How soon did you buy premium? (1 Viewer)

[Ben8257]

Umm... well... I started with interlocking plastic as a youth. Bought a 500 chip slugged set around 2000, got back into buying chips in 2019. Started with 2 more slugged sets. Then found this place, the first Paulson I fell in love with was the Aces $3... literally never play home cash games, but a cash set was my first journey here on the forum. Honestly I am not above playing a T1 based tourney anyways so I could use them for both.

Since then @FordPickup92 and I have added several sets, all different types, I prefer a little bit of everything as opposed to a collection where all of the chips are basically the same other than color and inlay. TRKs, BCCs, custom CPCs, Fat Hats, 36mm little guys, Ceramics, Hybrids, ... I like em all!

Most recently bought a ceramic set, next is a Hybrid ceramic set, just because you go for quality chips doesn't mean you can't mix in the other stuff too!

But realize that while investing in the lower end stuff you may have to take a loss when upgrading if you don't intend on keeping both. So from that stand point I recommend going straight to the good stuff! It is OK to change your mind later and get your money back out of them.

If you mean customs from CPC I would wait a little longer and really get a sense of what you like before blindly jumping in on a set as customs also losses a bit of their value in the secondary market!

Good luck with the decision @SaltCityFish

 

[Glacier]

Bought Dice Chips back in 2000 for our home games. A fan of Poker movies like Rounders, Molly's Game, etc. Then about 2 years ago went down the rabbit hole of poker chips.

Bought Nevada Jacks tournament last year in March....a couple of racks of China Clays....then HSI secondary cash set....then Rounders tournament set. All within 4 months.

Been buying Dealer Buttons, All-in Buttons, Bomb Pot buttons, plaques, or whatever else is on here on group buys even since. It is truly a sickness. Lol.

Built a poker table.

And yes, the people in our games have no idea about poker chips and the differences. But it matters not, I love seeing all my chips in play.

Which gets me to this question:

When I host at my house...I choose whatever chips I feel like that day.
When someone else hosts at their house....I only take the Nevada Jacks ceramics.

How do y'all handle that?

 

[stocky]

Luckily I found CT before buying any set so first set was Paulson leaded hotstamp cash game set I put together before my custom CPC tourney set

 

[TurboKitty]

Right away for me too. After lots of research on PCF, I found that I like Paulsons the most, not only because of the way they look and feel, but also because they always seem to appreciate in value. Buying Paulsons is sorta like renting chips for free.

 

[JScott]

I bought Yin Yangs in 2018, DDLM's a year later, and my first Paulson's a year later again. Went from thinking $300 was a lot for a set, to $1000, and then.... well, $500 a rack or $20 a chip for 43mm IHC's.

The good news is I've never lost money on the premium, can't say the same for the plastics/ceramics. Although I do still love my DDLM's.

 

[warewulf]

I was perfectly happy with my 'real clay' hot stamped super diamonds back in the early 90's when I custom ordered them pre Internet, from a pool table store. Pretty sure they were around .50 cents each with my initials stamped on one side.

Then around 2003 or so when I started hosting again, I was looking for more super diamonds. I stumbled upon one of the chip sites that no longer exists. First premium set were custom 'suits' chipcos, part of a group buy. I think my next premium set after that was PNY Paulsons. I bought a 2 table tournament set from the original seller on eBay. They were $1.30 each for $25 - $500. He didn't want to sell any of the $1000's at the time, so I offered him $2 each for them. Think I ended up with 80 of the $1000's at that price.

Down the rabbit hole I went. At one point, I hosted a group buy for custom TR Kings and custom BCC MGK. I've probably gone through 50+ sets since then. Some of my favorites were the Vineyard Paulsons, Ritz. Of course, one of the few sets I've held on to in my avatar, 'Rick's Moundhouse, NV'.

