For the people that got Mr.chip's wsop chips

smitty007 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 01:14 PM

I have a sample set of the WSOP Replica's here and they are a lot more "slippery" than my Bellagio replica set. Both sets are textured.

For those who have purchased the WSOP replica's from Mr. Chips, how do you feel the slipperiness (not sure if that is a word!) of your chips is? Have they gotten better with play and handling? If you have smooth and textured, which do you feel are less slippery? (I know that sounds like a stupid question, but I have read a couple posts of people saying that smooth chips are less slippery on one another than the textured chips)

I'm trying to make a decision on whether I need to get rid of the rest of my Bellagio's in order to make this purchase, so sorry again for yet another question about these! I just need endless amounts of money so that I don't have to worry about it...anyone know where to get that?!

Thanks ahead of time,

-smitty

suited67 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 01:52 PM

Tough question but easy answer....

Trees...money grows on trees

...funny thing is I don't have a damn tree within half a mile of my house

. Ha Ha Ha

Jeff

Matt · #3 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by smitty007

I have a sample set of the WSOP Replica's here and they are a lot more "slippery" than my Bellagio replica set. Both sets are textured.

For those who have purchased the WSOP replica's from Mr. Chips, how do you feel the slipperiness (not sure if that is a word!) of your chips is? Have they gotten better with play and handling? If you have smooth and textured, which do you feel are less slippery? (I know that sounds like a stupid question, but I have read a couple posts of people saying that smooth chips are less slippery on one another than the textured chips)

I'm trying to make a decision on whether I need to get rid of the rest of my Bellagio's in order to make this purchase, so sorry again for yet another question about these! I just need endless amounts of money so that I don't have to worry about it...anyone know where to get that?!

Thanks ahead of time,

-smitty

I would tell you for sure if I had a definate answer for you but I don't. The problem is that I have only shuffled our textured chips. What I have noticed is that textured chips stack equally well when they are new but becomes a bit slick after lot's of use. The tiny pyramid shaped bumps in the texture are "polished down" with time. It is possible that the smooth chips, which have a very different texture similar to that inside the material itself, would not suffer from this at all no matter how much wear you put on them. I think that is the case but I can't know for sure until I've tested this. Unfortunally, the only way to find out is to shuffle, shuffle and shuffle some more until the chips are starting to become worn. Someone that have shuffled both chip types equally long could probably shine some light on this. In any case, even if your chips become a bit more slick with time, they will stack very well as there's practically no "wobble" or "spinning" problems with these (which is more than you can say about ChipCo's and Paulson's these days). If you are worried about the chips becoming more slick with time, my guess is that smooth chips are a better choice. I think most are using the same blanks these days so you will probably get the same chips no matter who you order from. Some, however, might still have the old blanks that makes a "clack" sound and do not have the ChipCo-styled high-gloss edges and will likely continue to sell those until they are out of stock and can buy the newest ones. How they differ in slickness and how this changes in time I don't know and I can't remember which ones the Bellagio chips were printed on. I'm sure Joe could tell you this if you ask him. I'm afraid I can't help you more than this at this time. I hope you will be happy with the chips no matter what type of chip you end up buying.

Matt

98Suited · #4 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 09:51 AM

Unfortunately I can't get in on the group buy as I just got a set of paulsons, and would have a hard time justifying getting two expensive sets this close together to my gf. I am, however, very interested in eventually getting the wsops as well and I wanted to get a little input on some stuff, like smooth vs. textured and alligned vs. non-alligned (obviously the latter is better, but is it a big deal considering the ~30c/chip difference?) How do they compare to, say chipco's version?

I will of course get samples, just felt like starting a new thread, sorry

BrettButter · #5 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 11:24 AM

I've been meaning to make a post like this, I finally got around to it.

I can't really compare, because I don't have samples of smooth and aligned chips, but I can tell you about my non-aligned textured ones.

They're awesome.

I ordered non-aligned, and I just grabbed one of my 100 ct. racks of 25 chips, every chip in the first column is almost perfectly aligned. Out of the 100, I picked out the six worst ones, and took pictures of them.

The surface of the chip has a good ceramic feel, but isn't as smooth as Chipco obviously because my WSOPs are textured (I'm comparing to Chipco 2004 "Tournament" WSOPs) - also, the edges are a little sharper, and of course no white ring around the top of the chip like on Chipcos. Best of all, no spinners in my batch of 525 Mr. Chips. My 10-chip sample Chipco set has 4.

Chipcos edgespots aren't aligned. It's impossible to get them aligned. Even when ordering my non-aligned, about 30% of the chips appear to be dead perfectly aligned. Another 65% are very very close. The other 5% aren't aligned at all (two of the six 25 chips mentioned earlier are this way)

However, with the non-aligned chip, you may experience just a little bit of bleeding on black stripe/yellow chips, such as the 1000 chip, and 10000 chip, but not very much. The 100 chips also look a tad big foggy on the stripes, with the black chip/white stripes.

The Mr. Chip samples I ordered were all very far from aligned, so I'm not sure if the sampled non-aligned will give you the same consistency as the actual order. I'm also not sure how many of his orders came out this close to aligned, but I couldn't have been happier with how mine looked.

Here are the other four denominations I have, I grabbed one chip of each at random for edgespots.

I also stacked 10 Mr. Chip samples next to my 10 Chipco samples, and the Mr. Chip stack is a tad bit higher.

smitty007 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-30-2007, 10:16 PM

Anyone have any input on marking up the chips? Also, slickness of the smooth versus textured when stacking and shuffling when compared to Chipco's? I was wondering which chips feel, sound, and stack the most like Chipco's, textured or smooth?

Matt · #7 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by smitty007

I was wondering which chips feel, sound, and stack the most like Chipco's, textured or smooth?

Smooth feels more like ChipCo chips and should be the same thickness. Our textured chips are slightly thicker so they will not fit in some of the tighter chip rack models. I would recommend smooth chips. Several people claims that they do not suffer at all from becoming slicker with time like the textured ones does. Also, I really love the way the smooth surface texture looks. Almost like crushed velvet.

Matt