For Sale Large set, slugged 14g "Ultimate" chips (Price Drop) (1 Viewer)

I have nearly 2000 (1998) of these:

http://www.pokerchipmania.com/clay-poker-chips/14g-ultimate/

Used them when I ran the annual company tourney at a previous job. Used a half dozen times, and not used since.

Breakdown:

599 1
399 5
400 25
400 100
100 500
100 1000

A few chips are missing/misaligned stickers (par for the course at this quality.)

No case, just racks... Asking $60 ($3 a rack, all racks included) plus shipping (or pick-up in northern NJ for free.) Think of it as $1 for the rack, $2 for 100 chips.

You can top off or add to the set cheaply at $2.50 per 25 chips (plus shipping) from the site above, as well as several other sites & Amazon - 5k and 10k chips also available online, as well as 10 and 50..

 

[MD Mike]

I have a really old version of these sitting in a box somewhere that I was considering tossing.

It's just too damn heavy!

 

[Mental Nomad]

It's just too damn heavy!

That's why I need to be paid to carry them out!

Seriously, though, a lot of people love these heavy, colorful chips. If running a tourney for people who aren't chippers, there's no point in spending thousands on chips they won't appreciate.

I also used these for a couple of cash games. Whoever kept the missing 1 and 5 overpaid, bigly.

 

[Mental Nomad]

Wondering why you'd want a tourney set with a "1" denomination? Well, with this set, you can start a tourney with blinds of 2/4!

Why would you want to? A 2/4 opening level lets you progress to 3/6 for the second level - a 50% increase in the blinds. To many Tournament Directors, the very worst thing about most blind structures is the abrupt 100% increase in blinds from the first level to the second (typically 25/50 to 50/100.) This abruptly cuts everyone's stack size in half (when counted in blinds.)

Also, poker novices often have a hard time understanding why most tournaments start at 25/50, or why the lowest denomination is a 25; they don't understand cash versus tourney sets. Starting the game with T1 chips makes intuitive sense and makes the game less intimidating.

So if you start at 2/4, this bit set allows you to have starting stacks:

T400, 100 BB: up to 49 players! (Limited by the 5s)
10: 1
8: 5
6: 25
2: 100

T800, 200 BB: up to 49 players! (Limited by the 5s)
10: 1
8: 5
6: 25
6: 100

T1200, DEEP STACK 300 BB: up to 40 players! (Limited by the 100s)
10: 1
8: 5
6: 25
10: 100

All with plenty of higher-denom chips for coloring up the 1s and 5s. If you have an enormous tournament and tons of rebuy, you even have enough T500 and T1000 chips to color up the green from the tables, if you want!

 

[Mental Nomad]

Price reduced... and I present here a lovely T500 tourney structure, with BGinGA-approved blinds progression:

10 x T1
8 x T5
10 x T25
2 x T100
---------------
30 chips = 500

Set's good for for up to 40 buy-ins! (With plenty of bigger denoms for rebuys and color-ups.)

Blinds start at 1/2, so stacks for 500 are 250 BB, making this a somewhat-deep tourney, but you can double the starting stacks and play a 20-handed full-on deep-stack tourney.

lvl sb bb
L1 1 2
L2 1 3
L3 2 4
L4 3 6
L5 4 8
L6 5 10
L7 6 12
L8 8 16
remove T1 chips
L9 10 20
L10 15 30
L11 20 40
L12 30 60
L13 40 80
remove T5 chips
L14 50 100
L15 75 150
L16 100 200
L17 125 250
L18 150 300
L19 200 400
L20 250 500
remove T25 chips
L21 300 600
L22 400 800
remove T100 chips
L23 500 1000
L24 750 1500
L25 1000 2000
L26 1250 2500
L27 1500 3000
L28 2000 4000
L29 2500 5000
L30 3000 6000

 

[moojersey]

Not sure if serious....

 

[Craig D]

I've played in a weekly game for years that use these, I admit to giving them to the host

good cheap chips, better than dice by miles

They bounce just fine on concrete floors without breaking

 

[Mental Nomad]

Not sure if serious....

Sure.

This first time I binked a tourney was with this set, 30-odd players. Some people want or need a large cheap set, and as @Craig D says, they're still miles better than dice chips.

 

[Mental Nomad]

Price drop - OP updated:

Asking $100 $80 $70 ($5 $4 $3.50 a rack, all racks included) plus shipping (or pick-up in northern NJ for free.) Think of it as $1 for the rack, $2.50 for 100 chips.