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Would be nice to put these chips into play. Would need 200 quarters to make it work. I was thinking this would be a great candidate for a relabel. Thoughts?
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Any blue or white RHC chip with 2V or 4V spots would work great.
 
The Live chips are live so easy to get if you know someone over that way or make a road trip.
 
Maryland $2 for quarter, Oak Tree $100 for the $20 chip??
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The oak tree 100 is a great idea and an incredible looking chip. Great for the $20. While the $2 chip is nice its way out of my budget to make quarters.
Thanks for the idea.
 
The oak tree 100 is a great idea and an incredible looking chip. Great for the $20. While the $2 chip is nice its way out of my budget to make quarters.
Thanks for the idea.
Is $1 over budget?
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I mean you’re getting the Live chips in Maryland so why not get these at the same time?
 
Is $1 over budget?
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I mean you’re getting the Live chips in Maryland so why not get these at the same time?
$1 is not over budget.thats a nice one as well. Thanks.

Maryland $2 for quarter, Oak Tree $100 for the $20 chip??
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Have you ever seen the oak tree 100s in used condition. Since I only need 20 the price is fine but since the charlie macs are pretty used it feels like having mint sharp chips with really used ones is as out of place as a different mold.
 
The Oak Tree $100s are typically not mint. Not heavily used, but used enough to fit into a used set as the highest denom. I think they'd be fine, and you can always just shuffle a barrel down in a week or two to better match if it really bothered you enough.
 
The Oak Tree $100s are typically not mint. Not heavily used, but used enough to fit into a used set as the highest denom. I think they'd be fine, and you can always just shuffle a barrel down in a week or two to better match if it really bothered you enough.

Exactly my thoughts. Use them as a shuffling stack while you are doing other things for a month, and they will fit in well.
 
Im ultimately trying to make a 500 chip cash set built around 180x $1 and 70x $5 of the charlie macks. I just picked up 10 of the oak tree 100s which will fill the barrel of 5s. I really like the maryland live chips for the .25 but I plan on label replacement and with shipping and any other charges from the harvester I could be at 350 per rack.
Im thinking of going with either grand vic 1s or chips casino 1s for the quarters. I still have the gap of two batrels in the racks. Would it make sense to include 40 x $3 chip or 40x snapper using the maryland live 2s? It would fit the low stakes and the chip would fit right in. Thoughts?

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Heading to the where everyone is from thread to see who's in md. Other people's thoughts on the mgm $1 3v in red? I sort of prefer the 2v with different colors.
 
I think I prefer the chips 2v for the quarter...mostly due to the colors.

It would be cool to have some of the ML $2's in the set if you need to fill out a rack.
 
The Oak Tree $100s are typically not mint. Not heavily used, but used enough to fit into a used set as the highest denom. I think they'd be fine, and you can always just shuffle a barrel down in a week or two to better match if it really bothered you enough.
Exactly my thoughts. Use them as a shuffling stack while you are doing other things for a month, and they will fit in well.
Out of curiosity, does anybody have any real world experience about how long it takes to shuffle the edges off of Paulsons? I’ve always been curious about how quickly they actually wear.

As far as the chips go, it’s my opinion that since two of the chips are 8v, they all should be 8v. I don’t understand how sport progression makes sense otherwise.
I don’t think the condition difference of the oak tree hundos as $20’s should matter. If you’re only gonna own 20 of them, nobody’s ever gonna have a full barrel in front of them, that doesn’t measure up correctly against the other chips.
I suppose for fracs, you could consider a solid, if you can’t find anything else affordable?
 
Biggest problem with all-8V sets is that it's often tough to distinguish denoms in stacks (especially when chips have shared colors), and the resulting splashed pots are like playing with Skittles -- and nearly uncountable, especially at a distance. It's just too much of a good thing.
 
Biggest problem with all-8V sets is that it's often tough to distinguish denoms in stacks (especially when chips have shared colors), and the resulting splashed pots are like playing with Skittles -- and nearly uncountable, especially at a distance. It's just too much of a good thing.
Completely makes sense. I think ill be ok though because 80% of the chips will be the white 2v and the orange 8v which will mostly be in play at the same time. We play pretty small stakes so each starting stack would only have 3x 5s in it.

@krafticus has come through with a couple barrels of the maryland live chips. Thanks! @Forty4 thanks for the suggestion and @RowdyRawhide for tagging people. I have a hard time asking.

Next question. Nailing down the quarters. While i dont need mint i also dont want chips that have chips all over. Why do the charlie macs that have semi rounded edges but have no chips peppered throughout? Heres a rack of chips casino tukwila. I would like to use these but even though they stand on edge they have too many chips. Is it a softer clay and are all these chips in this condition?

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Why do the charlie macs that have semi rounded edges but have no chips peppered throughout? Heres a rack of chips casino tukwila. I would like to use these but even though they stand on edge they have too many chips. Is it a softer clay and are all these chips in this condition?
Some colors are just harder and more brittle, making them more prone to chipping. But it's mostly due to the awesomeness of lead that allows the older softer chips to slowly round over without getting unsightly edge nicks in the process.
 
I am headed to Live! this evening. I will try to cherry pick a barrel for you if you would like @Potsie1

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interestingly enough, you can no longer buy the $2 chips from the cage. When you go to the cage, they have hundreds of racks of chips on a back shelf.. There are easily between 20-30 racks of $2's there.

The problem is, the only game that uses a $2 chip is the 1/3 game (was 1/2, but that changed on 1/1). All limit games (even 6/12) use $1's now. $2/$5 and above have no need for them. So, since you cannot buy into a $1/$3 with racks of $2's, you can't buy them from the cage. I was told to either buy them from a table, or a chip runner. Found a chip runner, he looked confused, but gave me the chips. gave him one in return and walked out.

To this day, I still have no idea why the hell they use $2's in a 1/3 game when they are absolutely useless.
 
interestingly enough, you can no longer buy the $2 chips from the cage. When you go to the cage, they have hundreds of racks of chips on a back shelf.. There are easily between 20-30 racks of $2's there.

The problem is, the only game that uses a $2 chip is the 1/3 game (was 1/2, but that changed on 1/1). All limit games (even 6/12) use $1's now. $2/$5 and above have no need for them. So, since you cannot buy into a $1/$3 with racks of $2's, you can't buy them from the cage. I was told to either buy them from a table, or a chip runner. Found a chip runner, he looked confused, but gave me the chips. gave him one in return and walked out.

To this day, I still have no idea why the hell they use $2's in a 1/3 game when they are absolutely useless.
Thank you for grabbing them
 
Some colors are just harder and more brittle, making them more prone to chipping. But it's mostly due to the awesomeness of lead that allows the older softer chips to slowly round over without getting unsightly edge nicks in the process.
Makes sense. Its the same with glassware. Leaded glass(crystal) is softer and heavier and allows for deep cuts into the glass. Regular glass with no lead is too brittle for deep cuts.
 
Having fun using my imagination until the other chips arrive. Pic below. The oak tree and live chips will have full label replacement. I think the chips tukwila will be overlays. Stratosphere holding the spot till chips arrive.

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I received a rack of chips casino tukwila 1s. Theyre not bad and could work fine. I noticed that the bremerton chips casino had a more neon edge spot. I got wise and ordered a single off eBay instead of sampling by the rack. It looks promising.
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Also wanted some opinions on alternate edge spot ideas. Although ive purchased some chips im not locked in. What about horseshoe cincinnati secondary 25, 100 and 500? Perhaps the 100 for a $3 and the $500 for the 20?

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They are not RHC but the ES quarter is perfect in every other way for this set. Pic stolen from pron thread.
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