What was the first chip/chip set in your collection? (1 Viewer)

[Slam21]

The chip that I consider the start of my collection is one from a high-school friend that passed away suddenly. I use it to put on top of my cards at the table. It's brings a smile to my face every time I grab it for poker night.

 

[BGinGA]

First clay was a Deadwood $25,000 sample chip. Not my first set though, because I was a short-sighted idiot.

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

Mardi Gras Queen FL ceramics
Put together a big set
Wish I kept them honestly they’re pretty nice

 

[Jonzee]

First clay chip I saved was a Northern Quest $1 chip.
I was using it as a ball marker when I hit a hole one.

 

[200 Motels]

Dice chips > NexGen > Nevada Jack > (I think I bought a sample of sky blue Paulson cherries) > BCC Modern Clay. All this before ever touching minty casino Paulsons. OP do you have a pic of your late friend's chip?

 

[Gear]

First clay was a Deadwood $25,000 sample chip. Not my first set though, because I was a short-sighted idiot.

needs an "urrrgh, I can relate" emoji

 

[Taxi500]

Desert Heats from Claysmith... Even with better chips I do still use & like them. Unique feel compared to other sets.

 

[ovo]

customs

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

Did I really scroll past post #8 without ANY pictures in this thread?

 

[bigblind]

my first sets

 

[LeLe]

My first real set is China Clay Milano, it serve me well for many years and helped to fund my first 2 casino set

 

[lane_robert_s]

Metal slugs. Monte Carlo. Love them. But never play with them. Lol.

 

[FlushBlack]

My 1st luvs

 

[12thMan]

I’m sure my first chip I owned was a single from a card room i played at in this area in the early 2000s- The castle, the royal, big Al’s, iron horse are all possibilities of what might have been number one.


But my first chip set was absolutely the dice chips from Costco in the aluminum case. I understand they are much maligned around here, but I loved those chips and had many great games with friends while using them.

 

[chipchipchip]

China clays were my first couple sets, but those don’t count as a collection to me.

So I’d say these are my first collection-grade chips:

 

[chipinla]

My first casino chips were from Ameristar Kansas City. One of my first trips to a casino so I kept ten of them and still have them.

 

[Coyote]

I went all-in right away, 'cause I was prepared

 

[tjwor]

I have a barrel of 1's from a casino in Oklahoma where I played my first casino poker when I turned 18. Just now getting ready to upgrade my dice chips from a few years before that, now 20+ years old.

 

[mns99]

My first clay chip.
I originally had a set of samples, but this is the only one I have now.

I get several casino chips for the first collection, but the one I remember is Max Casino Las Vegas.

@bigblind
Nice set. I think Top Hat and cane are very good design sets.

 

[Lil Tuna]

First clay chips. Went all out for my home game.

 

[navels]

I joined PCF in 2017 to buy a card-capper, went with this:

Plot twist: I don't use a card capper

 

[springbox]

Dice then Monte Carlos. Coulda skipped one of those levels haha. Dice chips I gave to a family member, not sure what to do with the Monte Carlos now though...

 

[Rome]

Brybelly Super Diamond 8g chips. This is what we played with in high school 20 some years ago. I remember watching poker on TV and really being drawn to the edgespots, so I took my super diamond chips into stacks of 50, taped them together leaving little strips visible down the stack with painters tape, and using paint pens to draw edgespots down the sides of the stacks. Made them feel so much cooler and more like "real chips".

 

[YoungNoob]

Indiana Grand samples because samples!

 

[Okku]

Stardust $1 was the very first one and then these came after in chronological order.

 

[davidj]

My first were from the Lodge in Blackhawk CO! Loved that room!

 

[greenchip]

1996 Mirage $1 and 2008 Bellagio $1 $5 (current) asked my parents to harvest one for me when I was in grade school.

Image courtesy of CG.

 

[Eriks]

First love

 

[Fran]

My first Paulson chip

 

[Fran]

My first set 15 years ago