Mr Tree
Straight Flush
One more week to vote! A couple of sets have taken off but the last set is very much in play still.
My top nine picks are all in the top nine. That's all I'm willing to reveal.
There are sets in there that I wouldn't take as gifts
Which ones?
But I suspect that most of us have stylistic principles that determine our favorites. Otherwise, we'd all be after the same chips.
We're voting on Hall of Fame *sets* here, and IMO there should be more qualifications than just prettiness.
I will say this, though: I am somewhat shocked at the lack of appreciation for the Bee Room chips.
We're voting on Hall of Fame *sets* here, and IMO there should be more qualifications than just prettiness. Otherwise, a pretty sample set would qualify.
The Bee Room is a *massive* set, perfectly designed for its limit poker application. It's name is cleverly associated with its owner and the game. To me, it absolutely defines the phrase "elegant simplicity".
(Plus I've played with it, so I'm prejudiced.)
I have a hard time understanding how Silver Dust Casino wasn't an instant unanimous first ballet entry into the HOF. I have seen a few sets that might be considered equal but nothing better in my opinion.
Thank you for the very kind words, everyone. I can't express how humbled I am to be honored by a bunch of awesome chip nuts like this community here.
Personally I feel this way as well and it's how I vote now, size of the set makes a big difference to me. I'm a glutton, I want thousands of chips in the sets I own if I can even if I don't need them (I don't talk much about the stuff I have, but I know for sure I have the biggest set of a certain casino based on ovo's thread, well, at least out of members who are willing to post numbers), part of it is simply the way three birdcages looked stacked next to each other, I think it looks sexy. : Take the Boulevard chips fore instance, I voted them for the Hall of Fame and think they are one of the nicest and best executed customs I've seen, and they 100% deserve to be in the HoF, but when I found out later that the total number of chips in the set was something like 300 I remember thinking how that would have changed my vote.
...also very happy to see Steel City making a come back!!!
CLs are BCC with giant inlays. Clay chips with huge canvas for chip art. A rare bird given BCCs difficulty producing perfect inlays.Yeah, Steel City and Contreras Landa got two of my votes as well.
It's pretty obvious that C-L suffers from the recently metastacized clay-chips-only fervor, to the point where brilliantly executed themes on ceramics can run behind even primitive hot-stamps...
There's a remarkable parallel here -- Chip politics aren't all that much different from real politics, are they?
I will say this, though: I am somewhat shocked at the lack of appreciation for the Bee Room chips.
We're voting on Hall of Fame *sets* here, and IMO there should be more qualifications than just prettiness. Otherwise, a pretty sample set would qualify.
The Bee Room is a *massive* set, perfectly designed for its limit poker application. It's name is cleverly associated with its owner and the game. To me, it absolutely defines the phrase "elegant simplicity".
(Plus I've played with it, so I'm prejudiced.)
It's pretty obvious that C-L suffers from the recently metastacized clay-chips-only fervor, to the point where brilliantly executed themes on ceramics can run behind even primitive hot-stamps...
Could not agree more. While I'm continually disappointed in the poor performance of the Contreras Landa set in these polls, Steel City shows that an older set by an inactive member can still make it to (or near) the top.
I guess I can't necessarily fault someone for not being able to have a game, but it still adds points to a set when I know they're on the felt regularly as intended.
Almost didn't post because I kind of want to stay positive and support sets rather than lobby against sets, but just for a different perspective, I'll explain that the Bee Room doesn't do it for me mostly on the basis of the new $10 and $100 chips. The new $100 is okay, though I prefer the old hundo by a lot. But the new $10 is pretty bad. If he had waited to do peacock instead of light blue I think the chip would have come out worlds better. But with those included the set suffers as a whole imo.
It also gets a huge boost due to the quantities and the proper design of the breakdown for its intended use. I guess an additional aspect of the size and usefulness being attributes as discussed above, knowing a set actually get used is a big plus for me personally. I guess I can't necessarily fault someone for not being able to have a game, but it still adds points to a set when I know they're on the felt regularly as intended.
In fairness, the set has more going for it in terms of design as well: I love the super simple spots on the original set (all 1/4" spots), the traditional colors, and the simple inlay, all of which speak to the utilitarian nature of the set. I do wish the honeycomb watermark was more visible, but really it's the $10 and $100 chips that hurt it for me.
Contreras suffer from Giant inlay syndrome. If I were to fault the HoF, it's because it is a straight-up favorites poll, which is more indicative of a People's Choice award (celebrating favorites) than a Hall of Fame (celebrating greatness - whatever that entails).
I know people aren't supposed to stump for their picks, but I almost wish each voter had to explain why they thought their picks are great. The HoF committee did just that, and the nominees are all great on some level. Unfortunately, the voters are left in largely in the dark except for a single blurb, which doesn't always convey why the set is great beyond "I think (set x) is great"
...and I question how many voters even look at more than just the photos.
Please explain why a set gets extra points (in your book) because it is used more?
CLs are BCC with giant inlays. Clay chips with huge canvas for chip art. A rare bird given BCCs difficulty producing perfect inlays.
.... I'll explain that the Bee Room doesn't do it for me mostly on the basis of the new $10 and $100 chips....
Poker sucksI've had the pleasure of playing on the Steel City chips once. it is a great set for sure. of course, I ran my 69 into 44 on a 694 flop. Crissman had me covered by less than 1k. still stings years later.
Mark
I don't think it's reasonable to expect others to use any other qualifications than they want when choosing how to vote. If they want to look at the photos only, that's their prerogative. If they want to know the biographical facts of the creator that drove a certain design or whatever, that's fine too.
Solid hot stamps suck.It's their prerogative, sure. But if there was more discussion about the "why" of the vote, I suspect there would be a lot of different votes. For example, earlier I had mentioned why Clermont Lounge was a great set, and soon after they enjoyed a spike in votes (perhaps related, perhaps not). Now, into the 4th page (and TLDR status) they languish again, and I see comments like "I wouldn't take that set if you gave it to me" (perhaps made about the only HS chips/only solids, perhaps not).
The point is, if people were required to "show their work" we would probablly get fewer votes overall, but those votes would be educated, meaningful votes.
And I'm sorry if I offend anyone by inferring that their lack of research into a chip means that their vote means less. But if you are still reading this thread, then you actually are interested in more than the quality of a photograph and the offensive statement does not pertain to you.