I've always been a huge fan of the E&C mold and am going to take advantage of the newest offering from CPC.
I posted before about my desire to have a bunch of chips on the table for a NL/PL game modeled after $10/$10 games I've seen…and how California seems to have big games with just 2/3 chip at live at the bike etc. Taking feedback from prior threads I'm going with $1/$10/$100 vs $1/$20/$100 which I hope will be great for $1/$1 NL and PL and $3/$6 limit for mixed games.
Breakdown (open to suggestions but ideally want to keep it to 1k chips…or close to). Buyins between $100-$200 and the $8,200 should cover easily with 41 max buys built in
800 - $1s
160 - $10s
40 - $100s
· Mostly an 8 person game with starting stacks of a rack of $1s and $10s to fill out (10 for max buy)
· 10 person game will get 80 $1s and 12 $10s for max buy (still plenty of chips)
· First 2-4 rebuys all $10s then $100s for the rest
· Maybe it's worth it to limit it to 80 $1's in starting stacks for all games…something to test out.
I think this breakdown accomplishes the goal of getting everyone a bunch of chips but still limits stacks to something manageable with plenty of $10s in play.
Inlay/Name
· Need major help with design and someone to work on it (please let me know appropriate cost to hire if you would like to work on this)
· Really like the idea of a name of "The White Elephant" or "White Elephant Club" or something similar
o Something meta/funny about mixing in the idea of the white elephant custom chip set showing all of the good symbolism of elephants in general with the idea that perhaps the cost of custom chips is out of proportion to usefulness (tongue in cheek of course!)
· Maybe a two sided inlay
Side 1 – Name of club along axis of 9 o'clock and 12 or 1 o'clock. Chip Amount written out (One Dollar, Ten Dollars, One Hundred Dollars) along axis starting at 6 or 7 o clock up to 3 o clock…picture of a stylized outline of an elephant in the middle (up for anything)
Side 2 – sort of like the game of thrones set…watermarked crossing elephant trunks zoomed in with a big outline of the amount ($1, $10, $100) in block letters (maybe this gets color matched to the chip). Maybe initials of the name if that looks better.
Colors
· Between a solid charcoal $1 or a 414 spotted grey/retro blue $1 (unsure if spots are worth it for almost $1/chip on 800 chips)
· Huge fan of charcoal and think it would look good as a solid (also ties into the elephant theme)
· Totally up for anything (and crazy cool spots) for the $10 and $100. It would be nice to get some dg peacock and tiger to add some needed color to the set.
· I like the way the 614 looks is stacks and a transition to 814 for the $100? I have also always been a fan of the 4DS pattern…
Thoughts/Comments/Suggestions?
I posted before about my desire to have a bunch of chips on the table for a NL/PL game modeled after $10/$10 games I've seen…and how California seems to have big games with just 2/3 chip at live at the bike etc. Taking feedback from prior threads I'm going with $1/$10/$100 vs $1/$20/$100 which I hope will be great for $1/$1 NL and PL and $3/$6 limit for mixed games.
Breakdown (open to suggestions but ideally want to keep it to 1k chips…or close to). Buyins between $100-$200 and the $8,200 should cover easily with 41 max buys built in
800 - $1s
160 - $10s
40 - $100s
· Mostly an 8 person game with starting stacks of a rack of $1s and $10s to fill out (10 for max buy)
· 10 person game will get 80 $1s and 12 $10s for max buy (still plenty of chips)
· First 2-4 rebuys all $10s then $100s for the rest
· Maybe it's worth it to limit it to 80 $1's in starting stacks for all games…something to test out.
I think this breakdown accomplishes the goal of getting everyone a bunch of chips but still limits stacks to something manageable with plenty of $10s in play.
Inlay/Name
· Need major help with design and someone to work on it (please let me know appropriate cost to hire if you would like to work on this)
· Really like the idea of a name of "The White Elephant" or "White Elephant Club" or something similar
o Something meta/funny about mixing in the idea of the white elephant custom chip set showing all of the good symbolism of elephants in general with the idea that perhaps the cost of custom chips is out of proportion to usefulness (tongue in cheek of course!)
· Maybe a two sided inlay
Side 1 – Name of club along axis of 9 o'clock and 12 or 1 o'clock. Chip Amount written out (One Dollar, Ten Dollars, One Hundred Dollars) along axis starting at 6 or 7 o clock up to 3 o clock…picture of a stylized outline of an elephant in the middle (up for anything)
Side 2 – sort of like the game of thrones set…watermarked crossing elephant trunks zoomed in with a big outline of the amount ($1, $10, $100) in block letters (maybe this gets color matched to the chip). Maybe initials of the name if that looks better.
Colors
· Between a solid charcoal $1 or a 414 spotted grey/retro blue $1 (unsure if spots are worth it for almost $1/chip on 800 chips)
· Huge fan of charcoal and think it would look good as a solid (also ties into the elephant theme)
· Totally up for anything (and crazy cool spots) for the $10 and $100. It would be nice to get some dg peacock and tiger to add some needed color to the set.
· I like the way the 614 looks is stacks and a transition to 814 for the $100? I have also always been a fan of the 4DS pattern…
Thoughts/Comments/Suggestions?
