Controversial Chip & Poker Opinions (127 Viewers)

[BarrieJ3]

Just remember, everything you read in that thread and from the OP is 100% real and true.

Spoiler: old man on porch

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No one has seen them since that Feb 2021 post though because they're so special. Some people say if you sit with an old man chipper on a porch a seventh time you can actually hear a faint "minty Gulfports" on the wind.

Ye of little faith.

Did someone say “WaB guest set”?

 

[Rieguy]

Ye of little faith.

Did someone say “WaB guest set”?

Trading it for that bitch slap he promised you?

 

[BarrieJ3]

Trading it for that bitch slap he promised you?

Free chipes is free chipes. We can stream it $5 a pop and donate proceeds.

Barrie wins
PCF wins
Charity wins

 

[BarrieJ3]

Trading it for that bitch slap he promised you?

Don’t try and wrap me into it! I’m just trying to sell some chips and play some poker.

I’ll leave the fighting to all the real men of PCF (calendar title?).

Also, what imagine when I think of pcfers infighting:

 

[kk405]

Just remember, everything you read in that thread and from the OP is 100% real and true.

Spoiler: old man on porch

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No one has seen them since that Feb 2021 post though because they're so special. Some people say if you sit with an old man chipper on a porch a seventh time you can actually hear a faint "minty Gulfports" on the wind.

 

[upNdown]

Don’t try and wrap me into it! I’m just trying to sell some chips and play some poker.

I’ll leave the fighting to all the real men of PCF (calendar title?).

Also, what imagine when I think of pcfers infighting:
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Now this must go here:

 

[BarrieJ3]

Now this must go here:

“while you were singing I got stabbed in the head by a Puerto Rican”

Title of Martino’s autobiography.

 

[toothpic]

A product to sell within an hour and that’s consider a fair price but a week isn’t is wild guys lol

Not everyone is a degenerate like us. Sometimes people see something for sale and need a few days/weeks/months to consider buying it and maybe save money for it lol.

We need more degenerates for the forum and our home games

 

[toothpic]

Now this must go here:

Is this some strange meet up dance ritual?

 

[chippitydoodah]

Is this some strange meet up dance ritual?

 

[toothpic]

Any moderately high intensity activities at meetups usually leads to people passing out on the ground.

 

[chippitydoodah]

Any moderately high intensity activities at meetups usually leads to people passing out on the ground.

There have been ambulance rides taken for way less activity than that.

 

[MeridianFC]

I have decided that everybody that play for amounts less than I do are micro stakes pikers. I don't have time for that paid out in rolls of coins bullshit.

I have also decided that people who play for more than I do are degenerate gangsters and oligarchs and are probably all tax cheats. I've got no time for this cyber criminal bullshit.

Please enjoy this return to the initial intent of this thread.

Sincerely,
Gold E. Lox

 

[Poker Zombie]

I have decided that everybody that play for amounts less than I do are micro stakes pikers. I don't have time for that paid out in rolls of coins bullshit.

I have also decided that people who play for more than I do are degenerate gangsters and oligarchs and are probably all tax cheats. I've got no time for this cyber criminal bullshit.

Please enjoy this return to the initial intent of this thread.

Sincerely,
Gold E. Lox

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
-George Carlin

 

[MeridianFC]

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
-George Carlin

That venerable old saw is gospel truth

 

[MC_CPA]

If the Tiger VIP2 $25 didnt hog the avacado color, the RA set wouldve been able to use it and they would've been Avacados from Mexico

 

[Taghkanic]

Most poker dealers are terrible poker players.

I can’t understand why.

Dealers get to see far more hands than ordinary players.

While dealing, they get to see all the painful and mostly predictable mistakes that limpers and fish and whales and nits and stations and OMCs and aggros make, over and over again.

They also are witnesses to a deep sample of hands played well by sharp, winning players of many different styles.

And yet my experience playing with casino dealers in non-casino games is that most are worse than most fish. I only know one dealer who is a terrific player.

IDGI



(… And before any dealers here flip out: I did say most. Not all. So feel free to pretend you’re one of the exceptions. )

 

[chippitydoodah]

I often wonder why catchers don't have higher batting averages than most other hitters since they know pitcher tendencies better than anyone.

 

[extreme517]

If the Tiger VIP2 $25 didnt hog the avacado color, the RA set wouldve been able to use it and they would've been Avacados from Mexico

The Faro Dunes $25 checks those boxes:

 

[extreme517]

Most poker dealers are terrible poker players.

