Key West Resort & Casino Discussion Thread (36 Viewers)

[dennis63]

I am reaching out to N.H. Fournier this week to inquire about getting some cases of Fournier playing cards shipped directly from Spain. We'll see how it goes. I'm not sure if Fournier ever shipped any cards directly to a U.S. distributor, but I've read that some Spanish companies have stopped shipping to the U.S.

 

[JMC9389]

I am reaching out to N.H. Fournier this week to inquire about getting some cases of Fournier playing cards shipped directly from Spain. We'll see how it goes.

Plastic jumbo index please!

 

[dennis63]

Plastic jumbo index please!

My thoughts exactly.

 

[dennis63]

I have received a response from Fournier. (Time to dust off my old Spanish dictionary.)

I will be holding off on further action here so as not to interfere with XDan's group buy, which includes some nice Fournier options. (I just saw it this morning!)

Eventually, I hope to be offering Fournier plastic bridge and poker jumbo decks on the Key West website some time later this year. Now is not the right time while another member is organizing a group buy.

 

[JMC9389]

I have received a response from Fournier. (Time to dust off my old Spanish dictionary.)

I will be holding off on further action here so as not to interfere with XDan's group buy, which includes some nice Fournier options. (I just saw it this morning!)

Eventually, I hope to be offering Fournier plastic bridge and poker jumbo decks on the Key West website some time later this year. Now is not the right time while another member is organizing a group buy.

Dennis, I may be wrong, but I don't believe Dan's buy is directly with Fournier. There are many of us that are full up on Fournier's stock options that would love to buy some Key West plastic

 

[Pippa]

Following

 

[Huskerchipper]

Dennis, I may be wrong, but I don't believe Dan's buy is directly with Fournier. There are many of us that are full up on Fournier's stock options that would love to buy some Key West plastic

I agree. Also, hasn't that specific Group Buy happened multiple times now? I know i was part of one not that long ago and ordered some Fournier's from it.

 

[suchj0sh]

Would love some key west plastic cards to go with my set!

 

[dennis63]

Dennis, I may be wrong, but I don't believe Dan's buy is directly with Fournier. There are many of us that are full up on Fournier's stock options that would love to buy some Key West plastic

So when I said, "Fournier," I wasn't thinking of Key West plastic cards made by Fournier.

I love the idea, and kinda wish I went with Fournier in 2012, when we originally did the Key West coated cardstock decks with Liberty. (I think we did 6,500 decks to get the company's best cardstock and best tuck boxes.)

Fournier's MOQ is 2,500 decks per color.

 

[dennis63]

Key West's 2026 order is ready

I spent part of this evening calculating how many chips to order in 2026 to restock. The order is ready and standing by for Classic Poker Chips when they are up, running and ready to accept orders.

I'm looking forward to good... no, make that GREAT things in 2026!

 

[dennis63]

With chip production on indefinite hold right now, I've been concentrating on the "back of house" stuff -- finding new things to put on the site, cleaning up and organizing the site, and trying to reach out to new vendors.

I got a large box this evening:

The box was from COPAG USA and contained some COPAG 1546 2-deck setups in cases -- Poker Jumbo in blue & red backs; Bridge Jumbo in burgundy and green backs; and single deck COPAG Elite decks in six colors. They're on the Key West site now. As always, PM me here on PCF if there is anything I can do.

In the coming weeks, I'm hoping to have more things new things available.

 

[dennis63]

After five weeks of putting the deal together, I got a shipment of Fourniers from Spain today. Here's the link:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/arrival-from-spain-fourniers.140510/

 

[dennis63]

Order in!

This morning, I placed a new order for Key West Resort & Casino chips with Classic Poker Chips.

Classic will be working on making chips for existing orders for some time before moving on to new orders. At this point, I don't have an estimate on when new Key Wests will be available, but will post updates here as soon as I know.

I wish @CPC_Mike, @Classic_Giraffe and the team at Classic Poker Chips much success and look forward to some more great Key Wests (and lots of other nice chips, I'm sure) in the near future.

 

[dennis63]

A word about Key West quality going forward

In another thread here on PCF, there are some posts wondering about how new Classic chips will come out in the future. Some have bashed the new owner. Others are taking a "wait and see" attitude.

