You can only save one set ..... (2 Viewers)

[allforcharity]

I feel I would be remiss without adding this note to this thread.

Thanks for this sobering post about the real dangers of fire and the necessity for prevention and early warning. These types of reminders are appreciated.

I'm sure that nobody facing a house fire would be silly enough to run in and save, of all things, possessions like little artistic plastic-clay discs. This whole thread is more of a tongue-in-cheek poll than anything else. I can think of few headlines as senselessly tragic as "Man suffocates in house fire after trying to save beloved poker chip collection".

 

[Beakertwang]

This one is actually worth $11,000. Anyone laughing at the idea of Mike Trout making my short list of players to grab clearly doesn't know baseball. Mike Trout is the greatest player since Willie Mays and possibly since Babe Ruth and he's still only 28 years old. If he keeps it up, he will go down as the greatest player who ever lived, full stop. I'm not even a Trout fan per se though. I'm a Griffey fan. But I'm also a numbers guy, and guys like Mike Trout come along once entry few generations at most. Some of his cards are worth $400,000+. Not joking. Pretty crazy. His name always comes up in GOAT conversations around guys like Michael Jordan, Lebron James, Wayne Gretzky, Tom Brady, Willie Mays, and Babe Ruth.

$11K? Wow! I just did a cursory eBay search for the card, and estimated low. Cool cards!

And yeah, Trout is amazing. And a likeable guy, too.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Thanks for this sobering post about the real dangers of fire and the necessity for prevention and early warning. These types of reminders are appreciated.

I'm sure that nobody facing a house fire would be silly enough to run in and save, of all things, possessions like little artistic plastic-clay discs. This whole thread is more of a tongue-in-cheek poll than anything else. I can think of few headlines as senselessly tragic as "Man suffocates in house fire after trying to save beloved poker chip collection".

Sure - that's why I posted days earlier which chips I would save. It was also a great excuse to reshoot Pr0n for a set that I got long before I had a decent digital camera - or understood the "white balance" in digital cameras.

It's less about thinking someone would save chips, and more the reality of running through the fire "movie style" to save a child. The second one sadly has happened. Parental instincts aside, without an early warning, nobody has ever successfully done it. The real instincts should be:

• Make sure your smoke detectors work, and are in every sleeping room
• Make sure everyone has a secondary escape route
• Have a meeting place outside so we done go in to rescue someone that has already gotten out
• Keep your child's bedroom door closed at night. That hollow-core door buys 15 minutes of smoke/fire protection. That is all we need to save anyone in that room.

If everyone is safe, we can focus on the fire. If the fire is unfightable, let the firefighters know that you have rare collectables inside. We will risk much less for chips than we would for a life, but I have been on fires where the house was a total loss, so we redirected efforts to saving antiques and photographs.

 

[saleen121212]

Sure - that's why I posted days earlier which chips I would save. It was also a great excuse to reshoot Pr0n for a set that I got long before I had a decent digital camera - or understood the "white balance" in digital cameras.

It's less about thinking someone would save chips, and more the reality of running through the fire "movie style" to save a child. The second one sadly has happened. Parental instincts aside, without an early warning, nobody has ever successfully done it. The real instincts should be:

• Make sure your smoke detectors work, and are in every sleeping room
• Make sure everyone has a secondary escape route
• Have a meeting place outside so we done go in to rescue someone that has already gotten out
• Keep your child's bedroom door closed at night. That hollow-core door buys 15 minutes of smoke/fire protection. That is all we need to save anyone in that room.

If everyone is safe, we can focus on the fire. If the fire is unfightable, let the firefighters know that you have rare collectables inside. We will risk much less for chips than we would for a life, but I have been on fires where the house was a total loss, so we redirected efforts to saving antiques and photographs.

Very sobering info here. Thank you. House fires terrify me. All of our bedrooms are upstairs and we have 2 large dogs, and a 1 year old. The chips would be the last of my worries.

Of course I'd choose this one if for some reason I had to choose. https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/welcome-to-tortuga-island.45249/

 

[PAZ]

Red Rooms.

