Pharaoh Chip Pron!
WOOHOO!!!! They arrived today!!! Got released from Customs yesterday and waiting for me on the kitchen table when I got home!!
Such a small box for such a treasure
Filled with MORE boxes...oh they do like to tease
Bought singles of the whole seriers...Dealer Button from straightpokersupplies
The whole set, waiting for action
Sign of a great chip...standing on their edge
$25 and $100, easy to stand on edge...love the edgespots on the $100
$500 was easy to stand, $1000 took some persuading though, but I do like the colours on the $1000
$5000 easy to stand on edge, all chips very sharp and crisp edged
Group shot
Ready for Saturday's Game!!!
I haven't had a chance to examine every chip yet. I have read about some minor label problems (off center) and some chipping during shipping. Also, apparently the $100 chip is fairly easy to break, but I'm not going to attempt it on purpose.
Still, for $.32US a chip this is a supreme value! They're not Paulson, but you wouldn't know it by weight, feel, sight, or sound. They clack like a high dollar chip and they don't feel waxy or appear too chalky either. Glad I made the buy and that its still going on.
For more information on this series, and to place an order, click this link
Poker Chips-ChipTalk.net
Now I have my cash set complete (Aztar's) and my T10000/T20000 set is complete. May add as necessary in the future to both, but I'm very pleased with my collection so far.
Next purchase...waiting for the Black Friday Sale and getting something for the weekly league game tournaments. That will just about do it for me I think.
Who am I kidding?? I'm friggin hooked!! >:D
Such a small box for such a treasure
Filled with MORE boxes...oh they do like to tease
Bought singles of the whole seriers...Dealer Button from straightpokersupplies
The whole set, waiting for action
Sign of a great chip...standing on their edge
$25 and $100, easy to stand on edge...love the edgespots on the $100
$500 was easy to stand, $1000 took some persuading though, but I do like the colours on the $1000
$5000 easy to stand on edge, all chips very sharp and crisp edged
Group shot
Ready for Saturday's Game!!!
I haven't had a chance to examine every chip yet. I have read about some minor label problems (off center) and some chipping during shipping. Also, apparently the $100 chip is fairly easy to break, but I'm not going to attempt it on purpose.
Still, for $.32US a chip this is a supreme value! They're not Paulson, but you wouldn't know it by weight, feel, sight, or sound. They clack like a high dollar chip and they don't feel waxy or appear too chalky either. Glad I made the buy and that its still going on.
For more information on this series, and to place an order, click this link
Poker Chips-ChipTalk.net
Now I have my cash set complete (Aztar's) and my T10000/T20000 set is complete. May add as necessary in the future to both, but I'm very pleased with my collection so far.
Next purchase...waiting for the Black Friday Sale and getting something for the weekly league game tournaments. That will just about do it for me I think.
Who am I kidding?? I'm friggin hooked!! >:D
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And I'm the same way with my Mr. Potato Head collection. I always think the next one is the last one. Never happens.
This is the order page. Scroll down until you see Add To Cart. It'll take you to the ChipRoom Ordering page. You can order there with PayPal.
Roughly how long did it take you to get yours from when you ordered them?
Just under two weeks. They had shipped within a day, but spent a solid week in customs. Usually it doesn't take that long to clear though.
I usually host sng type games with anywhere from 8-18 guys and we usually start off with 1000-1500 chips depending on what we feel like. Any formats you suggest? I also occasionally will play with 8 or so guys a cash game with 0.25/0.50 or 0.50/1 . Was looking at buying 750/1000 chips...any suggestions?
For your structure, say a T1500 tournament, your blinds will likely start at 5/10 I assume? Much like the structure for my Thursday games.
Therefore, based on that assumption, you will likely need the following
150 5 chip value
150 25 chip value
120 100 chip value
50 500 chip value
That's 470 chips. Buy more 5 and 25 chips, but don't spend money on more 500 or 1000 chips, you'll never use them all with your format. Each player will start with
$5 chip 10 each
$25 chip 10 each
$100 chip 7 each
$500 chip 1 each
Total stack for each player $1500 with 28 chips. If you want to run a T5000 or bigger stack game, this set will NOT be enough though.
