Interest Visipak 7 7/8" or 8 1/2" Chip Tubes (2 Viewers)

[dizzyChipper]

TDLR: Bigger tubes fit more chips. Want some?

Anybody interested in splitting up a case (or more) of the Visipak 7 7/8" or 8 1/2" "Cash Game Chip Tubes" please respond here.

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I was interested in starting stack tubes for cash game buy-ins.

Cash games usually buy in with more chips because people stay awhile and chips can leave the table via tips/rake vs.
Tournaments where people get knocked out and the chips stay on the table and only leave optionally, through color ups.

As such the U Line 6" and 60 Dram pill bottles were restrictive for my use.

My current setup is to precount two buyins per chip rack with a lam in the middle to split that into a max of 50ish chips. It's not terrible. And I'll mention that Cash buy ins aren't always identical so tubes aren't quite as wonderful as they could be for Tournaments.

Nonetheless, the sales folks at Visipak were kind of enough to send me samples of the 3 types of tubes.
5 1/2" Tube, 7 7/8" Tube and 8 1/2" Tube

The 5 1/2" tube is similar to the 3 golf ball Alibaba tubes linked elsewhere.

Here are the results of what fits. (Pasting tables from excel breaks them for me here so I'm just pasting the graphic):

I have a few sample Tinas and they seem to be the same thickness as the Nexgen Lucky Bee. Dice chips are a little thicker. Ya'll probably know how Paulson, TRK, CPC etc compare. I do not.

And if you're interested here's a sheet of reasonable Cash Game buy-ins to service stakes from 150BB at 1-2 blinds to 150BB at 10-20 blinds.

 

[Poker Zombie]

It's an interesting concept. I love using chip tubes. I'm just not sure the value will still be there after reshipping vs buying direct from Spinetti's.

 

[Chanceman]

How many chips does each size hold?

 

[dizzyChipper]

How many chips does each size hold?

Sorry that should be part of it. I'll fix it.

Edit: FIXED.

 

[dizzyChipper]

It's an interesting concept. I love using chip tubes. I'm just not sure the value will still be there after reshipping vs buying direct from Spinetti's.

The tubes are $1.60 each to me for 1 box of 100.

If there's a ton of interest maybe it goes down for multiple boxes.

I'm in Central Jersey and get to Parx occasionally too. So members in this geo I can just meet with for a drop off. Call it 10 tubes for $20 for the sake of simplicity.

Re: re-shipping elsewhere.
Worst case scenario: I think I could get 10 in a USPS medium flat rate box which are $20ish. So $36 for 10 tubes re-shipped to USA. But there may be cheaper options. That's just at first blush.

If people are interested I'll look into better shipping options (or more likely someone here already knows and can tell me).

Regards.

 

[dizzyChipper]

It's an interesting concept. I love using chip tubes. I'm just not sure the value will still be there after reshipping vs buying direct from Spinetti's.

I don't see big tubes at Spinettis.

 

[dizzyChipper]

Bump. It only takes a few of us to make this worthwhile.

 

[dizzyChipper]

Bump.