Under The Gun Poker Series Custom Tourney Set (1 Viewer)

[UTGPoker]

Goooood Afternoon!!

I have taken many of your advice and redone my custom tournament set to match, more closely, traditional tournament set denomination/colors. I have a collection out with my tournament series member, so hopefully this will get funded soon.

I am still looking for any advice people may have on the chips, though I am looking to keep these Level 1 at the highest (I put a lot of consideration into no edgespots at all to keep the cost down, but decided against it except for the 25)

We were using a T2000 structure starting with 10/20 blinds, this is designed on a T10,000 starting at 25/50.

Green = 25
Black = 100
Pink = 500
Yellow = 1000
Orange = 5000

Starting stacks =
12 green, 12 black, 7 pink, 5 yellow
Our players tend to limp the first round or two while everyone is getting settled so I include more greens than I probably need to minimize players making change from the pot


Average game has up to 20 players so I am thinking
250 Green
250 Black
150 Pink
150 Yellow
50 Orange

Let me know what you think!! Thanks!

Edit: Revision with Dayglo Peacock 500 chip


Triple Edit:
Placed my order for the chips tonight and finalizing the artwork for Dealer Buttons and Plaques. Here is the final chips, buttons, and Plaque art!! Now I get to wait 3 months!!!

Quadruple Edit:
Prototypes:

Quintuple Edit:
Chips have arrived!!!

 

[UTGPoker]

Oh, also, J5 for inlay design? Who have you guys worked with, who do you recommend, how much does design generally cost?

Thanks!

 

[Mr Tree]

Oh, also, J5 for inlay design? Who have you guys worked with, who do you recommend, how much does design generally cost?

Thanks!

I always felt J5 was the most reasonably priced part of the whole equation. Don't want to give prices as I'm not sure how he bases them. (Billable hours maybe?)

He is awesome and I think very reasonably priced. Just be aware he is also titanic ally backed up at the moment. You may wait six months to get started.

 

[detroitdad]

I've only ever worked with one guy. That was only once. SEPT/OCT I worked with @Johnny5 on my sunset cash set. When I asked him for a price range he gave me a between x and x amount. He did also say that he doesn't charge more per mock up. Or that you only get "10" mock ups. He will keep at it until your happy.

It also makes the process smoother, and more fun if your very descriptive in what your looking for from him. I sent him a wall of text. Ended the email with an apology due to the length of the email, lol. He said it was awesome. The more information he has to work with the better.

Again, I've only ever built one custom set from inception and it was with J5. He was outstanding. The other guys have put some good work on the forum. My experience in working with John, well, he'll get my return business if/when I do this again. I don't care if the wait list is 6 months, or even a year. The dude is fricken awesome at what he does

He nailed the quarter and the one dollar chips on his first try.

 

[detroitdad]

Goooood Afternoon!!

I have taken many of your advice and redone my custom tournament set to match, more closely, traditional tournament set denomination/colors. I have a collection out with my tournament series member, so hopefully this will get funded soon.

I am still looking for any advice people may have on the chips, though I am looking to keep these Level 1 at the highest (I put a lot of consideration into no edgespots at all to keep the cost down, but decided against it except for the 25)

We were using a T2000 structure starting with 10/20 blinds, this is designed on a T10,000 starting at 25/50.

Green = 25
Black = 100
Pink = 500
Yellow = 1000
Orange = 5000

Starting stacks =
12 green, 12 black, 7 pink, 5 yellow
Our players tend to limp the first round or two while everyone is getting settled so I include more greens than I probably need to minimize players making change from the pot


Average game has up to 20 players so I am thinking
250 Green
250 Black
150 Pink
150 Yellow
50 Orange

Let me know what you think!! Thanks! View attachment 27682

The dayglo bases I believe are .10 more per chip if your factoring in all budget expenses (just in case your not aware). I like the chips. I'm not a fan of pink based chips. Just a preference thing

 

[UTGPoker]

The dayglo bases I believe are .10 more per chip if your factoring in all budget expenses (just in case your not aware). I like the chips. I'm not a fan of pink based chips. Just a preference thing

Weird, somewhere I found Pink for the 500, but it looks like at the Rio for the WSOP they use blue... i have made a revision...

 

[stocky]

Nice start. Personally I'd swap the colors on the 500 to blue base and pink spots. Dg pink and Dg tiger may be to close together.

Also. J5 does awesome work but from all accounts is pretty backed up. @p5woody is producing some amazing design lately also. @ttttubby also a great designer who designed Astro Club and others which rock.

 

[UTGPoker]

Nice start. Personally I'd swap the colors on the 500 to blue base and pink spots. Dg pink and Dg tiger may be to close together.

Also. J5 does awesome work but from all accounts is pretty backed up. @p5woody is producing some amazing design lately also. @ttttubby also a great designer who designed Astro Club and others which rock.

I love the new Dayglo Peacock base 500, DEFINITELY keeping this change!

 

[UTGPoker]

@p5woody has already delivered a quick sample for the inlay, already looks amazing. I have a good friend that does video game character development that is creating an outlaw character for me, but @p5woody put together a great temp set up! Example below

 

[72o]

Sweet! That inlay looks awesome...as "temporary" as it is. Steve is a great guy to work with.

