MeridianFC
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The situation: I want just one Paulson set to keep. I've always had just one, want to keep just one. Since my personal mantra is "cash sets should be custom" that pretty much means a tourney set (murderers and over-labelers I hear your exception). I've had the Casablanca set from the original NJ sale, so for years. It was always a bit awkward to run a decent tournament off it when it was just the 25/100/500, the addition of Sal's (R.I.P.) designed plaques made it very workable. I've tried for a while to add to it but it seems most folks who had Casa's were holding onto their chips, or at least the ones I needed. Then the Aurora's became available (thanks @Josh Kifer!). A perfectly designed THC tournament set. Job done right? The intention was to sell the Casas, shift a few barrels from the AST (I only need a STT set, I have a CM set for the very rare times I have multiple tables of the great unwashed) and I'm out only a few hundred bucks and I've got my perfect set.
Tried flogging the Casas but can't get takers for the whole operation (the 100s and 500s are far more rare and desirable than the 25s, but that's usually the way isn't it?). So I'm just sitting on them getting ready to take them over to Electronic Bay.
But wait @AfterTheFact offers up some nice minty $5s at a very good price (still two racks out there citizens). Suddenly I can add those to the Casblanca set and make it pretty tasty indeed. In fact it's so tasty that I'm thinking this does exactly what I wanted this set to do from the beginning. Sure T5 base has a slightly different texture to T25 but 200BB is 200BB.
So on the one hand I've got 720 very minty inlaid OG THC from a real casino with varied spot patterns. Plus 34 plaques. And dealer buttons. Plenty of chips to do STT with comfort (rebuys, color ups, etc.).
On the other hand I've got 700 very minty perfectly designed and very desirable THC tournament chips for the standard T25 base thing. And the set as it stands can easily two two tables if needed.
But I can have only one. Sure I hear you say "MOAR CHIPES!" but my budget and financial reality say I can't have several thousand dollars tied up in a set that only gets occasional use (I rotate in Tourneys but am primarily cash game oriented). So which one do I keep, which one do I sell?
Tried flogging the Casas but can't get takers for the whole operation (the 100s and 500s are far more rare and desirable than the 25s, but that's usually the way isn't it?). So I'm just sitting on them getting ready to take them over to Electronic Bay.
But wait @AfterTheFact offers up some nice minty $5s at a very good price (still two racks out there citizens). Suddenly I can add those to the Casblanca set and make it pretty tasty indeed. In fact it's so tasty that I'm thinking this does exactly what I wanted this set to do from the beginning. Sure T5 base has a slightly different texture to T25 but 200BB is 200BB.
So on the one hand I've got 720 very minty inlaid OG THC from a real casino with varied spot patterns. Plus 34 plaques. And dealer buttons. Plenty of chips to do STT with comfort (rebuys, color ups, etc.).
On the other hand I've got 700 very minty perfectly designed and very desirable THC tournament chips for the standard T25 base thing. And the set as it stands can easily two two tables if needed.
But I can have only one. Sure I hear you say "MOAR CHIPES!" but my budget and financial reality say I can't have several thousand dollars tied up in a set that only gets occasional use (I rotate in Tourneys but am primarily cash game oriented). So which one do I keep, which one do I sell?