Pharaoh's Club Paulson chips - Pre-Order Thread

[Johnny5]

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I had to reload the page to see the images. The only one I don't like is the $500. It just does not seem to fit the rest of the set.

[Leonard]

After lurking for a while I am going to put my two cent in re the blue vs white debate.

First a disclaimer: I am not sure if I am going to buy this set or not. However, the blue vs white controversy is not a deciding factor. I think I would prefer personalized chips and I am waiting to handle some samples of the pokerchip.com custom chips. If they feel good enough to me I will probably go custom. If not, probably Paulson Egyptians.

Secondly, I understand that this is not a democracy and that Ten has to have final say over the chip design. I have final say over whether or not I buy any.

I favor blue. The primary reason is that the Mirage, where I have played almost all of my casino poker uses blue one-dollar chips. I believe Ten is from the east coast and $1 chips are white in Atlantic City. I think that for nealy all of us, this is the primary reason we prefer one or the other. (In the JB Paulson set the blue chip is $1. However, the insert is ugly, so who cares?)

The only reason to buy expensive chips is to get the look/feel of a casino chip. The ultra cheap chips from the toy dept of WalMart function exactly the same as high-dollar chips. For this reason, I don’t like the idea of non-denom chips that are supposed to look like they came from a casino. The design even says “Pharaoh’s Club & Casino” on it. I also think the chips should be consistent from one to another. For this reason, even though I prefer the blue $1 chip, I would buy a white $1 chip over a blue non-denom.

Also for this reason, if it were my choice, I would either leave it at white-$1/blue-.25 with NO non-denoms (and save a few bucks in art costs) or offer white in both denoms and blue in both denoms. For these chips with the Pharaoh’s logo, non denom’s don’t do much for me personally.

Arguments about how dirty white chips get make little sense to me in the setting of a home game, especially given that chips are mostly sorted and stacked with chips of the same color.


There you have it – my decision in a nutshell. I would clearly decide differently than Ten has on this issue, but, regardless, this is the most spectacular clay chip design that I have ever seen.

PS I just saw the new blue chip – it looks great. Much better than the turkey.


Leonard

[Leonard]

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I had to reload the page to see the images. The only one I don't like is the $500. It just does not seem to fit the rest of the set.

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I would pick the $500 as the best looking of the lot.
My mother would have said "To each his own - as Sally kissed the cow."

Leonard

[bubbafry]

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well, while we're all complaing...
to change topics a bit, am i understanding correctly that none of the chips will have a standard circular inlay? what is the rationale behind those "funky" shapes?
am i just clueless and in the minority in thinking the standard circle looks better?

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Yeah, most people like the shaped inlays (myself included). The only problem that might come up is that the inlay is going to be the smallest size, so shaping them might make them look tiny. I think most shaped inlays are the 2nd size (in between the small and the Grand). But I'm sure Ten will make sure it looks good before pulling the trigger. As it stands, I'm not even expecting shaped inlays because I get the feeling Paulson won't allow it, but that's just speculation on my part.

[Lumpy]

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Look at the post from TechGuru.

I just don't understand why so much color is coming off of these so easily. Most casino chips do not even look that bad. I have clay sample from pretty much every other maker and have not noticed this happen to any of them.

[morglum_s]

Ok I have been trying to following the variuos threads, but am a little lost. Could someone summarize a couple of points for me:

Blue vs. White: We will have a blue $.25 and White $1. In addition we will have a non-denom blue, and a non-denom white? (what about orange, will that also come in a non-denom flavor?)

Blue/Green Icon: Is the icon on the Blue Chip changing? Are there mockups somewhere? Is there a central location with all the mockups (including non-denoms?)

Inlay shapes: I guess we don't know on this one yet. But the default is to go with shaped inlays if we can.?

Thank for clearing things up for me.

-m

[bubbafry]

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I just don't understand why so much color is coming off of these so easily. Most casino chips do not even look that bad. I have clay sample from preyty much every other maker and have not noticed this happen to any of them.

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I don't have much experience with Paulsons except at the casinos and the JB samples, but maybe they get dirty so easily because they're new? Maybe they just need to be broken in for a while. Maybe the the casino Paulson's dirtied each other up when they were new also. Look how worn down the casino chips get on the edges; that clay has to be going somewhere (probably onto other chips).
Anyway, given my options in home chips right now, having dirty chips is a small price to pay for the feel of those Paulsons. IMO, the Nevada Jack/Martini Club clay samples I have feel and sound like plastic compared to the Paulsons.

Edit: the chips were also pretty chalky/powdery when I first got them but it's basically gone away. Maybe the chalky powdery stuff adds to the grime and the chips will stay cleaner as the powdery stuff gets rubbed off.

[bubbafry]

BTW, I'm sure you know this, but just to let others know, the colored edgespots on those black chips haven't "rubbed off", they're just covered in dirt. If you clean them, they will look like new. AFAIK, the edgespots go all the way through the chip so they can't be rubbed off (according to a post from John from pokerchipreviews on the other forum, hope I'm not misquoting him).

[morglum_s]

Doh! If I would have waited 5 more minutes....

Thanks. Ten....

-m