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Well I hope everything comes together regarding the event and this set in particular. No art to share at this point, just the mocks. Not sure if I'll go with solids or all 414 spots. The bounty gets the bling - 8D18. The chip colors and font will be hippy 70s. No spot alignment. When I took a look at this, I thought it sure does resemble the Stardust PM set but that wasn't on purpose. Help me decide if this is a set of solids or spotted.

25 - DG Green/Retro Green
100 - Retro Blue/Blue
500 - DG Tiger/White
2000 - Canary/Chocolate
10000 - DG Pink/Retro Red
Bounty - Bright White/DG Pink/Lt. Blue

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I cannot get on the bandwagon with the T2000. Logical, yes. But poker is a long running traditional game, and (perhaps just me here) should use traditional chips (clay), traditional colors (Vegas or Cali), and traditional denoms (500-1000-5000).

That said, 4 of your chip color combos match my lineup for a hotstamp set (312 instead of 414 though), so I will be watching this thread closely, even though my hotstamps are a long way out at this point.
 
Poker Zombie said:
I cannot get on the bandwagon with the T2000. Logical, yes. But poker is a long running traditional game, and (perhaps just me here) should use traditional chips (clay), traditional colors (Vegas or Cali), and traditional denoms (500-1000-5000).

That said, 4 of your chip color combos match my lineup for a hotstamp set (312 instead of 414 though), so I will be watching this thread closely, even though my hotstamps are a long way out at this point.
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Don't look at the new HP solid hot stamp set I'm about to make then PZ. I'm unabashedly ripping off the T2000 and T10,000 from it.

Tradition be damned it makes so much sense from a function perspective.
 
I'm sure the HP hotstamps will be great (as will the Exit Only Wests), but somehow this scene comes to mind...


Those T2000s better be 10x more charming than a T1000.
 
People never brought it up when I busted out the T2000 half pies last weekend. The T2000 is economical too. I'm trying to keep the cost down. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 




When selecting these, I have the sample set laid out on the counter again. You really need to do this and the screen really looks nothing like the real thing.
 
links_slayer said:
I'm a sucker for solid hotstamped sets.

There's something about the canary yellow chip that doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the line-up.
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Agreed. Love all of the first drafts except the canary chip. No alternative to propose just yet, but I would mess around with that chip a bit.

Poker Zombie said:
I cannot get on the bandwagon with the T2000. Logical, yes. But poker is a long running traditional game, and (perhaps just me here) should use traditional chips (clay), traditional colors (Vegas or Cali), and traditional denoms (500-1000-5000).
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And I have to agree with PZ here as well. The T2k just grates on me. But I know some are devoted to the idea and I can't say they're wrong - just not to my taste.

Apart from all that, though, I'm super psyched to see what comes of this. I love hotstamp tourney sets and the Exit Only collection deserves a perfect new sibling set :)
 
Poker Zombie said:
I'm sure the HP hotstamps will be great (as will the Exit Only Wests), but somehow this scene comes to mind...


Those T2000s better be 10x more charming than a T1000.
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Mike, I'm Jewish and I have zero issues with dining on swine. The 2000 doesn't make me miss a step [emoji6]
 
I like solid hotstamped tourney sets. I LOVE spotted solid hotstamped tourney sets. The GCR's come to mind....like the solids, but love the spotted.

Soooo...spots, please!

Also, love the 500/2k/10k value progression for a home tourney set and very nearly went w/that for The Armory set. TBH, can't recall why I didn't.

As for the chips/spot colors...I like everything but the yellow chip for two reasons.
  • It's the only chip that would have brass flakes in it
  • The brown throws me a bit
Additionally, the spots on the green/blue/pink chips are all in the same color range, but the spots on the orange & yellow aren't. I'd like to see your thoughts on the following tweaks...
  • Change the spot on orange chip to arc yellow to keep it in range
  • Change canary to DG Yellow
  • Change the spot on the yellow chip to grey
There's not really a good alternate yellow color for the spots that still provides sufficient contrast, IMO, so it would be the one outlier for spots. Anywhere on the white/black spectrum would probably work, really.
 
Not totally loving these, but figured I'd toss them out with a couple possible alternatives.

The retro blue/light blue combo is among the best available from CPC. But even if you want the darker spots, imperial blue > blue imo.

Fwiw that dg green/retro green T25 is pretty much my standard T25 when mocking up possible tourney sets. Love it.

