In general, you get back what you put out there. Right now, you're putting out a lot more than simply asking questions.
expensive micro sets (1 Viewer)
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Ben8257
Royal Flush
How about $8k invested in an all casino used quarter hot stamp set built for $50 buy ins and playing $.75/$1.50! Lol
How about over $8k invested in a set with Nickles and Dimes
All casino used fracs, ugly old chips... but then sharing them and getting compliments at the KC meet up from someone I trully look up to in this hobby @Poker Zombie as he and his wife @Mrs Poker Zombie used and taught on this set for two days and had ans absolute blast playing micro
I was playing slightly higher stakes the whole time, carried these chips half way across the country for others to enjoy. Not saying I am above Micro, I love it! But the table was packed full with a waiting list for part of that time. When others come over and thank you for the opportunity to play something that rare, to share something you spent countless hours and tons of money building, and then to get the "positive remarks" from your peers.... well as a chipper there is NO better felling.
But as @Lil Tuna pointed out (not only my best chipping friend but has trully become my brother)... how about the total price listed in the OP invested in a single rack of fracs
Then add them to an over $10k (current market, but was NOT cheap to build) set that we play $.10/$.20
For the record I agree with @upNdown "micro" stakes are less than $.25/$.50, sub $100 buy ins.
How about $1,500 invested in a set with cartoons and Penny denoms! (Not casino used but still a sizable investment)
I hope to get my family playing cash with these, they are very low income ans usually we only play $5 - $10 tournaments. With this we could play $.01/$.02 for $5 buy ins, or $.02/$.05 for $10 buy ins... I don't really care about the stakes, just want to get together and have fun. These chips are fun and inviting, they scream "let's just have fun and not care about the $$$!" and that's why I love them and added on twice to the set. I can also cover 2 tables of $.25/$.50 or even $1/$1 for our regular games.
But my favorite that makes me giggle for this thread was buying the Indiana Grand Secondary Tourney set. Over $5k invested in mostly dead mint chips... and then putting them in play for a 2am turbo @Irish Meet up last month, a $20 buy in tourney!
Playing "Mint" chips cuts their value just like driving a new car off the dealers lot. But I don't buy chips to look at, who cares if it's a $20 game with ALL chip collectors, or a $200 game with a bunch of folks that don't care about chips?
I'm not entirely sure you understand this hobby @xdukeluvax , glad to see you love chips and hope the chipping bug doesn't catch you like it has the rest of us.
Enjoy your chipping Journey!!
Fellow Chipper Ben
Damnnnn @Lil Tuna& why do old men buy new mustangs and drive like old ladies?
ever drive behind one of these? it will make you head explode!
I'd rather be behind a stack of expensive chips no mater what the stakes
Ben8257
Royal Flush
Those are great chips! I sold off most of our Paulsons but we have a few of the BCC version
A couple different set ups that can cover 2 tables each, still working on finishing the spotted set up to the right! Lol
$1 a chip for some, $2 for many of them.about $5k invested in a bunch of "micro stakes" chips
Long live the micro game!
MeridianFC
Flush
"Whoever invented gambling was smart, whoever invented chips was a genius."
xdukeluvax
Two Pair
Yeah i have some expensive ceramics and sunflys amd I honestly like the china clays just as much. Once oiled they are like butter
Ben8257
Royal Flush
Felt them Chippies! They want to be loved! Even if your players don't appreciate them... which I doubt, everyone says "my players don't care..." but then you give them Leaded THC or Scrown TRKs and they figure out the difference real quick!
All of a sudden the next game you put the lower quality chips in play, they will start asking "hey what happened to the ""real"" chips, the heavy ones!" No, most of them have no clue between a $3 chip and a $50 chip, rarity,special spot combinations mean nothing to them... but the overall quality of using Paulsons vs. Say Ceramics or cards molds... they will be able to tell the difference!
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TheDuke
Full House
This is no different than Mr. Pitt and Newman using a top of line Bruline racket for recreational use.
People want to use the same equipment as the 'pros'.
Noobs initially head down to their local casino equipment purveyor (Walmart) and purchase the finest official 11.5g casino chips.
Despite the ESPN or WPT branding, folks realize they have been fooled and expand their search beyond Walmart. They use the interwebs and find PCF.
They quickly learn that they have to spend thousands to enjoy the professional casino experience of authentic casino chips.
However, they are now poor because they spent all of their money on chips. They forgot they needed money to gambol. Thus they are forced to play small stakes while cursing the damn expensive chips that made them so poor.
JustinInMN
4 of a Kind
that show was trash.
Exactly!
Just like buying chips at Walmart or Target.
Not necessarily.
I’ve seen hot stamped dice chips on tables with more than 50k in play.
I can't believe I've read this far and no one has just came out an said it. They hint at it, they bat at it but here it is, if they want to acknowledged it or not, I didn't wanna be the asshole but here:
I want all of the other monkeys and yahoos running games and taking rakes to know that there game is shit. They don't have hotdog rollers, they don't have 2-10K in chairs, they didn't put up for a proper table, no custom graphic on felt. they give a shit about the quality of the game. and honestly its not even the high dollar amount. Its the respect, love and care for the game. When they leave from my game, they know, and they get scared, and they ask questions and they make the their game better, in small ways.
