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The Official Mail Showcase Thread (poker related) (52 Viewers)

BonScot said:
Genuinely have no idea what this means. Seen it mentioned a few times. Googled it and saw a picture of an old car.

Thought it might mean chips with pictures of old cars on them but I now know that’s not right.

Can anyone explain? I have FOMO :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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FDLmold said:
Have you ever looked at a casino chip and wondered, like in Toy Story 3, "When was the last time somebody used you to gamble with, little buddy?"
Have you ever wondered how you could afford leaded Paulsons in the current chip market?
Have you ever been frustrated when other people now want singles of the chip you've slowly been acquiring?

This is a rat rod.
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It doesn't look like much. It's put together from whatever scraps the owner can cobble together. But it works. And some rat rods work REALLY well.

This is my Rat Rod poker set. Conceived as an intellectual exercise, and put together as a test of a unique (to the best of my knowledge) idea. A whole set of singles, united only by their lead content and their chip mold. Cobbled together with a multitude of transactions, but as functional and pretty as any homogenous set of chips from a single location.

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I could write a dissertation about the knowledge I've acquired and stories and experiences I've stumbled across over the past 12 months as I've put this together. But for now, I'll just leave you with a few statistics so far up to these photos:

Transactions: 90
Chips: 796
Unique chips: 421
Average cost per chip: $6.122
Average mass of a chip: 10.430 grams

When was the last time some of these all-time beauties were used to gamble? I'd say decades. Let them play!

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WedgeRock said:
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Well I never knew I had OCD until now. That would tilt the shit out of me :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

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SPECIAL THANKS to @Jeevansluck up in the Great White North for my 13th Tiger Dealer Button. 7 moAr...LET'S GOOOOO!!!
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Made a low ball offer on this IoC rack on eBay:
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Was completely shocked when they accepted it. WTF am I gonna do with it? I have no #*@%ing clue but purchases like this are why I can't afford moAr Tigers @davislane. Trade? lol
 
Just a single from the most recent Chip Chat auction, but the thing that makes me love it even more is my girlfriend took the initiative to open the package, looks at it, thinks it nice looking, but looks even closer and says, "it's dirty, you're going to have to clean it a bit." That's right, just a bit dirty, but I'll get it to shine! Love her so much and love that she knows I enjoy this hobby :love:

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Okku said:
Just a single from the most recent Chip Chat auction, but the thing that makes me love it even more is my girlfriend took the initiative to open the package, looks at it, thinks it nice looking, but looks even closer and says, "it's dirty, you're going to have to clean it a bit." That's right, just a bit dirty, but I'll get it to shine! Love her so much and love that she knows I enjoy this hobby :love:

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Best singles mail day in quite some time. I regularly acquire good decent solid single chips. But rarely anything as great as this Lake Elsinore $500, which is an all time great purple chip.
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I have no idea what color to call the $1000 lol. It’s reflecting greens AND blues in equal measure.
 

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