Speakeasy Poker Club - CPC Design (1 Viewer)

[TKEUofM]

Changing gears from my original "Big10" football theme, a few of the original designs have remained but switched up quite a few others. The inlay is pretty crude at this point as I'm not artistic, but will definitely work with someone to refine it when I'm ready to order. I've sold off a bunch of extras recently so I'm getting pretty close.

Also still not 100% sure on the name, I've always built out a nice bar in my basements and have a giant liquor collection so many of my players have said it's like an underground speakeasy. I looked up google images for Speakeasys and noticed the crossed keys come up a few times, kind of a secret society kind of thing to go with the underground bar and poker room.

As always, looking for some feedback on chip design. I do have a CPC color sample and I know some of the online colors don't exactly match real life, but the combos here are based on the actual colors I was seeing from the samples.

Cash set on the top row, tourney on the bottom

Thanks for looking!

Ryan

 

[allforcharity]

A speakeasy in the Vatican?

Anyway, I would switch out the Canary spots in the $1 with something else. Maybe DG Tiger?
And maybe Blurple instead of Blue spot on the $20?

 

[TKEUofM]

A speakeasy in the Vatican?

Anyway, I would switch out the Canary spots in the $1 with something else. Maybe DG Tiger?
And maybe Blurple instead of Blue spot on the $20?

lol….. I’m not very religious so I didn’t know the meaning behind the crossed keys. Oops….. might need to update that.

I went with regular Blue on the $20 because the color in the sample chip is much darker than the site displays. Blurple seemed a little too dark.

I’ll see how the DG Tiger looks tomorrow.

 

[davislane]

Love the $5 & $20 chip.

 

[JMC9389]

Some notes:

Cash Set:

-Too much yellow in the beginning of the set. I like @allforcharity 's suggestion of perhaps a DG Tiger spot on the $1 instead of canary. DG Peach and DG Arc Yellow also would work well there with a blue base chip. DG Pink may work really well here too.

-The DG Green spot on the $5 is too loud. It'll overshadow the DG Peacock. I would consider a change to both spot colors to light green or gray and whatever yellow/orangeish spot that wasn't used on the $1 and use the other on the $5. Both DG Peach and Arc Yellow look great with a red base.

-Speaking of the $5, retro red is 10x better than mandarin red as a base color. The appearance of mandarin red on the mock up tool does not match up to the real thing, which brings me to the most important thing. GET A CPC COLOR SAMPLE before picking any colors or placing an order.

-I like the look of the $20 chip a lot. This is where I'd use DG Peacock that wasn't used on the $5 chip. Substitute the orange spot for DG Tiger if not used yet, or change it to DG Pink.


Tournament Set:

-I like the color choices on the tournament set way better than the cash set. The spot progression is good on both but perhaps try something different on either the T25 or $5 on the cash set so you don't have the same edge spot on two different chips. You want your cash and tournament sets unique from each other and looking as different as possible so no one tries to sneak in a $25 tournament chip into a cash game even if they're not used as such.

-I don't have as much critique for the tournament set as I do the cash set. I actually think the tournament set looks great as is. The only small nitpick I would make is to steer away from using bright white as an edge spot twice in the set. Use it in the T25 or T1000, not both.

-I would also consider making your T1000 a 6D18 spot instead of T5000 if the extra couple hundred of dollars isn't make or break for you. The T1000 is your workhorse chip in a T10000 base set and they'll have the most table time of any of the chips in the set. I'd at least consider that and making the T5000 a 4TA18418 spot, as T5000's are only on the table really late in the game, but YMMV.

Don't be in any rush to have anything ready. Anybody doing design work on here is super swamped and the current run of B mold is still ongoing, so it's rather likely you're looking at about at least another year, maybe 18 months before you'd have chips in hand. On the safe side, you have about 9 months to get an order in, maybe longer.

Keep plugging away at your mock ups and don't submit an order until you're totally 100% happy with each chip and your artwork. You're dropping thousands of your hard earned cash on the project. Don't accept anything less than 100% satisfaction. Enjoy the ride!

 

[TKEUofM]

GET A CPC COLOR SAMPLE before picking any colors or placing an order

I have a full color sample set from CPC, had them all laid out last night looking at color combos. We actually play a T5000 base so the workhorse chip is the $500 chip. The $5k chips will rarely hit the table but I wanted to have a barrel or two just to have in the set.

Here are a few of the changes you suggested:

Switched the color on the $1, might like Dayglo Pink.

