What was everyone's 1st set of chips (1 Viewer)

[markleteenie]

My first chip set was a 13.5g suited chip (dice equivalent).

I didn't realize until just now that initially I had only build mixed cash and tourney sets.
My first playable real/single "casino" set was BCC Mardi Gras tournament set from earlier this year. Love it!

Mardi Gras V2b

• markleteenie
• Sep 22, 2019

 

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My first set was a 300 Dunes uncirculated chip set from @Spinettis Gaming which has grown significantly since I fell down this rabbit hole.

 

[ovo]

My first set was a 300 Dunes uncirculated chip set from @Spinettis Gaming which has grown significantly since I fell down this rabbit hole.

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wow, epic first set, so what's your count now ?

 

[allforcharity]

Hello and welcome!

CC Pharaohs. Lasted only a few weeks before starting to get better (i.e. much more expensive) stuff.

 

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wow, epic first set, so what's your count now ?

1502 - The 2 being $25Ks. I'd love to eventually complete a barrel of them. And someday add a second rack of regular $500s. No $1s though .

 

[Highli99]

CPCs. Didn’t do denominations and built a set for both cash and tournaments.

 

[Quicksilver-75]

Dice chips followed by more wasted money in a set of 1000 Nexgen Lucky Bees. All of which are heaped into a box in a toy room.

 

[Coyote]

As a teenager, I had some very cheap and light plastic chips, interestingly in various shapes (including square and oblong) which you could call mini (crappy) plaques. Roughly of the following quality, but still not denominated:

You can't find chips that bad anymore today, anywhere

In my university years I upgraded to standard 39mm round plastic chips with edge spots, still light and cheap (not slugged).

After finishing my military service and beginning to work, I made the giant leap forward to dice chips, which, at the time, looked to me and my friends like live Las Vegas chips, out of ignorance of course.
It was the desire for customisation which made me discover clay very lately and brought me to CPC and eventually here

 

[Kidsthesedays]

This is a cool thread. Mine were Royals from apache I got a few months ago.

 

[HeWhoWouldPun]

The first set I played with were the interlocking red, white, and blue plastic chips. I played with those as a child with my father. I hated them then and still hate the memory of them.

Fast forward 30 years and the first set I purchased myself was someone else's custom ceramic set through the classifieds. It has been a good learner set and I don't care if my kids play with them while I'm not around.

 

[Saoliver]

First set was the suited plastic slug official casino weight 11.5g, similar to dice chips.

In 2003, I won a significant amount of money on an Ultimate Bet online tournament, so I bought a cheap hold’em table, a custom ASM (now CPC) set, and an engagement ring. I figured that once I was married, I wouldn’t have the opportunity or guts to spend that kind of money. Nothing changed for 15 years, until I decided this year to sell off the custom set (split 3 ways) and go crazy buying and selling probably 20,000 chips. Seriously. I’m pretty content with what I have now.

Here is the old custom set. I added on the 414 blues and 614 reds in 2005 when ASM expanded their spot options beyond just 312. This set is all murdered now. Thank God, because the inlays were a terrible idea.

 

[AnteAndy]

First set of chips were dice chips. The lady told me they were the same chips used in casinos. Got 800 and paid $163. I went back 6 years later (after I found this site) just to see how much I learned I asked her about what price I’d be looking at to get some personalized chips. She again pointed me to dice chips, and proceeded to tell me a single chip hot stamped would be $55/chip, and that’s about the prices that the casinos pay to get their chips done. Needless to say, I’ll never be going back to that place.

Funny since I got 900 dice chips when I first got them several years ago off of Facebook Market and paid no more than $35 for them. Can't image wheat it was like buying dice chips during the boom.

 

[Forest@Farmington]

Frist chip set was the plastic chips in the round carrier. Then while in Vegas went to Vegas Supply and found the Bugsy's Hideaway and purchased plenty of them. Picture will follow later. Then I bought my Personalized JR's Bourbon hall Ceramic. I also have the Roal Yak and Nevada Jacks ceramics.

