catalyzeme
3 of a Kind
Did anyone order T5s? I wonder how many T5s got made.
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That's actually an interesting question....Post #3 on Big Blue shows the total numbers ordered by base color, Red was 16,000 (includes T5, T500,000 and C$5.00). I would assume most of them went to the Cash $5.00. I know during the ordering process there was a Google Doc that showed all of the orders based on the chip type, but I don't see that in the first couple of posts over there.....
EDIT: Found the link (1475 T5s were ordered, not including Apache's order...) :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AkiMxWSd40BXdHBNWjFkc2NGUE52UWxmTXdTUzZjRUE&output=html
But of my 4100 chips I ordered exactly 0 T5s.........and I went with Almond $1's instead of Blue....
I bet BG has the answer though.
nitzilla
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i ordered 75 for the sample set group buy.
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Nope. Only PGI knows, since they took late orders, got extras for themselves and their re-sellers, and only they were privy to the actual apache numbers/breakdown.
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Nope. Only PGI knows, since they took late orders, got extras for themselves and their re-sellers, and only they were privy to the actual apache numbers/breakdown.
CdnBeerLover
Full House
I have 100. Got 'em, but don't really need 'em.
I've been meaning to get one of those. Oh well, some day.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
Wow, I'm going to be swimming in T500 and lavender chips...
A cruel twist of fate has me spending more on CPS chips, but I think it will have a better outcome in the long run.
I ordered a modest tourney set of 1200 chips:
300 green 25's
300 black 100's
200 blue 500's
200 yellow 1k's
200 orange 5k's
By mistake, Barry at PGI sent me 200 lavender cash $500 chips. At first I was like, hey these are the wrong chips, and sent PGI an email to correct the problem. However, I quickly realized this was ultimately a blessing, as the blue T500's and black T100's really blend when played together. I immediately sent PGI several emails about just keeping the lavender cash chips, but was too late (Barry had already sent me replacement blue T500 tournament chips) with a return instructions for the very cool lavender chips.
Keeping the lavender $500's for use in the tournament sent wasn't ideal either. The labels don't match the rest of the tournament chips (and it has a $). For the time being, I can live with the mismatched labels for the sake of not hearing complaints from players about how the 100's and 500's blend together.... To be honest, my players probably won't notice there's a color matched label and a $ sign. That said, I know I would notice...
My solution? Moar chips!!! I just ordered 200 lavender blanks from PGI and will be having them apply the T500 labels when they arrive from the factory. Even though I'll be paying twice as much for these chips (after paying for the increased chip costs and labels), this will make the set "matched and correct". At that point, I'll have an extra blue T500 chips and lavender $500 chips.
Kudos to PGI for being accommodating.
Now, who's in for orange cash quarters?
A cruel twist of fate has me spending more on CPS chips, but I think it will have a better outcome in the long run.
I ordered a modest tourney set of 1200 chips:
300 green 25's
300 black 100's
200 blue 500's
200 yellow 1k's
200 orange 5k's
By mistake, Barry at PGI sent me 200 lavender cash $500 chips. At first I was like, hey these are the wrong chips, and sent PGI an email to correct the problem. However, I quickly realized this was ultimately a blessing, as the blue T500's and black T100's really blend when played together. I immediately sent PGI several emails about just keeping the lavender cash chips, but was too late (Barry had already sent me replacement blue T500 tournament chips) with a return instructions for the very cool lavender chips.
Keeping the lavender $500's for use in the tournament sent wasn't ideal either. The labels don't match the rest of the tournament chips (and it has a $). For the time being, I can live with the mismatched labels for the sake of not hearing complaints from players about how the 100's and 500's blend together.... To be honest, my players probably won't notice there's a color matched label and a $ sign. That said, I know I would notice...
My solution? Moar chips!!! I just ordered 200 lavender blanks from PGI and will be having them apply the T500 labels when they arrive from the factory. Even though I'll be paying twice as much for these chips (after paying for the increased chip costs and labels), this will make the set "matched and correct". At that point, I'll have an extra blue T500 chips and lavender $500 chips.