I know from someone involved in the process that the new owner was selected by the former owners in a long process. Their goal was to find the buyer who was best suited to take the company into the future and continue the company's long history of quality.

Everyone here knows that David and Jim before him had extremely high standards of quality control during production. I have every confidence (and some faith) that this will continue under the new owner. That faith is not without reason, as some of the "new" team in Washington State have been with Classic since the days of Jim Blanchard and "Old ASM" in Portland.

Since I started offering Key West chips, I've made it my practice to take QC a step farther by checking every chip that arrives in a new order from Classic. I look at both faces and the rolling edge for noticeable flaws, then place the chips on a flat glass plate and try to spin it twice, once on each side.

Any chips with noticeable flaws and any that spin are pulled out and will never be sold. That number has always been very low -- usually 1 to 2 percent, and sometimes even less. (The rate was higher when Classic was briefly in Las Vegas. I tried to address that directly and in person, face to face, with the owner at the time. Thankfully, he is now gone and is a sad, brief footnote in the company's history of quality and integrity. )

I want to make sure everyone here knows that my final checks of each chip will continue in the future. It takes a lot of time to check each chip individually, and can delay the rollout of a new order, sometimes by a couple of weeks. But it helps ensure that a standard is maintained.

It's pretty simple. If I would not put the chip on my table at home, I won't put it on yours.

 

[Thomacetti]

Key West is top notch....Dennis his commitment unrivaled.

Proof:

 

[TheYeti]

A word about Key West quality going forward

In another thread here on PCF, there are some posts wondering about how new Classic chips will come out in the future. Some have bashed the new owner. Others are taking a "wait and see" attitude.

I know from someone involved in the process that the new owner was selected by the former owners in a long process. Their goal was to find the buyer who was best suited to take the company into the future and continue the company's long history of quality.

Everyone here knows that David and Jim before him had extremely high standards of quality control during production. I have every confidence (and some faith) that this will continue under the new owner. That faith is not without reason, as some of the "new" team in Washington State have been with Classic since the days of Jim Blanchard and "Old ASM" in Portland.

Since I started offering Key West chips, I've made it my practice to take QC a step farther by checking every chip that arrives in a new order from Classic. I look at both faces and the rolling edge for noticeable flaws, then place the chips on a flat glass plate and try to spin it twice, once on each side.

Any chips with noticeable flaws and any that spin are pulled out and will never be sold. That number has always been very low -- usually 1 to 2 percent, and sometimes even less. (The rate was higher when Classic was briefly in Las Vegas. I tried to address that directly and in person, face to face, with the owner at the time. Thankfully, he is now gone and is a sad, brief footnote in the company's history of quality and integrity. )

I want to make sure everyone here knows that my final checks of each chip will continue in the future. It takes a lot of time to check each chip individually, and can delay the rollout of a new order, sometimes by a couple of weeks. But it helps ensure that a standard is maintained.

It's pretty simple. If I would not put the chip on my table at home, I won't put it on yours.

Thanks for that, Dennis!

Do you have any concerns on color matching to the older sets? I may be in the market for some $5s in the future but want them to match the old chips.

 

[dennis63]

Do you have any concerns on color matching to the older sets? I may be in the market for some $5s in the future but want them to match the old chips.

I would not be overly concerned about this. The $5 chip is one of the original Key West denominations That color red was around even before they started making Key West chips in 2004. (A red $5 Sahara chip from the 1960s looks exactly the same as a recent Key West $5.)

I have Key West $5s in my personal collection. Some of them came from the original ASM in Portland, Maine during the Jim Blanchard era. I've added $5s with every iteration of the company since then.

If you mix them all, you can't tell them apart, so there clearly has been no change in the formula or the ingredients. I'm thinking ASM's red and imperial blue colors, used in the $5 chip, are probably pretty basic. (No day glow ingredients or fancy shades.)

I don't think there will be a problem. Just remember to compare apples to apples. If your current chips are oiled, you'll want to oil new ones, too.

And rest assured knowing I will be checking new chips for color consistency, too.