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The first set I put together that you couldn't just go to a site and buy was the Matsui Emerald Bays. I wasn't around for the group buy but managed to put these together in the classifieds. A number of them came from @Perthmike and took a VERY long trip from Australia. I love the feel of the chips, the hard edges, and the incredibly bright colors. I was born in California so having a cali set is great.

On to the pictures.
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detroitdad said:
I was part of the design team with @Perthmike and @liftapint It was an absolute blast. Those colors!! WOW....I loved everything about these chips except their slipperiness. The feel and sound are so unique. The sharp edges, mmmmmmmmmmmm
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The only thing I'd have done different with collecting my set would have been to swap the 5 out for the orange and blue 5, but that would have basically kicked off a change for the fracs and possibly the ones as well, so just a massive impact, no longer cali colors, and I have full samples of the entire Emerald Bay set and I was doing a lot of mixing and matching to figure out what I wanted and I think I prefer the orange frac and the yellow/purple 5 over what I'd have had to do to be happy with the rest of the sets.

The slipperyness doesn't bother me, maybe I'm strange. Maybe I don't play with them and eat buttered popcorn at the same time.

Hoping one day there is another Matsui group buy. These are, I believe, my favorite actual group buy chips.
 
JustDave said:
The only thing I'd have done different with collecting my set would have been to swap the 5 out for the orange and blue 5, but that would have basically kicked off a change for the fracs and possibly the ones as well, so just a massive impact, no longer cali colors, and I have full samples of the entire Emerald Bay set and I was doing a lot of mixing and matching to figure out what I wanted and I think I prefer the orange frac and the yellow/purple 5 over what I'd have had to do to be happy with the rest of the sets.

The slipperyness doesn't bother me, maybe I'm strange. Maybe I don't play with them and eat buttered popcorn at the same time.

Hoping one day there is another Matsui group buy. These are, I believe, my favorite actual group buy chips.
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We mostly play pot limit dealers choice. There could be a ton of chips in the pot. Stacking, sliding them across the table was a challenge for me. Grabbing a rebuy barrel out of the rack would sometimes send them flying if you weren't real careful. The journey while designing/building these with Mike and Mel was more than worth my time!
 
This isn't the second set I finished, but it is the second I started. I knew for a smaller tournament set I wanted to do all solids and I wanted to stay relatively close to normal tournament colors, but wanted a bit of a spin on it. So T25s that were still green but a different shade of green, and T100s that weren't black, but relatively close to. I picked up a fair bit of other colors along the way, some great looking yellows, charcoals, and endless shades of blue before I got the ones that I wanted.

This is the first poker chip hunt I ever went on and it was a lot of fun to just prowl the classifieds constantly and then hunt through old posting asking chippers 'did you ever use that rack of X that you bought 9 months ago'. It was a lot of fun for sure.

@Josh Kifer did the milling, @timinater designed the labels, and @Gear printed them. All did an awesome job.

Some of the chips are fresher than others, the T25s have some love but aren't bicycle tires, same with the bounties. The T1000s and T5000s are as fresh as can be. Were I to do it all again I might have tried to get a similar level of wear on all of them. But I'm happy where I'm at.

Colors are:
T25 Indian Blue
T100 Plurple(or maybe more Purple?)
T500 Blue(Paulson Blues are impossible okay, it's just Blue)
T1000 Arc Yellow
T5000 Magenta
Bounty - Sam's Town $1s

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All racked up and ready for transport. I bring enough to support 10 players in those 4x100 racks with 5 spares of each chip and the rack to left stays at home incase a chip gets lost anywhere.
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Gotta have a splash pot:
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Last(for now, waiting on my 'card's mold GB'), but certainly not least is actually the set that I will get the most use out of. Some friends and I like to go to Las Vegas once a year and have a good old time. We have, in the past, alway done really well playing craps at this one craps table at the Plaza. Needless to say, this group has grown over time. Craps is a game that it kinda helps to know how to play and it can get a bit confusing for new players so we have 'craps nights' where we teach people at a friends house how to play and then we dick around for several hours making insane bets.

Well, like I think a lot of folks, the guy we played at, he had dice chips. Not only did he have dice chips, he had this insane collection of them that made no sense and he'd give odd colors that he had the most of for 5s and it was just really annoying. He'd also say like green = $10 which makes no sense what so ever. So people knew kinda how to play, but didn't know what increments to be in, which in craps, actually matters.