Kudos to PGI for being accommodating.
Now, who's in for orange cash quarters?
Redbelly
Flush
Curious if anyone notices in this image (sorry if I missed an earlier discussion) the difference in spot colors on this T1K chip? Not a huge deal but maybe I received a sleeve of 1st round or second round productions of the T1K? All but one sleeve has the pinker spot... the other is more purple...
Opinions?
Opinions?
links_slayer
4 of a Kind
I have about a 50/50 mix of T1k colors.
Redbelly
Flush
Did you get your shipment on the 2nd round?
Didn't notice the T1000 color difference until you pointed it out, Sean. In my two racks, I just spotted a couple of chips that were oh-so-slightly different, so I pulled two barrels to closely examine and sort. Of those 40 chips, I'd say about 50-50, more or less -- and they were hard to sort. Mixed up, I still don't even really notice it. None have been cleaned or oiled; that may make a difference.
All chips from the second wave of shipments (which doesn't necessarily mean second production run).
All chips from the second wave of shipments (which doesn't necessarily mean second production run).
Redbelly
Flush
Thanks Dave. Not a difference that matters... I was more curious than anything else. The chips overall look spectacular!
Sent you an email btw! [emoji6]
links_slayer
4 of a Kind
The difference doesn't bother me much either.
links_slayer
4 of a Kind
I had initially ordered around 400 T5's, but Joe allowed me to switch the T5's to $5's pre-production (since it didn't alter the base chip being produced).
I just put my CPS cash set into use last night, at a buddy's game. I really liked them. It was a $1/2, so the quarters didn't see any play. But I did get a few barrels of Yellow $20's onto the table. I'll do a separate mini-TR with some pics.
I just put my CPS cash set into use last night, at a buddy's game. I really liked them. It was a $1/2, so the quarters didn't see any play. But I did get a few barrels of Yellow $20's onto the table. I'll do a separate mini-TR with some pics.
Custom labeled China Clay Group-Buy
This is a chip review of my group buy China clays. I’m sorry the pics aren’t better, but I’m not much of a photographer. Some of the pictures were better before I compacted them, and sometimes I just didn’t really get a good pic in.
General Comments
I have two different tournament sets. The 1700 piece ceramic set and the 1600 China clay set have slightly different numbers of chips in some categories. The main reason for this was that the China clays required orders in lots of 25, whereas the ceramics could be ordered in onesies. Both sets are designed for 40 players.
I wanted one set that could start with 1 and 5, though I rarely do tournaments where the lowest chip is less than 25. Because of the ability to order onesies, the ceramic set was used for that. With the ceramics, I ordered 5 more chips of each color than the required number so I would have some backups incase a chip broke or was lost.
I primarily run 5 different tournaments. One has T25,000 starting chips with blinds starting at 25/50 and needed 1285 chips. I run a T10,000 tournament with the same starting blinds and needs 1125 chips. I run two different T100,000 tournaments. One starts at 25/50 and needs 1445 chips, the other at 100/200 and needs 1125 chips. Since the T10,000 and T15,000 both fit within the T25,000, I didn’t have to run that separately. Here were the needs for specific chips:
Value Need Pirate NTPG
1 100 105 0
5 100 105 0
25 320 325 325
100 400 405 425
500 120 125 125
1,000 200 125 250
5,000 200 210 250
25,000 160 165 175
100,000 40 45 50
Total 1640 1700 1600
If there were more than 5 extras, it was either because I added a few to have more extras and make the count come out to the number of chips I wants (1700 and 1600), or because I had to order in blocks of 25, or both.
My formula actually shows that I needed 160 of the 500s, however, 2 chips per player were for coloring up. You really only need 1 chip for that purpose because of the presence of 1,000 chips. For every 2 needed for coloring up but two makes for 1,000. The 1,000s are designed to completely color up all values below, so I only needed 1 color up chip per player.
Some people don’t want to be able to color up the lower chips with the next lowest value. I understand that, but you should also look at whether you might use that next chip as the lowest value for another tournament. That’s the reason I do that, except for the 500s.
