First set of chips I really bought went in my hands at walmart after I opened the boxes of 400 Suited chips (that were actually pretty good in the first edition received in Canada, then became garbage in later resupplies). Taking home I believe 3-4boxes in the breakdown I wanted.
These chips were not kept long as I took them to a buddies within the week who had some as well and used the chips as a buy-in (exchange for cash) to a tournament resulting in my buddy having a big set to cover his 3-4 table tournaments and I went about looking for Better.....So I bought these Nexgen Lucky Bee's (still have them).
The Bee's were good but I randomly found an Ad on craigslist for poker chips for $1000. This was back in ~2008, I turned down the rack of real rounders $100's from the fellow who told me he was an extra.....His house was so sketchy, no windows in a nice part of Toronto easily the worst house on the street....but the chips were a huge score and were a hit for many years until I sold them for bigger and better things. (old cell phone photos were terrible and did not age well sorry Pharaoh's)
I took a several year break from poker (had a daughter) but wanted a nice set of chips again so quickly without buying samples bought these sets, Then joined Pokerchipforum/com and sold both playing only the Crazy Horse chips once and didn't use the Scroll's at all....Sold to make room for inbound custom
CPC's, having had Pharaoh's the commercial china clays and ceramics didn't cut it and I wanted custom chips that would provide the game security my Pharaoh's never could back in the day.
After ordering my custom
CPC's and settling in for a long wait I saw the
HSI chips available. I loved my Pharaoh's and always wanted a real casino set which whenever I played the Pharaoh's was a question players would ask...."Are these real Casino chips?" and I would have to give the song and dance about how they "are" but "aren't really". The colors on the primary
HSI are probably my favorite chip set up making me jump all over them. I have added on since the pic and am up to 4690 pieces now with chips and plaques counted.
By this time I had a lovely
HSI set but my
CPC's were ages away from completion and I saw posts for Card's Mold Customs and given the price point decided to gamble on ordering a "sister" set to my
CPC customs as a secondary/primary set idea (3575cards/2100CPC). So ordered a whole whack of cards mold chips not knowing what to expect or if i'd be pitching some due to quality issues but was overwhelmingly surprised with how amazing they were.
Then finally my
CPC order that I made after ordering the new commercial chip prior to the
HSI's and Card's mold even being considered arrived....
Then made three other purchases of cool slightly smaller sets made along the way
Cincinnati 36mm NCV - 980chips
Atlantic Card & Dice Company Gaming School A.C.D.C - 900 chips
Majestic Star 36mm NCV- 800 chips
And now I am done with adding sets unless at least an equivalent number of sets go away.
the result LOTS OF CHIPS.....after PCF
