9G Vegas Chips

[jalsing]

I have the 9G blanks of which you speak. I preferred them over the nexgens which I sampled as well. Yes, they are lighter, and the nexgens are a bit cheaper, but I couldn't stand to have 'LAS VEGAS' printed around my chip. I also just didn't like the texture/feel of the nexgen. I actually REALLY liked the 9G blanks the more I played with them. I bought 1000 of them from pokernstuff.com and labeled them up.

AFTER I labeled them (this has also been discussed in other threads) I applied Krylon Preserve-it to the chips. This added some texture while at the same time preserving the label (I used weatherproof laser labels from onlinelabels.com) The chips stack just fine IMO. Slightly annoying however was that the recessed area for label application seems a hair smaller than 1". Most of my labels actually ride up the lip a bit. Not enough to effect stacking/shuffling, but enough to frustrate you while you're applying...

Word of advice however. My samples from pokernstuff.com had the red chips with a real 'maroon' colored red, which I really liked (shown in the mockup below.) The chips I received were more 'rust' colored which annoyed me quite a bit, and I actually had to redo my label design to match better (luckily I hadn't printed any yet because I needed to color match the other chips..) Also, these chips sell fast it seems because they were out of reds for quite a while, and even when I made my order I was backordered 50 reds. I've seen the chips for sale at pokerchipmart.com as well, so you may want to check there also.

Here's a mock up of my chips:


Note the purple I had to actually buy the 'vegas' style and remove the stock labels. I'm perhaps the only person with custom purple 9G blanks (is that a good thing?)