 

[UTGPoker]

Sweet! That inlay looks awesome...as "temporary" as it is. Steve is a great guy to work with.

Yeah I am blown away alreadyx

 

[RowdyRawhide]

These are really looking good!

Is the reason you are not using the 314 on the 25 to keep cost down? about $100 on the whole order?

the 25 just seems off without the spots to me. so I mocked up a few

Hope you don't mind

 

[UTGPoker]

These are really looking good!

Is the reason you are not using the 314 on the 25 to keep cost down? about $100 on the whole order?

the 25 just seems off without the spots to me. so I mocked up a few
View attachment 27742

Hope you don't mind

Good mockups!

Partly to keep cost down... Also, for some reason I feel like the min chips should be without spots. I have made my cash set the same way.

 

[BGinGA]

Personally, I'd go with solids for all three of the lowest denominations (T25, T100, T500), and save the spots for the two highest denominations (making them a bit more 'special'). A single solid chip looks okay in a cash set (lots of quarters are solids), but it's almost unheard of in tourney sets. And personally, I also think the black and peacock chips will look better with no spots.

Regarding your breakdown, I'd go with T10000 stacks of 12/12/5/6:

20-player set
240 T25 Green
240 T100 Black
100 T500 Blue
150 T1000 Yellow (includes 30x to color-up T25/T100 chips)
50 T5000 Orange (includes 10x to color-up T500 chips plus 40x for 20 re-buys or T20000 stacks)
-------------
780 chips

Get four extra chips per denomination (spares for damage or loss), making a total of 800 chips ordered.


Make sure you clear that inlay size on the A-mold with CPC.

 

[UTGPoker]

So I have thought about it (also just won a $700 jackpot for flopping quads Jacks at the cardroom) I will be adding edgespots to the green 25 chip. I selected dayglo yellow, thoughts?

 

[detroitdad]

So I have thought about it (also just won a $700 jackpot for flopping quads Jacks at the cardroom) I will be adding edgespots to the green 25 chip. I selected dayglo yellow, thoughts?

gotta love re-investing loot back into your chips

As for the Dayglo Yellow. I don't like it. I don't have time to do any mock ups. I will try later.

 

[stocky]

Love it. Also light green with DG yellow looks awesome too.

 

[UTGPoker]

Love it. Also light green with DG yellow looks awesome too.

View attachment 27948

Nice!

I also kinda like bright white...

 

[detroitdad]

Nice!

I also kinda like bright white... View attachment 27949

does it have to be Dayglo Green? I think bright white would look better on any of the other greens

 

[UTGPoker]

does it have to be Dayglo Green? I think bright white would look better on any of the other greens

Everything else in the set is Dayglo the other greens look off in the series.

"Tournament chips, where brighter is better!!" - Anonymous

 

[stocky]

Everything else in the set is Dayglo the other greens look off in the series.

"Tournament chips, where brighter is better!!" - Anonymous

Charcoal isn't DG but if you made the 100 bright white with Blurple spots...,,

 

[UTGPoker]

Charcoal isn't DG but if you made the 100 bright white with Blurple spots...,,

Like dis?

(The blue chip is something I am thinking about doing as a "supporter" chip for my league. I have no rake at my tournaments, but have spent quite a bit of table materials chips etc, thinking about selling these to members so they can use them as card protectors and to show they help support the group)

 

[UTGPoker]

So the White T100 is kinda buggin me, so I tried to lighten up a Charcoal chip, using gray edge spots... Thoughts? I feel like it brightens it up towards the dayglo colors, but keeps the "traditional" color progression...

 

[UTGPoker]

First mockup of the character development...

 

[Psypher1000]

View attachment 27994 So the White T100 is kinda buggin me, so I tried to lighten up a Charcoal chip, using gray edge spots... Thoughts? I feel like it brightens it up towards the dayglo colors, but keeps the "traditional" color progression...

I dig switching to the charcoal base, but instead of grey for the spot, have you considered retro lavender?

 

[UTGPoker]

I dig switching to the charcoal base, but instead of grey for the spot, have you considered retro lavender?

Ill give it a shot when I get to the office tomorrow

 

[Phantom]

View attachment 28173

First mockup of the character development...

No. 3 - dodgy geezer with mo' and beady eyes.

Did you draw these? they look great

 

[Zippity]

Um, that's badass.

 

[UTGPoker]

No. 3 - dodgy geezer with mo' and beady eyes.

Did you draw these? they look great

I didnt draw them, I have less artistic talent than my 6 month old nephew...

My friend is an Art Director for a video game studio near Redmond , WA I hired him to bring my character to life. He is working on some other body positions, including dual pistols like the original layout that woody put together

 

[Phantom]

I didnt draw them, I have less artistic talent than my 6 month old nephew...

My friend is an Art Director for a video game studio near Redmond , WA I hired him to bring my character to life. He is working on some other body positions, including dual pistols like the original layout that woody put together

Well, great work all round and to @p5woody