So I came home one night and said, 'I'm done with this, I'm buying real chips' and went out and bought some Scrolls. Pretty quickly down the rabbit hole I went and you can see the fruits of that labor above. I eventually bought some tiki kings as a small poker set but one thing led to another and I sold off all of the scrolls and grew the tiki kings to replace them entirely geared towards playing craps.

This sets breakdown is for playing craps, we play $1 cash = $100 in chips and people throw chips around like idiots and have a great good time, plus we pass on the craps addiction so people will come with us when we play at casinos.

I like the colors and the vibrancy of the tiki kings and they just seem super fun to me. I think my other sets are pretty serious, so it is nice to have something that's really chill.

200x $1
300x $5
200x $25
200x $100
40x $500
40x $1,000
20x $5,000

2x Versa 500 count cases with some vinyl decals.
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Inside(check out those fresh decks from @Josh Kifer, get your own here:https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/cartamundi-bravo-card-sale-thread-sale-3-80-a-deck.63160/ :
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All out on a table:
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From the side:
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From the back:
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I am pretty sure a casino used Paulson RHC set... convenient that there happens to be a black Friday sale coming up with some beautiful IOC chips!

Awesome collection so far Dave, seems like you definitely have the chippin bug!! Hope you make it out to @Seeking Alpha Social Club for a game sometime when things clear up a bit!!

Maryland Chipper Ben
 
JustDave said:
So I've gone:
Crappy Ceramics
Nice Ceramics
Nice Plastics
Custom Milled Solids
Custom Ceramics
and after last night... NAGB chips...

So in the progression of chips addicts what is supposed to be next?
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I went ceramics, Jacks, NAGB, and then leaded Paulsons. You are due for leaded Paulsons.
 
Ben8257 said:
I am pretty sure a casino used Paulson RHC set... convenient that there happens to be a black Friday sale coming up with some beautiful IOC chips!

Awesome collection so far Dave, seems like you definitely have the chippin bug!! Hope you make it out to @Seeking Alpha Social Club for a game sometime when things clear up a bit!!

Maryland Chipper Ben
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It's 100% on my list I'm just high risk and have some very high risk family members so I'm overly paranoid.

cgpilot said:
I went ceramics, Jacks, NAGB, and then leaded Paulsons. You are due for leaded Paulsons.
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Lol, what about the lead poisoning?!?

allforcharity said:
CPC customs should be on your progression somewhere.
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I think I'll get there eventually, but I haven't found a mold I'm in love with yet and some of the gaps in colors they can deliver give me pause.

chutracheese said:
TRKs next?!
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Not gonna lie, I've thought about picking up a TRK sample set to see what the fuss is all about and I have specifically avoided them like the plague because I don't want to go down that path.
 
JustDave said:
It's 100% on my list I'm just high risk and have some very high risk family members so I'm overly paranoid.


Lol, what about the lead poisoning?!?


I think I'll get there eventually, but I haven't found a mold I'm in love with yet and some of the gaps in colors they can deliver give me pause.


Not gonna lie, I've thought about picking up a TRK sample set to see what the fuss is all about and I have specifically avoided them like the plague because I don't want to go down that path.
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There are plenty of TRK sets in our local area, also plenty of CPC sets, @krafticus owns the Speak EC series on the CSQ mold... very very nice! But that game is between the beltways... maybe a hike for you but still very recommended.

I own the Silver Tounged Devils on the scrown mold and @detroitdad Burbon basements on the B mold. Both really nice sets. I personally think the CSQ is the best... especially after breaking them in!

As far as colors... have you seen the Pillage and Plunder chips?
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Other than a nice bright yellow (which you hear all the time) what more could you want? This is perfection and I don't even have all the chips in the line up!!

Unfortunately even touching leaded TRKs you may be ruined for life... it happened to me! I don't have any top end TRKs, and mine are far from minty (the $1s and $5s anyways). But I absolutely love them!!
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When covid is over and you are interested in a game, let's us know and what kind of chips you would like to shuffle or hell even put in play that evening! Always happy to help!
 
Ben8257 said:
There are plenty of TRK sets in our local area, also plenty of CPC sets, @krafticus owns the Speak EC series on the CSQ mold... very very nice! But that game is between the beltways... maybe a hike for you but still very recommended.

