Custom ceramics poker set designs.......too much choice! My attempt (1 Viewer)

[muzzly]

Hi All

Had a crack at designing my first custom set of ceramics. After much looking, I think I am a fan of the classic clean look (although a logo in the "Poker" would be good, as seen below).

Going with custom colors for the values.

I like the gold theme for the higher values......but bit worried what everything will look like stacked up (worried not enough variety in the ring colors).

The chips posted twice are for comparison as haven't decided firmly yet.

Constructive feedback and thoughts welcome. All the best.

 

[Machine]

I would suggest taking the pound sign off of the frac 0.25 is odd for Americans but I would at least not double up on the signs. We would use 25c or .25 but not both and not $0.25c

 

[Dugthefish]

I like it. I am a fan of that style of chip, kinda reminds me of the Venerati set my game outgrew. I would suggest the following changes:

Drop the zero in the .25 chip. With or without the pound sign doesn't make a difference for me. You just don't need the extra character.

Drop the .50. Unless you're playing a 1-2 limit game, the .25 will handle all the fractional needs. Get an extra rack of 1s.

Consider going from white to light gray on the .25. Might just be a personal opinion, but I feel like white chips get and look dirty easily. Gray hides it much better.

I'm not sure about the shade of green. 1/5 are bold, bright colors. 100 is hot, too, but 25 is kinda subdued.

Hope this helps!

 

[tabletalker7]

@Dugthefish is right. Drop the .50 as it is seriously not needed. I play in regular 1/2 limit games and we use the .25 pieces for blinds. Having both is not useful.

I am worried about your 25 pound chip. I am sure that on a screen it really looks pretty, but then once it gets made it doesn't turn out quite right. My idea would be turn your .50 to your 25. That .50, while useless in a real game, does pop. The rest of your set outside of that 25 pops.

 

[philhut]

are the yellows in your $20 and $100 denom the same? You may wish to change the yellow for stacks....the base color should be different enough though. I agree drop the 0.50 chip and consider 0.05 or $500 but 0.50 is a kind of wasted chip if also using 0.25

 

[muzzly]

thanks for your replies guys......things have changed somewhat.

I could not get the "O" of the poker sorted for the higher denom chips (could not get the spade inserted) and then just generally started to feel I wanted something with a logo or that had a more relaxed atmosphere......

I then came across "The Jazz Club" chips and fell in love. Esp as we listen to Jazz at our games! I prefer it to something like "Mike's Casino" etc, when I'm just running a home game. After some back and forth the original designer has kindly tweaked his original design to make it semi custom. See pics!

 

[muzzly]

As some have said, the base colors were off on the original design too (I am not a designer and so semi custom is def the best way to go for me!).
Re the 0.5 chips........I appreciate they are a redundant chip, but (given how much money and time this all is) I want to leave room for my game to grow into a 0.5/1 game in the future. I considered having a non denom chip, but figured it would never get used and I will get enough 100's and £1 to mean that even if we somehow make it too 1/2 in the years to come then I will have a bit enough bank. I like lean stacks at the table (makes cashing out easier etc) so go for 12+12+red birds to make up the rest for the original buy in. Thinking set as follows........

White: £0.25 - 125 chips
Green: £0.50 - 125 chips
Black: £1 -175 chips
Red: £5 - 200 chips
Gold: £25 - 75 chips
Blue: £100 - 50 chips

750 chips total

31.25 + 62.50 + 175 + 1000 + 1,875 + 5000 = £ 8,143.75.

One table 9 max most likely.....would be nice to be able to run 2 tables but not really my aim.........might be overkill in terms of numbers of chips which would stay under my bed and not be used?

Could go for a more modest breakdown:

White: £0.25 - 125 chips
Green: £0.50 - 125 chips
Black: £1 -125 chips
Red: £5 - 150 chips
Gold: £25 - 50 chips
Blue: £100 - 25 chips

600 chips total

31.25 + 62.50 + 125 + 750 + 1,250 + 2,500 = £4,719.75

Thoughts welcome on whether I should get the 750 or 600 or change the breakdown! Thanks all

 

[allforcharity]

Skip the 0.50

 

[TheOffalo]

Agree with all the others about skipping the 0.50 denom. Even if your game moves to .50/1, it's a 2-chip SB, 1-chip BB, which isn't any "harder" than .25/.50, which is a 1-chip SB, 2-chip BB.

And if your game is .25/.50 then your workhorse is the £1, but you have the most # of chips in £5.

Assuming you have to buy in blocks of 25, my personal preference for 600 chips would be:

£0.25 - 125 chips
£1 -200 chips
£5 - 175 chips
£25 - 75 chips
£100 - 25 chips

That way you can still support a £1/£1 (or even £1/£2 in a pinch) game if your stakes move up more in the future.

