House Mold Cash Direction Help (1 Viewer)

[kmccormick100]

I recently acquired @bentax1978 's mixed house mold starter set and am planning on turning it into the go to deepstack/high limit set for our bigger home games, $1/1, $1/2, and eventually $2/5. Obviously the $1s and $5s are sorted out 200x $1, 600x $5, and I'm thinking of skipping a $20/$25 chip to go straight to $100. This will help reduce the amount of expensive chips to harvest (Either Aria $3s or Caesar's $2s), and most casinos I've played in don't let $25s play in most $1/2 or $2/5 games, they rely on $5s then $100s as workhorses.

That said, I think I've got a winner in the Circus Circus $1 for a relabel, assuming I can harvest a full rack or two (the Mirage $3s were sweet, but I don't think I could get a full rack plus, and if I do it'll cost well over $300 probably. The Aria $20 is my perfect $1k chip, I think I'll want a barrel in case of a super deep night, but $20/chip is a little steep. To be fair, they're live chips, easy to harvest as they play in the $40/80 game, and will never lose value, but still.

Conversely, the Circus Circus snapper would make a nice $1k, but I'll need to find a substitute $100 chip that isn't obscenely expensive.

Help? Thoughts?

 

[BGinGA]

I have a barrel of oversize Dunes $20s if you change your mind about going directly to hundos.

 

[kmccormick100]

I have a barrel of oversize Dunes $20s if you change your mind about going directly to hundos.

I do love those chips. Would a lime green oversized $1k be weird? Haha

 

[Godzilla28]

I vote Aria $3 as $25s, MGM $3 hundos and Circus Circus snapper $500s. Moar chips and Moar denominations.

 

[upNdown]

I like your project in theory, but I think if you cover up those Circus Circus inlays, you are committing a crime. Like an aggravated assault with malice aforethought.

 

[RagsPoker]

Planet Hollywood $1's maybe? Obtainable in great condition.

 

[kmccormick100]

I like your project in theory, but I think if you cover up those Circus Circus inlays, you are committing a crime. Like an aggravated assault with malice aforethought.
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I think covering them would help players with epilepsy not have seizures hahaha

 

[AWenger]

and most casinos I've played in don't let $25s play in most $1/2 or $2/5 games, they rely on $5s then $100s as workhorses.

Ahh... that explains something -- I've seen a few episodes of Live at the Bike poker (typ. 1/2 or 2/5, I think?), and I don't think I ever saw any $25s in play, players had many stacks of $5s and then some $100 chips. I like this idea for this set -- it increases the Total Bank to Harvesting Cost ratio. (TB/HC ratio -- can I coin this phrase, think it'll catch on?)

I vote Aria $3 as $25s, MGM $3 hundos

I'll second this. Costs aside, I just really dig the Aria $3 chip as a $25. If I owned this set, that's the chip I'd try to harvest a few barrels or a rack of (I'd justify it to myself that it's a cheaper per chip cost than many TRK chips). But skipping the $25, and going the straight to $100 route, I like the MGM $3, although if that's just a drop chip, it may be hard to harvest or obtain in quantity.

I think if you don't cover up those Circus Circus inlays, you are committing a crime.

FYP.

I also like the Circus Circus $1s as 100s and Aria $20s as $500 or $1000.

Planet Hollywood $1's maybe? Obtainable in great condition.

The quarter-pie Planet Hollywood $1s might make a nice Cali-colored white hundo, or how about sneaking in an east coast Foxwoods $1 as a hundo?

Other $100 / $500 / $1000 candidates? Yeah, a little outside the box, but Luxor 2.50 might pair well with PH $1.

 

[AWenger]

Ooohh.. just found a nice pic of the Aria chips from the chipboard here, including a rack of $3s.

 

[bentax1978]

The box making factory is open for business. Wonder if this might be the first shipment to utilize the new boxes?

 

[ovo]

really like that Trop dollar. Looking forward to what you do Kyle, know I'll be able to enjoy the chips sometime

 

[AWenger]

really like that Trop dollar.

Me too. I have a few of these chips in my collection, and took a couple pics below.. The almond (?) color of the Trop dollar would make a nice alternative color $100, IMO. Like a white Cali hundo with a twist.

 

[ovo]

Me too. I have a few of these chips in my collection, and took a couple pics below.. The almond (?) color of the Trop dollar would make a nice alternative color $100, IMO. Like a white Cali hundo with a twist.

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nice, is it almond, or daisy ?

 

[AWenger]

I'm not sure. I have a few Paulson color sample chips, but not almond or daisy. The Trop $1 is definitely a light, pastel, yellow color that's not bright. Looking at just the photos on Paulson Color Reference on PCF the color is much closer to Almond than Daisy, but photos can be off.

 

[kmccormick100]

Time to hit up @Gear for a couple thousand labels. (Yes, these will have Circus circus $100 labels)

 

[AWenger]

nice, is it almond, or daisy ?

To clear up a past question, I recently acquired a Paulson color sample set, so I now know for sure - the Trop $1 color is definitely Almond. Daisy is closer to Yellow, which is close to Canary Yellow.

(Yes, these will have Circus circus $100 labels)

I like how this set turned out. Cali $100 whites! Just like that*, you've added $9500 to the bank. (*after application of Gear labels)