Do any casinos still have live Paulson Fracs that can be harvested? (3 Viewers)

Short answer: No

Long answer: No and here is the reason....
Casino's and Card Rooms need to make money and to do that they can not offer games that are small enough to both have fractionals AND make money. It has been a long time (like 30 + yrs) since fractionals have mostly disappeared from Casino floors. Probably into the early 90's smaller Casinos still offered $1 craps, even then lots of them used real quarters when needed.

The most practical solution for a home game fractional by far is murder and re-label
 
Short answer: No

Long answer: No and here is the reason....
Casino's and Card Rooms need to make money and to do that they can not offer games that are small enough to both have fractionals AND make money. It has been a long time (like 30 + yrs) since fractionals have mostly disappeared from Casino floors. Probably into the early 90's smaller Casinos still offered $1 craps, even then lots of them used real quarters when needed.

The most practical solution for a home game fractional by far is murder and re-label
Appreciate the reply... Welp... Time to find some solids to murder.. or some already murdered ones lol
 
Short answer: No

Long answer: Here is the reason....
Casino's and Card Rooms need to make money and to do that they can not offer games that are small enough to both have fractionals AND make money. It has been a long time (like 30 + yrs) since fractionals have mostly disappeared from Casino floors. Probably into the early 90's smaller Casinos still offered $1 craps, even then lots of them used real quarters when needed.
I think there are still a bunch of places that use fracs for payouts on weird table games like maybe baccarat or psi gaow or what the hell do I know. Those house mold Rivers come to mind. So yeah, nobody is using Paulson fracs for poker, but I’m pretty sure they’re still live here and there for weirdo table games.
 
I think there are still a bunch of places that use fracs for payouts on weird table games like maybe baccarat or psi gaow or what the hell do I know. Those house mold Rivers come to mind. So yeah, nobody is using Paulson fracs for poker, but I’m pretty sure they’re still live here and there for weirdo table games.
Ok, so maybe small correction. There are definitely not "a bunch" of places that use fractionals, but there might be a few still.

I stick by my statement that murder and re-label is by far the best solution. There many reasons for that statement including:
- "IF" you do find live fractionals they will be hard to find, difficult to harvest, expensive, and you will have very few options including almost no possibilities for THC or RHC chips.

20 yrs ago back on CT people were asking this same question and the answer way back then was basically the same. It has only gotten more difficult/expensive.
 
Oklahoma native american casinos use .50 fracs for the ante in their table games. They aren’t easy easy to harvest but they arent impossible. They are only used for the antes so it’s difficult to justify buying a rack, although if you have a good enough pit boss and story you can sometimes talk them into it.
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Oklahoma native american casinos use .50 fracs for the ante in their table games. They aren’t easy easy to harvest but they arent impossible. They are only used for the antes so it’s difficult to justify buying a rack, although if you have a good enough pit boss and story you can sometimes talk them into it.
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Thanks for the heads up, local to AR, so could be an option
 
Before I look for things to outright murder and relabel, is anyone out there still using a live Paulson frac that can be harvested?
The three big Detroit casinos each have a RHC quarter in play, and have had for over 20 years. Harvesting them is a challenge, but you can get a few at a time I believe.

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I remember a number of years back at Hollywood in Lawrenceburg IN, they introduced 50c "mustard" chips onto the 1-2 tables so they could rake the smallest pots. It backfired, though, when we started selling them all to the same guy and he would take them all home. That was before I was a chipper, or I would have taken them myself. They were really ugly. The casino ended up approaching him and asking him to stop when they started to run out. He didn't.
There was even a brief minute after they ran out when they were using $2.50 snappers in live poker play, just so they could drop 50c. It was so weird because you would have them in your stack, but you could only bet them in pairs.
 
Before I look for things to outright murder and relabel, is anyone out there still using a live Paulson frac that can be harvested?
Short answer: yes

long answer: there is a reason the Gear waitlist is 3 to 4 months and CPC is at 8 to 12 months...customise away or if you are not afraid of sticker shock, buy original
 
Short answer: yes

long answer: there is a reason the Gear waitlist is 3 to 4 months and CPC is at 8 to 12 months...customise away or if you are not afraid of sticker shock, buy original
Ok. So I guess you guys have proven that I was "technically" wrong, but for all practical purposes I think just about anyone that has tried to use any of the above mentioned possibilities would agree that they are in almost all cases not a good solution.
 
Ok. So I guess you guys have proven that I was "technically" wrong, but for all practical purposes I think just about anyone that has tried to use any of the above mentioned possibilities would agree that they are in almost all cases not a good solution.
I agree with you to a certain extent. Unless you’re a local (and don’t mind making lots of trips and play those games anyway,) harvesting fracs isn’t practical and in most likely would get very expensive.
But the reason I like the discussion is just to show that they’re out there. I hate relabels irrationally and mightily. So it’s important to know that real fracs still exist.
 