 

[Machine]

As some have said, the base colors were off on the original design too (I am not a designer and so semi custom is def the best way to go for me!).
Re the 0.5 chips........I appreciate they are a redundant chip, but (given how much money and time this all is) I want to leave room for my game to grow into a 0.5/1 game in the future. I considered having a non denom chip, but figured it would never get used and I will get enough 100's and £1 to mean that even if we somehow make it too 1/2 in the years to come then I will have a bit enough bank. I like lean stacks at the table (makes cashing out easier etc) so go for 12+12+red birds to make up the rest for the original buy in. Thinking set as follows........

White: £0.25 - 125 chips
Green: £0.50 - 125 chips
Black: £1 -175 chips
Red: £5 - 200 chips
Gold: £25 - 75 chips
Blue: £100 - 50 chips

750 chips total

31.25 + 62.50 + 175 + 1000 + 1,875 + 5000 = £ 8,143.75.

One table 9 max most likely.....would be nice to be able to run 2 tables but not really my aim.........might be overkill in terms of numbers of chips which would stay under my bed and not be used?

Could go for a more modest breakdown:

White: £0.25 - 125 chips
Green: £0.50 - 125 chips
Black: £1 -125 chips
Red: £5 - 150 chips
Gold: £25 - 50 chips
Blue: £100 - 25 chips

600 chips total

31.25 + 62.50 + 125 + 750 + 1,250 + 2,500 = £4,719.75

Thoughts welcome on whether I should get the 750 or 600 or change the breakdown! Thanks all

Recently I've given chip break downs significant thought.
I can spread a non raked .25/.50 game with 80 fracs, 200 1, 100 5, 60 20, its tight but you can do it. Thats 420 chips, I wouldn't recommend it.

I point it out only to say I'm glad you're looking at the bank and well over the concern of least amount of chips.

I like the green chip better than the red or blue and I would advocate taking red out of the lineup altogether, and re-purpose the green chip. I'm bias I get it.

We could have droves of people discuss removing the .50 chip, its your money. At the end of the day you will see a few .50 chips, they do exist, but its not because someone needs a .50 chip, its because of the inserts / color and the way it fits into the set, you'll see far fewer ceramic .50 chips. It is a waste of a chip, it actually adds more effort than any appeal it can offer when you have a .25.

If you want the color or the chip in the mix because of a sunken cost fallacy, then simply change the denom to 2.50 or 3 or 13, but don't have a .50 chip. TheOffalo is spot on with the comment.

Even if your game moves to .50/1, it's a 2-chip SB, 1-chip BB, which isn't any "harder" than .25/.50, which is a 1-chip SB, 2-chip BB.

Fracs are often better NOT white, I would change the color to be the blue, and make the 100 white, and then the 1 green and the 5 yellow, then the 20 grey, if you do this you'll need to buy a very large stick, grown men will tell you how sexy they are with a droll and a stare that will you feel objectified.

 

[TheOffalo]

It's actually even easier to do .50/1 w/.25 chips because only the SB has to post 2 chips initially, and if SB wants to call, s/he'll either bump it up to 4x .25 or 1x1.

Yes, it does mean the .25 chip kind of redundant in a .50/1 game because it's only used to post the SB (though I like betting random amounts like 3.75 sometimes), but then so is the .50 chip since it's only necessary for posting the SB too--min bet is 1 after the flop. So given that, the .25 chip is way more flexible than a .50 chip because it can support .25/.25, .25/.50, .50/1, etc.

 

[chkyrslf]

Aside from previous comments regarding denominations and colors which are all valid, I really like the general design and good use of a full ceramic print.

Love the gold on black in your inlay, and LOVE the music notes in the outer!

 

[muzzly]

Thanks for your comments guys. I agree with your thoughts re the £0.50 is useless. An issue with switching the colours around in value however (Making green worth more than blue etc) is that the outer ring designs are graded to represent worth (clever designer). At least to my eye, you can see that as chips go up in value, they get more and more complex outer designs (with blue having a full 8 spots on its outer). For these reason I don't feel I can mess around with chip value order, although white having no outer spots mean it could go either end of the value spectrum. It was originally a non denom in the stock set.

Interestingly the stock design was for a tournament set, which makes sense, as for a cash game you really only need 5 colours, not 6. The problem is, I like them all too much!

We have been using dice chips up until now and can't wait to replace them. I host my game in a private room at a club and use a fold out table top. We have a dealer and so the whole game is shaping up really nicely.....but now that the game is nice the fact we are using my 15 year old dice chips is really starting to grate on me! Built the game over the last few years. Really wanted that casino game quality but with the friendliness and banter that comes with a home game.

Built it up to a comfortable £0.25/£0.50 (Had to start at 10p/20p to get everyone interested and then up to 20p/40p) but as the popularity grows will push it up as time goes forward! Likely will never go too high as focus will stay on recreation for us all.......but nice if I could make a buck or 2 in the process

Game tonight, hopefully the last one before the ceramics arrive!