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I have been a long-time lurker of this forum, as well as CPC. It has always been my dream to own a custom set of chips, and with the news of CPC closing down, I need to make some decisions. My favorite sets I've seen are Casa Mango, and Moonlight Cardhouse. This set I designed myself takes a little inspiration from both.

I have begun hosting regular cash and winner take all Hold'em games. Generally, I have 5-9 people at the table, and we get together a couple times a month. Since we have different groups of people that show up, sometimes we play 5c/10c blinds to start, and sometimes 25c/50c blinds to start. That is the only reason I have included 5c, and 50c chips in the set. Since they are going out of business, I feel obligated to cover all of my bases for future games.

I'd love to get your opinion on the overall design of the chips, as well as get some advice from people that have ordered or worked with CPC in the past. I'm looking to get around 1000 chips, and haven't done the math on what I need exactly yet. I'd also love to get some feedback and advice for inlays on CPC chips. Are they basically just stickers, or do they somehow press them into the chip more permanently?

Image quality didn't turn out great, so I uploaded a duplicate that is clearer to see the detail on the inlays. Thanks in advance!

On a side note, does anyone know if the pricing on the chips goes down if you order higher quantity? If so, I would be interested in doing a group buy potentially if people like the overall design.

Cheers!

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I'm not a fan of the .50 or the 5, but you really did well on the others, I would suggest making two of the lower level chips non denom, so you don't need 3 and you can get away with only 2. Grey can be .05 or .25 or .50 and use the other for what you need to fill in from there
 
I'm not a fan of the .50 or the 5, but you really did well on the others, I would suggest making two of the lower level chips non denom, so you don't need 3 and you can get away with only 2. Grey can be .05 or .25 or .50 and use the other for what you need to fill in from there
That is a good point, and they could also be used for a $2500 as well if I ever needed it. Thanks!
 
I'm not a fan of the .50 or the 5, but you really did well on the others, I would suggest making two of the lower level chips non denom, so you don't need 3 and you can get away with only 2. Grey can be .05 or .25 or .50 and use the other for what you need to fill in from there
I second that.

I would get rid of the 5c, 25c, 50c, and $500 and use two non-denoms to cover them.

Would you really need $500 in a 5c/25c game?

That and I thought minimum order for one design is a rack anyway so do you really need that many $500s if you already have a rack of $100s?
 
I second that.

I would get rid of the 5c, 25c, 50c, and $500 and use two non-denoms to cover them.

Would you really need $500 in a 5c/25c game?

That and I thought minimum order for one design is a rack anyway so do you really need that many $500s if you already have a rack of $100s?
I want the $500's to cover larger tournaments, and agreed on the two non-denoms to cover other values. At the same time, I'm not necessarily worried about the money, I mainly am worried about having everything I would ever need in the future so I have a somewhat matching set. I use 5c, 25c, and 50c enough to justify getting ones made with a label. I don't need a bunch, but depending on the groups of people, some of them prefer to have 5c/25c/50c/$1 (I know not 4-5x). I also look at this set as a lifetime set, so with inflation etc, it's likely the 50c chip would potentially replace the 25c for games down the road. Thanks for the input though!
 
I like what you did here, though I echo the 50cent is unnecessary. Do you really need a 5cent? If you don't, maybe eliminate that one, as well, though I like your design.
 
Do you have a color sample? You get a better idea of real colors when they are in front of you. The screen is sometimes deceiving.
 
And I really like the 50c and $5 chips. Just not sure if mandarin red would be enough contrast against tiger. And I agree using NCV chips to reduce the number of fracs needed.
 
Taking another look at this, I HOPE the 1 looks that good in person with that dayglow Saturn
 
This is a much brighter color palette than I generally like but they are really sharp and work well with the style of the inlays. As to your questions about CPC...
- They don't lower the price for higher quantities. (I just ordered an 1800 chip set)
- The inlays are pressed into the chip
 
This is a much brighter color palette than I generally like but they are really sharp and work well with the style of the inlays. As to your questions about CPC...
- They don't lower the price for higher quantities. (I just ordered an 1800 chip set)
- The inlays are pressed into the chip
Thanks for the feedback! Also thank you for answering on the inlay/pricing question. Really appreciate it.
 