NTPG – China Clay Tournament Set
This set was part of a group buy ordered about 16 months before they came in. Instead of the group buy labels, I had custom labels put on. This set was designed to be our main tournament chips. They will be used 55-70% of the time (probably closer to 55%).
Each chip has four 2-color edge spots. The edge spots have one color in the middle and a different color on the outside of the edge spot. On the top/bottom of the chip, the outside spots are a triangle from the outer edge to the recessed portion of the chip. On the top and bottom of the chip is a 4-parapet tower with a spear running through the tower from bottom right to top left. The spear and tower design are not necessarily aligned with the edge spots. Nor are they necessarily evenly spaced around the chips. This is a flaw, but not that noticeable.
The edge spots are not perfect as sometimes the outer edges on the top/bottom are not of uniform size. However, overall the chips look very sharp.
The cross-hatching on the chips helps the chips grip each other so they stack really well. The labels I bought from PGI have a linen texture to them.
The customizing I did consists of a custom white label. The lettering around the top and printed denominations on the bottom are red letters outlined in black. A colored state of Texas generally matches the chip’s main color, though in the case of the black chips, I went with a gray color instead of the chip’s black, which added slightly more color to the chip. On each chip, the state is outlined in red. The prominent denominations are in black numbers outlined in white. I used a comma in all chips of 1,000 or over to help avoid confusion over values. Using the comma makes it easier to distinguish the exact value.
I considered both a light blue and gray label for concerns about showing dirt, but liked the cleaner look of white and think since really, these will only be used a few times per year (my chips are used 35-40 times a year, and I do have 2 sets I can alternate), and rarely would I use them all at once. Generally, only half the chips would be used at once, so with rotation, I don’t think they will get that dirty for a long time.
The labels are aligned pretty close to 12:00 on the chips. I didn’t order aligned labels, but am very pleased with the look. PGI aligned them instead of randomly putting them on, and I really do appreciate the way that looks. I like that better than randomly aligned labels. I would have aligned every other one at the 10:30/1:30 position and the rest in the 12:00 position, but the effect here is very nice and I’m not complaining about it. That’s probably my CDO talking. CDO is like OCD, except the letters are in the right order.
Overall, I really like these chips. My comments about specific chips reflect the fact that since this was a group buy, I didn’t get the exact colors I wanted, and since they were made in China, just didn’t have the quality. But for the price, this was a great deal. These are a vast improvement over my other tournament sets I’ve had, with the exception of the ceramic set.
There were three chip colors I didn’t get – almond, red, and blue. I didn’t order any almond chips because neither the color nor the edge spots appealed to me. I didn’t order the red because I think of reds as being low-value chips. I realize you can customize and make it what you want, and I did like the light blue and white edge spots on the reds. I thought of ordering some to make them bounty chips, but generally don’t use bounty chips. I thought of ordering some for seating chips, but I already have 4 sets of seating chips and just couldn’t see getting another set for that purpose. Even when I use two sets of seating chips in a tournament, one for the main tournament and a different set for final table seating, I still have two sets in reserve. I might have liked the reds better for my 100,000 then the yellows. I didn’t order the blues, and in retrospect, I think I would have liked them for the 100,000 chips. I did think of them as bounty and seating chips, but covered that already. I think of blue chips as versatile and could be used for a lot of values. But generally, I’m traditional in that I prefer red=5, greed=25, black=100, lavender/purple=500, and yellow/orange=1,000. After that, I like gray or pink for 5,000, and after that, it’s whatever I think looks good with the set. I’ve had sets with 25,000 as blue, dark green, and orange, and liked them all with those sets. For 100,000, I’ve had yellow and a hot pink, but I’d also like blue and dark green with the right sets.
Stacking, Handling, and Sound
I can’t compare the stacking, handling, and sound to chips like Paulson, ASM, BCC, TR King, or Bud Jones either because I’ve never handled those chips, or I’ve not handled them enough to compare them. Therefore, I won’t try. I can compare them to ceramics and numerous plastic chips.
I like the way these chips stack and handle. They are not slick at all, and stack better than any set of poker chips I’ve ever had.
