New Poker Club Brisbane (1 Viewer)

[Stackdclub]

Hi Guys,

Just thought I’d share my experience so far setting up a new social poker club in Brisbane Australia.

I was going to order the chips through Jacks or the Pokershop, but I figured that I usually end up designing them myself anyway as I have a hard time instantly liking someone else’s design if I have a picture in my mind.

The goal was to make these indistinguishable from genuine casino quality, in Australia and Europe this generally means injection Moulding.

The chips from Treasury casino tend to stick together due to their polished almost Bakelite feel. I noticed this same chip was used in several clubs in London such as the Barracuda club and Colony club. Nice chips, but sticking together due to vacuum is annoying to me.

So I went with moulded plastic/ceramic sanded finish for the chip itself with the values inlaid in the sides. I designed an alternative mould, but the quotes came back at +$250/chip mould to have custom with value inlay due to each chip having a unique mould not just a different colour. Decided I would do this on the next set instead.

The sticker I messed up on. I approved the first proof thinking the yellow on the proof was going to be Gold foil, but when it was printed they literally just did it yellow and it looked shit. In the photo that they sent me there was another club’s sticker in the shot and it looked way better so I redesigned the stickers using Canva and sent the images through to them. They told me that the type of white I wanted got it’s shine from micro writing all across the chip. Thus far I had designed all of the chips to not have writing, a name or a location on purpose because i wanted it to trade purely on the logo symbol. A kind of “if you know you know” thing.

So for the micro writing I told them to do the value of the chip repeated, “five hundred five hundred” etc the 50c chip has “Fiddy Fiddy Fiddy” across it.

Also each chip has a UV mark and the chips higher than $100 have RFID built into them.

Here are some pics of the process. It’s taken about three months so far, emailing back and fourth, rejected designs, redesign, reprint.

The only thing I’m not super pumped with is the colour of the $1 chip. The blue was supposed to be cornflour blue. But at this point I just want to start playing with them.

Anyone else in brisbane get in touch

 

[Stackdclub]

 

[Stackdclub]

The next thing that I will be getting made for the club is custom Game plaques, for use in Mixed games example “PLO” “limit Razz” etc

I was hoping to have them done as Plaques like cash plaques,
Because there is a minimum order of 100 units per design is this something that you guys have a solution for or is it something that you’d likely want to be involved in?

The cost per plaque is around $2US each, I’m thinking of around 20 game plaques, double sided for limit/no limit etc

Colour coded for limit and pot limit games

Let me know your suggestions for games

 

[davislane]

Nicely done. Do you mind sharing which manufacturer you used and what the cost was?

Also those treasury chips are Bud Jones. V7s can suffer from a suction effect

 

[Stackdclub]

Nicely done. Do you mind sharing which manufacturer you used and what the cost was?

Also those treasury chips are Bud Jones. V7s can suffer from a suction effect

Supplier was Lange Gaming, cost for the whole project was around $8-9k.

I ordered 4900 cash chips and 6 colours of roulettes.

Cost includes shipping, I’ll post the photos when they arrive

 

[mipevi]

Those look very classy, well done! Did you get samples from Lange, I’m curious as to how they feel compared to Bud Jones / Matsui / Abbiati / BG chips?

When you say it costs $250 for a custom mould, does that include changing the edgespots to whatever you like as well, or only the inner ring design (with the values or whatever else you want to put there)?

 

[davislane]

Supplier was Lange Gaming, cost for the whole project was around $8-9k.

I ordered 4900 cash chips and 6 colours of roulettes.

Cost includes shipping, I’ll post the photos when they arrive

Congrats on the behemoth set. I would love a sample set to add to my collection if you can spare one. I dont have any Lange samples so it would be great to compare them to all the other plastics I have.

 

[Stackdclub]

Those look very classy, well done! Did you get samples from Lange, I’m curious as to how they feel compared to Bud Jones / Matsui / Abbiati / BG chips?

When you say it costs $250 for a custom mould, does that include changing the edgespots to whatever you like as well, or only the inner ring design (with the values or whatever else you want to put there)?

Yeah they charge US$250 to make a custom mould, but because I wanted the values in the edges I was looking down the barrel of 9x moulds.

They didn’t have 2.5 mould when I ordered but made it complimentary and added it to their library for this mould.

Those look very classy, well done! Did you get samples from Lange, I’m curious as to how they feel compared to Bud Jones / Matsui / Abbiati / BG chips?

When you say it costs $250 for a custom mould, does that include changing the edgespots to whatever you like as well, or only the inner ring design (with the values or whatever else you want to put there)?

As far as I know, that was completely customised, edges and spots, I think the way to go would be to design you own mould without values. Which would be significantly cheaper

 

[mipevi]

Honestly $250 sounds really cheap if the end product is anywhere near the established high end manufacturers.

 

[Stackdclub]

I was testing out their other product as well, it’s a cheaper alternative sublimation ceramic chip that they offer. I got 100 chips using this image for time bank chips. They charge .30c per chip and $30 set up fee

 

[Stackdclub]

I just asked, US$1500 for completely custom

 

[warma]

Nicely done. Really like the bold simplicity of the inlay. Since you can put the value on the outer ring. You could even drop it from the inlay if you want.

Did you check on sourcing with Matsui and Abbiati directly?

 

[mipevi]

I just asked, US$1500 for completely custom

Yeah that seems more in line with what I’d expect, thanks!

 

[Stackdclub]

Nicely done. Really like the bold simplicity of the inlay. Since you can put the value on the outer ring. You could even drop it from the inlay if you want.

Did you check on sourcing with Matsui and Abbiati directly?

I had considered dropping it from the inlay, however For chip security I needed it on there to avoid relabeling of lower denominated chips.

If the chip itself is a house chip and all inlays are the same then a $1 inlay could be put into a 100 chip from the same manufacturer.

This way, it’s not really possible to do that

 

[Stackdclub]

And I say the 1 to 100 because the colour rings on the black 100 is pure black. The easiest thing to do would be to 1/2 relabel and take a sharpie to the other side.

The UV marks are all in Roman numerals the 500 plus are all on the opposite side to the lower denomination chips. This avoids converting a 5 (V) into a 5000 (V̅)

 

[warma]

Oh, yep. Totally fair.