This isn't controversial.

 

[Taghkanic]

This isn't controversial.

Maybe not… But why is it true?

 

[ekricket]

Maybe not… But why is it true?

Prove it’s true or shut up. Give us at least one real world example - not just a one time, but a consistent pattern of dealers being consistently bad card players - and with names and situations, not some made up “I heard from a friend of a friend” .
Otherwise you are just making shit up - again.

 

[BPTDirector]

Tina’s are gateway drugs, some stop there but many end up addicted to the hard stuff.

 

[Cratty]

And a controversial step further, a gateway like Tinas is likely needed to keep chipping and the hobby going as a whole.

 

[extreme517]

Tina's sucked in Cratty's design power...so many awesome sets and now moved on to CPCs, cards, toppers, hot stamps, etc.

 

[JeepologyOffroad]

Disagree. Tina’s are the opposite of gateway and kill the hobby as a whole. Or rather are just an entirely different thing on their own I suppose.

 

[BarrieJ3]

A team of economists and sociologists could answer better Tina’s overall impact.

My subjective experience was I saw a super cool design someone made, bought the design from them, ordered the Tina’s, watched as others ordered them too. Got rid of mine, and sad that the design was wasted on Tina’s instead of cool Paulson relabel.

People sometimes send me their Tina’s customs. Some are def cool. I appreciate it all. But the fact that I could just order any of the customs myself directly from various Tina’s is an inescapable fact.

But hot dang, .30-.40 a chip does sound better than $1k racks.

 

[BPTDirector]

By gateway I mean just a start for those in the chipping hobby, I know I experimented with them but ultimately sold them at a loss to return to my true chipping love. Clay. A prime example is Cratty. Started with Tina’s. Sold most of his awesome designed sets and went straight to the hard stuff.

 

[JeepologyOffroad]

I think new members show up, buy Tina’s, then leave for good more often than they stay and get hooked. Sure it happens, but not too common.

Probably a testament to how good the Tina’s are. Majority see no reason to go any further. Can’t say I blame them.

 

[toothpic]

This is a tougher topic and so many ways to agree with both sides, but I'm going to say I don't think Tinas kill the collector chip hobby in a significant way. Cheaper poker chips are usually the starting point. A small percentage of those people will eventually want to find better chips. Sometimes this is from visiting casinos/cardrooms and then searching around to find something better. I know that's what happened to me as I started to build a facination with casino chips I handled in Vegas and simply got tired of the non-denominated dice chips.

When I started to explore for something better, I went to ceramic chips and used those a few times. Overall I wasn't satisfied with how they handled, played, or sounded. I also explored bud jones plastic chips back in the late 2000s but again wasn't happy with the way they felt or handled and eventually got some clay chips. I've been stuck on clay ever since. I appeciate their feel and sound even at the higher cost. That higher cost though for me when I started was 1-2 bucks a chip and I was plenty happy with that for a while and lead me to having multiple chips sets of various rarities and price points. I'm mainly a person who enjoys playing poker but also I appreciate good quality chips. I would say I'm an edgelier for poker players where I continued to dig deeper into the chip collectables.

For poker players, they are plenty happy with something good enough. They won't be chasing sets which are $5+ a chip unless they are also as facinated by chips as they are about poker. Sure, Tina's may cause some to leave sooner than they would have normally, but if they really mindset and love for much nicer chips I think they will return. I had two clay chip sets for 8 years before I returned again. My original chipping days were on the blue board but life happened (had kids and was too busy raising them) so I took as big haitus. Came back to PCF and jumped right back in. I don't think I'm the norm and the small % of people who will be of this same mind won't be happy with Tina's for long.

I bought a couple sets of Tinas as well. One cash set I played with a few times but sold. I still have a cheap tournament set because I never play tournaments but it's there just in case. Would I have bought a tournament set instead that costs a few thousand dollars and would sit there. Probably not.

Even with the guys I know who go to card houses often, they absolutely appreciate playing with my clay chips. So much so that they refer to me as "The VIP guest". No it's not because of how splashy I play because I win just as much as I lose lol. It's because I bring the nice chips, the table topper sometimes and the nice cards which make the games more enjoyable.

TLDR: Give them time with their Tinas. If they have potential to be real chip fanatics like us, they will be back.