 

[liftapint]

Grand Victoria primary

Me too!! Followed closely by GV secondary.

 

[RichMahogany]

Me too!! Followed closely by GV secondary.

I had some Terrible’s after the GV primaries, then went to GV secondary. Then sold everything, then went back to GV secondaries.

 

[RocAFella1]

Caesars Palace at Sea

 

[Godzilla28]

Caesars Palace at Sea

Bud Jones...really?? Put you on a Paulsons or bust kinda guy.

 

[RocAFella1]

Bud Jones...really?? Put you on a Paulsons or bust kinda guy.

I actually want a set of those again.

 

[Godzilla28]

1st Tournament set - Pharaoh's

1st Cash set - PCA primary

Still have them to this day. Spent too much time cleaning the PCA's to give them up.

 

[Godzilla28]

I actually want a set of those again.

Can never replace that first high...go gettem back.

 

[Himewad]

Embarrassing to admit to all the effort that went into these:

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I still use those Nexgens with custom labels. I’m not embarrassed at all to roll them out every game. My players love them. I’m likely going to replace them with Royals in the near future, but I’m sure I will keep my Nexgens for nostalgia, if nothing else.

 

[AK Chip]

ALL-IN chips. They were pretty nice chips.

 

[RichMahogany]

I actually want a set of those again.

Just when you think you know someone...

 

[RocAFella1]

Just when you think you know someone...

Nostalgia is real.

 

[RichMahogany]

Nostalgia is real.

No joke!

I’d love a set of GV secondaries again if money was no object

 

[Jeevansluck]

I had been living my life. Fine and dandy. I had been running with dice chips for 20+ years. There were no problems.Then I decided I wanted a true poker table and met up with the famous and wonderful @T_Chan. Not a big deal....

He showed me tables...options... mentioned PCF... MENTIONED PCF...and the results afterward have been well chronicled and pictured in this forum. A downward spiral into the madness that is chipping. There really is no way out...gotta see it through...the journey...it's what it's all about.

I'm making connections, new friends, and having more fun and enjoyment than I ever thought possible here. My wallet hurts...but I'm truly happy and enamored with my chips. The chips ain't illegal and won't damage my health like other things to be addicted to

 

[allforcharity]

I had been living my life. Fine and dandy. I had been running with dice chips for 20+ years. There were no problems.Then I decided I wanted a true poker table and met up with the famous and wonderful @T_Chan. Not a big deal....

He showed me tables...options... mentioned PCF... MENTIONED PCF...and the results afterward have been well chronicled and pictured in this forum. A downward spiral into the madness that is chipping. There really is no way out...gotta see it through...the journey...it's what it's all about.

Hey, it's not all bad. I mean, you got to meet ME. And see my flopped flush lose to a high pair that somehow ran into a full house by the river. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

 

[ovo]

Nostalgia is real.

my buddy had the Paulson classics and cdi 2005 chips which we used all the time in the early days. I have a soft spot for them

 

[justsomedude]

My first set was dice chips.

My first set of non-dice chips was a cash set of CPS. Still have a small set of them hanging around for posterity...

What was my first set of playable Paulsons? Stardust cash...

 

[colter ripton]

My first set was a set of antique clay chips. Similar to these with the fleur de lis on them.

I got them when I was like 13 or 14 and used them for years. I won a free bar tournament when I was 21 and got a set of dice chips for free. (100 dollar value lol)

I never really liked the dice chips and went back to the antique clay chips until I started playing at casinos and discovered how nice paulson chips were. That led me to chip talk and ultimately putting together a set of mixed paulsons. (Mostly terribles and empress chips) I was content with that set for a long time. A few years later I got the chip bug again and went back to chip talk and found out that it was basically deserted. That led me to pcf and I've been chipping pretty hard ever since.