Compared to plastics, these are light years ahead of plastics in all but one respect. It is easier to get plastics of uniform size. While plastics can have almost any color, these were not customs so I couldn’t choose the colors. I see no reason that these colors couldn’t be comparable to plastics.
Even the best plastic chips are slicker than these. I have a set of China clay 8V chips for cash, and these sound better and stack better. These stack much higher than plastics, and are not nearly as slick to hold. Grabbing chips out of a rack or box is way less likely to result in the chips going everywhere with these.
The sound is definitely different. They have a nice “click” sound, whereas the ceramics have more of a clack sound. They don’t go chink or clunk like a slugged plastic chip. Even non-slugged chips don’t sound the same, though they sound more like these than slugged chips do.
Light Green – 25 – 325 chips
The outer edge spots are dark green. The inner edge spot is yellow. I like this color scheme a lot.
What I would have done different: I would have used a brighter yellow, and maybe black on the outer edge spots.
Black – 100 -425 chips
The outer edge spots are approximately a royal blue. The inner edge spot is dark blue. I like this color scheme a lot, but primarily because of the white label. With a darker label, I think some of the colors would wash out. The nice thing about black is that most colors go well with it.
What I would have done different: I like the royal blue, but would have used a much more contrasting color on the inner edge spot, probably a light, bright color. However, I would have gone with a different color scheme entirely on this chip, even though I like the black and royal blue together. For this edge spot, I would have used either white on the outside and scarlet in the middle, or scarlet on the outside and white in the middle. I would have done that to match our poker group’s official color scheme. This chip would be used in every tournament we have, so it would be the one to use our group colors on since I wouldn’t have used either red or white chips to fully implement the club colors.
Lavender – 500 – 125 chips
The outer edge spots are black. The inner edge spot is gray. I like this color scheme a lot; it’s one of my favorites in this set.
What I would have done different: I would have used a bright yellow for the middle edge spot, or possibly a white, instead of the gray, because the next chip in sequence has the exact same edge spot.
Orange – 1,000 – 250 chips
The outer edge spots are black. The inner edge spot is gray. This chip is my favorite overall color scheme with these chips. The reason I chose this as my 1,000 chip instead of the yellow is because I liked this color scheme so much better than the yellow, and I wanted to go with either yellow or orange for 1,000. I generally prefer yellow, but it does depend on the chip.
One issue I have, and it’s not a big one, is that the 500 and 1,000 edge spots are identical. However, the chip colors are very different and I don’t think it’s a problem at all. But in a perfect world, I wouldn’t have two chips right next to each other with identical edge spots. As far as that goes, on a completely custom set, I wouldn’t have even had the edge spots be the same design, and certainly wouldn’t have used the same colors. But in this set, both are great looking chips.
What I would have done different: I’d have liked an even brighter orange, though I’m not disappointed in this orange at all.
For edge spots, I would have considered white for the inner edge spot, and might considered a brighter yellow inner spot or a bright green, though I probably would have done white or gray. I probably wouldn’t have thought of gray for the inner spot, but having actually seen it, I’m not really sure I would have done anything different.
Pink – 5,000 – 250 chips
The outer edge spots are light green. The inner edge spot is dark green. I like this color scheme. This is a very sharp looking chip. I’m not overly fond of pink chips, but in the absence of a gray chip, I like it for a 5,000 chip.
The orange 1,000 and pink 5,000 are in the same color range, but the chips are easily distinguished looking at the top/bottom of the chip. However, in stacks, they are harder to tell apart. That might lead to more dirty stacks. That problem could be eliminated by a yellow 1,000 or a gray 5,000. However, I do not think this will be a big problem.
What I would have done different: I really like the dark green center spot, and if I stuck with that, I would have used a brighter yellow, or maybe white, on the outer edge spots. I would also have looked at dark green or black outer spots with yellow, white, or bright green middle spots.
Dark Green – 25,000 – 175 chips
The outer edge spots are medium-dark blue. The inner edge spot is orange. I like this color scheme, especially the orange inner edge spot. This is one of my favorite color chips, and might be my favorite or close to my favorite if I liked the outer edge spot better.
