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[Mojo1312]

1- We're such a small drop in the bucket compared to what casinos spend on their chips.

2- I think the Borgata incident has a lot to do with the Paulson home market drying up. That was a huge security breach, that caused a lot of embarrassment. You noticed since that happened, that Jim has had nearly as many chips to flip from The Chip Room? I'm sure after the Borgata (that wasn't the only incident BTW), many casinos saw Paulsons on the secondary market as a potential security breach. IMHO, the put pressure on GPI to close that loophole. GPI obliged because ( see point 1)

PGI's unique molds for the home game market took care of any security issue.

 

[Toonexile]

PGI's unique molds for the home game market took care of any security issue.

This should have been the case but how many dealers are going to check the molds of each chip in a pot especially when some casinos have both paulsons and BCC chips in play (and some even mix clays and ceramics!). I bet that it's only chip geeks like us who actually notice these things when we play.

 

[pokerplayingpisces]

This should have been the case but how many dealers are going to check the molds of each chip in a pot especially when some casinos have both paulsons and BCC chips in play (and some even mix clays and ceramics!). I bet that it's only chip geeks like us who actually notice these things when we play.

Agreed. As bad as those Borgata chips were, a dealer should have said something. I'm sure casinos are trying to educate dealers to make sure this doesn't happen again. But I'm also sure, that when casinos did some investigating, I'm pretty sure that some were surprised to find that GPI was selling Paulsons to the public. In their minds, any offerings to the general public could be an issue. (Another incident was someone spray painting white $1's, and trying to pass them off as black $100's at the table) Like Stocky points out, I'm pretty sure everyone here has good intentions. We're just trying to get the right quarter for a cash set, or 1K for a tournament set. Unfortunately, everyone does not have good intentions. (A friend of mine deals free bar poker a couple nights out of the week, and has told me that they've caught people cheating). Like a lot of things in life, it seems like the actions of a few, probably spoiled it for everyone else. I enjoy this hobby, and have a lot of fun participating in it. But at the end of the day, to us it's just a hobby. To a whole different group of people it is the currency of their business. A multi-billion (trillions??) business. Am I happy that GPI shut their doors to us? Absolutely not. Do I understand why? Yes.

 

[pltrgyst]

100, 300 and 500 chip sets starting next week was his statement. That's one way to stay in the business of selling Paulson chips...

Maybe he'll do the same with that set of 1100 Tropicanas on eBay right now...