Shit ton of $5s (1 Viewer)

[Jeff]

I've been collecting Pre-98 Paulson Viva Las Vegas chips for a little over 10 years. Every time a few of these come up for sale, I buy. Well, it was sort of unfortunate (I just bought a bunch of CPCs) but a shit ton just came up for sale. So I'm making room for a bunch of new chips for the set.

1500 $5 chips total for a big-boy game.

The chip OCD is now going to activate again. I need more $1s. And a few $10s (I've relabeled the blue $10s to $.25) too. I have room for 400 more chips in the drawer.

 

[Dale_Doback]

Nice! Nice table. How do you like those black chairs? I was looking at something similar (we're they about $40 each?). I ended up going with the HON HVL210.

 

[Jeff]

Nice! Nice table. How do you like those black chairs? I was looking at something similar (we're they about $40 each?). I ended up going with the HON HVL210.

A guy near OHare makes the tables, the chairs are Gassers that I found when a poker room went out of business. They retail for $250 new, but I got them for $50 used. They're great to sit on for a long evening. The dealer chair was a random desk chair from when we re-decorated our office.

 

[Dale_Doback]

Nice steal on the chairs!! I was looking at those but didn't wanna drop $2k on chairs lol.

Is the guy who built your table named Jerry by chance, off Harlem Ave? He's in the process of building my table. Literally just waiting on the felt and then he needs two days to complete it. He's literally five mins from me.

 

[ovo]

nice, but talk about premature epiculation

 

[guinness]

Great title, made me laugh with my morning coffee.

 

[jbutler]

Great chips. Love the $1s and the converted $10. And a perfect number of $5s imo. Congrats on the pick up, Jeff. Love seeing a set come together.

 

[links_slayer]

for the european contingency: 1 shit ton = 1 metric crap load

great set, jeff.

 

[Jeff]

Nice steal on the chairs!! I was looking at those but didn't wanna drop $2k on chairs lol.

Is the guy who built your table named Jerry by chance, off Harlem Ave? He's in the process of building my table. Literally just waiting on the felt and then he needs two days to complete it. He's literally five mins from me.

Yes...Jerrys a good dude. I bought 2 of my tables from him.

 

[Dale_Doback]

Small world. Yeah, I played on my buddy's table for several years and it still looked brand new/was built great. He told me he found the guy on Craigslist so I did some searching and found him.

Also, I just bought 9 used gassers from http://casinoproductsworldwide.com/used-casino-chairs/ lol (y) :thumbsup:

$59 each and they've been reupholstered and he's gonna powder coat the legs for me for $20 so $79 + shipping.

Cancelled my other order for the HON chairs.

 

[BiGGyT]

I assume then you were the buyer of the 900+ on eBay? Thought about it just to get a lot of $5s, but don't have any of the others, so nice set add on, grats!

 

[Jeff]

Small world. Yeah, I played on my buddy's table for several years and it still looked brand new/was built great. He told me he found the guy on Craigslist so I did some searching and found him.

Also, I just bought 9 used gassers from http://casinoproductsworldwide.com/used-casino-chairs/ lol (y) :thumbsup:

$59 each and they've been reupholstered and he's gonna powder coat the legs for me for $20 so $79 + shipping.

Cancelled my other order for the HON chairs.

Good find! What is the shipping going to run? If they're refurbed nicely, that's a good deal! You might want to start a thread or refer people if they turn out nicely. Lots of people looking for these chairs at a decent price!

I had him build the tops and I bought nice folding legs and wood permanent legs and put them on myself. Also, I put handles on the underside so they could be carried.

 

[Kyle]

Congrats Jeff! Glad you bought those 5's. I didn't know you were still in the market for the larger quantity since you had 500 of them already.

Did you also buy the $1 rack for $140. That was mine at one time too. Hopefully you did.

 

[Jeff]

I assume then you were the buyer of the 900+ on eBay? Thought about it just to get a lot of $5s, but don't have any of the others, so nice set add on, grats!

Yeah, I got them off eBay. It took a little back and forth, but the seller is a good guy.

 

[Jeff]

Congrats Jeff! Glad you bought those 5's. I didn't know you were still in the market for the larger quantity since you had 500 of them already.

Did you also buy the $1 rack for $140. That was mine at one time too. Hopefully you did.

