How did your chipping journey begin? (1 Viewer)

[borisasaurus]

As someone who has gotten into online poker over the last two years, only really playing in casual home games before that, here’a the barrel that made me realize just how awful dice chips really are:

Now with a set and two barrels on the way I still can’t stop scrolling the classifieds … curious how it began for the rest of you !

 

[RichMahogany]

Slowly

 

[TheOffalo]

Got tired of using non-denom chips and people forgetting how much a chip is worth. Since I’m the primary organizer and am at basically every game, I took it upon myself to upgrade to a set of cheap metal-slugged chips w/denoms on them (Monaco Casino from DPS, which I still like very much despite falling down the rabbit hole…)

Few months later and I have way more chips than I’ve ever had, mostly cheaper used CCs, though I’m putting together my first Paulson set now. This hobby grabs you quick!

 

[upNdown]

Yup. I just wanted chips with numbers on them.

 

[CdnBeerLover]

Had your typical 11.5g sluggos, bought extras, and encountered height differences. Figured there must be something better out there and found Chiptalk, and then PCF. Got my Chipco ceramics and subsequently CC and BCC sets, and haven't left.

 

[Coyote]

I just wanted to see if plastic dice chips could be customised, colour-wise and spot-wise

 

[CrazyEddie]

I wanted to replace the paper money in my copy of Power Grid.

things got out of hand

 

[cpiaaq]

Now with a set and two barrels on the way I still can’t stop scrolling the classifieds … curious how it began for the rest of you !

That’s pretty much it… got my first set and found I wasn’t done

 

[Marc Hedrick]

Met @mike32 and @detroitdad who never complained about the crappy worn out nexgens at my game, but they didn't need to explain why their chips were better once I got invited to their games! Their chips are still better, but I definitely upgraded!

 

[Colquhoun]

In 2004 I wanted some chips to shuffle while playing online.
Cheap “Bee” chips were the first choice, then a full set of dice chips.
Then a set of suited plastics (still slugged 11.5g)
Finally Paulsons.

 

[Samuel]

There I was minding my own business on the internet - I typed "poker chip pelican", hit ENTER and the next thing I know:

 

[raynmanas]

i got destroyed in a home game using Casino de Mexico chips, circa 2002-2003. there was no turning back from that.

 

[Eloe2000]

I took over a weekly game. That guy had Milano chips so I wanted something "that nice" as opposed to my dice like chips. I found @Hobbyphilic 's Youtube videos and found slightly nicer ChinaClays. I bought Dunes then wanted to know how to crate custom denom labels and contacted Gear for labels. Then I bought a used CPC hotstamp set from @AK Chip and then ended up with my first Paulson getting in on a set from the Aransas Queen discovery thanks to @wonderpuddle . Down the road came running group buys, buying and selling single chips for hundreds of dollars, lost Chinese wire transfers for many thousands of dollars, etc. #JustChipperThings

 

[Samuel]

i got destroyed in a home game using Casino de Mexico chips, circa 2002-2003. there was no turning back from that.

It's GOT to be The Chips!!!

 

[johnnybaoge]

Wanted to upgrade from composite inlay chips.
started to research heavily after I found this forum, been lurking for years.

finally got out of the starting pit and pulled the trigger on a cc bank set.

That went to the crappers because somehow the shipment didn't leave the US (eu guy here) got a full refund.

Then i thought "well let's get into the ceramics" weeks of reading and sampling i decided on a Ascona set from a local vendor
for 0.60 cent per chip.

Unfortunately they hadn't refreshed their website since the dawning of time and were basically out of business and asconas are expensive on other vendor sites

So I said F it all im beginning my chipping journey with a set of CPC Atlantic club AMOLD that i just ordered.

Hope my wife likes my new hobby

 

[borisasaurus]

In 2004 I wanted some chips to shuffle while playing online.
Cheap “Bee” chips were the first choice, then a full set of dice chips.
Then a set of suited plastics (still slugged 11.5g)
Finally Paulsons.

This is basically what's happened to me over the last year , but I started out with some random dice chips that were laying around my house haha

I wanted something "that nice" as opposed to my dice like chips. I found @Hobbyphilic 's Youtube videos

I definitely didn't binge watch nearly all of @Hobbyphilic 's videos before buying any chips

 

[detroitdad]

@WedgeRock introduced me to awesome chips 15 years ago. Thanks bud

 

[TheOffalo]

PCF's just a bunch of enablers!