I own the Silver Tounged Devils on the scrown mold and @detroitdad Burbon basements on the B mold. Both really nice sets. I personally think the CSQ is the best... especially after breaking them in!

As far as colors... have you seen the Pillage and Plunder chips?
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Other than a nice bright yellow (which you hear all the time) what more could you want? This is perfection and I don't even have all the chips in the line up!!

Unfortunately even touching leaded TRKs you may be ruined for life... it happened to me! I don't have any top end TRKs, and mine are far from minty (the $1s and $5s anyways). But I absolutely love them!!
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When covid is over and you are interested in a game, let's us know and what kind of chips you would like to shuffle or hell even put in play that evening! Always happy to help!
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I'm actually doing my card mold GB set as a dry run for a future CPC set. So I think eventually I'll get there, but I want to be a lot more experienced before I'm at the helm of exactly what a chip should look like. There are things I'd do differently on the GB chips and even the custom relabels I have now. So the outlay for CPC really gives me pause. Pushing out a large chunk on a NAGB set is safer to me because I know I could turn them around for about what I paid for them. That same amount on a CPC set I see as being $0 if I want to move on to something else, so I better be damn sure.

I'm actually a bigger fan of some loved chips. I never want to own chips I don't/won't put into play. I get folks that want to have them, and that's okay, but for me, I want to play with them.

I fell into this community at just the wrong time and the right time. It let me learn a bunch of stuff with a friendly community that luckily can be done somewhat solo, but I couldn't go spend time with the locals which is something I'm itching to do.

May not make that trip regularly, but up between the beltways and down with the seeking alpha guys is an easy drive with some planning, so really looking forward to it. Maybe I can even convince you guys to roll some dice one night :-)
 
Saoliver said:
TRK

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I think there are many steps before even trying TRKs, I know some are not fans butt man... the first time I shuffled a barrel of Pick Hobson’s I knew exactly what the Hype was all about!! But then I know a large group that want nothing to do with them... again what makes this place awesome is we can truly all love different chips!
 
Ben8257 said:
I think there are many steps before even trying TRKs, I know some are not fans butt man... the first time I shuffled a barrel of Pick Hobson’s I knew exactly what the Hype was all about!! But then I know a large group that want nothing to do with them... again what makes this place awesome is we can truly all love different chips!
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One of the things I'm super ready to experience is everyone else's take on chipping. I overlap with some folks, AS HS for example a lot of people seem to love, and I definitely diverge from a lot as well, AS Cash has very little appeal to me and is beloved by others. I love the Emerald Bay set, some folks can't stand the texture.

So I'm really looking forward to seeing how others collect the sets that matter to them and not just what set but their entire collection and how can you see a theme running through all of them.
 
So, and I've been meaning to actually do this for a while, the Plaza holds a special place in my heart. It's a dump, don't get me wrong, but I love it. Anyways, the Plaza replaced the Union Plaza which was the old train station and the only train station inside a casino in the US. I'd like to get a sample set of the old Union Plaza chips(which do happen to be TRKs I think, but don't read anything into it), to go with a sample set I have from the Plaza and some dice I have from there as well.

I've seen random singles on eBay, and the classifieds here are almost all barrels/racks/sets. So for the more experienced folks around, what's the best way to get old samples/singles? eBay? something else?
 
You sir have impeccable taste. Love your sets insanely and would sign up for all three of them right now, just send me your PayPal. :D

I wish I would have got in on the emerald bay buy, love the colors on them. Blue and orange are two of my favorites and those are awesome. There are multiple versions of them? I need to learn about them and see if there is a way to get a set.

Also a big tiki fan. The dia de los muertas are cool but I definitely prefer the tikis. I’ve had sets picked out with my color choices just never pulled the trigger. There is a very cool purple tiki dealer button floating around out there that is the absolute nuts.


all that said, your milled set is incredible. Love the colors. If that was a set that was for sale somewhere I would have two. Very, very well done. You and everyone involved should be stoked on them. Dave was my dads name as well, so the label is just that much better.

Congrats on your sets.
 
Ben8257 said:
There are plenty of TRK sets in our local area, also plenty of CPC sets, @krafticus owns the Speak EC series on the CSQ mold... very very nice! But that game is between the beltways... maybe a hike for you but still very recommended.

I own the Silver Tounged Devils on the scrown mold and @detroitdad Burbon basements on the B mold. Both really nice sets. I personally think the CSQ is the best... especially after breaking them in!