What I would have done different: I’m not fond of the darkish blue as an outer edge spot on a dark green chip, and that is the worst feature of this otherwise great chip. Simply reversing the edge spots to me would have been a great improvement. In the absence of reversing them, I would have used white or bright yellow for the outer edge spots.
Yellow – 100,000 – 50 chips
The outer edge spots are medium rust red. The inner edge spot is a light rust red, that I think mostly fades out, though it is distinguishable on the chips. This is my least favorite chip and my least favorite color scheme in this set.
I considered using the light blue chip for my 100,000, and maybe would have liked that better. However, without a doubt, the yellow contrasts more with the dark green 25,000 than the blue would have, though the light blue could easily be distinguished from the dark green. I prefer generally to have dark and light chips next to each other. I also like to have yellow chips in the set if possible. I’m just disappointed in the edge spots on these chips. I like the chips other than the edge spots.
What I would have done different: I would have used a brighter yellow chip. For edge spots, I think a lot of colors might have worked well. For outer edge spots, I would have gone with black, dark green, or dark blue. For inner spots, white or gray would have worked well, but so would several other colors with the dark outside edge spots.
Work by others
Each of these chip sets were done by PGI. My artwork on all the sets was done by Ken Scott at the Poker Chip Artist (info@pokerchipartist.com). I’ve used Ken several times. He’s quick and I love the work.
This is a chip review of my group buy China clays. I’m sorry the pics aren’t better, but I’m not much of a photographer. Some of the pictures were better before I compacted them, and sometimes I just didn’t really get a good pic in.
General Comments
I have two different tournament sets. The 1700 piece ceramic set and the 1600 China clay set have slightly different numbers of chips in some categories. The main reason for this was that the China clays required orders in lots of 25, whereas the ceramics could be ordered in onesies. Both sets are designed for 40 players.
I wanted one set that could start with 1 and 5, though I rarely do tournaments where the lowest chip is less than 25. Because of the ability to order onesies, the ceramic set was used for that. With the ceramics, I ordered 5 more chips of each color than the required number so I would have some backups incase a chip broke or was lost.
I primarily run 5 different tournaments. One has T25,000 starting chips with blinds starting at 25/50 and needed 1285 chips. I run a T10,000 tournament with the same starting blinds and needs 1125 chips. I run two different T100,000 tournaments. One starts at 25/50 and needs 1445 chips, the other at 100/200 and needs 1125 chips. Since the T10,000 and T15,000 both fit within the T25,000, I didn’t have to run that separately. Here were the needs for specific chips:
Value Need Pirate NTPG
1 100 105 0
5 100 105 0
25 320 325 325
100 400 405 425
500 120 125 125
1,000 200 125 250
5,000 200 210 250
25,000 160 165 175
100,000 40 45 50
Total 1640 1700 1600
If there were more than 5 extras, it was either because I added a few to have more extras and make the count come out to the number of chips I wants (1700 and 1600), or because I had to order in blocks of 25, or both.
My formula actually shows that I needed 160 of the 500s, however, 2 chips per player were for coloring up. You really only need 1 chip for that purpose because of the presence of 1,000 chips. For every 2 needed for coloring up but two makes for 1,000. The 1,000s are designed to completely color up all values below, so I only needed 1 color up chip per player.
Some people don’t want to be able to color up the lower chips with the next lowest value. I understand that, but you should also look at whether you might use that next chip as the lowest value for another tournament. That’s the reason I do that, except for the 500s.
NTPG – China Clay Tournament Set
This set was part of a group buy ordered about 16 months before they came in. Instead of the group buy labels, I had custom labels put on. This set was designed to be our main tournament chips. They will be used 55-70% of the time (probably closer to 55%).
Each chip has four 2-color edge spots. The edge spots have one color in the middle and a different color on the outside of the edge spot. On the top/bottom of the chip, the outside spots are a triangle from the outer edge to the recessed portion of the chip. On the top and bottom of the chip is a 4-parapet tower with a spear running through the tower from bottom right to top left. The spear and tower design are not necessarily aligned with the edge spots. Nor are they necessarily evenly spaced around the chips. This is a flaw, but not that noticeable.
