To Plaque or not to plaque? (2 Viewers)

[chipinla]

Who made those and how much were they?

B&G
I got them from a private seller.

 

[Quad Johnson]

Plaques are great. It's the $20 denom for my microstakes home game.

 

[ktran]

B&G
I got them from a private seller.

B&G?

 

[chipinla]

B&G?

Bourgogne et Grasset
The Paulson of plaques/jetons

 

[CrazyEddie]

@ktran , those plaques were made by Bourgogne et Grasset, who make jetons and plaques for casinos. B&G plaques are the very best available, and you can't get your own customs from them like you can from Abbiati or Matsui; they only sell to casinos.

The ones that @chipinla has were made for John Aspinall, who ran illegal games for high rollers. There's a fascinating history behind them, which you can read about here: http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/obsolete/aspinalls.htm

I'm extremely envious of those plaques.

 

[Jeff]

I'm not a plaque guy. I had a lot of them with my PNY set and at the time I spent $10 per which I thought was a lot 12 years ago. The Matsui plaques looked great, but heads up at the final table at WCB years ago with plaques was not good. They are hard to count and cut. The plaques had static cling and were not easy to separate. In the case of this design, they are harder to see whether there is a dirty stack. I came away from this beautiful set deciding I like well-designed chips of the same size.

 

[doublebooyah85]

Love plaques. Unfortunately I'm holding my breath for an Aria group buy or AST group buy :-(

 

[mipevi]

The plaques had static cling and were not easy to separate.

I could not deal with the static cling either when I had the Blue Sands tourney set. Thankfully BG, Abbiati and MSK plaques play much better, as they don't have a flat surface.

 

[CrazyEddie]

... and dirty stacks aren't an issue if you make each plaque denom a different size! Which you totally should do.

 

[JustDave]

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I'm not a plaque guy. I had a lot of them with my PNY set and at the time I spent $10 per which I thought was a lot 12 years ago. The Matsui plaques looked great, but heads up at the final table at WCB years ago with plaques was not good. They are hard to count and cut. The plaques had static cling and were not easy to separate. In the case of this design, they are harder to see whether there is a dirty stack. I came away from this beautiful set deciding I like well-designed chips of the same size.

The static/suction is very real. The MSK lip does way better for this but it just don't look quite as class. When we use them it's really like one gets tossed, not someone pushing in stacks of them. I'm sure if we used them a lot it would be annoying, but at the same time, I wonder if after use does that stick go away with some 'wear'.

 

[MeridianFC]

Plaques are a great way to extend a set where existing chips are difficult/impossible to find.

 

[Irish]

Plaques are a great way to extend a set where existing chips are difficult/impossible to find.

Bingo. And they're awesome too.