Pharaoh's Club Paulsons - A blank white or a blank orange?

[TenPercenter]

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Ten

[Cin0s3]

The orange chip is probably my favorite chip but gets dirtiest the quickest so it has to go in a low use position like the 1000 IMHO

[TenPercenter]

I am thinking orange, simply because orange says "wild" to me. And the wild card chip is likely to get less use, right?

Ten

[Cin0s3]

I think thats a good way to look at it too.

[jojobinks]

i've been arguing the white should be blank, and i voted that too. then i realized that this'll be purely a tourny set for me. so, finally, i don't really care.

my white sample has gotten way more dirty than my orange, though (if that isn't too obvious to say).

[TenPercenter]

Ok, it's 2:1 having a blank white vs a blank orange.

Since I'm in the minority can someone convince me?

Ten

[toots]

1) white gets dirtier easier
2) People aren't going to agree on whether the low denom chip should be $.25 or $.50, or even for that matter, $2 or $3

[smoore]

I voted for a blank white but then thought about it some. I would like to change my vote to, "blank orange, make the 0.25 chip whatever you like because I would just use the oranges for them in my game."

i.e. I would buy the blank chip instead of a 0.25 chip. I don't think I'd be buying a $1000 chip anyway as we usually play cash, not tourneys.

[bubbafry]

My vote was for blank orange and 25c white. I play microlimit cash games with my friends sometimes and would like to use the orange as 50c, and in tourneys they can be $1000. To me, the only advantage of blank white and orange $1000 chips would be if you need the whites for really big denoms > 1000 (like 5000 or whatever). I've never really needed a chip bigger than 1000 before, but I've never run a tourney bigger than T1000 x 15-20 ppl either, and I'm sure other people have different needs.

[AZnuts]

Blank white please(or no blank at all)!!! Maybe to help convince Ten of the poll results . . .

I'd get these as a tourney set, $25 through $1000, I want denoms on all 4 of those to be consistent. It might just be a deal breaker for me.

[Lumpy]

Speaking from a tournament player perspective, with all of the other chips having denom's the $1000 should have them as well. It just adds that little somthing extra when that hits the table. $1000!!! A blank chip just doesn't have the same effect IMHO. I will not be getting .25 chips so those do not matter to me either way. I say don't have a blank. Do you feel the Egyptians needed a blank to fill in somewhere? If not, do we need one here?

[TenPercenter]

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I say don't have a blank. Do you feel the Egyptians needed a blank to fill in somewhere? If not, do we need one here?

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No, I never considered it at all with the Chipco set. But for this one, I though that it added one option for all those people that HAVE to have a 50¢ chip, or a $2 chip, or $5000 or whatever. There are always home games that play a certain way, and it all gets messed up if they don't get that one special denom.

Ten

[duma]

I voted for a blank orange. I will be usuing the set for cash games. we play NL .25/.50 blinds . i will not be buying a white .25 because it will get dirty so quickly and i really hate white chips. ill use the orange as .25, and then if our stakes ever increase i could use it as whatever denom because it has the flexibility. so in essence, i think both chips should be blank, or make the white one $1000 if u must only have 1 denom-less chip.

i already have a tournament set. in my opinion, Paulsons are meant for cash games. who is actually going to use a $1000 chip consistently? are your tournaments that big? i dont see a need for it, unless you are Joe Highroller over there.

edit: you could always break out the $1000 octagon if there was a drastic need for a $1000 tournament chip. i dont see a problem with mixing and matching different style chips.
WSOP does this all the time.
In 2003 the low denom chips up to $500 were Paulsons and then they went to Bud Jones for the higher ones.
In 2004, all the $5 chips were hot stamped Paulsons and the rest were Bud Jones.)

[JJ97]

Here's a random thought and something my neighbor did with his Chipco's.

Don't put a $ or cents sign on the denominations. Then you can reuse the 25 as a $25 or 25 cents. If we are in a cash game, we use 25, 1, 5 chips. Then when we are in a tournament, we use the same chips (plus black) but the green becomes $25.

Not ideal, but it tends to work out well for us.

Just a thought.

JJ

[messenger309]

I will only use these for cash games most likely and even for tournament play I do not see the need for a $1000 chip at all. It only doubles the $500. Unless you are running a large tourney it makes no sense. If you are running a big tourney you probably can't afford these anyway.
I would like to see a denominated 25 cent chip but I don't care what colour. 50 cent chips are a specialty chip and are about as useful as a $1000.

Rob

[coyote]

I understand the idea behind not having a $ or cent sign on the denom, but I really dislike the look. It makes it look generic. If there is going to be denominations, then there needs to be the $ as well!

