Found Up to $25,000 cash for an amazing THC or TRK chipset (1 Viewer)

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I can only speak for myself, but it's a little insulting if you're saying, okay, if you're such a chipping expert, make some good chips.
Some of us are artistic creative types and some of us aren't - that's just reality. And for my money, knowing your limitations is invaluable.


No clue how you could end up offended by my question to another chipper. People often have very different chipping journeys and others end up on the same path. I have always been curious as to the desires of some to purely collect casino sets while others like building around their personal theme. Some chippers get excited about assembling and relabeling semi-customs while others just like to build full custom set after full custom set. I have recently reflected on my own experiences and preferences and find my self heading in the direction of the latter. But I guess that shouldn’t surprise me because I am a minimalist in real life and have never been a collector of anything.

So challenging me to create a new set of chips is like challenging me to make a nice oil painting, or create a recipe using cilantro, or create some jazz music - its nothing I have any interest in.

I wasn’t challenging Krish, but inquiring about his chipping desires. I know he is a collector in at least one other significant area where customizing isn’t an option. So I was curious if anything was different here given the difference in possibilities. But otherwise, yes, this would have answered my question.
 
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No clue how you could end up offended by my question to another chipper. People often have very different chipping journeys and others end up on the same path. I have always been curious as to the desires of some to purely collect casino sets while others like building around their personal theme. Some chippers get excited about assembling and relabeling semi-customs while others just like to build full custom set after full custom set. I have recently reflected on my own experiences and preferences and find my self heading in the direction of the latter. But I guess that shouldn’t surprise me because I am a minimalist in real life and have never been a collector of anything.



I wasn’t challenging Krish, but inquiring about his chipping desires. I know he is a collector in at least one other significant area where customizing isn’t an option. So I was curious if anything was different here given the difference in possibilities. But otherwise, yes, this would have answered my question.
Sorry bud, often times when I see something begin with “just curious . . .” it’s followed by a passive aggressive dig. So I just misread you. A little Jameson may have helped. And part of me actually feels bad that I haven’t made a custom set yet.
 
Sorry bud, often times when I see something begin with “just curious . . .” it’s followed by a passive aggressive dig. So I just misread you. A little Jameson may have helped. And part of me actually feels bad that I haven’t made a custom set yet.

No worries! Many different paths in the chipping world which is part of what makes it so interesting.
 
20k could be fun to play with. Unfortunately I have zero chips that you would be interested in. I do have a BCC Cigar Snifter mold protege set that I could "probably" be talked into releasing for 20k lol

Anyways, good luck with your search.
I was thinking the same thing - I also don’t have anything Krish would want, but for $20k I’d have to at least consider parting with my circus-themed keeper set! Even then, it wouldn’t be a given.

I‘m sure $20k will turn up something interesting though.
 
I guess when I think about this amount of money for a set, I'm like "oooooh what kind of set could i get with that money?" But then I feel that perhaps WW has many of the "grail" sets locked up in his collection, thus making it more difficult to obtain the unobtanium that in the past 20k would have shaken free no problem! Anyways, good luck!!
I was thinking the same thing - I also don’t have anything Krish would want, but for $20k I’d have to at least consider parting with my circus-themed keeper set! Even then, it wouldn’t be a given.

I‘m sure $20k will turn up something interesting though.
 
Sorry bud, often times when I see something begin with “just curious . . .” it’s followed by a passive aggressive dig. So I just misread you. A little Jameson may have helped. And part of me actually feels bad that I haven’t made a custom set yet.

No worries! Many different paths in the chipping world which is part of what makes it so interesting.
Wow. You guys are so reasonable boring. This thread was supposed to spiral out of control with personal digs and childish bickering for weeks.

Thanks for nothing.
 
I’m sure 20k will shake loose some otherwise vaulted sets. I know I would certainly offer up my ”unsellable” LCOs if they lived up to the ”minty” condition.
 
