Usually just 6 or 7 of us and we play a weekly 0.25/0.50 game with 20 dollar buy and multiple re buys where I just give them some big chips and they get change around the table. Right now we use less than 300 chips out of my dice set.
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Just1Better
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Someone may have already said this and if they did I apologize, but you should start but getting samples of everything you think you might like. I have literally hundreds of samples and I not only use them on some poker nights but I also used them early on to decide what I do and don't like in a chip. So, I recommend you grab some samples, and see what you really like in a chip.
FDLmold
Royal Flush
BTW, you don't really buy chips around here. You "rent" them, until you "rent" them to somebody else.
Just1Better
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Well, I plan to buy them and then will them to my kids -- But, you are probably right!
dew4au
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Glad you got some samples! Welcome to pcf!
Forest@Farmington
Straight
welcome and give ceramics a chance. Love my custom set.
Can't take credit for the Elites. That was all BSteck's generosity. I just passed them along.
Derail imminent: Gah, don't play .25/.50 with people buying in for 20. Short stacked out of the gate. If the comfort level is 20, then play .10/.20. Or, for chip convenience, at least go to .25/.25.
Derail imminent: Gah, don't play .25/.50 with people buying in for 20. Short stacked out of the gate. If the comfort level is 20, then play .10/.20. Or, for chip convenience, at least go to .25/.25.
I thought the same thing, but after playing a handful of times with this format it has worked very well. Almost everyone rebuys immediately so I have thought about starting with a 40.00 buy in, but not sure if everyone would be willing to put that much in upfront.
Welcome! Good luck with your search!
doughboy63
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If you think those leave you speechless..... wait til you try out Paulsons.
Do so with caution. May reduce bank account.
SeanGecko
4 of a Kind
Have you checked out the 8v blow out from @ABC Gifts and Awards ?
SeanGecko
4 of a Kind
Have you tried https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/8v-compression-clay-blowout-sale.35015/page-26#post-648916
10c a chip! Excellent chips!
10c a chip! Excellent chips!
He said the "DC" word. GET HIM!!!!
SeanGecko
4 of a Kind
Even when I first started I hated dice chips.
These are super diamond but they have a better feel though it isn’t necessarily uniform in material.
I’m so excited to get started on the 8V’s 3rd and final main cash set. We are going to have 3 locations for our cash game.
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SeanGecko
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My game started this way and we did 5c 10 c blinds. Now we are at 10c 20c blinds with a 10c ante.
THe ante really improves pot size in our game.
Your mileage may vary.
Welcome,
Your game will grow. Buy a set that can grow. Also, the way you spread your chips affects the action and the fun.
Get 100x.25c, 300x$100, 200x$5. 600 chips.
Players will have stacks of whites, make way less change and the pots will look great and the game will play looser.
Today you have 6 players. Tomorrow you have 8-9. Today its .25/.50. Tomorrow its .50/1, 1/1 etc.
I love my Tiki ceramics and I just bought the Muertos too. I will eventually make a custom CPC set. But I personally feel that unless you play in a great room on a great custom felted table and for at least $1/$2 - $2/$5 stakes, spending $3k plus on chips is overkill. That's just me.
I play regularly in games with the Monte Carlo and Cash Club plastic chips, (theyre ok but they look like toys),
and the Milano china clays. I also have sample sets of all the china clays like Dunes, Pharaos etc.. They are slippery as hell and their colours dont come close to bold ceramics. Forget stacking chips. Its not clay. Clay is expensive. Either get true clay or go ceramic.
But the ABC/ BRPRO ceramics are outstanding.
Once you play a few games with bright colourful chips, that are easy to separate in a big mixed pot, and stack 50plus high without so much as a wiggle, you will understand the difference. Go splurge.
Your game will grow. Buy a set that can grow. Also, the way you spread your chips affects the action and the fun.
Get 100x.25c, 300x$100, 200x$5. 600 chips.
Players will have stacks of whites, make way less change and the pots will look great and the game will play looser.
Today you have 6 players. Tomorrow you have 8-9. Today its .25/.50. Tomorrow its .50/1, 1/1 etc.
I love my Tiki ceramics and I just bought the Muertos too. I will eventually make a custom CPC set. But I personally feel that unless you play in a great room on a great custom felted table and for at least $1/$2 - $2/$5 stakes, spending $3k plus on chips is overkill. That's just me.
I play regularly in games with the Monte Carlo and Cash Club plastic chips, (theyre ok but they look like toys),
and the Milano china clays. I also have sample sets of all the china clays like Dunes, Pharaos etc.. They are slippery as hell and their colours dont come close to bold ceramics. Forget stacking chips. Its not clay. Clay is expensive. Either get true clay or go ceramic.
But the ABC/ BRPRO ceramics are outstanding.
Once you play a few games with bright colourful chips, that are easy to separate in a big mixed pot, and stack 50plus high without so much as a wiggle, you will understand the difference. Go splurge
.Wyldfyre
Pair
ranger764
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Welcome
dew4au
Flush
You're going to be using these at cents, correct? 25 = $.25, 100 - $1.00 etc?
Correct! Figured in the future I could expand this set for small stack tourneys and maybe add some starburst Paulsons
dew4au
Flush
Yeah I did a similar thing when I only had tourney chips starting out. My gang didn't have a problem with it. You have enough to host a STT. You can always add another box or two of Atlantics to give yourself some flexibility in your breakdown. I dunno about mixing Paulsons and CPC / ASMs. Some people do it with RHC and FDLs, but I'm not a huge fan of mixing THCs and A-Molds. You can surely try it out to see!
dew4au
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Well might as well head on over to the chip design tool and start posting in the Mock-ups for fun thread. Do you have any ideas for a theme? I found my inspiration close to home. Once I saw this stationary from a Victorian era hotel in Cherokee county I was hooked. The Signal was my project from then on.
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