i like chips with the tiny little hats on them
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I think it just goes to show that 99%+ of poker players/casinos/vendors really just don't care that much about chip designs.
Did anyone catch the odd conversation about chips during the SHRB? Some one was making a fancy chip-stack at some point, and then Ali Nejad started talking about it. They had a guest player in the booth, and they asked him if he does any elaborate chip stacking at the table. After some brief discussion, Ali then asked him, "What about the side paint? Do you like to line up those little areas of side paint when you make your stacks?"
WTF?
The player said he "never pays much attention to the side paint areas" when he's stacking his chips at the table. Side paint areas? Really?: I'd love to find that part of the coverage and clip it out and post it. It was pretty damn funny (to chippers at least).
Yea, that was a comical exchange. It wasn't a guest though, it was Nick Schulman.
They should sell the old chips to offset the cost of the new.
SixSpeedFury
Full House
Well those who own the ES stamped sets can now definitively say that they own the best WSOP inspired chips.
justsomedude
Straight Flush
I don’t think this is outside the realm of possibility.
Nex
Flush
Tributes, anyone?
I actually kind of like the T100 colors. Refreshing. The previous light gray one wasn't exactly standard either.
They chose so many color combos that are extremely hard if not impossible to replicate with CPC's set...
I actually kind of like the T100 colors. Refreshing. The previous light gray one wasn't exactly standard either.
They chose so many color combos that are extremely hard if not impossible to replicate with CPC's set...
Wonder if it is a coincidence or not, that the 3 spots look like a "W"... hmmmm
Chipleader
Sitting Out
If the WSOP changed out all their chips because there were chips that looked similar - could be relabeled - then why did they also use a cheap RT Plastic (maybe BJ) chip that is even easier to replicate via a relabel to use as a bounty chip?
New chips ≠ a result of the ES secondaries. In fact, the WSOP would stand to lose much more from the easily counterfeited bounties. The story simply does not add up. The more likely story is that they simply got new chips.
Can’t speak to the BJ/RT chip but if you look over at CD, there is a thread where someone that had friends in the WSOP contacted Caesars because he was concerned about someone losing their job if the Star chips got into the tourney. What transpired after was a direct result of that contact. I don’t think it can be disputed that the GB chips were the main factor in the new chips being created.
justsomedude
Straight Flush
Without a doubt.
And not only was there the member who contacted Caesars, but others who made direct contact to GPI as well.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
The contact wasn't made to protect someone's job. Nobody's job is to inspect every single chip to see if there is a color difference (and the ES chips are different colors). No contact was made to spite the person that headed up the ES project. A direct attempt to get them convicted of some imaginary crime.
The thought still sickens me.
Nex
Flush
SixSpeedFury
Full House
I think it just goes to show that 99%+ of poker players/casinos/vendors really just don't care that much about chip designs.
Did anyone catch the odd conversation about chips during the SHRB? Some one was making a fancy chip-stack at some point, and then Ali Nejad started talking about it. They had a guest player in the booth, and they asked him if he does any elaborate chip stacking at the table. After some brief discussion, Ali then asked him, "What about the side paint? Do you like to line up those little areas of side paint when you make your stacks?"
WTF?
The player said he "never pays much attention to the side paint areas" when he's stacking his chips at the table. Side paint areas? Really?
I think "side paint" may be my new favorite chipping term.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
Mine, too.
Middle wallpaper?
MacGrad
3 of a Kind
The contact wasn't made to protect someone's job. Nobody's job is to inspect every single chip to see if there is a color difference (and the ES chips are different colors). No contact was made to spite the person that headed up the ES project. A direct attempt to get them convicted of some imaginary crime.
The thought still sickens me.
Ok, just so we're clear... can you confirm you're calling into question @snooptodd 's integrity and ethics? That, as a poker journalist for years, he might not have felt some loyalty to an organization he had covered previously?
In his explanation on CD, he states he called a media contact to let them know about the chips because he didn't want another publicity crisis to occur if counterfeit chips were entered into the WSOP -- not because he was trying to protect "someone's job". Whether a crisis would happen if "Star" chip(s) were found in an event, and the size of that crisis, can be debated... but you're calling his explanation bullshit based on... what, exactly?
I thought you didn't approve of assumptions being made, and you didn't feel welcome on CD because of personal attacks; how is this any different, @Poker Zombie ? Unless you know something that other people don't know... which, as I've come to learn, seems to be par for the course regarding a number of issues on both boards.
Sweet Jesus... I hope I'm not the only one who wishes this year's WSOP to be over already -- maybe then the talk about Star chips/WSOP knowledge/conspiracy theories/personal attacks/etc will die down forever, and we can get back to the important topics... you know, like how chip flippers drove Jim (TCR) away from PCF and we don't get the awesome sales anymore...
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Taking inspiration from a trainwreck and turning it into a set I'd actually buy.
MacGrad
3 of a Kind
Needs more brown on the hundred...
justsomedude
Straight Flush
I found it - and I was wrong!! Turns out it was "side art," which is a total bummer because "side paint" is more funner!
SixSpeedFury
Full House
Adhesives?
justsomedude
Straight Flush
OK... I can actually get behind that peach 100k. And that light blue side art is pretty tight.
But that t25k. Seriously...
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I hope that's just lighting, because the T25,000 and the T100,000 look a little too similar (n) :thumbsdown:
SixSpeedFury
Full House
I can just see the e-mails going forward to the chip makers and designers: "for this chip I want the 614 side art..."
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