@k9dr ;)

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https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/mapes-new-china-club-trks.5519/
 
It’s a fair question, Evan.

Having had a chance to play with a few CPC custom sets, the “feel” simply doesn’t do it for me. There are some incredible sets out there — I love @slisk250 ’s Rosie’s Bayou and @Hornet ’s science set, and seeing them has definitely piqued my interest in a custom set, but I will not (at least for now) be pursuing the CPC route.

The pandemic slowed down my customs process a bit, but I’m hoping to reveal something really fun in the months to come, most likely by mid to late next year.
I would sample at least a shuffle stack of each mold before shutting the idea down completely. Admittedly, the first CPC chip I ever acquired was a small crown, and I know it's going to be unpopular, but I found the chip to be light and "plastic" like and cheap feeling. I got my hands on some H molds though, and those felt more substantial and I liked those better.

I will let you decide for yourself, but having a mold sample set at my disposal, the most substantial feeling chips are the H molds as above, large crown, jockey, and Diecar. The other molds are noticeably lighter feeling, IMO.
 
Admittedly, the first CPC chip I ever acquired was a small crown, and I know it's going to be unpopular, but I found the chip to be light and "plastic" like and cheap feeling.

I concur whole heartedly and have said the same thing multiple times. The HHR mold is awesome, but ultimately, none of the molds have an old school leaded feel to them!
 
I concur whole heartedly and have said the same thing multiple times. The HHR mold is awesome, but ultimately, none of the molds have an old school leaded feel to them!
That’s true, but at least half of them are better than RHC
 
I was thinking the same thing - I also don’t have anything Krish would want, but for $20k I’d have to at least consider parting with my circus-themed keeper set! Even then, it wouldn’t be a given.

I‘m sure $20k will turn up something interesting though.
Pr0n on this fine Monday?
 
You can’t buy joy. There would be a gap in your being that you would try to fill by buying other stuff.

Years ago, (and I mean YEARS), I lived on a college campus, but as an international student, completely didn’t realize that “room and board” didn’t include the college meal plan. Ineligible to work without a permit, there were a ton of hungry days, especially when we had holidays like Thanksgiving, and most of the campus was empty, save for the some of the international students who couldn’t afford to go home, or had not been invited to someone’s home for the long weekend.

My freshman year, having just entered the country in September, and thanksgiving being in November, I didn’t get an invite anywhere, so it was a pretty cold, hungry weekend in Boston.

On Thanksgiving evening, I took a walk off-campus, and it was completely deserted everywhere. I hadn’t realized yet how important Thanksgiving was in the US, I hadn’t been exposed to the culture enough.

McDonalds was running a promotion that winter (maybe just in a few markets), where the price of a hamburger would drop to the lowest temperature. That particular night, a hamburger cost $0.34. I had exactly $1.75, and I remember wolfing down 3 burgers like it was the food of the Gods, even though I had never eaten beef in my entire life. The chicken sandwich was too expensive.

Sitting across from me in one of the booths was an older gentleman who I struck up a nice conversation with, a widower who lived down the street whose wife had passed a few years ago. He also happened to be a tenured economics professor at Harvard (FYI, I didn’t go there). He eventually became one of my long-term mentors, but the first piece of advice he gave me happened on that Thanksgiving night.

He said, “Money can’t buy you happiness. But it lets you buy a boat and you can park that boat next to happiness.”
 
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Fwiw, I've been at this for a very long time, and still don't have any ASM/CPC sets of my own design. I do have three Burt/ASM/CPC sets, but all made by other people. I do have a couple of design ideas in my mental queue, but still have never been compelled to pull the ASM/CPC customs trigger. I'm probably more likely to convert Paulsons to my own semi-customs (and have already done this a couple of times).

