Casino Royale 007 Replica 600+ Chip Set Breakdown (2 Viewers)

[ChipOnMyShoulder]

Hello folks,

A lot of passion about poker chips on this forum, I love it. I'm building a Casino Royale-themed set for myself and my buddies to start playing cash games with, something a little more special than your average department store poker set. We also shoot movie skits, so a parody of the poker scenes in the Bond film would have a high production value with these chips.

I've done a lot of reading here about all the various ways to do it but given the dual purpose I would still appreciate those with experience to look it over.

My game would likely be 6-8 players, $20-$30 buy-ins. I'm the only one who plays often. I don't expect many rebuys.

I figure that's a 5c/10c or 10c/25c game, and I'll be using the 5k/25k/100k denomination spread for film accuracy.

The breakdown I've got so far is:

100 x 5k
200 x 25k
200 x 100k
12 x 500k (technically $5)
8 x 1M

I know, I'm looking pretty thin on plaques but they're killing me with those prices, just 20 already comprise more than half the set cost! Hopefully the extra 100k's will fill in for them. If I could get away with getting less I would, but then the devil on my shoulder is telling me I should get more and it will look better. Is there some optimal ratio or magic number of plaques that will work here?

I've also picked up a 600pc Acrylic carrier so what denom(s) should I throw onto that last rack?

And lastly, if I were to expand this set to be compatible for tournament play, there's no issue with adding racks of lower denominations later on, right?

Interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

 

[Phoe9x]

You can definitely do 100/160/200/120/20 if you play 5c/10c. If you want to play 10c/25c it might be better to ditch the nickle all together and just play 25c/25c and do 100/200/200/100.

It’s your choice if you want to go with higher denoms for personal preference but it may blur the lines of what you’re actually betting a bit to your players. You can get a similar chip with regular denoms and your friend group would understand and appreciate the reference.

 

[Eriks]

I would try to make this 25c/25c and skip the 5c chip all together. You definitely need more fives and wouldn’t need 200 x 25c

25k x 100-160
100k x 200
500k x 200
1m x 40 - $10s are pretty useless though. You’d want 20/25s

Personally I don’t care for the idea of doing the denom conversion. I take it these are customs of some sort? Going with movie correct colors and spot but with actual values gets my vote.

 

[Phoe9x]

1m x 40 - $10s are pretty useless though. You’d want 20/25s

I agree with this statement, my original suggestions were for a $20 or $25 chip as the highest denomination ($2M or $2.5M in your original request)

 

[allforcharity]

Did someone knock?

 

[ChipOnMyShoulder]

I agree with this statement, my original suggestions were for a $20 or $25 chip as the highest denomination ($2M or $2.5M in your original request)

Interesting points so far to consider.

I would have thought that the denom conversion would be an afterthought (take the integer and remove 5 zeros, 5k - 5c, 100k - $1, etc.) Also lend a bit of a high-stakes aura to the game.

I could use matching denom chips but they're in the standard casino colors, pretty and everything but no good for use as props, which is also why I'd want the one rack of fracs.

Then there's the option of labels, anyone have experience with those? Seems tedious.

Perhaps I can be unorthodox and get a rack or two of the red $5 chips, 40 of the $25's for their actual value to complete the set until I get some more of the plaques. That way I'm already halfway to building a matching cash set and have this for tourneys? Oh no, I'm slipping into the rabbit hole already...

I'm not too concerned with optimizing the counts as I think more on the table looks better, 600 chips and some plaques seems like it would more than enough if not overkill to support game of mostly 6 players that might occasionally become 8, but at least that way it's future proofed, or at least flexible in stakes. Am I correct or misusing resources?

100/100/200/150/50 + 12 x $5, 8x $10
5k/25k/100k/$5/$25

More 25ks?

100/150/200/125/25?

Thanks again.

 

[ChipOnMyShoulder]

Did someone knock?

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That's.... a lot of plaques. We're gonna need a bigger boat.... Well done!