Ok. So I guess you guys have proven that I was "technically" wrong, but for all practical purposes I think just about anyone that has tried to use any of the above mentioned possibilities would agree that they are in almost all cases not a good solution.
There is no right or wrong to prove in this my friend… you are correct with the info stated (it is hard and not profitable to harvest fracs), mostly this is not a yes or no question. And it would be hard to fault you on any info given since its always on par.

The diversity in answers can sometimes be confusing for newer members but at least they get a good idea that there is more ways then one to find what you are looking for (chip wise)
 
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Rivers, Des Plaines has a great quarter that seems to have been attainable recently.
 
The other thing about live casino fracs is that they are almost always $.50 chips (like the ones pictured above). $.25 chips play infinity better in a home poker game. The difference between a $.50/$1 game and a $1/$1 game is negligible so you can just start your set with $1 chips and not be missing much. However there is a significant difference between a $.25/$.25 and a $.50/$1.

If you are like me and authenticity matters, labeled chips subtract from the overall experience of collecting and playing with casino chips, then murdering them is pointless except as a placeholder until you find the real thing.

The good news is that while other chips have skyrocketed in price, frictional and quarter chips specifically have remained at the same price that they have been for years.

TL;DR - Don’t worry about harvesting, just pay the $300 or so for a rack of casino quarters.
 
The good news is that while other chips have skyrocketed in price, frictional and quarter chips specifically have remained at the same price that they have been for years.
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Lol normalizing prices that have always been too high.

Not a dig at all, just observing. No need to get upset or anything, it’s nothing, certainly nothing personal
 
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Lol normalizing prices that have always been too high.

Not a dig at all, just observing. No need to get upset or anything, it’s nothing, certainly nothing personal

THC fracs have gone up. House mold and RHC fracs have remained steady or gone up a little. Given what has happened to some other collectibles, especially graded video games (God help you if you invested in that), poker chips have been a decent little hobby investment-wise (at least since 2008 or so when singles tanked significantly).
 
I agree with you to a certain extent. Unless you’re a local (and don’t mind making lots of trips and play those games anyway,) harvesting fracs isn’t practical and in most likely would get very expensive.
But the reason I like the discussion is just to show that they’re out there. I hate relabels irrationally and mightily. So it’s important to know that real fracs still exist.
Ok, so you hate re-labels a lot. I hate mixed mold sets and house molds. Just like you hate re-labels, I basically discount all chips like the rivers fracs as they have a goofy mold that wouldn't match anything else.

The other reason I can't endorse any fractional to any new member is, as you admit, that it will be both difficult, expensive and certainly not practical.

There is no right or wrong to prove in this my friend… you are correct with the info stated (it is hard and not profitable to harvest fracs), mostly this is not a yes or no question. And it would be hard to fault you on any info given since its always on par.

The diversity in answers can sometimes be confusing for newer members but at least they get a good idea that there is more ways then one to find what you are looking for (chip wise)
My thinking before I answered was: new guy asking if it is reasonable to expect to be able to buy live fractionals at a reasonable price. My answer: No this is not practical is pretty much spot on and I stand by that answer.
 
The other reason I can't endorse any fractional to any new member is, as you admit, that it will be both difficult, expensive and certainly not practical.
But at least they’d be real.

And the reason I’m arguing with you, before and still, is that your initial answer was wrong, and instead of just acknowledging that we’ve made a fair point about live fracs, you’ve changed you narrative to “they’re almost all house molds” and “it’s cheaper and more practical to make your own.”
But the fact is that they’re not almost all house molds - by my count, there have been 14 live fracs mentioned in this thread and only 4 of them were house molds.
And, the OP never mentioned anything about practical or economical.
Sorry for being an argumentative jerk, but I’m feeling ornery today.
And FWIW, I used to think house molds sucked and mixed mold sets were dumb too. But then I found some I liked. Live and learn.
 
But at least they’d be real.

And the reason I’m arguing with you, before and still, is that your initial answer was wrong, and instead of just acknowledging that we’ve made a fair point about live fracs, you’ve changed you narrative to “they’re almost all house molds” and “it’s cheaper and more practical to make your own.”
But the fact is that they’re not almost all house molds - by my count, there have been 14 live fracs mentioned in this thread and only 4 of them were house molds.
And, the OP never mentioned anything about practical or economical.
Sorry for being an argumentative jerk, but I’m feeling ornery today.
And FWIW, I used to think house molds sucked and mixed mold sets were dumb too. But then I found some I liked. Live and learn.
Ok, fair enough....
You win. You are right and I am wrong
 
Don't know if you are still looking, but I ran into 50 cent fractionals out in Wendover at a few of the Peppermill-owned casinos. Paulson RHC molds in solid white. I don't know the feasibilty of harvesting many since I only ran into them on blackjack, but they are there.
 
Don't know if you are still looking, but I ran into 50 cent fractionals out in Wendover at a few of the Peppermill-owned casinos. Paulson RHC molds in solid white. I don't know the feasibilty of harvesting many since I only ran into them on blackjack, but they are there.
Blackjack is what I keep hearing, I'll just have to find some nice blue/yellow/grey thcs to murder up and label
 

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