I don't really care which one is blank, although I do like the idea of having a 25 cent chip.

[mckee27]

The blank white can be used for either a 25 cent chip or a 50 cent chip. And the orange (1000) will be used for tournaments.

[mckee27]

I agree: No $ or cent sign.....just a number.

[morglum_s]

I like leaving off the symbol also, but then I would rather see no denoms anyway....

-m

[Coleman]

Rats,
I wanted the white to be $1. I love white/red ring games.
I prefer the orange to be $1000.
I'd rather have the blue chip blank or $.25.

[LAGmaniac]

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Rats,
I wanted the white to be $1. I love white/red ring games.
I prefer the orange to be $1000.
I'd rather have the blue chip blank or $.25.

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[jojobinks]

i feel like if you're going to do denominations, you should make them worth money.

so a 25 chip is not as interesting to me as a $25 or a 25c chip.

i understand the flexibility issue. i'm solving that by planning to use this set for tournaments only. i'm buying nexgens with labels for my cash game, until i have another $1000 in a few years to spend on nice chips for my cash game.

[Coleman]

I don't intend to order any non-denominated chips.
"Chips iz Money" I always say...
I'll bet you could split the inlays on one or two colors, just to cater to the non-denominational buyers.

[aero918]

Although I get the idea behind a blank chip....I am not sure I would buy any!!!!

[mckee27]

I agree....no blank chip.

[House of Payne]

A blank white chip will extend the life of this set for home games. It would allow someone to play .05/.10, then move to .25/.50, then .50/$1 without getting rid of their set. Problem is that it will be the workhorse chip and will get pretty dirty.

Mike

[Coleman]

well...
If you need nickels, should you really be spending a grand?

[smoore]

I have to say after reading the "tournament set" posts that a blank white and a $1000 orange is probably the best bet. Sacrifice the orphan low denom color to the swing chip and then there's a nice orange $1000 denom for those lovely heads up battles. People that need a nickel cash game set can just use the 1% denomination rule, they could buy $5 and up chips and never even see one of the $1 chips.

Although the no currency denomination will accompolish this as well as make the set international friendly, I have to vote to put the $ on it... the non currency chips just seem bleh to me.

[bos]

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Ten

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I'm not in for this order, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cent chip anyway /images/graemlins/wink.gif.

I think there will be a crowd who would like a denominated 1k chip, as a non-denom big chip feels a bit cheap. There will also be a crowd who would like a denominated 25c + something useful as a nickel chip (for low-limit stud games).

How about use the orange color for BOTH 1K and the non-denominated chip. This provides a lot of flexibility, but the non-denominated chip would be unusable as a $5k chip (would anyone use a non-denom as a 5k chip?).

[bubbafry]

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3) Use the orange color for BOTH 1K and the non-denominated chip. This provides a lot of flexibility, but the non-denominated chip would be unusable as a $5k chip (would anyone use a non-denom as a 5k chip?).

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This seems like a great idea to me. Have 2 versions of the orange chip - one with $1000 and one blank. Possible or impractical?

[Coleman]

I can't see how they could refuse. 7 inlays? 8? 9? It's 100,000 chips, for Pete's sake. What's another inlay?
For that matter, you could make both blue and white $1 chips.
Especially white.

[TenPercenter]

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This seems like a great idea to me. Have 2 versions of the orange chip - one with $1000 and one blank. Possible or impractical?

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Possible. I'm intrigued by the idea, and I'll look into it.

Ten

[smoore]

That would be awesome, I could have my blank orange chips and the tournament people could have a $1000 chip.

[duma]

i dont see whats so wrong about 1 chip not having a denom. its the "filler" chip that is always needed in cash games. there have been 2 sets recently that have this variable chip. the Kings Crown TRKing has one, and also the Greek chip has one. the Greeks design looks great with the denom. Im sure Ten will make it look perfect.

[mckee27]

NO blank chips, NO filler chips, NO wild card chips......Please make all the chips with denoms or now I might be out of this. If you go both ways (denoms and a blank) that will work for me, at least I will be able to get a set with all denoms....keep it uniform: all denoms.

[zackallen]

Blank is good

[BreakEven]

Ten,

I think I voted having the white chip as the blank but I'm OK with have the orange chip as a blank. Even better was the post about having two orange inlays one blank and one with $1000. That way, tourney and cash game people can be accommodated.

I know some have an opinion that with 100K in chips that we should have more buying clout and should be able to have a number of chip variations. That might be the case but when you approach a vendor whose primary business is selling millions of chips to commercial accounts, one highly customized order of 100K home-use chips isn't exactly going to blow Paulson away. I hope you have success negotiating with a vendor.

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