The edge spots are not perfect as sometimes the outer edges on the top/bottom are not of uniform size. However, overall the chips look very sharp.
The cross-hatching on the chips helps the chips grip each other so they stack really well. The labels I bought from PGI have a linen texture to them.
The customizing I did consists of a custom white label. The lettering around the top and printed denominations on the bottom are red letters outlined in black. A colored state of Texas generally matches the chip’s main color, though in the case of the black chips, I went with a gray color instead of the chip’s black, which added slightly more color to the chip. On each chip, the state is outlined in red. The prominent denominations are in black numbers outlined in white. I used a comma in all chips of 1,000 or over to help avoid confusion over values. Using the comma makes it easier to distinguish the exact value.
I considered both a light blue and gray label for concerns about showing dirt, but liked the cleaner look of white and think since really, these will only be used a few times per year (my chips are used 35-40 times a year, and I do have 2 sets I can alternate), and rarely would I use them all at once. Generally, only half the chips would be used at once, so with rotation, I don’t think they will get that dirty for a long time.
The labels are aligned pretty close to 12:00 on the chips. I didn’t order aligned labels, but am very pleased with the look. PGI aligned them instead of randomly putting them on, and I really do appreciate the way that looks. I like that better than randomly aligned labels. I would have aligned every other one at the 10:30/1:30 position and the rest in the 12:00 position, but the effect here is very nice and I’m not complaining about it. That’s probably my CDO talking. CDO is like OCD, except the letters are in the right order.
Overall, I really like these chips. My comments about specific chips reflect the fact that since this was a group buy, I didn’t get the exact colors I wanted, and since they were made in China, just didn’t have the quality. But for the price, this was a great deal. These are a vast improvement over my other tournament sets I’ve had, with the exception of the ceramic set.
There were three chip colors I didn’t get – almond, red, and blue. I didn’t order any almond chips because neither the color nor the edge spots appealed to me. I didn’t order the red because I think of reds as being low-value chips. I realize you can customize and make it what you want, and I did like the light blue and white edge spots on the reds. I thought of ordering some to make them bounty chips, but generally don’t use bounty chips. I thought of ordering some for seating chips, but I already have 4 sets of seating chips and just couldn’t see getting another set for that purpose. Even when I use two sets of seating chips in a tournament, one for the main tournament and a different set for final table seating, I still have two sets in reserve. I might have liked the reds better for my 100,000 then the yellows. I didn’t order the blues, and in retrospect, I think I would have liked them for the 100,000 chips. I did think of them as bounty and seating chips, but covered that already. I think of blue chips as versatile and could be used for a lot of values. But generally, I’m traditional in that I prefer red=5, greed=25, black=100, lavender/purple=500, and yellow/orange=1,000. After that, I like gray or pink for 5,000, and after that, it’s whatever I think looks good with the set. I’ve had sets with 25,000 as blue, dark green, and orange, and liked them all with those sets. For 100,000, I’ve had yellow and a hot pink, but I’d also like blue and dark green with the right sets.
Stacking, Handling, and Sound
I can’t compare the stacking, handling, and sound to chips like Paulson, ASM, BCC, TR King, or Bud Jones either because I’ve never handled those chips, or I’ve not handled them enough to compare them. Therefore, I won’t try. I can compare them to ceramics and numerous plastic chips.
I like the way these chips stack and handle. They are not slick at all, and stack better than any set of poker chips I’ve ever had.
Compared to plastics, these are light years ahead of plastics in all but one respect. It is easier to get plastics of uniform size. While plastics can have almost any color, these were not customs so I couldn’t choose the colors. I see no reason that these colors couldn’t be comparable to plastics.
Even the best plastic chips are slicker than these. I have a set of China clay 8V chips for cash, and these sound better and stack better. These stack much higher than plastics, and are not nearly as slick to hold. Grabbing chips out of a rack or box is way less likely to result in the chips going everywhere with these.
