I am very pleased to introduce to the PCF community my custom CPC 39mm 1-1/16" inlay FDL cash set: The Sazerac Room which is located within the friendly confines of The Poker Pit ("TPP"). I hope you like them as much as I do. The inspiration behind the name, theme and colors comes from growing up in the New Orleans area. The FDL itself is synonymous with NOLA. The Sazerac Room is named in tribute to the Sazerac cocktail which is reported to be one of the first cocktails ever created. It was first mixed by a French apothecary in the depths of the French Quarter in 1838. The Sazerac Room is the cash game location within TPP where my league plays its tournaments. During tournaments, the bust outs gather there for some cash game action while sipping on Sazeracs and/or other adult beverages while they await the next tourney to start. The overall inlay design is based upon one created years ago for my table felt. The chip colors and the inlays colors are intended to be complementary and not identical. The colors chosen for the chips approximate my high school colors (.25), favorite jersey colors of the New Orleans Saints ($1 - color rush/$100 -home jersey), Loyola University ($5), the colors of Mardi Gras during the day ($25) (lighter, brighter) and at night ($50) (neon, darker, boozier), and LSU colors ($500).
I know, I know, someone just got tilted. $50 chip???...what?, why?, doesn't he know chip denoms should be in multiples of 4 or 5? I do, however, this was an intentional choice. I wanted this chip to play on the felt and not just sit on the side staring forlornly at the action in the middle of the table. The group I play with has been together for decades and I have a pretty good feel for their cash buy-ins and betting at this point. The $50s and $100s are much more likely to hit the pot than the $500 would be, therefore I favored creating what some would label an "odd" or "wasted" chip denomination in addition to the 5x "standard" $500 chip that will likely rarely be used.
I also want to express a lot of thanks for the ton of design time and hard work put into the inlay design by my non-chipper good friend, Sean at Bayou Fire Media, as well as thanks to @David Spragg who has more patience than anyone I know. Frankly, I cannot thank David and his team at CPC enough for their amazing responsiveness and for putting up with all of the wrong turns, design/chip changes, questions, adds, deducts, troubleshooting of illustrator files, etc. that it took to reach the finish line. Thank you again to David and his team of artisans for their incredible attention to detail and also for keeping the art of custom chip-making alive and available to folks like us. I truly enjoyed the process and, like it or not, CPC will be hearing from me again!
OK, without further ado, here are the pictures and information on the chips:
Denomination: .25
Spot: 3V12
Base Color: Dayglo Peacock
Spot Color: Dayglo Peach/Dayglo Yellow
Avg. Weight: 8.19g
Denomination: $1
Spot: 414
Base Color: White
Spot Color: Butterscotch
Avg. Weight: 8.75g
Denomination: $5
Spot: 4DSA18
Base Color: Red
Spot Colors: Dayglo Arc Yellow, Dayglo Saturn
Avg. Weight: 8.7g
Denomination: $25
Spot: 6TA14
Base Color: Light Green
Spot Colors: Lavender, Green, Yellow
Avg. Weight: 8.77g
Denomination: $50
Spot: 414418
Base Color: Blurple
Spot Color: Dayglo Green, Canary
Avg. Weight: 8.75g
Denomination: $100
Spot: 814
Base Color: Black
Spot Color: Yellow
Avg. Weight: 8.57g
Denomination: $500
Spot: 6DS18
Base Color: Lavender
Spot Color: Dayglo Arc Yellow
Avg. Weight: 8.61g
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