 

[Potsie1]

I don't own anything that can't be replaced, so I would have to take these.

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Who did the artwork on these?

 

[Thomacetti]

Red Rooms.

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Awsome Paul, every time I see them.
My TRK grail set if I ever would own one

 

[gpc]

Probably my Cleveland Horseshoe set

 

[saleen121212]

Probably my Cleveland Horseshoe set

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So that's where all the trimoons I've been looking for went.

 

[markleteenie]

Damn what game format needs that many 100s? @Changster play in your game?

 

[RocAFella1]

Damn what game format needs that many 100s? @Changster play in your game?

Not enough $1000s, $5000s, $25000s for Changster.

 

[shorticus]

Probably my Cleveland Horseshoe set

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I think you need one more rack of $5’s. That’s not a complete set yet!

 

[RocAFella1]

I think you need one more rack of $5’s. That’s not a complete set yet!

Maybe a barrel?

 

[gpc]

Damn what game format needs that many 100s? @Changster play in your game?

I was originally thinking a 2/4 limit structure. Cash value of the chips would be divide by 100

So that's where all the trimoons I've been looking for went.

There are a total of 5000. I think there is one or two other trimoon limit sets.

 

[shorticus]

Maybe a barrel?

a rack and a barrel

 

[saleen121212]

Sounds like you can spare some in the future for me!

 

[Mongoose]

Probably my Cleveland Horseshoe set

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Need moAr!!!

 

[texasrambler]

I would grab this wood case with a set made for the Miramax Rounders promotion in Europe.
Not easily replacable with money, I think only 5 sets were made.

 

[MaxB]

I'd have to rescue this set (as much as I like the Matsui's, the Vegas chips need to live on)

 

[Thomacetti]

I try to avoid this thread like you would not believe...could not pick just one

but if I have to...... my custom MGK's stamped by Fabian/Meatboy (hotstamping jedi)

 

[inca911]

Saving this one!

 

[k9dr]

Nice box

 

[EmptyPocs]

oh crap! who put this junk in my closet?
and those hideous TRK colors to boot...


(sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread and lost where I was at --- so feel free to tell me where to go )

 

[EmptyPocs]

oh crap! who put this junk in my closet?
and those hideous TRK colors to boot...

(sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread and lost where I was at --- so feel free to tell me where to go )

 

[Papasatyr]

My house and everything in it burned down a year ago. Sadly I was not home, so the fire ate all of my chips.

Had I been home, I probably would have picked up my labeled Nexgens for a moment, then set 'em down and grabbed the Paulson Cherries instead.

 

[Jeevansluck]

My house and everything in it burned down a year ago. Sadly I was not home, so the fire ate all of my chips.

Had I been home, I probably would have picked up my labeled Nexgens for a moment, then set 'em down and grabbed the Paulson Cherries instead.

I'm very sorry for this loss of material things. I would have tried for both sets, no?!

 

[Papasatyr]

Sure, but the thread called for just one set.

 

[Jeevansluck]

Sure, but the thread called for just one set.

I like to reach for more and break the rules

 

[allforcharity]

My house and everything in it burned down a year ago. Sadly I was not home, so the fire ate all of my chips.

Had I been home, I probably would have picked up my labeled Nexgens for a moment, then set 'em down and grabbed the Paulson Cherries instead.

Horrible news. I hope the recovery was unimpeded.

 

[BGinGA]

I can think of few headlines as senselessly tragic as "Man suffocates in house fire after trying to save beloved poker chip collection".

I think in my case, it would be: "Man suffocates in house fire while trying to figure out which beloved poker chip set to save".

I have several heavy favorites, and a few that simply could not ever be replaced. Even deciding now -- under no time/death pressure -- is nearly impossible.

Probably one of these four: Four Queens, 20th Century, GCOP, or the recently-completed x18 tourney set (Regency, Copa, Eddie's, Casablanca, Circus Circus). But many others that are just as nice or nicer: several Star sets, 43mm tourney set, mixed-casino cash set, Riversides, Jessie Becks, Money Trees, etc., etc.

But one thing is for sure -- my first priority would be the wife and four puppies.