philhut
Flush
That is a big set!
Wow to get them all in action.....
This is my biggest set,
3575 Sloth Club Secondary chips on the cards mold
2nd biggest at 2520 (300-1,20-25 not pictured still new in box)
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Wow to get them all in action.....
This is my biggest set,
3575 Sloth Club Secondary chips on the cards mold
2nd biggest at 2520 (300-1,20-25 not pictured still new in box)
TheDuke
Full House
would love to see a picture of that set !
Nope. I own an 8-man table, and there’s not very much parking in my neighborhood, so I’m cool with 800 chip sets.
This is a good point. Even a 600 chip set is adequate for any single table big bet game. Expanding to 800-1000 allows for some stake flexibility or limit games. Anything beyond that assumes multi table events which most of us aspire to but very few actually run.
gopherblue
Straight Flush
Nice to see you, Tom! Looking forward to playing with those chips again one day....
Those 8 players could still show up with a stack of high society each; that's 80k in cash bank you'd need
Fine, here's my biggest single non-mixed set. It's small, but mighty:
No one asked, but this is the very issue I’ve been grappling with in this phase I’m called “editing”. So far, this is the criteria list I’ve developed:
- If I don’t feel like i would ever want to play with the chips, in whatever stakes, they have to go. (This is, for example, why I’ll be listing my entire WTHC set soon, because as much as I try to like them, and I’ve owned them 3 times in 10 months, I can’t get myself to love them.)
- If I think of them as “collectible”, I don’t mind having larger sets, even though not all chips will see play.
- Non collectibles (cash sets) have to be trimmed down to playable size, to play in, or across the following: $0.25/$0.50, $1/$1, $2/$5, $5/$10, $25/$50, $100/$200.
- Only THC and TRK for now. One RHC set (Jack high denoms).
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Curious how you'd go about defining a set as "collectible" or "non-collectible"? Number of chips "in circulation"? Age? History behind them (WSOP comes to mind)?
I posted that as a passive aggressive shot at hoarders. Though your methodology is sound, I think you’ll have to do some more heavy editing to get off that list.
CDI98, estimating at around 4000 chips including the semi-custom cash and tourney denoms. Pics and accurate numbers will need to wait until US/CAN border opens.
Hell, I currently have 5 cash sets (which all see play) for just about 6000 chips, plus a cards mold tournament set on-route with another 800+ chips, and I already sometimes feel like what I have is completely exaggerated. Then I think about what some people on here own and I suddenly can sleep again at night.
Mr Tree
Straight Flush
Thanks Elliott! Hopefully soon, my year+ long poker sabbatical was more than I would have wished for.Nice to see you, Tom! Looking forward to playing with those chips again one day....
jpietrella
4 of a Kind
To me it's a mix of all of these and it depends. I'm kind of similar on a much smaller scale. For instance, I don't consider my WTHC set collectible, it's just very practical in use - so, it only consists of what I'll need and get into play. My PCA secondary set, while a set I will put into play, I also consider collectible. So, I've got $1k plaques which will probably very rarely if ever see play, as well as the quarter and nickel tokens. They're more to complete the collectability of the set.
I think if it was possible to buy what you need, when you need it, most folks would do that. Since that isn’t usually possible, people buy what they might need in the future, when they have the opportunity. That’s why most of my casino sets are 2kish in size while my CPC sets are 1k and 600 chips respectively.
There are not too many cpc sets that are huge and unused in my observation. People either buy appropriate sizes or have regular big games that require the numbers.
philhut
Flush
The only paulsons that have really interested me at all in the last few years were the HSI primaries....(cinci ncv was a chance pick up mostly for the 25's as quarters for the hsi). The only set I had before was a big pharaoh set that I liked because I enjoy my ancient history but that was sold for bigger and better things at the time years ago. I rode horses professionally for a few years in my 20's before a few injuries that landed me working in healthcare. This is just a natural set for me and the colours are just perfect for what I would have ordered in a commercial chip of my choice. Also now having a playable NCV tourney specific set means I can have a tourney and cash game like a real casino with a horsey theme. I had china clay milano's with a crazy horse theme but like riding a few nice horses its tough to go back to riding claimers. But I was not impressed with those enough to want to keep them given the other option available....and down the chipping rabbit hole I went. That milano set was perfectly fine and good but with slight size/texture variances from chip to chip made them frustrating to work with compared to more uniform paulson's. Keep what you like, move the gear that still has value which you do not plan to use while it still has value to others.
I agree on your noncollectable sets being purpose built.... All of mine are set up with the idea of having a cash and tourney game operating at the same time with in theory the ability to play with the same style/theme of chips in both games without chips crossing over from game versions. Typically my games would start with a tournament and a cash game often would start mid or after the tournament end. Usually there is just one cash table in this format which is typically 1/2 but I have options as low as 0.05-0.10 to 100/200 if things ever get that inflated...
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With all due respect, I care two hoots about any list of yours I'm on -- your post just echoed a process I'm in the middle of. I think you're a great chipper, but judgmental af, and that's cool. We did business, and it went smoothly, so you're OK in my book.
MrCatPants
Full House
You've consolidated a couple of sets! Must only be like 3 of us with sets in the wild now.
Yup. A few random racks, but Ive grabbed a few of them.
Agreed.
MrCatPants
Full House
Little under 1000 noirs. Little over 1000 of my custom cash set.
I don't really build sets beyond single table sets so I don't have many that are large, but my biggest is my Caribe Hilton ceramics which are dual purposing as a cash and tourney set:
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CrazyEddie
Full House
2,000 sixteen-stripe plastics for playing with Mountains Of Chips
1,000 Spirit mold china clays for playing with Piles Of Chips
... plus 13 other sets ranging in size from 300 to 500 for playing with small groups and modest stacks, covering various plastic, ceramic, clay, and bone chips, from vintage to modern eras.
I am an r-selecting collector.
1,000 Spirit mold china clays for playing with Piles Of Chips
... plus 13 other sets ranging in size from 300 to 500 for playing with small groups and modest stacks, covering various plastic, ceramic, clay, and bone chips, from vintage to modern eras.
I am an r-selecting collector.
such a unique set
horseshoez
4 of a Kind
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Seeking Alpha Social Club
4 of a Kind
4,159 TRK Rounders
.25 x 105
$1 x 1,291
$5 x 1,082
$25 x 822
$100 x 433
$500 x 253
$1000 x 173
.25 x 105
$1 x 1,291
$5 x 1,082
$25 x 822
$100 x 433
$500 x 253
$1000 x 173
Nah, I started that one. Pretty sure he's entitled to a reply, there.
tabletalker7
Full House
horseshoez
4 of a Kind
I'm sure you're right. I was just asking more in general, not so much related to a single post or isolated discussion.
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