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We are building a new house with a dedicated poker emporium - a room purpose built for cards. The project is nearing the end of the engineering / design phase. Our design team is having a good time turning what should be a bedroom and outdoor kitchen into a card room thinking that cost is no object (they are a little wrong about that). Construction starts in February with completion in August. Custom tables fall 2018 (thinking two eight person round tables), custom chips shortly there after.

I was explaining vintage casino chips and how many were in my horde when they asked how many chips did you need in a game. That answer lead to the conclusion that I had tens of thousands of "extra" chips. And that lead the designer to figure we could put 20,000+ chips on floor and then seal them in place rather than put in a normal floor treatment. Sure, it would be expensive to put in each chip by hand but not more than $10,000 - $20,000 in labor and materials. Not counting the cost of the chips.

While I admit it would make for a unique floor treatment, the idea of giving up 20,000+ chips to seal them into a floor seems like heresy. The floor would cost as much as the rest of the room . . . . sounds like a bad idea.

DrStrange
 
Poker room flooring sounds like the perfect use of china clays.

Encased in a clear substrate, they won't smell, the uneven thickness and diameter issues become irrelevant, they won't crumble and degrade over time, and they look good enough to pass for decent chips at a distance of five or so feet away (eye-to-floor).

Plus the cost is signicantly less than high-end clays, and nobody is likely to get bent out of shape over a few china clay sets being permanently removed from circulation.

I say go for it. (y) :thumbsup:
 
Cards with chips intermixed in a cool pattern would be awesome. Red chips as corners to blocks of several red cards and black chips doing the same....

Would also save the cost of maybe 3/4 of the chips....

I wish I could do something like this (or even have a room DEDICATED to poker)

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Wait!! What does "makeing" mean? I might have misunderstood this whole post! Is this a Chinese strategy?

(lol dude, I am not "making" a joke of this idea....I love this idea....GO FOR IT!!)
 
The floor with china clays would be cool.

For the Paulson's, may be a wall or wall section behind glass or plexiglass that wouldn't destroy the chips.
 
The labor and sealant alone would run $15,000 +/-. Toss in 22,000 chips at $0.30 each and we are looking at $22,000 for the floor alone instead of the $5,000 or so for the high end tiles currently planned.

$17,000 pays for a lot of custom poker stuff - tables, chips and chairs. The idea sounded cool but the opportunity cost even using knock-off chips is wicked ouchy expensive.

As for my walls - - - some of you might remember I picked up several thousand mostly live framed single chips a year or two ago. Now I have the wall space to hang all of them at once. And not bury them under an inch of polyurethane.

DrStrange
 
Have you seen any of the videos or pictures of people doing this with pennies? It can turn out really nice. I'm not sure about the poker chips, but maybe a penny floor would be a better option. Or you could just do a section of the floor, and not the whole thing.
 
Label dice chips edge to edge with faux casino labels and use them. No one would ever know the difference.

Or consider uncut sheets of playing cards.
 
FDLmold said:
I think a little of this in a strategic spot, covering a small area, could potentially be a nice, tasteful accent. To do the whole floor would be gaudy and ridiculous.
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A small two-chip border (less than 3" wide) around the circumference of the room might be interesting, and a lot less expensive.
 
If you were serious about putting something poker inspired into the floor, you could do something like the below, but adapt it to display the card suits? I've seen tile and wood and they can both look stunning (not card suits, just geometric designs)


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Things like this used to be really popular back in the day. I've seen dining tables, bar tops, etc.. done with coins, bottle caps, etc.. but a whole floor would take a lot of man hours just to lay out the pattern, not to take in consideration the amount of chips sacrificed for the project. And if you did why would you want to use cheap dice chips for a statement floor. Good call not to proceed.
 
Dice chips would invariably bug the hell out of me, knowing how crappy they are. Losing all those irreplacable chips would be equally tilting to me. The idea of a border is mildly palatable, but I'd do it with cermic replicas and not actual chips.

Cards is a much better idea.
 
BGinGA said:
Poker room flooring sounds like the perfect use of china clays.

Encased in a clear substrate, they won't smell, the uneven thickness and diameter issues become irrelevant, they won't crumble and degrade over time, and they look good enough to pass for decent chips at a distance of five or so feet away (eye-to-floor).

Plus the cost is signicantly less than high-end clays, and nobody is likely to get bent out of shape over a few china clay sets being permanently removed from circulation.

I say go for it. (y) :thumbsup:
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Disagree... The Dr. will know they are CC's. If spending this sort of cash is the plan, I would say space the chips out a bit so it isn't floor to floor chips but a chip every square foot or something like that. Go to Vegas, get a few racks of chips from as many places as you like, throw a random snapper or $5 in there to mix things up a bit, and call it a floor. You could even crowd source it here (I would gladly donate a bunch of real chips for something like this).

You don't have to go high end collectible, but if you do it... do it right.

What sort of floor would they be doing this with? Concrete with a finish on top? Hardwood, with the chips inlayed would be incredible, but that would be out of this world crazy.
 
I dare you to post this idea on The Chip Board.

As suggested above, doing some accent work with chips might be less gaudy, wasteful, and costly.

Can’t wait to see the space - congrats on the upgrade, Doc!
 
Yes, either just a border of chips, or perhaps "select" square or round "tiles" in select areas ( round or square inlays can even be some being chips, some cards or pennies..
Just please PROMISE you will can ideas of dice chips or stickered dice chips ...
 
One idea I am considering is making a poker chip transition strip at the entry to the poker emporium.

That would be roughly 5" wide and 8 feet long at the boundary between the kitchen and the poker room. There is a door there as well, but it is likely never closed because the doggie door is in poker room.

Such a strip would take ~160 chips. I could live with giving up eight barrels of good chips for that project. And it goes without saying that nothing but Paulson or other vintage casino chips go into the project.

Still waiting for Mrs. Strange to step in and say "HELL NO, not in my house" -=- DrStrange
 
There was a bar in Georgetown area of Washington DC. The bar counter was covered in vintage baseball cards then laminated over. Coolest thing ever!! But I think for a floor it would be a bit much. I like the idea of using some chips to make a central pattern or perhaps the border idea.

Here's another thought. Do you have a favorite sports team? You could make their logo out of chips and put it in the middle of the floor. Now that might look killer!! Especially if you would have any other team paraphenalia in the room.
 
Laminate and Luxury Vinyl Tile flooring is made by printing a pattern (usually woodgrain) on a thin sheet of paper bonded to a backing material, then covering it with a clear wear layer. There are some companies that will do a custom print for you. You could scan/photograph a bunch of classic chips, and put together whatever pattern you want and have it printed on the flooring instead of ruining actual chips.

Here's one site I found for example:
http://graphicimageflooring.com/
 
DrStrange said:
One idea I am considering is making a poker chip transition strip at the entry to the poker emporium.

That would be roughly 5" wide and 8 feet long at the boundary between the kitchen and the poker room. There is a door there as well, but it is likely never closed because the doggie door is in poker room.

Such a strip would take ~160 chips. I could live with giving up eight barrels of good chips for that project. And it goes without saying that nothing but Paulson or other vintage casino chips go into the project.

Still waiting for Mrs. Strange to step in and say "HELL NO, not in my house" -=- DrStrange
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For the wealth of value you add to this site, I would gladly proudly donate a few chips.

EDIT: Others custom chips = WIN
 

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