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I am posting this in "General" because it is not a question about a tournament structure or chip breakdown (I think I have that under control), but about WHICH chips to buy. If this is wrong, please move this.

As some of you may remember, I tried to help my college run a decent poker tournament after the student union spent almost $2K last year hiring some morons (who didn't even have a blind schedule) to run a tournament. (Of course, they had terrible chips.) I told them that for less than $1K, I could get them the equipment to run a tournament that the students would then OWN. I bought a bunch of the Target table tops and a case of Copags to start, but they never reimbursed me. So I never bought the chips. TODAY (over 6 months after I gave them the receipts), I get the check for the stuff I already bought.

So now that I have the money for the stuff I already bought, I am going to buy the chips. I had been planning to get the faux clays, but since there are no longer the colors I need, I can't do that.

I need about 1700 chips and want to spend about 10 cents a chip:

500 greens (25)
600 blacks (100)
300 purples (500)
300 orange (1000)

(Of course, I could get other colors for the 500/1000.)

So now what? I don't think I can wait for the new Palm faux clays because there will be a tournament in April. Obviously, dice chips are out, not just because they suck, but because I suspect that is what many of the kids play with: I don't need total security, but I do need SOMETHING they cannot buy in the local WalMart.

I hate to buy cheap chips, but since I have no idea when I will be seeing the money for these, I don't want to spend too much (in other words, no nexgens). Any suggestions?