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@ReallyGoodUsername :whistle: :whistling:

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Wow! The infamous "chocolate chips" !!

If you are looking for one they aren't very rare. I think they made a lot....

"I ended up winning every $5,000 chip at Binion's Horseshoe, which was about $18,000,000 worth, that I kept in the boxes at the Horseshoe to gamble with. Each rack of chips had $500,000 in it, so I had accumulated about 36 racks of chips. Finally, one day, Jack Binion asked me to sell some of the $5,000 chips back to the Horseshoe, and I agreed to sell back about $10,000,000, leaving about $8,000,000 in chips to gamble with.

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/03/sextons-corner-35-archie-karas-part-5.htm
 
Never saw the comment brother... Brie said did you post a pic with a coffee mug on the giant chips for @hdgeno... I said I herd no such request! Anyways a bit late but not forgotten!
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The left is a standard coffee cup, right is my normal!

Thank you very much for doing brother, I really appreciate it! Looks like they work great as coasters:).

Thanks a bunch @FordPickup92 for remembering!
 
Pat in Alaska, you are welcome. Thank you for the samples and the chips. You did me a solid and my way of saying thanks.
 
If you are looking for one they aren't very rare. I think they made a lot....



https://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/03/sextons-corner-35-archie-karas-part-5.htm
Thanks for the link, I’m enjoying reading the entire series!

When we first started playing high at $8,000/$16,000 limit in seven-card stud, Chip noticed I wasn't looking at my hole cards one night. He said, 'Archie, you're not looking at your hole cards.' I said, 'It's okay, Chip. When it is time to look at all the cards, we will do it together.'"
 
Long overdue post, lots of boxes piled up in the hallway over the past two weeks. The wife wants us to be *extra* careful about bringing any new items into the apartment since things have been bad here in Brooklyn, understandably so. Anyway... makes for a better post I hope!

The carnage:

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Let's start with some solid's that @justincarothers hooked me up with and that I'm looking forward to cleaning up and getting ready for a new project:

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Three racks, mostly Starbursts, very sharp edges, thanks again Justin!

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Next, some very sexy Lilac (future T500) solids that @Finest dropped off for me in person:

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These look great next to the two racks of peaches (I guess really Salmon's) that I got from @baldwinning a few weeks back (posting a reminder photo for those that missed these beautiful mint condition chippies):

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Next up, @Ben8257 and @FordPickup92 came through for me big time, agreeing to a trade of some of my 2005 CDI's for 98' CDI's which really helped me take the next step in putting together a full set:

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Got a few singles off of eBay in the mail too... seems like a fool's errand getting into single's collecting but right now I can't help it:

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Speaking of single's, what the do with the ~100 single's that I've bought so far? @ReallyGoodUsername put me on JP's Corner and I ordered a few hundred Silver Eagle holders seeing as this appetite for single's isn't going anywhere anytime soon:

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And finally, if I'm going to make sure my singles are safely stored, I need to do the same for all of the random Paulson racks that are spread out in our living room right now (much to my wife's dismay - again, understandable). Special shoutout to @rjdev7 for biking over to meet me halfway and drop off this cool foam case + 20 Bud Jones boxes, they fit perfectly:

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OK that's all I got (for now)... but have a special package coming in from overseas sometime next week that I'm excited about, stay tuned!
 

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