The sound is definitely different. They have a nice “click” sound, whereas the ceramics have more of a clack sound. They don’t go chink or clunk like a slugged plastic chip. Even non-slugged chips don’t sound the same, though they sound more like these than slugged chips do.
Light Green – 25 – 325 chips
The outer edge spots are dark green. The inner edge spot is yellow. I like this color scheme a lot.
What I would have done different: I would have used a brighter yellow, and maybe black on the outer edge spots.
Black – 100 -425 chips
The outer edge spots are approximately a royal blue. The inner edge spot is dark blue. I like this color scheme a lot, but primarily because of the white label. With a darker label, I think some of the colors would wash out. The nice thing about black is that most colors go well with it.
What I would have done different: I like the royal blue, but would have used a much more contrasting color on the inner edge spot, probably a light, bright color. However, I would have gone with a different color scheme entirely on this chip, even though I like the black and royal blue together. For this edge spot, I would have used either white on the outside and scarlet in the middle, or scarlet on the outside and white in the middle. I would have done that to match our poker group’s official color scheme. This chip would be used in every tournament we have, so it would be the one to use our group colors on since I wouldn’t have used either red or white chips to fully implement the club colors.
Lavender – 500 – 125 chips
The outer edge spots are black. The inner edge spot is gray. I like this color scheme a lot; it’s one of my favorites in this set.
What I would have done different: I would have used a bright yellow for the middle edge spot, or possibly a white, instead of the gray, because the next chip in sequence has the exact same edge spot.
Orange – 1,000 – 250 chips
The outer edge spots are black. The inner edge spot is gray. This chip is my favorite overall color scheme with these chips. The reason I chose this as my 1,000 chip instead of the yellow is because I liked this color scheme so much better than the yellow, and I wanted to go with either yellow or orange for 1,000. I generally prefer yellow, but it does depend on the chip.
One issue I have, and it’s not a big one, is that the 500 and 1,000 edge spots are identical. However, the chip colors are very different and I don’t think it’s a problem at all. But in a perfect world, I wouldn’t have two chips right next to each other with identical edge spots. As far as that goes, on a completely custom set, I wouldn’t have even had the edge spots be the same design, and certainly wouldn’t have used the same colors. But in this set, both are great looking chips.
What I would have done different: I’d have liked an even brighter orange, though I’m not disappointed in this orange at all.
For edge spots, I would have considered white for the inner edge spot, and might considered a brighter yellow inner spot or a bright green, though I probably would have done white or gray. I probably wouldn’t have thought of gray for the inner spot, but having actually seen it, I’m not really sure I would have done anything different.
Pink – 5,000 – 250 chips
The outer edge spots are light green. The inner edge spot is dark green. I like this color scheme. This is a very sharp looking chip. I’m not overly fond of pink chips, but in the absence of a gray chip, I like it for a 5,000 chip.
The orange 1,000 and pink 5,000 are in the same color range, but the chips are easily distinguished looking at the top/bottom of the chip. However, in stacks, they are harder to tell apart. That might lead to more dirty stacks. That problem could be eliminated by a yellow 1,000 or a gray 5,000. However, I do not think this will be a big problem.
What I would have done different: I really like the dark green center spot, and if I stuck with that, I would have used a brighter yellow, or maybe white, on the outer edge spots. I would also have looked at dark green or black outer spots with yellow, white, or bright green middle spots.
Dark Green – 25,000 – 175 chips
The outer edge spots are medium-dark blue. The inner edge spot is orange. I like this color scheme, especially the orange inner edge spot. This is one of my favorite color chips, and might be my favorite or close to my favorite if I liked the outer edge spot better.
What I would have done different: I’m not fond of the darkish blue as an outer edge spot on a dark green chip, and that is the worst feature of this otherwise great chip. Simply reversing the edge spots to me would have been a great improvement. In the absence of reversing them, I would have used white or bright yellow for the outer edge spots.
Yellow – 100,000 – 50 chips
The outer edge spots are medium rust red. The inner edge spot is a light rust red, that I think mostly fades out, though it is distinguishable on the chips. This is my least favorite chip and my least favorite color scheme in this set.
