[R Deckard]

Well, if you haven't been keeping up with the PJB group buy on the TH-P forum, I finally got my chips, despite PayPal's, FedEx's and UPS' best attempts at thwarting the whole deal. A big "Thank You" to Nugzy, who did a tremendous job of organizing it. These are an early 40th birthday gift from my wife (thank you, honey). Now, on to the PICS!


Shipping container


Still in the factory cardboard boxes


In formation


Tower (with flash)

Tower (no flash)


Scans



All your base. . . (sorry, couldn't help it )

[hunterking]

Originally Posted by R Deckard

All your base. . . (sorry, couldn't help it )

lmao BTW...nice chips, and nice documentation!!!

hk

[TRIPLE-D]

Congrats on the chips-------lookin good!!!!!!

[Johnny5]

Nice stacking job...

And chips of course! :cool:

J5

[souldigger]

I love the tower o' chips!

Jason

[hayaku]

nice chips, how did you decide on the 1500 chip breakdown?

[R Deckard]

Thanks for the compliments all. . . as for the breakdown, if you really want to know. . .

Using a spreadsheet, I calculated the chip requirements for various "divide-by-100" cash game limits, using 10 players with 10 buy-ins and 10 rebuys. Limits ranging from 0.25/0.50 to $2/$4, and buy-ins ranging from $10 to $100. I then used the maximum for each chip value, and this gave me quantities for the $5 thru $1000 chips. Then I calculated the $1 and $5 chips required for a $1/$2 limit or $2/$4 limit game at face value (using cheap chips or quarters for 0.25 chips if needed). Putting these together, I got a base minimum required set of:
$1 - 250
$5 - 150
$25 - 250
$100 - 200
$500 - 90
$1000 - 30
Total - 970
(I then filled-in the $500 to 100 and the $1000 to 50 for a nice even set of 1000 chips)

Then I added 500 more chips in the most popular/used values, in a popular distribution: $25 -200, $100 - 200, $500 - 100 (this would be a set of 500 that I could try to sell if I decide that I have too many chips). Final breakdown:
$1 - 250
$5 - 150
$25 - 450
$100 - 400
$500 - 200
$1000 - 50

[Doc]

R:

Where did you ultimately get these, and what was the cost per chip? Thanks

[TomHimself]

nice chips, he got that from a group buy i think

[R Deckard]

Yes, it was from this group buy organized by Nugzy. He bought around 7000 chips from Dice702 (aka apachepokerchips), which worked out to $0.9288/chip including the shipping charge from Dice702 to his house. Since I also participated in his Casino-on-Net referral program, I got an additional $100 off my order, so my net cost per chip worked out to $0.8621, not including the shipping to my house from Nugzy's. But then I stupidly lost my ass playing craps on Casino-on-Net, but I don't include that in my cost calculation