I meant like art, paintings and such. That’s something you collect just to look at.
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TheTrout
3 of a Kind
I would buy that IOC snapper just to hold and look at…
That's 100% the reality sometimes and a totally legit reason. Getting a game going is damn hard work. Heck, when I put together my first "real" set of chips shortly after joining in 2018, I think I managed to put together 2 games that year. Second year was better and then the pandemic hit. Probably wasn't until 2022 when we finally had a crew that allowed us to host 2x times a month without worrying about whether the game would actually happen.
I get it. I know there are people who buy sets just to look at, they should buy sample sets instead. Or at the very most, barrels.
They should get shit canned as I imagine a bunch bought with the hopes to flip them eventually for more money. I'm in the don't let them be camp.
I agree, people should be able to do what they want, but for those of us who play ALL there chips it can be frustrating when you can't complete a set or acquire a set because all the nitwits who collect them for jolly's hold onto the chips and drive up prices or make them unattainable.
TheTrout
3 of a Kind
I’m going to go mad waiting for samples or breakdowns or prices. Let’s engage in some good old fashioned hypotheticals.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume 100k of the chips are the ones pictured. What is the breakdown?
My guess:
$100 - 71,000 chips
$500 - 20,000 chips
$1000 - 6,000 chips
$5000 - 2,550 chips
$25k - 300 chips
$100k - 150 chips
The ratios here seem roughly right to me, but that seems like way too many chips to actually have in a casino at least of those denominations. So makes me wonder if we are looking at 30-40 thousand high denom secondaries, lots of promo/NCV/roulettes.
Anyone want to play the game with me?!
For the sake of argument, let’s assume 100k of the chips are the ones pictured. What is the breakdown?
My guess:
$100 - 71,000 chips
$500 - 20,000 chips
$1000 - 6,000 chips
$5000 - 2,550 chips
$25k - 300 chips
$100k - 150 chips
The ratios here seem roughly right to me, but that seems like way too many chips to actually have in a casino at least of those denominations. So makes me wonder if we are looking at 30-40 thousand high denom secondaries, lots of promo/NCV/roulettes.
Anyone want to play the game with me?!
Most art can be appreciated without physically handling it.
Some people buy art as an investment. Some buy art because it complements their interior design. Some buy art because they wish to support the artist, the gallery, the business, etc. These are all perfectly legitimate reasons to buy art.
But the best reason to buy art is because the piece speaks to you in some fundamental way, and you want to display it because it is in some part an expression of yourself.
It still smells like pissYeah, having lived in New Orleans, the locals stay out of the Quarter for the most part. We went to the Warehouse District and Frenchmen St. Yet when we see tourists walking through the Quarter in flip flops and sandals, orBare Feet, we cringe. They have to wash the streets often to minimize the smell of bodily fluids...
Mud
it may be more than piss...
It's definitely more than piss.
These numbers seem reasonable based on past casino sales (I'm usually wrong fwiw). A hard dose of reality as to how hard to get/limited the high denoms I love so much will be to get.
The 100k could easily all go out in sample sets (if they are offered, which I both hope they are and are not).
@TheChipRoom are you planning to release sample sets?
Thanks,
Grant
That would be a sin
Question for the old guys or @TheChipRoom , When these chip harvests happen, Does Jim get all of the chips from the casino in a series? Do the casinos offer sets of chips to multiple "Jim"s?
Mud
Mud
Generally all of em, from my experience
sup_squidy
High Hand
Nice chips not gonna get my hopes up that these will be in the budget but I'll be following the excitement
maxim_666666
Flush
Son, do the work without mistakes...
but first, read the conditions of the problem...
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You're implying a huge assumption, which is that those serial numbers start at 0001 and 001 respectively. How do you know they didn't start at 5501 and 501?Son, do the work without mistakes...
but first, read the conditions of the problem...
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Well how do you know they didn't start at -5501 or -501?
I get your point, but my point is that we have no idea where they started. Just because something has serial no. 5609 on it, doesn't mean there are at least 5609 of those things.Well how do you know they didn't start at -5501 or -501?
maxim_666666
Flush
But it would be great if there were!! Love that 25k.
That's a fair point, but isn't it more likely than not?
I don't have a lot of experience with serial number chips, but the one time I got involved with some - those fat hat Jacks promo chips TCR sold a few years back - the serial numbers were indicative of total quantity.
Right! How does he want sets broken up in samples after preaching about letting people build sets? ;-) @grantc54
I need all of those. They match my game room!
TheTrout
3 of a Kind
Let me start out by saying that I would love nothing more than for you to be right. In all sincerity.
I just can’t wrap my mind around there being $50 million in $100ks and over $140 million in $25ks.
That math just doesn’t pass my reasonableness test. But again, I really hope I am wrong
Don’t let @grantc54 see them! I’m hoarding them until my next game room!
Minimum order quantity for custom mold in different sizes maybeLet me start out by saying that I would love nothing more than for you to be right. In all sincerity.
I just can’t wrap my mind around there being $50 million in $100ks and over $140 million in $25ks.
That math just doesn’t pass my reasonableness test. But again, I really hope I am wrong
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I'm really thinking this may be the year I actually get to order before everything is sold out.
- Team Hate house molds - need not apply
- Team oversize labels - need not apply
- Team edge-spot progression - need not apply
- Team "only one oversize chip (if any)" - need not apply
We had this discussion while speculating how many of the Dunes $25,000 baccarat chips existed. I was thinking the minimum order quantities argument too. But the other thought that I found persuasive is that it is probably a liability to have too many high $$ cash chips in existence.
I really don't know if it's unrealistic for a big casino to have a couple hundred million dollars worth of cash chips in their vault - I play .25/.50. But hopefully we'll find out after this sale.
Yeah I agree with that and think that side makes more sense too. But it’s fun pretending to have hope sometimes when there is none.
Lol. I believe I said I did and didn't want them sold off in sample sets.
Very conflicting. The only chance of getting close these chips may be through a sample set, on the other hand I would rather see them all together.
More than once I've had to acquire 20 sample sets to make a barrel. Not fun, but doable AND sometimes easier than trying to get them from hoarders
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