Truth in Numbers? (2 Viewers)

[pltrgyst]

Seeing mention of Marsha's 12 racks of PCA secondary $1s reminded me of Alpine0000's 1800 ASM Bee Room $1s (oldies, on CT). Then yesterday, I went over 1,000 of a single chip for the first time -- Treasure $1s -- and realized that, while I like them a lot, they're not even my favorite $1s in my collection. Hmmm.

So I thought some more about the single chips I have the most of, and they're:

- 1000 Treasure $1s
- 900 Ace's $3s
- 800 Big Apple $1s
- 600 Chip's Tukwilla $5s
- 600 PCA $5 secondaries
- 600 PNY $25 secondary

Of these, only the Ace's $3s are my favorites of their denomination. The rest were acquired because I guess I thought they'd be needed for limit games with a ton of chips on the table (except the mint PNY $25s, which I simply couldn't resist at $60 per rack).

How about you? What chip or chips do you have the most of, how many, and why? I'm pretty sure I've read of people here with over 3,000 of a single chip. Are the chips you have the most of your very favorites, or were they acquired for some other, perhaps more practical reason?

Tnx -- Larry

 

[liftapint]

What is your favorite $1?

 

[bentax1978]

The chips I have the most of are all $5 chips, primarily because we almost always played 1/1 or 1/2 at my home games.

Technically one of them is a $100 chip, but it's being relabeled as a $5


- 800 Highway 9 $5
- 735 Aruba Palm Beach $5
- 700 PCA $5 (secondary)
- 700 Casablanca $100 (to be relabeled as a $5)

 

[liftapint]

I think the chip I have the most of is Emerald Princess $5. I have 600 of them, I think. I have that many because that is how many came with the set that I bought. I LOVE that chip. And it was voted as favorite $5 chips out of all sets I own, by my local home game crew.

 

[12thMan]

You don't need alllllll those highway 9's, do you @bentax1978 ??

 

[Psypher1000]

1400 Empress $25 secondaries.

 

[bentax1978]

You don't need alllllll those highway 9's, do you @bentax1978 ??

My offer to give up a couple racks to help get your set going still stands (y) :thumbsup:

 

[DrStrange]

I have 2,300+ PJ Pockets $1 ceramics. I didn't plan on that outcome but I bid on all the auctions expecting to win one. (They all ended within 15 seconds of each other.)

I wasn't happy about this for a while. Then I read about someone playing a session using only one chip and decided to try it for $1-$4 spread limit mixed games. That was a huge success. It is super easy to split pots when all the chips are the same, even complicated splits. No one is making change. No one is confused about what chips are worth.

Oh - and it is really nice to have mountains of chips on the table.

DrStrange

 

[BGinGA]

Single-chip quantities at 300+

800 x 20th Century $1
778 x GCOP T25
728 x GCOP T100
649 x Casablanca $100
560 x PCA $5 (secondaries)
545 x PCA $25 (secondaries)
545 x 20th Century $25
527 x 20th Century $5
520 x PCA $100 (secondaries)
433 x GCOP T1000
405 x GCOP T500
482 x Casino Aztar $25 (MO secondaries)
420 x Casino Aztar $1 (MO secondaries)
360 x GCOP T5000
351 x Four Queens $1
320 x Oak Tree $1
300 x Grand Cardroom T100 (Paulson hot-stamps)
300 x Oak Tree $5
300 x Silver Palace $5

Had some Aztar Indiana $500, Empress Joliet $100 (pri and sec), Oak Tree $100, PCA $1 (secondaries), and Speakeasy 25c chips also on that list, but have since been sold.

And I'd have to say that the ~sets~ listed above rank high among my favorites, and in many cases, the individual chips do, too. If I could get more, I probably would.

 

[stocky]

How big is your GCOP set now Dave?

 

[BGinGA]

How big is your GCOP set now Dave?

3225 TFP-mold chips plus 250 T100k/T250k/T500k/bounty/re-buy oversize ceramics. Currently my largest set, but probably gonna thin it back to 2500 soon (mostly T25/T100 extras). Still need a few more T25k, T100k, and T250k TFP-mold chips.

 

[inca911]

My main chip would be 1,000 Vineyard $1s I had a nice foundation of $1s to start, and bought a couple collectrions that added to the total. Very good idea of DrStrange's to use them for hi/lo chop games. Of course, that also means I need to keep them!

 

[Lars]

4,000 PCA secondary $1s. I didn't understand the lack of love for this chip. Bright white with green and gold is a winner in my book.

 

[Psypher1000]

4,000 PCA secondary $1s

Uh...so is that strictly for limit games, or do you have 20k $5's to go along w/that? That's a monster denom collection, man!

 

[Lars]

Limit. I have actually never had more than 800 on the table at once but I hope to build two more tables this winter. I have 500 $5s and 600 $25s.