As far as colors... have you seen the Pillage and Plunder chips?
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Other than a nice bright yellow (which you hear all the time) what more could you want? This is perfection and I don't even have all the chips in the line up!!

Unfortunately even touching leaded TRKs you may be ruined for life... it happened to me! I don't have any top end TRKs, and mine are far from minty (the $1s and $5s anyways). But I absolutely love them!!
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When covid is over and you are interested in a game, let's us know and what kind of chips you would like to shuffle or hell even put in play that evening! Always happy to help!
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Pillage and Plunder $8 and $100 are great. Really like the T25, T100, and the T500. But seriously, the $1000 chip is maybe the nicest chip I've ever seen.

Did you put these together? Group project?
 
JustDave said:
Pillage and Plunder $8 and $100 are great. Really like the T25, T100, and the T500. But seriously, the $1000 chip is maybe the nicest chip I've ever seen.

Did you put these together? Group project?
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** I apologize again for another Ben book but you asked!! @detroitdad you know this story brother... you don't have to read it, if you do... don't yell at me!! Lol

I feel bad for not naming their creator and owner, my awesome buddy @Ronoh . I had absolutely nothing to do with Pillage n Plunder. I just whole heartedly believe they are the greatest customs ever made!

Everyone has their opinion on this subject but I am obsessed with Pirates, my jaw dropped to the floor the very first time I ever saw the set. The color combinations, the time spent on every single chip in this line up... btw they all have names (the individual chips) I will tag you in the original thread so you can check them out!

My favorite CPC mold, white and black opposite inlays. Fink just totally made the perfect chip set!!

I reached out a few times just crossing my fingers that I could get a single chip for a card capper. Fink was taking a break and dealing with life at the time...

@detroitdad and @Lil Tuna worked together to send me an anonymous Hundo... literally cried the day it came in... almost dropped it shaking so much! Brie hugged me and said are you ok?? I said this is a F**king Pillage + Plunder chip... I'm nobody, I don't deserve to own this... tearing up thinking about that day!
(With a promise made that we Will play in Detroit some day!!)

I had it as a capper and promised to always have it on the table when I play!!

Fast forward, Fink logs back on and reads my messages, again they get my address and this showed up in my mail box.
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With this note that I will always have, and plan to professionally have framed with my samples!
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As you can see I got 2 $1,000s so I added my hundo to the sample set and now carry a 1k chip...

I couldn't agree more... The Green Flash was nailed from The Pirates of the Caribbean... red sky at night sailors delight! Chip color matching and aligned with the inlay... try to beat that chip... it's not possible!!

My sample is not complete, but I have most of the beauties!!

So we were helping our buddy @toynoob host a meet up in Ohio in October, basically we bring the chips and help him host... when we were all discussing which chips to take... again my buddy Fink being the coolest guy ever heard about this game. He had sent the set to @inca911 for his meet up as a guest set and he couldn't attend... they worked together and sent 2 packages to lend us the entire line up in playable quantities!!
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Brie was so excited and knew this was happening!! I open the box from Forrest saying what the hell is he sending me, why is Brie so damn excited??

Again I bust out crying asking why are these chips in our house... shaking and trembaling....

She said Fink herd about the game and knew you love for his chips and wanted to offer them as a guest set... can you even imagine sending $5,000 plus in chips to someone you have never met in person???

Fink knew they would be perfectly safe!! Even bought them their own case!! Lol
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I could talk about how amazing these chips are every single day!!

Saddly soon they will be off to their home, but if you ever hear of a game and these are in play... cancel your wedding and Go play these chips!! Lol

I feel like this has been the peak of my chipping career! I don't think I will ever place a set higher in my rankings, I love lots of chips obviously, I love rare TRKs... I have had the opportunity to play several amazing TRK sets... I would pick these every single time!!

Pillage and Plunders biggest fan!! Ben
 
Ben8257 said:
** I apologize again for another Ben book but you asked!! @detroitdad you know this story brother... you don't have to read it, if you do... don't yell at me!! Lol

I feel bad for not naming their creator and owner, my awesome buddy @Ronoh . I had absolutely nothing to do with Pillage n Plunder. I just whole heartedly believe they are the greatest customs ever made!

