Stages of Chipaholics (2 Viewers)

[potatolei]

I was talking to my friends about poker chips and this forumn and they joking suggested that I needed an intervention. I replied that I'm only stage 2 chipaholic and it doesnt get serious until stage 3. I was then thinking about what the other stages of chipaholicsm were and I came up with this list:

Stage 1: Creating a username and posting on PCF

Stage 2: Ordering chips that haven't arrived yet, and ordering more chips. You understand all acronyms by this point, and PCF is the first website you visit in the morning.

Stage 3: Spending more on chips in a month than rent. Constantly refreshing the Classifieds page.

Stage 4: Every room in your home has chips in them and your friends and family are growing concerned. You no longer keep track of what you spend on chips.

Stage 5: ?


What do you guys think the other stages are? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

 

[SwissChip]

Stage 5: Convinced, that you need more chips.

Btw, did you received the Giveaway??

 

[potatolei]

Stage 5: Convinced, that you need more chips.

Btw, did you received the Giveaway??

I receieved it thank you! We use it often, my friends really like it

 

[ovo]

Stage 0 lurking for awhile before creating account

 

[Goldfish]

Stage 5: you have more nail polish remover (non acetone of course) than your wife and get annoyed when she takes it.

 

[doublebooyah85]

I don’t have a problem who do you think you are!

 

[EastCoastCali]

There’s so many stages and sub stages we could get into. Like stage 2. Reread offer, check bank account, depression, excitement after deciding you’ll just eat peanut butter and jelly for the next few weeks to make up the difference, recheck bank account, order, excitement, depression coated with excitement while you wait, etc…

I’d elaborate more but I’m feeling faint from my current stage of depressive waiting…

 

[softchewy]

 

[potatolei]

There’s so many stages and sub stages we could get into. Like stage 2. Reread offer, check bank account, depression, excitement after deciding you’ll just eat peanut butter and jelly for the next few weeks to make up the difference, recheck bank account, order, excitement, depression coated with excitement while you wait, etc…

I’d elaborate more but I’m feeling faint from my current stage of depressive waiting…

Yeah, I'm feeling the same after my 09/2024 group buy order this morning. 3 month wait to go..

 

[potatolei]

Stage 5: you have more nail polish remover (non acetone of course) than your wife and get annoyed when she takes it.
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Do you use nail polish remover for cleaning?

 

[chippitydoodah]

Stage 5 - Attending meet-ups & considering total strangers as valued friends

 

[chippitydoodah]

I was talking to my friends about poker chips and this forumn and they joking suggested that I needed an intervention. I replied that I'm only stage 2 chipaholic and it doesnt get serious until stage 3. I was then thinking about what the other stages of chipaholicsm were and I came up with this list:

Stage 1: Creating a username and posting on PCF

Stage 2: Ordering chips that haven't arrived yet, and ordering more chips. You understand all acronyms by this point, and PCF is the first website you visit in the morning.

Stage 3: Spending more on chips in a month than rent. Constantly refreshing the Classifieds page.

Stage 4: Every room in your home has chips in them and your friends and family are growing concerned. You no longer keep track of what you spend on chips.

Stage 5: ?


What do you guys think the other stages are? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

This was something I shared 2 months after joining PCF.

Thread 'I Finally Figured Out Why We Buy & Buy & Buy Chips' https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/i-finally-figured-out-why-we-buy-buy-buy-chips.105354/

 

[Goldfish]

Do you use nail polish remover for cleaning?

Chip Murder……. (To dissolve glue and remove label):

 

[chippitydoodah]

Chip Murder……. (To dissolve glue and remove label):
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[Sparkynutz]

Stage 5, Adding cards or dealer buttons to the list of poker collectibles you have more of than you'll ever use in your lifetime.

 

[demonnic]

Wow, this thread is a little uncomfortable. I can stop any time I want, really!

 

[allforcharity]

As I've said before, there's no way I'm an addict. I can stop anytime I want. In fact, I stopped 257 times in the last 12 months alone.

 

[Beakertwang]

There needs to be a Step 2: "I just want to upgrade from my dice chips. I'll take a look at the China clays, or possibly some custom Tina hybrids."

 

[doublebooyah85]

Stage Cost Per Chip Reduction - You buy chips you already have but they are less than what you paid therefore it helps reduce your overall cost per chip average

 

[Wifey]

There's lots of good step 5's out there...
Step 6: Start a business to get 25c labels for your set...become the ultimate enabler.

 

[Machine]

Stage 6 add on: Run Group Buys, Open a Vendor account, Volunteer for site duties, Run a business to support only this forum

 

[SwissChip]

Stage 7: Run a casino and place orders at GPI

 

[Machine]

Stage 10: Buy all the mold you can, open a business hire people to work for you and manufacture actual clay chips...

 

[Taghkanic]

Stage 5: ?

#13: Flip some TCR chips at an obscene profit and get everyone on PCF so mad at you that you only login 2-3 times per year, thus curing the addiction

 

[allforcharity]

Stage Cost Per Chip Reduction - You buy chips you already have but they are less than what you paid therefore it helps reduce your overall cost per chip average

What? This happens? No fucking way.

 

[Bill_Man618]

What? This happens? No fucking way.

I guess if you’re tracking it on a spreadsheet you could eventually come out even if you overpaid by doing this. But you must of course actually find a buyer

 

[allforcharity]

I guess if you’re tracking it on a spreadsheet you could eventually come out even if you overpaid by doing this. But you must of course actually find a buyer

Well, overall I don’t think I've overpaid for most of the chips I end up keeping because I'm a patient guy, but I also haven't found a lot of fantastic deals, either. I've really always paid "market price", and it's always steadily gone up except maybe now where we're at more of a plateau. I've seen people overpay, though, but mostly because they're impatient or FOMO.

 

[Bill_Man618]

Well, overall I don’t think I've overpaid for most of the chips I end up keeping because I'm a patient guy, but I also haven't found a lot of fantastic deals, either. I've really always paid "market price", and it's always steadily gone up except maybe now where we're at more of a plateau. I've seen people overpay, though, but mostly because they're impatient or FOMO.

For sure I’ve seen lots of people overpay. I’ve overplayed for stuff knowing I have, but at least I knew and that’s what it is. But to be honest the only real deals I’ve ever gotten came in PM’s. Either people selling at “friend” prices or super nice (friends) who I chatted with looking out for good deals.

FOMO especially in some of the TCR sales has definitely made and lost people a lot of money though

 

[elemeno]

I wrote this a while back

Was thinking about it just for fun, and here’s my chipper/chipaholic scale:

1 - you’ve bought your Tina/TCR/CPC/1st set and yet you still browse PCF

2 - you play only cash games 95% of the time and yet you want a tournament set for “security” since the group you play with has only been friends for 20 years (or vice versa)

3 - you collect sample sets, dealer buttons, and/or multiple single chip card cappers (+0.5 if they’re in a plastic case)

4 - you want multiple sets so you can rotate them

6 - you have spent time overlabeling

7 - you have oiled/baked chips and read 20 pages about it

8 - you have murdered/relabeled chips

9 - you have built a perfect custom set for which you spent hours removing the original labels, then found racks with marginally better colors/edgespots and replaced perfectly fine chips with slightly better ones

10 - despite painstakingly creating your perfect custom set in #9, you want more

 

[greenchip]

When you randomly spend $500 because you liked at first glance probably step 5.