CPC Custom for craps (1 Viewer)

[Papasatyr]

I wanna play some hard ways at your place, just to handle one of those gorgeous hundreds! After that, pass/come with odds bets.

 

[JustDave]

Anyone

Great way to run a home craps game, we run very similar. Surprised to not see more $5 chips in your breakdown, if I have 10 players I want 600 fives on the table. Maybe our game just plays smaller, I've never needed $500 chips.

Digging the designs, just started the process for my own customs as well, but mine will be more poker focused.

for sure if I was to make the set larger I'd start with even more 5s. Ideally the set would be 2k chips, but I don't have the bankroll or the space. If I had a full table permanent set up I would go this route.

What's interesting is that we start off with people betting like normal folks, 5 dollar pass line bets, 6 dollar place bets. Really quickly people are making 25 dollar pass lines bets.

Soooo much fun.

 

[JustDave]

Mold wise I justed jockey because it was what my browser was set at.

I rejected a bunch of molds because they just don't appeal to me at all.

SCrown, H-Mold, Circle Square, Jockey and Diamond Square are what I'd look at.

SCrown - Nice mold but just not the right chip for this set I don't think.
H-Mold - Again, more of a classic mold and also don't want to have Josh come and hunt me down.
Jockey - I get it's CPC's 'THC', but like I just look at the shape all the time and my brain goes 'what is that shape?' Def a candidate though
CSQ - I kinda dig it. A bit busy if I'm honest and kinda gets in the way of the spots, but legit.
Diamond Square - Liking this mold lately. I'm not sure why. The really wide outer ring is appealing and the pattern is there but not too busy.

This thread scares me away from DSQ. Leaning CSQ or Jockey presently.

 

[JustDave]

Blasphemy! I need a table still but bought the chips. I went crazy and bought enough to fill a 12’ table exactly like a casino. My craps dealer friends gave the assist. Here you go! I like your chips, nice colors, spots.

You sir, are a madman!

 

[tmacattack]

It really depends on the table minimums you run. I don’t run anything over a $15 minimum. So I wouldn’t need more than $500 chips. You could also use a max bet rule to save having to use such high chip denominations.

 

[spartan037]

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How do you get all the chips in one screenshot on the design tool. Or is this a cut and paste job?

 

[JustDave]

How do you get all the chips in one screenshot on the design tool. Or is this a cut and paste job?

Save as PNG button on the left side.

 

[spartan037]

Save as PNG button on the left side.

oh and then copy and paste thanks.

 

[JP1984]

Bump - Did these ever get made?

 

[JustDave]

Bump - Did these ever get made?

No

 

[JustDave]

No

I'm happy with the chip layouts. I have a few things I could go one of two ways on but I'd be happy with either option.

I never have found anything close to what I'd want to use for an inlay.

 

[JP1984]

Working on a craps set with a friend, your comments about the breakdown helped, was just curious to see if you had made them and had any more feedback. Plus the pr0n, obvs...

 

[swana]

Totally glad this thread got bumped... I was thinking of just doing chip values divided by 10 ($5 = 0.50). After reading this thread probably makes more sense to go dividing by 100...

 

[natumes]

Had a few folks DM me about breakdowns and how we set up the game so I'm just gonna comment in the main thread as well.

First off, the $1,000 and $5,000 chips are probably un needed. The $1-$500 chips represent about $45,000 in value. The 60 chips for $1,000-$5,000 are an additional $140,000 in value, this really isn't needed. In the games we play, we do use the $500 chips regularly, the $1,000 never. They are really in the set because I'd already be getting 1k chips and what other opportunity would you get to get a small count chip and I like the designs for them. They are also $4.50 at L9/10 a chip when the average is L3/4 so I don't want too many of them.

With Poker you have the bank, right, and you can play with the bank and then also use it for making change. With Craps instead you've got the players, you've got the house and then the bank. So in our example above where we have people buying in for $20 and getting $2,000 in chips we have 10 players just for easy math(on a real craps table you'd fit more players but we just play on a kitchen table sized mat). That's $20,000 in value. Now we also have 'the house' sitting on the other side. Normally what happens there is the host or the collective players over the course of time, build 'the house' for an equal value to the players. So the easiest version is that the host puts up $200 cash and has $20,000 in value as the house. The remainder of the bank is the extra $5,000 which is just change.

If you are familiar with craps games, the $1s and the $5s are used all the time for small prop bets even when you are doing like $25-$50 pass line bets and then you always need to be doing things like betting $24 instead of $25 to make the math work out. I'd lean a bit heavier to $1s but I've had sets with 300 of them before and found I never need that many. 200 of them is right there with a busy table deep in a roll and how many chips you want to have in play, certainly not less. If I was trying to support more players I'd immediately start with more 100s.

We've never played this before as $1:$1. That would just be insane to me. If the table was hot or cold the game would be over super quickly and the goal isn't to win money but to have fun and teach craps. Very quickly the players would bust or the house would lose a ton of money. Yikes. We've played this before $1:$10. We gave everyone $200 in chips on their $20 buy in which mirrors a lot how we buy into craps at a real casino. The three times we did it everyone was felted within 20 minutes and we reset the game.

So what we do is we give everyone $2000 off the $20 buy in, but we give them a $500, a bunch of $100s and then $25s/$5s and $1s and people are making like $5 or $10 pass line bets for most of the evening. This gives them a lot of action, a lot of chips out on the table without forcing them to play super tight. I feel like some of the folks who are good at introducing newbs to tournament poker also advocate giving them more little chips so they aren't super tight the entire time and what not.

Just want to comment on some things in this post. $2k works a lot better, because if you play something like 3 point molly for your strategy making $5 pass line bets, $2k is about the right amount to be able to handle the swings and keep playing (with $5 pass line mins).

Think about poker bankrolls. If I have $300 in my bankroll, I shouldn't play $1/3 because I won't be able to handle losing a cooler and keep playing effectively. Same with craps, if you only have $200 you can really only afford to make a single bet, which is very boring to play.

This is also why more $5s is important. If players have $2k, making bets with $100 chips is going to be more likely to bust them.

 

[JustDave]

My current craps set is a 2,000 chip set of cards mold Star Lites. I’m very happy with it and I can’t really see replacing it any time soon. In fact, if k ever get a full table where they would be out full time I’d probably bump up to 3,000 chips.