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chrisg750

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Hey guys I would appreciate it plenty if you guys can help me find some chips to buy... I don't wanna spend too much money. I'm looking for at least a 500-1000 piece chip set and looking to spend about a maximum of $500 total. I'm playing .50/$1 home game and with a tournament here and there, but mostly looking for chips for a cash game. I can use the chip value as the same anyway. Thanks a lot. Any help is appreciated guys :p
 
nevadanick

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There is usually a large selection in size of the set, quality of the chips and prices on eBay. 'Google' also offers a large selection of sites to compare.
 
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I got lucky and found some clay chip sets at a general drugstore store, of all places.. Looks like there are a lot of leftovers from the monster boom a few years back, and maybe you can get lucky. YMMV. :(
 
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You sound like you want a nice set. My advice: get the best. Spring for an extra $250 or so and get a 500 piece Paulson set, like the Top Hat & Cane series. These are great! Those cheap sets are cheap feeling next to the Paulsons. The only other option I see is the Next Gen chips, which feel almost like the Paulsons, a bit lighter maybe, but still a nice feel at a fraction of the price. Avoid all those heavy metal-inserted sets. They feel terrible, sound terrible, and won't impress real cardroom players.
 
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get 1000 fifty cent chips from your local casino. Use them for awhile the return them and get now ones..
 
RogueRivered

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Here ya go. Some great $500 500 chip sets.

http://www.apachepokerchips.com/

I just ordered several samples from them. They arrived today. The Private Cardroom ones are neat, but I still prefer the Top Hat and Cane chips (they're the same as the Private set except for the center design). If you want a Dollar sign denomination on the chip, then my favorite is the Paulson Pharaoh's Casino type. The Paulson National series is another favorite of mine without a Dollar sign. On the Apache page, the James Bond chips look kind of cool, but I think they are too heavy and slippery. The Dunes chips seem a bit lightweight. If I ever get a new home set, I'm holding out for the Paulsons. Currently, I just have a Bicycle set, and really, they're pretty decent. You can buy these in a toy store.
 
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With that kind of budget you could have custom chips made with your own design.

650 of these cost me $175 shipped (+$50 to the guy who did the artwork for me).
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Grossberger

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Here are the chips I ordered and recieved a week ago.I got 1000 total chips w/acrylic case and 10 chip trays. I broke the denominations down as follows so I could have a 20 person tournament (starting stack of $10000) and a 10 person cash game. Now if I configured the chips different I could do a larger tournament.

200 = $1 gray
200 = $5 red
25 = $25 green
225 = $100 black
175 = $500 purple
150 = $1000 yellow
25 = $5000 pink

The entire set up including shipping cost me 127.95 they are 14 gram chips and I'm very happy. Found 1 mistake a black ship had a $100 sticker on one side and a $500 on the other I called the company and they sent me a replacement.
 

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Thanks to everyone. Got what I needed.
 
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Here are the chips I ordered and recieved a week ago.I got 1000 total chips w/acrylic case and 10 chip trays. I broke the denominations down as follows so I could have a 20 person tournament (starting stack of $10000) and a 10 person cash game. Now if I configured the chips different I could do a larger tournament.

200 = $1 gray
200 = $5 red
25 = $25 green
225 = $100 black
175 = $500 purple
150 = $1000 yellow
25 = $5000 pink

The entire set up including shipping cost me 127.95 they are 14 gram chips and I'm very happy. Found 1 mistake a black ship had a $100 sticker on one side and a $500 on the other I called the company and they sent me a replacement.




Those are nice chips man.... I may get those for tournament play. Where did you get them?
 
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You posted in a thread that has been dead since November 7th... Are you the reason zombies are becoming an ever more threat to reality? BTW, nice 1st post.
 
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Here are the chips I ordered and recieved a week ago.I got 1000 total chips w/acrylic case and 10 chip trays. I broke the denominations down as follows so I could have a 20 person tournament (starting stack of $10000) and a 10 person cash game. Now if I configured the chips different I could do a larger tournament.

200 = $1 gray
200 = $5 red
25 = $25 green
225 = $100 black
175 = $500 purple
150 = $1000 yellow
25 = $5000 pink

The entire set up including shipping cost me 127.95 they are 14 gram chips and I'm very happy. Found 1 mistake a black ship had a $100 sticker on one side and a $500 on the other I called the company and they sent me a replacement.


these chipees are sickkkk mr grossberger!!! dayummm :D
 
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Yea I have since gotten more I can now do a 40 person tournament with a starting stack of $10,000 although I got my new ones for christmas and the chip values I wanted got screwed up so now I have more $25 chips than i need and some pretty usless $50 I guess I can use them for cash games but its not what I wanted. My current steup is now:

$1 grey= 200
$5 red = 200
$25 green=125
$50 blue=150
$100 black = 375
$500 purple = 275
$1000 yellow = 200
$5000 pink = 50
$10000 brown = 25

total of 1600 chips
 
Divebitch

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You posted in a thread that has been dead since November 7th... Are you the reason zombies are becoming an ever more threat to reality? BTW, nice 1st post.

Always took you for the type that obsesses about zombies and talks to themselves. :cool:
 
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