For cash games, at the limits you're playing, I would suggest a separate set of chips. You don't want to use the same chip for both tournament and cash, it gets confusing, and could lead to issues with players pocketing chips from a tournament to play in a cash game later.
For a cash game set, look at the Presidents series of chip. They're more money, but an excellent chip.
NEW PRESIDENT PAULSON - SUPER SATURDAY - official thread
Hopefully, they haven't run out, this was a HUGE sale on ChipTalk.
It doesn't come with a $.25 chip, but you can find something to fit the set easy enough. For your limits, I would get at least 400 chips for cash, following breakdown
$.50 125
$1 125
$5 100
$25 50
Even then, 50 $25 chips will be too many, so reduce that number and get more $.50 and $1 chips instead. Quarters are going to take you some time to find though, so be prepared to hunt for them on Ebay and ChipTalk. When you find them, get about 50 or 100 of them to round out your set. This set should handle any limit from .25/.25 to 2/5 games depending on the number of players you have regularily.
The price and the fact that the Pharaohs have 0.25 chips is what made me want to get them. I have looked at the Presidents before and even was bidding on these (though they're not ideal, it's not a bad price) 500 The Club Casino CHIPCO chip set with Paulson cards on eBay.ca (item 330470785096 end time 17-Sep-10 00:00:38 EDT)
I don't worry about anyone at my games stealing chips for the cash game, we play with a small circle of friends and rarely play ring, but I would like to have two sets. So if I am playing with sometimes up to 18-20 guys you would suggest getting roughly 550-600 chips? How long do your games usually take with how many guys?
I meant 1000-1500 in stack not that we use that many chips. I thnk we usually use from a 500 chip set and leave a lot out.
What was the shipping cost like on your order?
edit: forgot to add that my cash games we would use only 0.25,0.50,$1.00 chips so there is none that would carry over.
I bought samples of each chip, so my total order was for 759 chips for a grand total of $284.83US (including shipping) plus $36Can in taxes upon delivery. About $350 to $360 total Canadian.
Nevermind, just realised you were talking about the photos.
The format I bought my chips for was for T10,000 to T20,000
The format I outlined for YOU is for T1500
The next set I purchase will be for my T1500 weekly tournament. It will NOT be Pharaoh's, as I want something special for this game, but I'll wait for the Black Friday sale in November to get anything more.
I wanted to try something like this... each person starts with..
15x5
13x25
6x100
1x500
______
1500 = 35 x 10 = 350 for 10 people
x 20 = 700 for 20 people
Blind structure goes :
First 4 levels 15 minutes, after that 20 mins. Should end up being about 2-4 hr game knowing my friends.
Level Small Big
1 10 20
2 15 30
3 20 40
4 25 50
5 50 100
6 75 150
7 100 200
8 150 300
9 200 400
10 300 600
11 400 800
12 500 1000
13 600 1200
14 800 1600
Thoughts? ps. sorry for hijacking your chip pron thread to ask you countless questions, lol, and thank you for answering.
Most of the donks bust out before colour up anyway
5/10
10/20
20/40
30/60
BREAK 10 MINS Colour Up (whites 5 removed from game)
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400 Colour Up (reds 25 removed)
300/600
400/800
500/1000
600/1200
800/1600 WIDOW MAKER ROUND!
Mine is the opposite, most of the donks play like absolute nits and it can drag. I should maybe try a more aggressive blind format, but that is why I like having a few more 5's and 25's vs the extra 100 chip, I feel like I will less likely have to make change and all I lose is 1 x 100 chip per person.
Yea, that surprised me too. But it came up with the lower price. I would have happily paid the extra.
300x5
260x25
120x100
20x500
For a total of 700 chips. I might order a couple 1000's just for fun but probably won't use them, at 0.32 a chip though why not.
Moose can tell you more. But if its anything like the regular Black Friday in the States, it'll be chaos!
Even if you get too many, you can always post either here, ChipTalk, or Ebay. Guaranteed you'll sell extra's off quickly at a fair price.
The beauty of the Pharaoh's is the price. If you need to grow your set, you can do so without breaking your bank account for a high quality chip.
Can't go wrong imo.
Now I need to find some Windex and paper towels
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I can't wait to get them I'm going crazy.
lol, another converted addict.... Moose it's just like you are handing out free blow around here...