[dsferris]

I am not sure if we have discussed this here or not. ( going cenile at 30 is not a good sign of my future.)

So during one of the trade sessions at the recent CC & GTCC convention, a now good friend of mine Rick A. Brought up the concept of a GP (graphically pleasing) rating for chips. He said when he looks at chips he gives the a GP value, and that chips he buys have to have a decent GP rating.

Now, I came into conversation about halfway through, and heard three Canadians talking about GP and thought they were discussing one of those weird canadian taxes. however, the concept of the GP rating makes sense. Granted it is different for everyone. For me the bottom end of the GP scale would be the new Hard Rock $1 chip (GP=.000001), and the top end of the GP scale would be a $5 Bucket of Blood, or the green April Fool's Day Chip from the HR. This concept could also be applied to custom chips.

So in your opinion, what casino chips are almost a negative GP, and what are tops?

[Josh7975]

Been a while since OP, but I'll give it a shot.

I think maybe a problem with rating chip aesthetics is that it's SO subjective. I mean INSANELY subjective. Like I studied fine art for years and we never had one-tenth of the discussion or commentary about visual appeal that we have here about chips. I think it's because all the colors and images on chips really don't mean much, aside from serving to distinguish values and casinos from one another. So if the visual elements don't really have meaning, then it becomes purely a matter of taste.

Another issue, at least in my experience, is that some chips really grow on me over a period of time, while others don't or even lose appeal. Like the Outpost $1 first struck me as completely meh, and then I got to really like them, and I bought a bunch. Or the CP@Sea chips, which first struck me as amazing, then I bought a set and almost immediately lost interest. Now I just own a handful that I use for filler in a different set of plastic chips.

Anyways, all that being said, here's my GP preferences:

minus GP:
maroon or burgundy $5s (as opposed to bright red)
foresty or otherwise dark-green $25s
overtly "classy" designs like the Bellagio chips
the Paulson chips at my local casino, Seneca Niagara-- truly fugly
attempts to color-match design elements in the inlay with chip colors (almost always falls flat IMO)

plus GP:
Cali-colors
hotstamps on spotted chips
old Paulson or TR King- style numerals/denoms
shaped inlays
the older Brantford Charity Casino chips, with the astronomy theme
Taj Mahal $1 (one of my all time favorites)

Supposedly concepts of physical beauty are somewhat uniform across cultures, the evidence being the fact that apparently viewers from different ethnicities and backgrounds will on average agree on which faces are more attractive than others. I'd be curious if the same is true among us-- if we'd all sort of agree on what are the most GP+ chips. My guess is not, but I'd still like to see the experiment.

[2_hotty]

IMO, the best looking chipset when they are all together is the Crystal Parks, and it's not even close.

[ampasstime]

I agree. It's totally subjective. People love and collect things I wouldn't let cross the threshhold of a dog house. I've sold some pretty ugly sh - er - stuff over the years.

It's kind of like that one-eyed, three legged mutt that's so ugly he's cute.


To each his own.