"We're removing all previously issued $5 Bicycle Casino gaming chips from circulation. These chips may be redeemed at any casino cage starting today, November 15th until January 17, 2023."
Parkwest Bicycle Casino switching to red $5 chips (1 Viewer)
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Leave it to Ballys to somehow take already bad chips and replace them with worse ones.
This is happening gradually across several major SoCal card rooms. Hawaiian Gardens was the first, they now have red fives. Cali colors seem to be on their way out.
Will they stick Matsui or go full vomit with ICON?
coolguy101
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Thank god. I hate the cali colors
It appears to me that your a little less cool that your username entails.
coolguy101
Two Pair
Just cause I’m cool doesn’t mean I gotta like everything. If it sucks, it sucks, and Cali colors suck. I know cause I live here in Cali. I’ve seen them all
Littleluck55
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I can see why you would hate bright, colorful chips. Yuck
Colquhoun
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Ugh, another inlay designed in Microsoft Word.
coolguy101
Two Pair
I like lots of bright, cheerful chips. World top hat & cane come to mind. But $5 chips shouldn’t be yellow.I can see why you would hate bright, colorful chips. Yuck
Yeah, that really is a huge inlay downgrade and seems extremely low effort.
improviseallday
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Simple and clean. The text on the old rings was busy.
Will miss the printed inlay ring though.
Will miss the printed inlay ring though.
Correct. It should be blue or lavender.
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why and what SHOULD they be?
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Red is the traditional color for $5. I never liked CA colors.
Traditional in what sense?
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Seriously? In the sense that it’s by FAR the most common color for $5 chips in US casinos and card rooms ….and has been for decades.
I didn’t even notice that they switched until January. Good thing I didn’t have those yellow $5s on me. The Bicycle casino chips did need an upgrade as they were tired bud jones chips. But these new ones are wack! Not sure who makes them but doesn’t seem like the best quality for a casino. They still have their bud jones $1s tho.
JustinInMN
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In fairness, the California rooms have been mostly using yellow fives for about as long. So you could argue it's a tradition all their own.
That said, I like Vegas colors so much better.
But I think the Bicycle Casino is one of the best poker rooms in the country.
Agreed, save for the CA yellow. I’m not sure “tradition” is the right word. Industry standard, perhaps.
Imo in a few years these rooms will go back on the decision to cheap out on chips. At least in Texas I think they will. The new icon chips are fine and all, but I’m not sure what’s stoping someone from making counterfeits. Especially now with a variety of chip manufacturers from China who don’t give a damn about US law. Even with security measures if you spent $2500 on R&D to find out what security measures they have so buy and take the chips apart. I’d bet a company from China could make an exact replica. Could 100% make a ceramic chip that is imperceptible from the real one, has all the UV security, and they could prolly clone the RFID as well with enough time and money. Even at $50k to get setup you’d only need to cycle through 5 racks of black or a rack of purple to get to even. Not to hard to do with mules gambling for you that can cultivate an image of a high roller. Get 5 mules and split the funds 75/25 and you can make bank. There’s enough casinos using these chips that you could prolly do it at multiple properties for quite a while before being caught. Texas is a different story because they don’t have a regulatory board so I’m not even sure if they’d be able to catch you before you skipped town or took the smaller spots for enough they had to close. Personally, I foresee this change to cause an increase in theft. Wouldn’t surprise me if some smart enterprising people already were doing this across the US. Kinda like the catalytic converter theft ring.
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JustinInMN
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As I understand it, part of what's going on with Texas is Paulson doesn't consider those rooms licensed so they won't deal with them in an effort to "protect" their licensed clients. That immediately limits what we chippers would consider quality options for them.
Possibly except RFID would require knowledge of the id codes embedded on the chips. You couldn't just take one chip and put the same code on it over and over again, you would have to get access to the list of rfid codes in use to really hurt a cash cage.
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bergs
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I sorta like the Bike $5s in stacks, but their $1s and $5s are in bad shape. Shame they’re all getting away from yellow $5s. I wonder if they’ll ditch the green $2-3 chips and move green to replace the purple $25 at some point.
Love the Cali colored chips tho. Pleasant variation from the constant white/blue, pink, red, green, black progression you see everywhere else.
Love the Cali colored chips tho. Pleasant variation from the constant white/blue, pink, red, green, black progression you see everywhere else.
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There are a couple photos from other PCF'ers. Top one (Credit: TricycleClub) shows already that the 5's are showing early edge fading. Also no edge alignment? 
I get it if you're doing a custom home set to save on the extra cost of alignment but I think a world famous cardroom should invest a little bit more for a proper aesthetic.
The bottom (Credit: Windwalker) really show even more mileage, grunge, and fading on the higher denoms that were put into circulation first.
Ultimately, the inlay design has a mass market produced Monte Carlo vibe to it.
I get it if you're doing a custom home set to save on the extra cost of alignment but I think a world famous cardroom should invest a little bit more for a proper aesthetic.The bottom (Credit: Windwalker) really show even more mileage, grunge, and fading on the higher denoms that were put into circulation first.
Ultimately, the inlay design has a mass market produced Monte Carlo vibe to it.
coolguy101
Two Pair
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Must be ceramics. Plastic chips don't wear like that.There are a couple photos from other PCF'ers. Top one (Credit: TricycleClub) shows already that the 5's are showing early edge fading. Also no edge alignment?
The bottom (Credit: Windwalker) really show even more mileage, grunge, and fading on the higher denoms that were put into circulation first.
Ultimately, the inlay design has a mass market produced Monte Carlo vibe to it.
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