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The base colors look good together with no dirty stack issues when you have the samples in your hand. It doesn't look as good on the screen.
 
I think it is way better to post some shots of oiled samples. Camera, light, and monitor make a difference but I feel these shots show best, particularly on a hot stamp set without inlay. I'm glad I have an old sample set.

Disclaimer - If you see any odd details on the chips, this was a sample set that was just laying around in the UK with David. He stated at the time they were not perfect and had some impurities. I needed samples fast at the time. CPC is top notch.

Top set is Tournament solids for today, bottom is base color for future spotted cash set.

DG Green 25/Lavender 100/DG Tiger 500 (DG Peach is shown, I don't have a Tiger chip)/DG Pink 2000/Retro green 10000/Lt. Blue bounty

Maroon .05/Retro Lav .25/Imperial Blue $1/Butterscotch $5/Charcoal $20/Bright White $100

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I'd slightly alter ^that lineup, so that all the non-weighted base colors appear in the tourney set, and all of the weighted base colors appear in the cash set (changes in blue):

tourney -- DG Green 25, Retro Lavender 100, DG Tiger 500, DG Pink 2000, Retro Green 10000, Bright White bounty
(might swap out the retro green for something lighter, it's the only really dark chip in the tourney set)

cash -- Maroon .05, Lavender .25,, Imperial Blue $1, Butterscotch $5, Charcoal $20, Light Blue $100
(personally, I think this lineup could be improved upon quite a bit, but since it's for a future set, plenty of time to do that....)

For the tournament set, I'd probably go with either all 418 or all 214 edge spots, for a sparsely-spotted set that still mimics a solids look (with 8D18 bling bounty, of course). And keep the T500-T2000-T10000 progression.

I prefer egde spots on tournament set for two reasons -- stacks are easier to count across the table, and minor color inconsistencies are not as glaringly apparent when some spots are present.
 
THX Dave. I know some people really care about brass flakes and while I am trying to go non weighted there is no easy solution without a DG PEACOCK CHIP.

There...got it out but I don't feel better. peacock, peacock, peacock, pretty please.....mumble mumble.

One challenge with the proposed switch is dirty stacks of Ret. Lav/DG Pink. That can be solved by switching it with the T10000 chip. The Retro green looks better in person, but what are my options in non weighted? Ret.Blue? Ret. Red won't work, too much on that side of the color spectrum.
 
I like the cash set. Cali colors :)

On the tournament set I'd personally change quite a bit.

I'd go
DG Green 25
Retro Blue 100
Retro Lav 500
DG Tiger 2000
DG Pink 10,000 (although I'm not sure how well the pink and tiger will work together. It may clash)

I'm still pondering the bounty :)

This will follow the "traditional" colors a little more closely while still being all unweighted.
 
Liking the solids (or minimal spots)...... I like the green 25c...I like the removal of the bright yellow...like the colors

I think you have a winning set :)
 
There are so many different variations but none hit it out of the park. With the current palette available, it is impossible to 100% appease the chip gods and make this all non weighted chips. Since the theme is 70s and hippyish I need the weighted blues to pull it off. If I could get a couple racks of blue and light blue made without brass, then it works....but I'm not so OCD that the brass will bother me. The EOL tournaments are mixed. I like brass. So this is what I'm thinking as it matches the theme best

the 25/100/500 are mostly locked in. The Lt. Blue 8D18 bright white/DG Pink bounty is there to stay (ACF 25K tribute chip). I'm trying to represent the six primary and secondary colors in a 5 chip set. If we lose one color, will it be red, yellow, or purple range? Spots still have a chance. I like a 314 for the stack counting BG mentioned and it's a cheap spot. Here are two that work I think. I like the blue version better but Retro Lavender is non weighted. If we go spots with these, then I have a couple mocks.

25 - DG Green
100 - Blue or Retro Lavender
500 - DG Peach
2000 - DG Saturn
10000 - DG Pink
bounty - Lt. Blue 8D18 bright white/DG Pink

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Me every time I look at the last few mockups in this thread:

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slisk250 said:
I'm struggling with this too @jbutler
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Oh no I didn't mean anything about the quality of the mock ups - I was just joking about how the spot patterns were tilted in a few of them ;)

I'm watching this and Tom's Hitching Post mock up thread and fully expect to see epic additions to already epic sets.
 
+1 for solid butterscotch
+1 for keeping the mint green

I love that new mock-up color selection. ...maybe it's because the new solid set I am building is almost the same colors :)
 

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