind you - I'm glad I can buy a set any time for $19 each! But I also understand that, no matter how much people like them, the price won't appreciate while they're in production and there's a supplier who can profitably bring us more.
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Would the Paris chips relabeled work here?
Timo Wottka
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I think it is not a good idea to mix SCV mold and RHC mold... But that is only my Meaning...
links_slayer
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I think it is not a good idea to mix SCV mold and RHC mold... But that is only my Meaning...
This is my lack of experience showing through, do they feel drastically different? Look very different in person?
i thought you wanted to keep cost at "bargain basement" levels?
I’m not even sure how much these cost, lol, but they are a live chip so I imagine are gonna be cheaper than any real 0.25 frac.... lol, you know the routine here, it’s very easy to climb the ladder.
links_slayer
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You could always put in a request here: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/do-you-need-las-vegas-1s.22009/#post-439231 or send a PM. No idea what the going rate is for Paris $1s but I am certain it's going to be more than face value.
Mental Nomad
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I think the colors look great. For mixed sets, I don't mind mixed molds in the slightest.
i thought you wanted to keep cost at "bargain basement" levels?
These chips would be free, if he takes a trip there... Just a $1 deposit until they're returned. The only thing he's buying is the labels!
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I did PM him already! Waiting on price. I saw some others go for around $135-155$ a rack. Cheaper than a ticket to Vegas.
To the untrained eye, no. I think even the majority of casino goers don't notice the difference. But once you start messing around with chips like the folks here, you'll be able to see, feel, and hear the differences blindfolded. That's why the first advice given to everybody is to get samples, to see what you like.
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Well my budget says those Paris chips are ugly, back to the drawing board on a frac.
Those Paris $1's are too beautiful to put a label on anyways!!!
There are a ton of used chips that can be found for a reasonable price to label as a 25c chip.
There are a ton of used chips that can be found for a reasonable price to label as a 25c chip.
nope.. wrong mold and too nice and expensive of a chip to relabel..
ok, well.. technically they do work, colors are nice, they are the "better" mold, and once you own them you can do as you please..
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GoStumpy
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This thread made me find the Cincy chips and put together a little 400 chip cash set 
Must..resist.... I would be re-using the quarters I made with Cleveland $2.50's though...
Must..resist.... I would be re-using the quarters I made with Cleveland $2.50's though...
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Yep gotta keep hunting. Way more dough than I remembered. I’m dizzy with the amount of threads I’ve read in a month.
You are right.
This thread made me find the Cincy chips and put together a little 400 chip cash set
What’d you go with and from where?!
CherryTree
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I've got a set of micro ChipCo classics that I was about to put up for sale. I don't know if you would have interest in ceramics, but they are a really pretty set. I don't have pictures of the set at the moment (and I'm on a business trip until Tuesday), but let me know if you are interested. In the meantime: http://www.21ace.com/Chipco-Poker-Chips.php
500x total chips (I think the breakdown is):
100x $0.05
100x $0.10
100x $0.25
75x $0.50
75x $1
30x $5
20x $10
Don't know if you are looking to go THAT micro, but they are always fun to have small cash games with. People get a lot of chips.
500x total chips (I think the breakdown is):
100x $0.05
100x $0.10
100x $0.25
75x $0.50
75x $1
30x $5
20x $10
Don't know if you are looking to go THAT micro, but they are always fun to have small cash games with. People get a lot of chips
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I've got a set of micro ChipCo classics that I was about to put up for sale. I don't know if you would have interest in ceramics, but they are a really pretty set. I don't have pictures of the set at the moment (and I'm on a business trip until Tuesday), but let me know if you are interested. In the meantime: http://www.21ace.com/Chipco-Poker-Chips.php
500x total chips (I think the breakdown is):
100x $0.05
100x $0.10
100x $0.25
75x $0.50
75x $1
30x $5
20x $10
Don't know if you are looking to go THAT micro, but they are always fun to have small cash games with. People get a lot of chips
Thanks! But I’m drinking the Paulson kool-aid at the moment.
GoStumpy
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You mean the Cincy chips or the Quarters?
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AWenger
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I like the Garden City $5 chip base color for a $0.25 chip. For an alternative chip that you could relabel or even keep as-is, how about the medium/dark green Horseshoe Cleveland $25 to use as a $0.25. I haven't seen the HS Cincinnati $25s in person, but if they're a light enough green color compared to the HS Cleveland $25s, there might be enough contrast that they could work together in a set.
Another possibility is to use the HS Cinci $25s as $0.25c chips, and relabel some Garden City $5s as $25 or even as $20 chip. If you're running games where buy-ins, rebuys are commonly $20, $40, or $60, having $20 chips work well, and some PCFers prefer the $20 denom for small stakes cash games.
P.S. Full disclosure, I have 30 of the Garden City $5s pictured below, that I'd probably be willing to sell or trade, and I also have plenty of the HS Cleveland $25s, and would be willing to sell a rack.
Another possibility is to use the HS Cinci $25s as $0.25c chips, and relabel some Garden City $5s as $25 or even as $20 chip. If you're running games where buy-ins, rebuys are commonly $20, $40, or $60, having $20 chips work well, and some PCFers prefer the $20 denom for small stakes cash games.
P.S. Full disclosure, I have 30 of the Garden City $5s pictured below, that I'd probably be willing to sell or trade, and I also have plenty of the HS Cleveland $25s, and would be willing to sell a rack.
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I like the Garden City $5 chip base color for a $0.25 chip. For an alternative chip that you could relabel or even keep as-is, how about the medium/dark green Horseshoe Cleveland $25 to use as a $0.25. I haven't seen the HS Cincinnati $25s in person, but if they're a light enough green color compared to the HS Cleveland $25s, there might be enough contrast that they could work together in a set.
Another possibility is to use the HS Cinci $25s as $0.25c chips, and relabel some Garden City $5s as $25 or even as $20 chip. If you're running games where buy-ins, rebuys are commonly $20, $40, or $60, having $20 chips work well, and some PCFers prefer the $20 denom for small stakes cash games.
P.S. Full disclosure, I have 30 of the Garden City $5s pictured below, that I'd probably be willing to sell or trade, and I also have plenty of the HS Cleveland $25s, and would be willing to sell a rack.
Really helpful post! Thank you! PM incoming.
You have seen this thread, right?
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