Las Palmas Casino (vintage THC) (1 Viewer)

[gopherblue]

That $25...mmmm.

 

[skylines]

I’ll give u tree fiddy. Insane pick up!

 

[Thomacetti]

With a shipment of new chips being delivered on Monday....Need some feedback from PCF.

I have two options here:

A. Keep it a heads-up set: remove 2 $5 chips & add 2 awsome leaded $500 chips (20/20/5/1) for T1500 HU set (that will see VERY limited use)

B. I scored 2 racks of mint Cincy dollars...but not sure if it feels right to add non leaded chips to a vintage set.
Only way to make it playable...white shaped dollars (and not same shaped inlay) are rare as hen's teeth...
And I did the same with the PCA set, kept the original RHC sec $1 but added 2 racks of uncirc. & murdered Ballys with textured labels from Gear.
I would do the same with the cincy chips (replace with textured labels & Las Palmas artwork)...

I could add a rack of mint cincy snappers as fracs (but prefer 2 racks in my quarter game sets)

What would you do ?

 

[Marius L]

I would probably do option A. I would add 2 cool relabeled 500s to the set. Don't need to be, but leaded, shaped inlays relabeled with matching labels (full murder) would look awesome for sure.

I see the dilemma though, as they probably wont see a lot of use this way.

 

[Eriks]

I buy chips to use them. I have bought several tournament sets and I had a HU-set but I rarely play tournaments nor HU. Ended up selling them all. So I would make it playable for games I actually play

 

[JeepologyOffroad]

I buy chips to use them. I have bought several tournament sets and I had a HU-set but I rarely play tournaments nor HU. Ended up selling them all. So I would make it playable for games I actually play

+1

 

[aggie]

Do BOTH!

Add the Cincy $1s (and snappers?) to make it a playable set. Doesn’t prevent you from having the heads up set, as well. That inlay is so awesome, relabeling the fracs/quarters would still be an upgrade even without the original higher denoms.

Congrats on the score, so awesome.

 

[PocketAces]

Really cool find @Thomacetti

I echo the sentiment of @Eriks...but sometimes, when you hold a cool little set like this one I think it’s is worth preserving what makes it special (old school, leaded, shaped inlays) which, in my opinion, means keeping things as original as you can.

So I like the idea of building a small heads up set around it. You might not play heads up right now but this project could be a good excuse to start

 

[Marius L]

Really cool find @Thomacetti

I echo the sentiment of @Eriks...but sometimes, when you hold a cool little set like this I think it’s is worth preserving what makes it special (old school, leaded, shaped inlays) which, in my opinion, means keeping things as original as you can.

So I like the idea of building a small heads up set around it. You might not play heads up right now but a cool set like this could be a good excuse to start

My thoughts exactly. And maybe it can be a good reason to play some HU once in a while. Is there other Belgian chippers here? The problem I see with adding 200x relabeled fracs and 200x relabeled jack $1s (although they are obviously nice chips), they take too much attention away from the original chips. The special thing with the chips you have is that they are leaded, shaped and old school. Instead you end up with a set of chips with 400 relabeled chips, and 100 of the real deal. That might have worked if the 100 real deal chips were the workhorses in the set, but the bigger problem is that if used in a small €.25/€.25 or €.25/€.50 cash game (which i asume your game might be if you prefer to have 200x fracs), the 100s will never be used, the $25s probably rarely and so its more likely you will end up with a set of 400 relabeled chips, and 40-50 of the real deal. And most likely only $5s and maybe a couple $25s will see play. If the game plays bigger than this and more of the chips would see play, I would probably be more happy about this option.

It essentially means the real chips will see little use regardless if you do option A or B. For me I would rather add two stunning relabeled $500s, like the Eddies Fabulous 50s $500, or something purple/pink/blaze. But essentially something leaded, shaped and old school. Since its only two chips, I would not feel to bad about murdering them even if they are rarer chips. Find a shape that will murder somewhat easily, and relabel. Probably rather the shape of Eddies Fabulous $500 rather than the pca $500, lol.

If used in a cash game:

In a €.25/€.25 game with 100bb start stack and 200x fracs and 200x $1s in the set, I assume you would do 20/20 start stacks for €25. That means 10 players, 400 chips, but 0 of the real chips on the table from start of the game.

In a €.25/€.50 game, There would be a couple of 5s in there as well obviously, but another problem if it's a bigger game, is that you only have 42x €5s, so the bigger games with these chips can get awkward real fast as well.. meaning start stacks of.... 20/20/4 = €45, for 90BBs if 10 players, or 20/20/5 for 100bb if there are 8 players or less in the game. Rebuys would have to be 25s, so probably 2x 25s for 100bb rebuys. If you get 10 rebuys, thats a barrel of 25s. 20 rebuys would mean you get 2 barrels of 25s in play. If the game plays bigger, you basically have too few €5s, and if it plays smaller, the real chips will just never see play.

If used in a HU set:
you have pretty much ALL the chips in play from beginning to end. 20/20/5/1, thats 46 chips each, and 92 total. It works perfectly with the extra 8x $25s that can be used to color up all the 40x $5s if need be later in the tourney.

Yes, the set will not be played often if its a HU set, but it will be used to its fullest potential when it is in fact used. Compared to the cash version, where it will be played more often, but in reality the chips mostly used will be relabeled jacks snappers and ones, which is obviously also nice, but its just something different than leaded, shaped and old school.

Spoiler

I realize its kinda wierd that I have such strong opinions on this, considering I have a "fake" PCA set, with only the $25s as the real original leaded, shaped inlay chips, and the rest of the set is simply relabled matching modern boat chips. However in my set the mix is a bit different (200 real vs 400 "fake"), and the PCA $25 is the workhorse chip in the set. The set is designed for handling different stakes, from 1/2 to (small) 10/20, but mainly focused around 1/2/4 or 5/5 play with the 200x $25s being used in pretty much any pots played. for refrence the set consists of 1s, 5s, 25s, 100s and 500s. 100/200/200/80/20.

 

[upNdown]

With a shipment of new chips being delivered on Monday....Need some feedback from PCF.

I have two options here:

A. Keep it a heads-up set: remove 2 $5 chips & add 2 awsome leaded $500 chips (20/20/5/1) for T1500 HU set (that will see VERY limited use)

B. I scored 2 racks of mint Cincy dollars...but not sure if it feels right to add non leaded chips to a vintage set.
Only way to make it playable...white shaped dollars (and not same shaped inlay) are rare as hen's teeth...
And I did the same with the PCA set, kept the original RHC sec $1 but added 2 racks of uncirc. & murdered Ballys with textured labels from Gear.
I would do the same with the cincy chips (replace with textured labels & Las Palmas artwork)...

I could add a rack of mint cincy snappers as fracs (but prefer 2 racks in my quarter game sets)

What would you do ?

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You’ve got some of the most gorgeous, unique old school leaded Paulsons there, and you want to pollute them with those unleaded dime a dozen Cincy dollars?

In my mind, that would be about a half-step up from using some white dice chips with those beauties. Seriously. It’s not just that they’re unleaded. It’s also that their spot pattern gives them away as ultra-common everybody has them chips, no matter how you label them.