 

[99%evil]

In 2003 I bought real Vegas "clays" similar to progens and relabeled them... then felt like I was cheap, bought a set of BC Martini Clubs.. thought they were too light, bought a set of the original Nevada Jack BC Clays (no not the ceramic ones, there were clay ones...I really wish I still had them)and got in on the original Eqyptian group buy on CT... hated the "Paulson" mold... went on to many many sets, custom TRk's(I designed and made the Oasis club hot stamp), Samurai's, many different paulson sets(name it I may have owned it- New yorkers, Crystal Palace, small set of Vineyards, every other home set), bought 6,000 bud jones and sold everything. Now I only own custom 300 ceramics I received in exchange for selling my poker chip site I started (Chipchat) to spite Chiptalk...oh and a decent set of Mardi gras clays I left at guinnesses house about 12 years ago, along with a custom table... I should probably ask if they are still there, shit he might not be alive....

 

[LinkyBabe]

Since then @FordPickup92 and I have added several sets

LMAO... Understatement of the year

 

[Goldfish]

Bought a custom set of chipco chips directly from chipco. Used them for over 15 years. Never cleaned them once. Hahaha.

 

[SaltCityFish]

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.
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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.

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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

In 2003 I bought real Vegas "clays" similar to progens and relabeled them... then felt like I was cheap, bought a set of BC Martini Clubs.. thought they were too light, bought a set of the original Nevada Jack BC Clays (no not the ceramic ones, there were clay ones...I really wish I still had them)and got in on the original Eqyptian group buy on CT... hated the "Paulson" mold... went on to many many sets, custom TRk's(I designed and made the Oasis club hot stamp), Samurai's, many different paulson sets(name it I may have owned it- New yorkers, Crystal Palace, small set of Vineyards, every other home set), bought 6,000 bud jones and sold everything. Now I only own custom 300 ceramics I received in exchange for selling my poker chip site I started (Chipchat) to spite Chiptalk...oh and a decent set of Mardi gras clays I left at guinnesses house about 12 years ago, along with a custom table... I should probably ask if they are still there, shit he might not be alive....

Crazy story! And I didn’t know Nevada Jack originally had clays

 

[99%evil]

Crazy story! And I didn’t know Nevada Jack originally had clays

Yep, old school neveda mold

 

[Lizak]

I joined the forum Last week. Day 1 or 2 thought I liked old chips/paulson fantasy. Day 3,4 you get the thirst for retired casino chips , and now end of the week all I want is 1k+ per rack. Don’t ever open a thread labeled Sunset Beach or RPC just don’t do it.

 

[Justchipin]

Umm... well... I started with interlocking plastic as a youth. Bought a 500 chip slugged set around 2000, got back into buying chips in 2019. Started with 2 more slugged sets. Then found this place, the first Paulson I fell in love with was the Aces $3... literally never play home cash games, but a cash set was my first journey here on the forum. Honestly I am not above playing a T1 based tourney anyways so I could use them for both.
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Since then @FordPickup92 and I have added several sets, all different types, I prefer a little bit of everything as opposed to a collection where all of the chips are basically the same other than color and inlay. TRKs, BCCs, custom CPCs, Fat Hats, 36mm little guys, Ceramics, Hybrids, ... I like em all!

Most recently bought a ceramic set, next is a Hybrid ceramic set, just because you go for quality chips doesn't mean you can't mix in the other stuff too!

But realize that while investing in the lower end stuff you may have to take a loss when upgrading if you don't intend on keeping both. So from that stand point I recommend going straight to the good stuff! It is OK to change your mind later and get your money back out of them.

If you mean customs from CPC I would wait a little longer and really get a sense of what you like before blindly jumping in on a set as customs also losses a bit of their value in the secondary market!

Good luck with the decision @SaltCityFish

You could have saved me a lot of money if I would have saw this sooner. But hey that's chipping!

 

[harrysallout]

Best advice I should have taken was save up and go straight premium if you’re planning on only a single set.

Over a span of too many years to remember I went through the official casino weight metal slugs, ceramics, more ceramics, China clay, more China clays, more ceramics and finally ended with BCCs and Paulsons.

Go straight premium if you can wait it out.

 

[louBdub]

1 year in order progress:

Slugged dice - BBO Tournament set - BBO Cash set - CPC solids - 43mm Aria CM Tournament set - 1K Majestic Star set - CPC solid labels and milling - Custom Majestic Star frac rack…

This forum is a terrible idea…………….

Run away.

 

[toothpic]

"How soon did you buy premium?" will one day turn into "How many sets is enough?" and can potentially turn into a near final form of "When do you reach your chipping nirvana?"