As an aside, I've already sold most of my $20k sets. :)
 

tldr; :)
I know everybody says
Money can’t buy happiness

But it could buy me a boat,
it could buy me a truck to pull it
It could buy me a Yeti 110
iced down with some silver bullets
Yeah, and I know what they say
Money can’t buy everything
Well, maybe so
But it could buy me a boat
 
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My freshman year, having just entered the country in September, and thanksgiving being in November, I didn’t get an invite anywhere, so it was a pretty cold, hungry weekend in Boston.

On Thanksgiving evening, I took a walk off-campus, and it was completely deserted everywhere. I hadn’t realized yet how important Thanksgiving was in the US, I hadn’t been exposed to the culture enough.

McDonalds was running a promotion that winter (maybe just in a few markets), where the price of a hamburger would drop to the lowest temperature. That particular night, a hamburger cost $0.34. I had exactly $1.75, and I remember wolfing down 3 burgers like it was the food of the Gods, even though I had never eaten beef in my entire life. The chicken sandwich was too expensive.

Sitting across from me in one of the booths was an older gentleman who I struck up a nice conversation with, a widower who lived down the street whose wife had passed a few years ago. He also happened to be a tenured economics professor at Harvard (FYI, I didn’t go there). He eventually became one of my long-term mentors, but the first piece of advice he gave me happened on that Thanksgiving night.

He said, “Money can’t buy you happiness. But it lets you buy a boat and you can park that boat next to happiness.”
Is that the plot of Good Will Hunting?
 

tldr; :)
I know everybody says
Money can’t buy happiness

But it could buy me a boat,
it could buy me a truck to pull it
It could buy me a Yeti 110
iced down with some silver bullets
Yeah, and I know what they say
Money can’t buy everything
Well, maybe so
But it could buy me a boat

Country music is life.
 
If a brawling, genius, foster-home juvie from South Boston who works as a janitor is the same thing as an international student from India, sure. :)
If your gender pronouns match then there cannot be any discernible difference between you and a fictional movie character. If both of you applied for a job They would have to flip a coin.
 
Years ago, (and I mean YEARS), I lived on a college campus, but as an international student, completely didn’t realize that “room and board” didn’t include the college meal plan. Ineligible to work without a permit, there were a ton of hungry days, especially when we had holidays like Thanksgiving, and most of the campus was empty, save for the some of the international students who couldn’t afford to go home, or had not been invited to someone’s home for the long weekend.

My freshman year, having just entered the country in September, and thanksgiving being in November, I didn’t get an invite anywhere, so it was a pretty cold, hungry weekend in Boston.

On Thanksgiving evening, I took a walk off-campus, and it was completely deserted everywhere. I hadn’t realized yet how important Thanksgiving was in the US, I hadn’t been exposed to the culture enough.

McDonalds was running a promotion that winter (maybe just in a few markets), where the price of a hamburger would drop to the lowest temperature. That particular night, a hamburger cost $0.34. I had exactly $1.75, and I remember wolfing down 3 burgers like it was the food of the Gods, even though I had never eaten beef in my entire life. The chicken sandwich was too expensive.

Sitting across from me in one of the booths was an older gentleman who I struck up a nice conversation with, a widower who lived down the street whose wife had passed a few years ago. He also happened to be a tenured economics professor at Harvard (FYI, I didn’t go there). He eventually became one of my long-term mentors, but the first piece of advice he gave me happened on that Thanksgiving night.

He said, “Money can’t buy you happiness. But it lets you buy a boat and you can park that boat next to happiness.”
Krish,
I can appreciate where you are coming from with this story and I think it’s really awesome that you shared it.
Not trying to make light of your experiences in life and I mean no disrespect with this post, but for many of us, this is truly what makes us happy. Some of us are surrounded with happiness every time we get to sit at the table together.
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This being said with the utmost respect from one chipper to another.
People’s definition of happiness varies. What I am most curious about is what your definition of happiness is?
You mentioned in your story about parking next to happiness, have you found the correct parking spot yet?
 
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