There have been several threads in the past about "how many chips do you own" or "how many chips have you sold", but I think I can accomplish both in pictures. Every now and then I get bored and get all the chips out for a group picture (my fiancé calls me a dork but I do it anyway). It was interesting looking back at some of the older pictures of my chipsets and watching my collection evolve into what it is today.
A couple years ago I hit the right side of a bad beat jackpot at a casino ($12,000) and decided to buy a nice set of poker chips. This is before chiptalk.net and just before home market Paulson chips became available again. The best I could do was a set of Modern Clays and a set of the Achetype chips. Although these were nice, they weren't quite what I was looking for. Vineyards were just starting to be listed on eBay so I bought about 1,000 at a great price, I think the $20 chips were the most expensive by far, $1.50 per chip, the other denominations were less. I've bought and sold many chips, the only reason I list the Vineyard purchase is because the sale of those chips financed some of my subsequent purchases. I like the Vineyards, and have owned them on three separate occasions. Lots of buys and sells later and I have about 9 playable retired casino chipsets in my collection.
Sold the dice chips, sold the Modern Clays
Sold the Vineyards and Archetype chips, bought 1,000 mint Dunes chips, Discovery Cruise chips and group buy WSOP chipcos
Sold the WSOP chipcos and Rounders Card Club Matsuis and 600 Dunes, bought Mullet Bay and Dodge City chips
Sold Dodge City, bought Wyndhams, Vineyards (again) and Christos
Sold Vineyards and Palmas, bought St. Jo's
Sold Discovery Cruise, Dunes and Christos, bought Grand Casino Gulfport chips (house and tournament), Presidents Biloxi, Ambassador Plaza
Sold Mullet Bays, sold small Discovery Cruise set, (re)bought Christos and Vineyards.
I sold a bunch of chips in December, I did buy a Dunes set though. 5,000+ Paulsons just don't look very impressive after the prior pictures.
UPDATED 6/10/07
I haven't updated in a while, several sets were bought and sold and never even made a picture. This should be it for a while. I do have 200 more Chips Casino Tukwila in transit, and I need 10 more $500 plus 2 more $1,000 Dunes chips to complete that set (I used some other sample chips to fill in the Dunes set for the picture, Tukwila set will be 1,400 chips when complete).
Just another update, however the collection may be complete. I'm very pleased with what I now have. I love the CIC chips and the Dunes and Ritz chips are amazing.
It's been over a year since I've updated and alot has happened. I ended up selling some sets I thought I'd never sell, but I did re-buy an Ambassador Plaza set (and then some).
August 2008 (pre Ambassador Plazas)
Septembe 2008 - September was a big AP month, also bought the Caesars at Sea.
I don't have a current picture, I will update again when I get a free moment. Right now I have the AP's pictured below plus 800 Caesars at Sea (pictured above, plus 100 more $5's) and 800 St. Jos. I did sell my Treasure set to help finance some of my recent purchases, but I will be adding to my St Jos set in the coming week or two. I will take an updated picture at that time.
