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How about an overview of the various tournament "accessories" chips. Buyin, Bounty, Show Em and so forth. Lot's of newbies see them for sale commercially but don't know how or why to use them.
 
Hi Phil, I was browsing for clay chips on the internet and I came across this website buypokerchips.com. I was wondering if you have seen the site and what you think of their chips. Specifically the in play clay and modern clay chips.
 
Hi Phil, I was browsing for clay chips on the internet and I came across this website buypokerchips.com. I was wondering if you have seen the site and what you think of their chips. Specifically the in play clay and modern clay chips.

They are no longer being made
 
Darn, do you know if they were any good?

Define good.

Both chip lines were manufactured by BCC, which means that quality control might not be great. The Modern Clay $1s for example have problems with split edgespots. BCC was also known for egg shaped inlays on occasion but when they were on top of these issues, they were great chips.

IMO the In Play chips are both attractive and ugly at the same time. I own some Modern Clay chips and I like them, but would much rather own a mint/near mint set of Paulson THC chips if I could only own one set. The Modern Clay chips will likely cost you much less, dependent on the condition of the THC chips.

Get samples
 
Define good.

Both chip lines were manufactured by BCC, which means that quality control might not be great. The Modern Clay $1s for example have problems with split edgespots. BCC was also known for egg shaped inlays on occasion but when they were on top of these issues, they were great chips.

IMO the In Play chips are both attractive and ugly at the same time. I own some Modern Clay chips and I like them, but would much rather own a mint/near mint set of Paulson THC chips if I could only own one set. The Modern Clay chips will likely cost you much less, dependent on the condition of the THC chips.

Get samples
I'm just finding that I can't find a good clay chip that's attractive for a reasonable price. Any nice looking clay Chip seems to be in the neighborhood of $1,000 for a 500 piece set
 
I'm just finding that I can't find a good clay chip that's attractive for a reasonable price. Any nice looking clay Chip seems to be in the neighborhood of $1,000 for a 500 piece set

Step 1. Go harvest chips in Las Vegas
Step 2. Buy ultrasonic cleaner and TSP and clean your chips
Step 3. Get labels from Gear for your fracs and other denoms
 
@bivey has your set!

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FYP @BGinGA, I dare you to disagree;)
The ES secondaries (and AS hot-stamps) are actually probably better for real life tournament applications, utilizing a single spot pattern across all chips. Minimizing visual variables generally works better for tourney chips, which is why many good tournament sets are either solids, contain only one spot pattern, or use minimalistic inlays or hot stamps.

Decent spot patterns and color/contrast combinations in both of those sets, with the only weak chip of the bunch being the ES secondary T100 (despite two attempts to improve it from the original inspiration chip).

But the ES primaries are a much better collection of individually great chip designs that still work well as a single cohesive set, plus the colored inlay is vastly superior to the grayscale image of the secondaries.

Imo, of course, ymmv. :) Your turn.
 
The ES secondaries (and AS hot-stamps) are actually probably better for real life tournament applications, utilizing a single spot pattern across all chips. Minimizing visual variables generally works better for tourney chips, which is why many good tournament sets are either solids, contain only one spot pattern, or use minimalistic inlays or hot stamps.

Decent spot patterns and color/contrast combinations in both of those sets, with the only weak chip of the bunch being the ES secondary T100 (despite two attempts to improve it from the original inspiration chip).

But the ES primaries are a much better collection of individually great chip designs that still work well as a single cohesive set, plus the colored inlay is vastly superior to the grayscale image of the secondaries.

Imo, of course, ymmv. :) Your turn.

I don't have any well thought out or logical reasons, it's mostly just ES SECONDARIES ARE THE SHIT!!!!

There literally is nothing I don't like about the ES secondaries, and the inlay is actually one of the sets strong points imo. It's simple layout doesn't take the eye away from the beautiful colors on the chips, purely functional I guess. The base colors of the secondaries are stunning, something very few pictures online can truly show.

I can't disagree as far as the primaries being a better collection individually, but that's where it probably boils down to personal preference. I can live without primaries, as stunning as they are, I couldn't live without secondaries (it's really hard to put things into words sometimes).
 
All I really know is that all three sets look fabulous on the felt and in stacks. (y) :thumbsup:
 
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Phil have you heard of the website and app Alibaba? They have a lot of different poker chips there.
 
Lol, those are great for storing your hard candy gangster chips.

Long backstory, but yeah, we've seen it. :cool:
 

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