 

[WedgeRock]

@WedgeRock introduced me to awesome chips 15 years ago. Thanks bud

Your collection surpassed mine long, long ago... Upgrading the Desert Sands ceramics was a good move.

 

[casinochipper22]

On a Facebook chip collector group I noticed a guy offering to pay $4 for a one dollar chip that is live in a casino. (Sam's town) I commented and said, if you're offering $4 for a dollar chip, I'll drive to Vegas next weekend and fill up a suitcase.
That's how I found this place and now I'm at 30k chips and counting...

And after about a year of harvesting chips for other people, I'm finally building a set for myself.

 

[TheOffalo]

On a Facebook chip collector group I noticed a guy offering to pay $4 for a one dollar chip that is live in a casino. (Sam's town) I commented and said, if you're offering $4 for a dollar chip, I'll drive to Vegas next weekend and fill up a suitcase.
That's how I found this place and now I'm at 30k chips and counting...

And after about a year of harvesting chips for other people, I'm finally building a set for myself.

You must have thought, “Wow, 300% profit!” Were you able to get a suitcaseful that first trip?

 

[casinochipper22]

You must have thought, “Wow, 300% profit!” Were you able to get a suitcaseful that first trip?

No. Not a full suitcase. Maybe like a medium sized briefcase.

I quickly learned that about 90% of Sam's town chips are trash.
But I did start my hustle on that trip. Grabbing racks here and there.

 

[Deucekies]

My best friend and I both got into poker as teenagers in 2004 during the poker boom. We each got a set of dice chips for Christmas which was hot stuff at the time, especially for a couple kids. Around 2007, we went halvsies on a set of suited poker chips we found on eBay.

Once I went off to college, I naively bought a set of Super Diamonds, not realizing they were freakin' plastic. Around that time I started dealing cards at the local casino, so I had money to spend on a real chip set. I got a custom ceramic tournament set, but unfortunately I didn't know the art of creating a tournament set. I got way too many 25s and 500s and not enough 100s and 1000s, and no 5000s. So the set works fine for a six-person SNG, but that's about it.

Fast forward to this year, I got together with my friend's girlfriend to create a custom tournament set for him. We modeled the chips off of the live chips from the local cardroom where we first played live poker (it's not open anymore). When he saw the chips, all those memories came flooding back.

We've come a long way since 2004!

 

[LeLe]

I been playing poker almost every week with a group before the covid and never thought of getting a proper set as I don’t host any game. I had a metal slugged chip that I had for ages like almost 10 years that I rarely use and kept at the side.

And after covid lockdown, I spend much more time with my family and start teaching them how to play poker. Not liking how the metal slugged chip are, I wanted to get a new proper set of chip for poker.

I did some research online and found PCF and since gotten multi sets and also start hosting poker games after the covid lockdown

 

[beyondtilt]

Discovered PNY and Chiptalk by accident

 

[detroitdad]

Your collection surpassed mine long, long ago... Upgrading the Desert Sands ceramics was a good move.

I think the first two sets that you introduced me to was your BCC custom tourney set and the TRK cash set. Both of which are awesome. I still love your tourney set!

You simply have more chip purchasing discipline than I do.

 

[ovo]

playing with friends paulson classics and cdi , decided customs was the way to go

 

[borisasaurus]

Fast forward to this year, I got together with my friend's girlfriend to create a custom tournament set for him.

What an awesome gift, but did you really need to bang his girlfriend to get him a set of chips?

 

[doublebooyah85]

In 2003 I had a 1500 BCC CDI chip set. Sold them in college in 2007. Then found this site this year…had no idea the resources/community available. I was always limited to eFee and Apache.

 

[BiGGyT]

I bought a set of Oceanside Card Club chips from Spinnetti's for my brother's 40th birthday in 2004. Washed them by hand since they were filthy, decided I needed some real chips for myself since they were cool. Been chasing more OCC chips since then, and picking up other chip sets ever since. Also collect chips from casinos I go to or that people collect for me. Paulson's are my favorite, but I also have Chipco, Bud Jones CIC, TRK, and ASM (or Burt) Lg Greek Key and jeton/plaque sets. I am working on an over label set, and think/hope that will be my last. I have more chips than is logical, but fun to collect.