They wanna wear a superman capes and deal out paper cards with second rate cartoons on them, that are bent and been used for 2 years. They wanna host a game, take a $15 rake and sit out of the game with a seat open. They want you to take all the players and all the equip to their place so they can host. They don't understand some of the basic etiquette or even keep a consistent rule set. Then tell me a bad beat story and how lucky I am on the river. They don't care to even wash the shit off of the shit chips they use.
I'm an elitist asshole, get on my level or sit at the fucking kiddy table, YOU scrub donkeys
When players walk away from my game, they look at all the other games and they know, they know. Most of them invite me to their game and explain the have nots.. which I'm not a jerk about, I try to excuse it but we know haha
Now you can say I'm wrong, you can call me a jerk, but you better fucking nod my way when you sit down at the table across from me, because no one else cares about the chips on our level.
I'm not showing up with a card protector from walmart that's got a magnet attached to it for golf, or a Harley chip. I know the value and I appreciate it!
I want all of the other monkeys and yahoos running games and taking rakes to know that there game is shit. They don't have hotdog rollers, they don't have 2-10K in chairs, they didn't put up for a proper table, no custom graphic on felt. they give a shit about the quality of the game. and honestly its not even the high dollar amount. Its the respect, love and care for the game. When they leave from my game, they know, and they get scared, and they ask questions and they make the their game better, in small ways.
They wanna wear a superman capes and deal out paper cards with second rate cartoons on them, that are bent and been used for 2 years. They wanna host a game, take a $15 rake and sit out of the game with a seat open. They want you to take all the players and all the equip to their place so they can host. They don't understand some of the basic etiquette or even keep a consistent rule set. Then tell me a bad beat story and how lucky I am on the river. They don't care to even wash the shit off of the shit chips they use.
I'm an elitist asshole, get on my level or sit at the fucking kiddy table, YOU scrub donkeys
When players walk away from my game, they look at all the other games and they know, they know. Most of them invite me to their game and explain the have nots.. which I'm not a jerk about, I try to excuse it but we know
hahaNow you can say I'm wrong, you can call me a jerk, but you better fucking nod my way when you sit down at the table across from me, because no one else cares about the chips on our level.
I'm not showing up with a card protector from walmart that's got a magnet attached to it for golf, or a Harley chip. I know the value and I appreciate it!
RichMahogany
Straight Flush
I'm an elitist asshole, get on my level or sit at the fucking kiddy table, YOU scrub donkeys
When players walk away from my game, they look at all the other games and they know, they know. Most of them invite me to their game and explain the have nots.. which I'm not a jerk about, I try to excuse it but we know
NoNamePokerGuy
Two Pair
Alternative reason, because you can afford nice things and your friends can't. I'd rather play poker with friends more often at lower stakes, than play stakes that will have a meaningful impact on their ability to pay rent.
xdukeluvax
Two Pair
I relate to this the most forsure
tabletalker7
Full House
Same here man. If I whip my buddy out of his mortgage payment he has a real problem. If I whip him out of his beer money I hand him one of those N/A beers and point and laugh
Dude! Why are you shaming me?
He must go all-in blind every hand, right?
I can't believe I've read this far and no one has just came out an said it. They hint at it, they bat at it but here it is, if they want to acknowledged it or not, I didn't wanna be the asshole but here:
I want all of the other monkeys and yahoos running games and taking rakes to know that there game is shit. They don't have hotdog rollers, they don't have 2-10K in chairs, they didn't put up for a proper table, no custom graphic on felt. they give a shit about the quality of the game. and honestly its not even the high dollar amount. Its the respect, love and care for the game. When they leave from my game, they know, and they get scared, and they ask questions and they make the their game better, in small ways.
They wanna wear a superman capes and deal out paper cards with second rate cartoons on them, that are bent and been used for 2 years. They wanna host a game, take a $15 rake and sit out of the game with a seat open. They want you to take all the players and all the equip to their place so they can host. They don't understand some of the basic etiquette or even keep a consistent rule set. Then tell me a bad beat story and how lucky I am on the river. They don't care to even wash the shit off of the shit chips they use.
I'm an elitist asshole, get on my level or sit at the fucking kiddy table, YOU scrub donkeys
When players walk away from my game, they look at all the other games and they know, they know. Most of them invite me to their game and explain the have nots.. which I'm not a jerk about, I try to excuse it but we know
Now you can say I'm wrong, you can call me a jerk, but you better fucking nod my way when you sit down at the table across from me, because no one else cares about the chips on our level.
I'm not showing up with a card protector from walmart that's got a magnet attached to it for golf, or a Harley chip. I know the value and I appreciate it!
Quad Johnson
Two Pair
My current set of China clays and $20 plaques cost me $1200+ for a 10c/25c game and I plan to get a custom set when the budget allows it.
Why not? It's our passion this thing of ours. It's our hobby that makes us happy.
Why not? It's our passion this thing of ours. It's our hobby that makes us happy.
SeanGecko
4 of a Kind
Pics or we boo
Quad Johnson
Two Pair
Sorry, I was x2ing the chip costs. It's about $800 in with the roller felt.
And it's just Apache Pharaoh clones. I'd get booed trying to rep em. Hahaha
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