Lol, I wasn't really in the market, but then I remembered the threads about sets with massive $5 racks. I missed the end of the auction for the $1s, I cant remember whether it was work or what, but I didn't even get to consider it. James gave me a heads up on the auction a few days ahead of time, but I screwed up.

I may have a bead on one rack of blue 10s. Past that, I think I'd like 1 more rack of the blue $10s for a total of 4 in the set. Then 2 more racks of $1s for a total of 800 $1s.

So the final set would be:
400 blue .25 (really $10 chips)
900 white 1
1500 red 5
200 green 25
80 black 100
12 purple 500
4 yellow 1000
4 metallic gold 5000

total bank: $51,400 for a cash game? Yeah, like that's gonna happen. I was crapping my pants at the cash I lost at the Florida meetup.

 

[Dale_Doback]

Good find! What is the shipping going to run? If they're refurbed nicely, that's a good deal! You might want to start a thread or refer people if they turn out nicely. Lots of people looking for these chairs at a decent price!

I had him build the tops and I bought nice folding legs and wood permanent legs and put them on myself. Also, I put handles on the underside so they could be carried.

Shipping is gonna be $230 for three-day LTL transit. Which is a fair rate -- we ship a lot via LTL at my work so I expected it to be about $250.

Yeah good call - I'll look around and if I don't see one, I'll start one...

Nice. Yeah I originally bought removable legs but just found the same kind that fold so ordered em this morning...normally about $275 for a set of 4 but they're on sale for $160: http://www.rockler.com/click-foldable-table-leg.

Do you have pics of the bottom of your table w/the handles? That's a good idea. I'm in a condo so I'll be keeping it in a spare bedroom when I'm not using it.

 

[Jeff]

Shipping is gonna be $230 for three-day LTL transit. Which is a fair rate -- we ship a lot via LTL at my work so I expected it to be about $250.

Yeah good call - I'll look around and if I don't see one, I'll start one...

Nice. Yeah I originally bought removable legs but just found the same kind that fold so ordered em this morning...normally about $275 for a set of 4 but they're on sale for $160: http://www.rockler.com/click-foldable-table-leg.

Do you have pics of the bottom of your table w/the handles? That's a good idea. I'm in a condo so I'll be keeping it in a spare bedroom when I'm not using it.

Yeah, the tables are heavy, and this makes it easier to carry. This is the bottom of the table I made, but I did the same for the table from Jerry with these same folding legs.

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[Dale_Doback]

Cool thanks man. Appreciate it! (y) :thumbsup:

 

[Jeff]

They're here.

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[Kyle]

Very Nice Jeff!

 

[abby99]

Wow!

 

[slisk250]

Vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Las Vegas! I can almost hear Elvis singing in the background!

 

[Jeff]

Well, I'm going to have to do a little cleaning. They apparently came from a smoking home. Any tips from experience? Im thinking that I'll give them a warm water and dish soap bath to try to get rid of the smell...

 

[jbutler]

Well, I'm going to have to do a little cleaning. They apparently came from a smoking home. Any tips from experience? Im thinking that I'll give them a warm water and dish soap bath to try to get rid of the smell...

Been there done that. I had some particularly rank ones and I ended up letting them soak for maybe 20 minutes and then giving them a light scrub and that did the trick.

 

[Jeff]

I just found the skiex (from Chiptalk) info on ultrasonic cleaning and using vinegar. I have a buddy who has an ultrasonic cleaner, maybe I'll try a rack that way first. Seems like less elbow grease than soaking and scrubbing.

 

[gopherblue]

Welcome to the "obscene-number-of-workhorse-chips-club"! The only thing better than having racks and racks of fivers is getting them all in play in one session! I've got 1800 of the Riverside bluebirds myself, although only 1500(!) are in this pic...time to drag them out for more pron....

 

[Jeff]

Welcome to the "obscene-number-of-workhorse-chips-club"! The only thing better than having racks and racks of fivers is getting them all in play in one session! I've got 1800 of the Riverside bluebirds myself, although only 1500(!) are in this pic...time to drag them out for more pron....

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That is a lot of TRKing chips. Wow!

 

[Blueline]

wow

 

[Godzilla28]

Beautiful looking set. PM sent

 

[Payback]

Looking good Jeff. When's the next game so we can play with them?