Welcome to the forum
@wickedwonka121 when I joined I was looking for slugged plastic 08 Casino Royale chips and quickly found the 05 CDIs (same as your chips but a different inlay) of course I was obsessed being that Bond films more or less drove me into chip collecting. But I thought no way in hell I'm paying $3 a chip for some dang poker chips... unfortunately I found about 15 of the Blue $1s off the forum for like $30 and bought them... big mistake... I was even more obsessed! I woke up one morning to a listing from Hawaii for this listing
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For $500... well it was "less than $3" a chip and I thought maybe over time I could grow it into a "special occasion" single table set....
This is where people tell you to be very careful in this hobby, it quickly became my Grail quest... all I could think about, and then we agreed to bring them to a meet up for a main event... again no idea what we had signed up for suddenly I was in panic mode trying to find every chip I could to cover the game... suddenly "no I am not paying $3 a chip turned into $4, $4.50 and yes even $5.50 per chip for the Arc Yellow $1ks... this single pursuit made me the poorest I have been since I was a kid. Today the set looks like this
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Finally a goal was reached, a set that could cover absolutely anything at any size and any stakes... but it came with a cost that unfortunately is more than many brand new small cars.
So good luck on the pursuit of your dream, but set limits if at all possible, this hobby has a terrible habit of turning into obsession!
And if you are hoping to add on to your set of Paulson Classics, unfortunately the days of $1 - $1.50 per chip are long gone... you are probably in the $3.50 - $4 range for many of those denoms and possibly higher for the harder to find chips!
Best of Luck with the pursuit!
Fellow Chipper Ben