Went with Pink/Purple on the $20

Swapped out the white on the $1k for light blue

 

[TKEUofM]

Ok, now my head is spinning around..... Wife won't let me run the full order of cash and tourney. I already have an HSI Secondary Cash and CPC Rounders Cash so I'm cutting this down to just a Tourney Set and just made some more changes. Looks like orders are open for the Jockey mold so I'm thinking about that instead of waiting a year plus for B-Mold.

Here is the new lineup, and don't pay much attention to the inlay, just message David about working with their designer for something much better.

Quantities (1,400 total) - using a T5,000 starting stack for a 21-24 player event.
500 - $25
500 - $100
260 - $500
100 - $1,000
40 - $5,000

 

[ThinkingFold]

Looks like orders are open for the Jockey mold so I'm thinking about that instead of waiting a year plus for B-Mold.

Jockey mold = best mold.

 

[Irish]

Ok, now my head is spinning around..... Wife won't let me run the full order of cash and tourney. I already have an HSI Secondary Cash and CPC Rounders Cash so I'm cutting this down to just a Tourney Set and just made some more changes. Looks like orders are open for the Jockey mold so I'm thinking about that instead of waiting a year plus for B-Mold.

Here is the new lineup, and don't pay much attention to the inlay, just message David about working with their designer for something much better.

Quantities (1,400 total) - using a T5,000 starting stack for a 21-24 player event.
500 - $25
500 - $100
260 - $500
100 - $1,000
40 - $5,000

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Very nice! I'd personally recommend a brighter blue on the T100, as regular blue is pretty dark and I think you'll lose those spots a bit with the black base color. Imperial blue pairs very well with canary.

 

[allforcharity]

You could get away with 1000 chips or less for a 3 tables of 8, with rebuys. What are you planning for starting stacks for your T5K tourney?

 

[TKEUofM]

You could get away with 1000 chips or less for a 3 tables of 8, with rebuys. What are you planning for starting stacks for your T5K tourney?

We start with the following:

$25 - 20
$100 - 20
$500 - 3
$1000 - 1

I know it’s not the most efficient, but my group loves stacks.

 

[allforcharity]

We start with the following:

$25 - 20
$100 - 20
$500 - 3
$1000 - 1

I know it’s not the most efficient, but my group loves stacks.

Would you consider 16/16/4/1? That saves 7 chips per stack.

Then you'd only need 1000 chips for 24 people
400x T25
400x T100
100x T500
120x T1000
which gives you enough T1000 to colour-up everything
Then just decide how many extra chips you want for rebuys.

Or, perhaps consider a T2K chip instead of T1K. 16/16/2/1 stacks.
400x T25, 400x T100, 150x T500, 25x T2000 which uses T500 for colour-up, then extra chips for rebuy with 2xT500 and 2xT2K for however many you need.
Saves you about 300 chips, which can be about $1000 or so in costs.

 

[TKEUofM]

Would you consider 16/16/4/1? That saves 7 chips per stack.

Then you'd only need 1000 chips for 24 people
400x T25
400x T100
100x T500
120x T1000
which gives you enough T1000 to colour-up everything
Then just decide how many extra chips you want for rebuys.

Or, perhaps consider a T2K chip instead of T1K. 16/16/2/1 stacks.
400x T25, 400x T100, 150x T500, 25x T2000 which uses T500 for colour-up, then extra chips for rebuy with 2xT500 and 2xT2K for however many you need.
Saves you about 300 chips, which can be about $1000 or so in costs.

@allforcharity - Good suggestion on the 16/16/4/1. Since I want to have a few T5000 just for fun and to complete the set I think I've settled on this:

1100 total chips

400 x T25
400 x T100
200 x T500
80 x T1000
20 x T5000

24 players x $5k = $120k total in play. Should be easily covered.

On the Jockey Mold it blends out to $2.52/chip for a total of $2776. Based on what I've sold off recently, I've got plenty left over for a custom wood case to be made.

 

[TKEUofM]

And on to the next evolution. The wife didn't like "Speakeasy"..... and my original design was a Big10 football set sine we are Michigan fans. She thinks "Miller's Bar & Poker Room" is best with the Michigan block M in the middle representing Miller and Michigan. Might still work with an artist to try and clean up the font a little.

So here we go... shouldn't have any color conflicts with this one.

 

[TKEUofM]

Alternate $500..... votes on which is better?

 

[allforcharity]

How about Dayglo Yellow and Dayglo Peach?