 

[BPTDirector]

I started with FLV 100’s and 500’s and arc yellow starburst 25’s followed with Paulson Chips Pharoah group buy on the blue board. It was all downhill for my wallet from there…

 

[Vice]

Had some Bud Jones chips made years ago. Started hosting tournaments and cash games with China Clays. (CPS and Pharaoh) Now compiling HSI Secondary's. I doubt I will ever felt them as they are buttery fresh!

 

[Ben8257]

Had some Bud Jones chips made years ago. Started hosting tournaments and cash games with China Clays. (CPS and Pharaoh) Now compiling HSI Secondary's. I doubt I will ever felt them as they are buttery fresh!

Chips are meant to be played! Spent $5k on a tourney set on minty secondary Indiana Grands. Washed and oiled every chip... put them in the felt the next weekend at a meet up in a $20 winner takes all tourney in Jersey with @Irish Crew

I guess I am one of those "why own them if you don't play them kind of people"

Almost new... used one time and zero regrets! Looking forward to sharing them with other members of the community that didn't get a chance to score a set!

 

[shorticus]

It took me 10 posts to get a premium set. Thanks @Tommy

 

[philhut]

Chips are meant to be played! Spent $5k on a tourney set on minty secondary Indiana Grands. Washed and oiled every chip... put them in the felt the next weekend at a meet up in a $20 winner takes all tourney in Jersey with @Irish Crew
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I guess I am one of those "why own them if you don't play them kind of people"
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Almost new... used one time and zero regrets! Looking forward to sharing them with other members of the community that didn't get a chance to score a set!

Good breakdown, enough to stretch to 3 table and also two at 12/12/?/?/?

 

[toynoob]

It's been a couple years on here, and I still haven't upgraded beyond ceramics, and I don't think I will for the foreseeable future.

My first goal was to build a proper table, and find chips with a denomination on them so everyone would stop asking "how much are the red ones worth again?" a hundred times per game. That led me here, and to buy China clays.

Now I have a bunch of custom ceramic sets, thanks to Br Pro and the cards mold group buys, and feeling fairly content

My customs have large denoms on them, never fucking fails a new player will sit down pick up the chip and say what's this one worth

 

[philhut]

My customs have large denoms on them, never fucking fails a new player will sit down pick up the chip and say what's this one worth

It's just so much easier to respond with "face value" and let the player put 2 and 2 together. Players are used to non denom coloured chips. It is a fair question and fun to see the expression on their face when they realize "whoa this game has values on chips like at the casino". doesn't take much for some players.

 

[TricycleClub]

Right away.

This is 100% accurate.

 

[Drok5]

Buy once cry once. I went big immediately as soon as I had the cash flow for it. Considered multiple options back and fourth over quite some time but jumped as soon as the opportunity presented itself.

 

[dinosaur]

Been here a month. Purchased some cpc’s from a member here already. Thanks everyone. I blame all of you.

 

[upNdown]

My customs have large denoms on them, never fucking fails a new player will sit down pick up the chip and say what's this one worth

This is no exaggeration. I recently put out these chips for the first time. One guy who came in late bought his chips, I pushed him his stacks, and he started looking at the chips. It’s even more ironic because this guy has been dealing in New England forever, and around here $5’s are always red and reds are always $5. Anyway, he looks at his chips, picks up a red one and goes “how much are the red ones worth?”

 

[satisfyingbutton]

This is no exaggeration. I recently put out these chips for the first time. One guy who came in late bought his chips, I pushed him his stacks, and he started looking at the chips. It’s even more ironic because this guy has been dealing in New England forever, and around here $5’s are always red and reds are always $5. Anyway, he looks at his chips, picks up a red one and goes “how much are the red ones worth?”
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Yeah, but that's $5 in Baccarat money on the chip - who knows what that translates to in Poker money these days!

 

[Defarse]

We played with dice chips in college in 2003. We stopped playing for a decade and started again in 2015 when I got Magestic china clays. Quickly moved to Tiki Kings. Covid slowed our game down. I got EPT replicas in the meantime that weren't great and have went back to the Tiki's. Now looking to upgrade to either Sun-Fly Prestige or Matsui.

 

[MeridianFC]

My first set was hot stamped Paulsons. Late 90s and they were like .65 each