ideas wanted on a chip purchase

grebe · #1 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 02:32 PM

first off, thanks for taking the time to read my post. So let's get to it!
I am looking for a limit/mixed games chip set around 500 chips all one color. I already have a set of desert sands (by nevada jack) that work great for cash games and tourneys to 20 people...but now I want to get something different.
Criteria:
-must not have denominations on them
-must have off-colors to choose from so that I can get a color that is not associated with a denomination (example, $5 red, $25 green). A grey chip would work, or an olive chip would be super-cool!
-no metal slugs!
-would prefer edge spots, but a solid color would be ok if everything else worked out.
-price cutoff, say .50 per chip. $200 is really all I want to pay, but I could work out a bit more for a really nice buy.

Anything out there for me, guys? Thanks again for taking the time to read a newbie's ramblings.

jamby · #2 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 02:37 PM

I don't understand why you'd want to buy 500 chips of just one color.

What am I missing here?

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Originally Posted by grebe

I am looking for a limit/mixed games chip set around 500 chips all one color.

Strange · #3 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 03:39 PM

Have a look at the T mould solids from HoldemPokerChips.com.

Great chips at close to the price you are looking, and lots of colours to choose from.

Strange · #4 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jamby

I don't understand why you'd want to buy 500 chips of just one color.

What am I missing here?

Setting up a sort of 'pink chip' game? But with grey chips

jamby · #5 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 03:44 PM

Makes no sense to me at all.

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Originally Posted by Strange

Setting up a sort of 'pink chip' game? But with grey chips

bolgenmod · #6 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jamby

Makes no sense to me at all.

Are you asking what the pink chip game is? If so: the pink chip game is a 7.50/15.00 limit game played in Atlantic City (I forget the casino, and 2+2 is down) with pink chips only (that is, with the $2.50 chips). The game is notorious for being incredibly LAGy, usually attributed to the fact that pots LOOK huge: one small bet is 3 chips, a big bet is 6 chips. Evidentally, this causes people to play more loosely.

There has been much discussion on 2+2 of how chip structures affect games. For example, most people agree that a game like 5/10 often does not play as "large" as a 3/6 for example (that is, even though the bets are bigger in the 5/10, the total pot generally does not get as large as in the 3/6). With a 5/10, the bets are 1 or 2 chips; with the 3/6, the bets vary depending on what kind of chips are used, but it too could be a 3 and 6 chip game like the pink chip game. And most posters swear that the average pot in the pink chip game (7.50/15.00) is larger than the average pot in a 10/20 game (a 2 and 4 chip game). So the number of chips (not just the actual value of the chips) being used for the betting seems to affect the game.

Only grebe knows what he actually wants to do, but it seems that playing with only one denomination would make for some fun HUGE stacks on the table!

And grebe -- I have to agree with strange: the T-mold blanks are really nice clay chips and perfectly priced for your needs.

jamby · #7 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 05:49 PM

No, not what, just why. As a chipper, it just seems like a rather boring idea to me. No offense intended and I wish grebe luck getting what he's looking for.

I just don't get the attraction of 500 grey or olive chips. I suppose if I was interested in such a game, I'd buy 500 unusually colored faux clays and join the nation.

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Originally Posted by bolgenmod

Are you asking what the pink chip game is?

Nutsco · #8 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jamby

No, not what, just why. As a chipper, it just seems like a rather boring idea to me. No offense intended and I wish grebe luck getting what he's looking for.

I just don't get the attraction of 500 grey or olive chips. I suppose if I was interested in such a game, I'd buy 500 unusually colored faux clays and join the nation.

I think you are forgetting that chips are meant to represent cash, which in grebe's game looks like an awesome idea playing with 1 color. Ask any player at your average table if he likes the chips you are playing with, most dont care...they only care how big their stacks are.

abby99 · #9 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Nutsco

I think you are forgetting that chips are meant to represent cash, which in grebe's game looks like an awesome idea playing with 1 color. Ask any player at your average table if he likes the chips you are playing with, most dont care...they only care how big their stacks are.

Hey, this is ChipTalk! Unusual first post.

jamby · #10 (**permalink**) 04-08-2007, 07:30 PM

My point exactly. The point of such a game has nothing to do with the looks or quality of the chips in play. Therefore, why even spend even .50 cents each on them? Faux clay all the way for such a game in my opinion. No metal inserts, they handle well, they're cheap, they serve the purpose perfectly of such a game at a fraction of the cost being considered in the OP.

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Originally Posted by Nutsco

...chips are meant to represent cash, which in grebe's game looks like an awesome idea playing with 1 color. Ask any player at your average table if he likes the chips you are playing with, most dont care...