I considered using the light blue chip for my 100,000, and maybe would have liked that better. However, without a doubt, the yellow contrasts more with the dark green 25,000 than the blue would have, though the light blue could easily be distinguished from the dark green. I prefer generally to have dark and light chips next to each other. I also like to have yellow chips in the set if possible. I’m just disappointed in the edge spots on these chips. I like the chips other than the edge spots.
What I would have done different: I would have used a brighter yellow chip. For edge spots, I think a lot of colors might have worked well. For outer edge spots, I would have gone with black, dark green, or dark blue. For inner spots, white or gray would have worked well, but so would several other colors with the dark outside edge spots.
Work by others
Each of these chip sets were done by PGI. My artwork on all the sets was done by Ken Scott at the Poker Chip Artist (info@pokerchipartist.com). I’ve used Ken several times. He’s quick and I love the work.
bivey
Full House
Sorry late to the parade. Got my chips later than most and then was out of town or working so much that I just got these all cleaned up and ready to go. 
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I wanted to clean the factory dust off my blank CPS chips. The first 25 I dipped in a bowl, rubbed the dust off, then dried on a towel. There had to be a better way...
"In my club, I will splash the pot whenever the fuck I please".
- Teddy KGB
"In my club, I will splash the pot whenever the fuck I please".
- Teddy KGB
Strike1st
Straight
Nice!
Redbelly
Flush
Did you oil yours? I wasn't going to but think I might now... very light edge coating... factory smell wasn't that bad for me.
CdnBeerLover
Full House
Looks like I was negligent and didn't post any pics of my set.
The set. The T25's on the left were used in a tourney. The T25's on the right were not. Based on my experience, I wouldn't bother with oiling. Just a quick wipedown with a damp cloth, then use them.
And the obligatory splash pot...
Yeah, I know I need to upgrade my table.
The set. The T25's on the left were used in a tourney. The T25's on the right were not. Based on my experience, I wouldn't bother with oiling. Just a quick wipedown with a damp cloth, then use them.
And the obligatory splash pot...
Yeah, I know I need to upgrade my table.
Redbelly
Flush
I sat down and oiled 1800+ chips tonight. Necessary? Probably not... I actually had decided to NOT oil but wanted to have the colors come through. They do look better lightly oiled before play. Time was minimal as well.
I'm hosting a large gathering using these chips late March. I wanted to have the colors "pop"... with oiling they do. (VERY LIGHTLY) brings out a nice effect. The more I handle these chips the more I wish I had ordered more... I really like what was produced. I plan to emphasize the possible confusion between the T100 and T500 but don't see it as an issue unless your just not paying attention... and if your not... well then...
I'm hosting a large gathering using these chips late March. I wanted to have the colors "pop"... with oiling they do. (VERY LIGHTLY) brings out a nice effect. The more I handle these chips the more I wish I had ordered more... I really like what was produced. I plan to emphasize the possible confusion between the T100 and T500 but don't see it as an issue unless your just not paying attention... and if your not... well then...
That would be Joe, not Jim.
OP
OP
grandgnu
A new beginning
My stack early in my first (and last) game putting the CPS chips into play. I busted two players early to take the chip lead. This was from right before I moved out of CT to FL. Now the 1200 chips are sitting packed in a box in the new place, but I do have a casino/poker room only 15 minutes away now, which is nice.
ParrotheadMZ
Flush
I put almost 1300 chips into play Saturday night for a T8000 50 person tourney with rebuys. Im sad to say that 3 hundos are MIA and are presumed dead : (
Lesson learned. I think they went home in someone's pocket on accident during table change. No chips in pocket rule will now be in affect. Rack please.......
Lesson learned. I think they went home in someone's pocket on accident during table change. No chips in pocket rule will now be in affect. Rack please.......
zgarske
New Member
Not sure anyone noticed, but Joe is opening up a 2nd group buy over on the other site.
.29c per chip, no min order
I'm tempted to add ~1200 more.....!!! I have the CPS bug bad....
nitzilla
What site? Pm me the link if you can't post it here. Thanks!
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