 

[slisk250]

2400 - Terrible's STJ primary 1s - limit set

 

[sleepypiggly]

1600 ultimate bet $25
1600 ultimate bet $100

 

[atomiktoaster]

420 GV Primary $5s. Would never have happened without scoring 300 for $40 shipped. Comes in handy for running blackjack and craps casino nights.

 

[brains613]

Why did I read this? I'm such a masochist, I guess... So effin envious...

 

[courage]

Single-chip quantities at 300+

idk what threshold OP had in mind but using this:

Tourney Chips

Club Courage elephant/crown
320 x T1000
400 x T100
320 x T25

Argosy
340 x T500
430 x T100
430 x T25

Club Cleopatra
350 x T100

Cash Chips

Terrible's
1000 x $1
300 x $25

Club Courage twin spires
300 x 25c
500 x $1
600 x $2
1000 x $5
400 x $20

Club Courage md-50 hotstamps (waiting on @monkeydog for scraping)
300 x $1
600 x $5

Samurai Palace
520 x $5

Mixed Paulson cash set
450 x $1 Flamingos
560 x $5 Casablanca

Yaks
320 x $1
700 x $5

Par-a-Dice
400 x $1
700 x $5


All were acquired or designed/purchased with the express purpose of stocking my weekly cash game, tourneys, or meat-ups. I wouldn't say the individual chips in quantity are necessarily my favs, but that helps. The chips listed in the mixed Paulson set and twin spires chips are among my favs.

 

[ChipEnvy]

1300 Benny's $1. They are my 2nd favorite $1 chip. My favorite is the Hard Rock Biloxi... I have 500 of those.

My favorite is the Hard Rock Biloxi... I have 500 of those.

 

[ssanel54]

I guess the OP is my competition for Aces $3s....

I'll limit this to the 1000+ denominations off the top of my head:

Aces:
$3 x 2800

Palmas Club and Casino
$1 x 1150

Condor Club MD50 Customs
$1 x 1000
$5 x 1200

Cajun Cup Paulson
$5 x 1000

 

[pltrgyst]

What is your favorite $1?

These are tough questions when you're truly addicted...

Regular label and overall: Paris, BJ Divi Carina Bay (St. Croix)
Shaped label: Aztar MO
Grand label: dark blue Mirage, white Luxor
Giant label: Oceans Eleven, Ho-Chunk

But the Treasures are so colorful, it's hard to leave them out.
And the MGM Grand Vegas are terrific, too.

While I'm at it -- my further list of favorites:

Fracs: Greektown, Blue Chip, Cactus Charlie (Hotstamps: Fitz pink, Cactus Jack purple)

$2: Outpost, Ocean's Eleven, The Silk's Poker Room

$3: Ace's

$5s: Vineyard, PCA secondary, GV, Chip's Tukwilla, St. Jo's Frontier, Bahamia Millenium

$20s: Outpost (both inlay sizes), Vineyard

$25s: Mesquite Star (large), Ace's, PNY secondary, GV, Hwy 9 (IMO, $25s are the weakest denom)

$100s: Vineyard 8-spot, Highway 9, Bahamia, PCA secondary, Aztar MO secondary

$500s: PCA secondary (green spots)

$1000: Riverboat V2

 

[pltrgyst]

1400 Empress $25 secondaries.

And what do you do with 1400 $25 chips?

 

[pltrgyst]

I guess the OP is my competition for Aces $3s....
....
Aces:
$3 x 2800

Not much competition!:

When I do have a limit game, it's generally 3/6. I'd like a few more racks so that I have a rack per player and a couple spares, but no more than that.

 

[jbutler]

And what do you do with 1400 $25 chips?

 

[Psypher1000]

And what do you do with 1400 $25 chips?

1. Have them available to play as quarters in a limit game

2. Use them to make a chip angel (pending)

 

[abby99]

I'll use 600 as my threshold.

600 x $1 -- Lady Luck Club (BCC)
600 x $5 -- Lady Luck Club (BCC)
1200 x $1 -- Lady Luck Club (ASM)
600 x $5 -- Lady Luck Club (ASM)
1200 x $1 -- PCA secondaries (Paulson)

 

[ssanel54]

Not much competition!:

When I do have a limit game, it's generally 3/6. I'd like a few more racks so that I have a rack per player and a couple spares, but no more than that.

Do you post blinds at 3/3 or do you also have 1s on the table?

 

[carlin]

600 as threshold.

2364 x $5 PNY
1906 x $1 PNY
833 x $25pri PNY
833 x $25sec PNY
750 x $0.25 PNY (blue) from Apache
728 x 5 WTHC
704 x $5 JB98
688 x 1 WTHC
687 x $1 JB98
670 x $100sec PNY
649 x $100pri PNY
610 x $5sec GV

-gc