Everyone has their opinion on this subject but I am obsessed with Pirates, my jaw dropped to the floor the very first time I ever saw the set. The color combinations, the time spent on every single chip in this line up... btw they all have names (the individual chips) I will tag you in the original thread so you can check them out!

My favorite CPC mold, white and black opposite inlays. Fink just totally made the perfect chip set!!

I reached out a few times just crossing my fingers that I could get a single chip for a card capper. Fink was taking a break and dealing with life at the time...

@detroitdad and @Lil Tuna worked together to send me an anonymous Hundo... literally cried the day it came in... almost dropped it shaking so much! Brie hugged me and said are you ok?? I said this is a F**king Pillage + Plunder chip... I'm nobody, I don't deserve to own this... tearing up thinking about that day!
(With a promise made that we Will play in Detroit some day!!)

I had it as a capper and promised to always have it on the table when I play!!

Fast forward, Fink logs back on and reads my messages, again they get my address and this showed up in my mail box.
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With this note that I will always have, and plan to professionally have framed with my samples!
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As you can see I got 2 $1,000s so I added my hundo to the sample set and now carry a 1k chip...

I couldn't agree more... The Green Flash was nailed from The Pirates of the Caribbean... red sky at night sailors delight! Chip color matching and aligned with the inlay... try to beat that chip... it's not possible!!

My sample is not complete, but I have most of the beauties!!

So we were helping our buddy @toynoob host a meet up in Ohio in October, basically we bring the chips and help him host... when we were all discussing which chips to take... again my buddy Fink being the coolest guy ever heard about this game. He had sent the set to @inca911 for his meet up as a guest set and he couldn't attend... they worked together and sent 2 packages to lend us the entire line up in playable quantities!!
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Brie was so excited and knew this was happening!! I open the box from Forrest saying what the hell is he sending me, why is Brie so damn excited??

Again I bust out crying asking why are these chips in our house... shaking and trembaling....

She said Fink herd about the game and knew you love for his chips and wanted to offer them as a guest set... can you even imagine sending $5,000 plus in chips to someone you have never met in person???

Fink knew they would be perfectly safe!! Even bought them their own case!! Lol
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I could talk about how amazing these chips are every single day!!

Saddly soon they will be off to their home, but if you ever hear of a game and these are in play... cancel your wedding and Go play these chips!! Lol

I feel like this has been the peak of my chipping career! I don't think I will ever place a set higher in my rankings, I love lots of chips obviously, I love rare TRKs... I have had the opportunity to play several amazing TRK sets... I would pick these every single time!!

Pillage and Plunders biggest fan!! Ben
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What a great story. Thank you for sharing that.
 
detroitdad said:
Don't worry. I won't. Its about 21, 453 words too long ;)
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Finks awesomeness is worth every second of my time brother... ok maybe I could have saved @JustDave some time... but I enjoy sharing! Lol

Response probably should have been... sorry I should have mentioned these are Finks amazing customs and no I don't own them!! Lmao sorry guys
 
Ben8257 said:
Finks awesomeness is worth every second of my time brother... ok maybe I could have saved @JustDave some time... but I enjoy sharing! Lol

Response probably should have been... sorry I should have mentioned these are Finks amazing customs and no I don't own them!! Lmao sorry guys
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I'll be honest, it never really dawned on me that you could align an inlay like that so no matter the source or the wall of text, I appreciate knowing what they look like and the story behind them.
 
When I started chipping I really fell in love with the Aurora Star Hot Stamps but the price gave me a lot of pause. I started looking at CPC hotstamps instead before I realized what they'd be like price wide. Additionally, I was reading a lot of reviews for chips and watching a lot of youtube videos reviewing chips. Some comments about everyone going through a HS phase really connected with me and I put a desire for this set to the side.

Last month I got word that my first patent has cleared its last hurdle and will be issued soon, so as a reward for myself I was looking for something really special. Cue Windwalker selling one of his amazing sets so minty and fresh, and a group forming to buy it, at almost exactly the breakdown I was looking for was available so it was impossible to say no.

I've had a sample set of these for a while, but something about these in stacks and racks is really special to me.

I'm adding an Aurora Star $5 chip as a bounty and am on the lookout for another barrel of T1k to even out the breakdown a bit. Also on the lookout for a button. I'd be happy with one of those milled ones from acrylic when they come available.

On to the pr0n.
How they showed up:
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Stacks:
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In there new homes:
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