I have been a long-time lurker of this forum, as well as CPC. It has always been my dream to own a custom set of chips, and with the news of CPC closing down, I need to make some decisions. My favorite sets I've seen are Casa Mango, and Moonlight Cardhouse. This set I designed myself takes a little inspiration from both.
You have some good looking designs here. I read through the other posts, and I think a couple of your questions are still unanswered, so I will try to help, and give you some feedback as well. I also love Moonlight Cardhouse and Casa Mango. I designed my own bright CPC set as a way to keep myself from buying Tigers a couple of years ago. Still haven't ordered yet though.

First off, the latest is that CPC is probably NOT closing, but instead will be changing ownership. See David's latest note on the CPC website:
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I have begun hosting regular cash and winner take all Hold'em games. Generally, I have 5-9 people at the table, and we get together a couple times a month. Since we have different groups of people that show up, sometimes we play 5c/10c blinds to start, and sometimes 25c/50c blinds to start. That is the only reason I have included 5c, and 50c chips in the set. Since they are going out of business, I feel obligated to cover all of my bases for future games.

I love having the opportunity to occasionally host nickel/dime games, so I also designed my set to go from 5 cents to $500. But no matter the stakes, you still don't need 50 cent chips. You can't do anything with a 50c chip that you can't do with 2 quarters. My recommendation, just get two racks of quarters and skip the 50c chips.

I'd love to get your opinion on the overall design of the chips, as well as get some advice from people that have ordered or worked with CPC in the past. I'm looking to get around 1000 chips, and haven't done the math on what I need exactly yet. I'd also love to get some feedback and advice for inlays on CPC chips. Are they basically just stickers, or do they somehow press them into the chip more permanently?

Regarding breakdown, if you're just planning to cover 1 table, you don't really need 1000 chips for just cash games. Also, if you've been around here long, then you've probably heard that for security reasons, you should not use the same chips for both cash and tournaments. One way around that is to have a $20 chip made for your cash games. If playing 25c/50c blinds with buy-ins of $20-60, you really don't need $25 chips for cash. 2-3 barrels of $20 chips will be plenty for the highest level chip in a cash game. Plus $20s are great for late rebuys if you run out of $5s, since most people generally bring $20 bills to buy in when playing these stakes.

For the stakes you mentioned, I would consider this breakdown:
5c x 100 = $5
25c x 160 = $40
$1 x 200 = $200
$5 x 300 = $1500
$20 x 40 = $800

Total bank - $2545. 800 chips. Add on more $20s if that's not enough bank.

You mentioned playing winner take all. Did you mean that you also plan on running tournaments? You could certainly do a tournament set with the same inlays, but you'll need about another 400 chips. And if you are starting at T25, you will need some chips larger than T500. Something like this:

T25 x 80
T100 x 130
T500 x 50
T1000 x 100
T5000 x 40

400 chips and this can cover starting stacks from T10K to T15K with a few rebuys, or up to to T25K without rebuys. Using starting stacks of 8/13/5/6 for the first 10K in chips. I would get about 5-10 extras of each chip, especially the first three denominations, as you will use every single one of those three if you have 10 players.

Regarding inlays, yes, CPC chips have true inlays. Not glued on stickers. They are pressed into the chips during the compression molding process.

Image quality didn't turn out great, so I uploaded a duplicate that is clearer to see the detail on the inlays. Thanks in advance!

On a side note, does anyone know if the pricing on the chips goes down if you order higher quantity? If so, I would be interested in doing a group buy potentially if people like the overall design.
I do not believe CPC offers a volume discount.
Love the Arc yellow base on a quarter. You might consider something other than DG peach for the spot to get more contrast.
As I said above, I'd skip the 50c and use those funds for more of something else. I'm a fan of Imperial blue, but not everyone is. It really doesn't look like the rendering above. As someone else suggested, get a color same set.

Kinda like with the quarter above, sometimes two similar colors don't look so great together. And honestly, mandarin red is an odd looking color. Try DG peacock. Or, if you must use red, use retro red. It's more of a true red and will look better than mandarin with the DG tiger.
These are both pretty good. Really love the $100. But I will warn you that Blurple is very dark and if you don't play with bright lighting, you may get dirty stacks with the hundos. I made this exact mistake with the first set I designed, and I had all my 500s remade switching to lavender as the base color and putting blurple as a spot color. They were Tina chips, so it wasn't a great expense, thankfully.

Good luck!
 
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