Was going to post this in the how did you get the idea for your chips, but realized I never posted my set officially on this site, so thanks @Trihonda for forcing my hand at this. I know I've posted some of the pictures before, but I also thought it would also be nice to contain them all in one thread as well. Here is the story behind my poker room.
The Initial Process
Around 2004 I began looking for chips to use for a table my buddy and I built. I didn't like the dice chips that we were using and wanted something more authentic. I looked around and found ASM's website at the time and began the design process. Eventually I had something mocked up to my major and hobby, the piano. ASM only had 312 spots at the time with very few colors. I picked out what I wanted, had a design finalized, and at the very last moment decided that I might not want that the rest of my life and canned the whole project. I wish I still had the design, but I no longer have that email address so everything is gone.
While designing what I wanted I was searching eBay and the internet for chip combinations used in casinos around the world. I noticed they had a lot more colors and spots than what ASM was going to let me use. I found a set on eBay that was I loved the colors on so I placed an order for some Grand Island Chips made by the Blue Chip Company (which I still own BTW).
This solution worked out great for a while, but I never could shake the custom bug. I just couldn't come up with a design that I wanted that I knew I would be happy with for a very long time. Fast forward to 2009 and I came up with Piston Broke with a picture of a car inlayed in the center that represented my car hobby that I was finally at the point that I could afford. I didn't want to use just any car. I wanted to use MY car so after much persuasion from a fellow car forum friend he sent me the logo for the Pontiac G8 that I just acquired. Between that and another visit to the ASM website with new color combinations, spot combos and that was the green light I needed.
My car Pics!
I decided after 2 years of ownership that I love this car that I bought a second one. Same model, year, the only difference is the red one has a sunroof. At this time the blue is my fun weekend car, which I have modified and the red serves the bill as the DD.
From there J5 and I continued to work on what would look best and would work. One night while playing some online poker I got felted playing some HU LHE and was angry about it so I went to work on the chip design. I looked at the word Piston and LOL'd to myself as I realized I could also use Piss'd N Broke to mean angry and felted, just like I was feeling at the time. This way I could incorporate my love for cars and poker. Plus I like being non-traditional at the non-traditional spelling of piston made it more fun.
Table Design
Here is my early early mock up of the table design. Obviously pro work created by me...
Early in the process design ideas after J5 got his hands on it.
Poker Table Build
The Initial Process
Around 2004 I began looking for chips to use for a table my buddy and I built. I didn't like the dice chips that we were using and wanted something more authentic. I looked around and found ASM's website at the time and began the design process. Eventually I had something mocked up to my major and hobby, the piano. ASM only had 312 spots at the time with very few colors. I picked out what I wanted, had a design finalized, and at the very last moment decided that I might not want that the rest of my life and canned the whole project. I wish I still had the design, but I no longer have that email address so everything is gone.
While designing what I wanted I was searching eBay and the internet for chip combinations used in casinos around the world. I noticed they had a lot more colors and spots than what ASM was going to let me use. I found a set on eBay that was I loved the colors on so I placed an order for some Grand Island Chips made by the Blue Chip Company (which I still own BTW).
This solution worked out great for a while, but I never could shake the custom bug. I just couldn't come up with a design that I wanted that I knew I would be happy with for a very long time. Fast forward to 2009 and I came up with Piston Broke with a picture of a car inlayed in the center that represented my car hobby that I was finally at the point that I could afford. I didn't want to use just any car. I wanted to use MY car so after much persuasion from a fellow car forum friend he sent me the logo for the Pontiac G8 that I just acquired. Between that and another visit to the ASM website with new color combinations, spot combos and that was the green light I needed.
My car Pics!
I decided after 2 years of ownership that I love this car that I bought a second one. Same model, year, the only difference is the red one has a sunroof. At this time the blue is my fun weekend car, which I have modified and the red serves the bill as the DD.
From there J5 and I continued to work on what would look best and would work. One night while playing some online poker I got felted playing some HU LHE and was angry about it so I went to work on the chip design. I looked at the word Piston and LOL'd to myself as I realized I could also use Piss'd N Broke to mean angry and felted, just like I was feeling at the time. This way I could incorporate my love for cars and poker. Plus I like being non-traditional at the non-traditional spelling of piston made it more fun.
Table Design
Here is my early early mock up of the table design. Obviously pro work created by me...
Early in the process design ideas after J5 got his hands on it.
Poker Table Build
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