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I just realized that I don't need all the chips that I want.
For my base case micro stakes cash game with one table, I only need nickel through through $5. Four chip denominations. That's it. I need less than 500 total chips. If I run a low stakes tournament, I only need to add a few $25 chips, maybe two barrels. The only reason I would need those is to tidy up the table and to avoid counting out lots of nickels, aka color up, perhaps for the last two to four players standing.
Or I could persuade myself into a special tournament set which several PCFers recommend on theses pages. I could go with T1000 to be a faux high roller. No reason to do that though except to justify buying another set.
Now if I bought a new house with sufficient room for a big tournament... I just realized I can buy more chips. Suddenly I'm happy again. Sadly, houses are more expensive than a small set of Paulsons in these parts.
One cool thing that has happened. As I started down the path of becoming a chipper, I realized the reason that the better players talk in terms of how many big blinds they have, rather than chips. Chip count is almost completely irrelevant. My local tavern game gets shorter and shorter stacked even though the chip count goes through the roof. Everyone starts with 75 bigs. The last few players are playing with 10 bigs. I held 150,000 chips which was only 6 bigs by that point. I went out in third place.
All of this is because of you guys. So thanks for that. I've been reading lots of old posts. There is a wealth of knowledge here.
One last thing. It's looking like Apache Pharaohs will be my first set. This after buying probably 30 sample sets.
Cards Mold Arias are still in the running. I love their simplicity. I prefer the script mold and the progressive art on the Pharaoh though. Love those Starlites too. So brightly colored and simple. Whoever designed the Starlites is pure effing genius. I think finding all my denominations in Starlite will be a treasure hunt in the second hand market. My number one chip choice probably changed ten times as a new batch of samples arrived in the mail.
For my base case micro stakes cash game with one table, I only need nickel through through $5. Four chip denominations. That's it. I need less than 500 total chips. If I run a low stakes tournament, I only need to add a few $25 chips, maybe two barrels. The only reason I would need those is to tidy up the table and to avoid counting out lots of nickels, aka color up, perhaps for the last two to four players standing.
Or I could persuade myself into a special tournament set which several PCFers recommend on theses pages. I could go with T1000 to be a faux high roller. No reason to do that though except to justify buying another set.
Now if I bought a new house with sufficient room for a big tournament... I just realized I can buy more chips. Suddenly I'm happy again. Sadly, houses are more expensive than a small set of Paulsons in these parts.
One cool thing that has happened. As I started down the path of becoming a chipper, I realized the reason that the better players talk in terms of how many big blinds they have, rather than chips. Chip count is almost completely irrelevant. My local tavern game gets shorter and shorter stacked even though the chip count goes through the roof. Everyone starts with 75 bigs. The last few players are playing with 10 bigs. I held 150,000 chips which was only 6 bigs by that point. I went out in third place.
All of this is because of you guys. So thanks for that. I've been reading lots of old posts. There is a wealth of knowledge here.
One last thing. It's looking like Apache Pharaohs will be my first set. This after buying probably 30 sample sets.
Cards Mold Arias are still in the running. I love their simplicity. I prefer the script mold and the progressive art on the Pharaoh though. Love those Starlites too. So brightly colored and simple. Whoever designed the Starlites is pure effing genius. I think finding all my denominations in Starlite will be a treasure hunt in the second hand market. My number one chip choice probably changed ten times as a new batch of samples arrived in the mail.
