Starburst #003

Tropicana again, but this one's an older issue.
The House mold looks better because you can see it. The edgespots still match. Yum.
And it's the 'points' pattern punch inlay which adds to the star 'count'.

knock knock.......

I think it just dawned on me that NO ONE will ever read this.
So it's just going to be for me.

As I'm image based, I guess I'm just going to post scans of chips, photos of sets, and muck around with templates till I learn somthing by doing, I guess.

Pointless exercise in narcissism, this is.

Starburst #002

This one's a favorite too, as it diagrams my wish list for a 'pink game' cash set.
My version would be Arc Yellow Starburst chips for 25 cent chips and Tropicana (AC) $2.50 snappers for coloring up. Limit HE 75 cents/$1.50 game.
I like the fact that the edgespot on the snapper matches the solid color.
I guess if you're being picky this would really be for an 'orange game'.

Which would mean a boatload of arc yellow starbursts and at least a rack of Trop snappers. Which is why it's wishful thinking. I don't have ANY kind of a bankroll.

Starburst #001

For my desktops at work, I scan single chips in a snowflake pattern.
I'm one of those folks who can't look at the same desktop every day. Last year I think I changed it on average 4 out of 5 work days. Even took screenshots of it and orgnaized it in a folder by the work week. Very anal, and probably pointless.

Just to smooth out the waste of time this is, I have tried to do desktop image changes only once a week for this year.

The snowflake scans are some of the images I use to change out the background image.

So here's a snowflake. (Or starburst, if you're a chip junkie)

St Jo Tourney Set

This was an earlier set of chips. I sold them off for other chipset purchases.

Blacks are St Jo Frontier Casino $100 chips from Missouri (cancelled)

The light brown chips are also from the Cherry Casino, but in a different color. (Colon Orange is the Paulson chip color, yummy....)

Note: chips are in twenty chip tall stacks. 200 chips make a very nice triangle. 300 chips, even better.

Grand Casino Cash Set

My Grand Casino / Gulfport, Mississippi
cash set.
The gold hot stamped chips are from the Cherry Casino in Germany. (I think it was in Germany...) There are also Caesars Tahoe NCV chips in those stacks of gold chips.
I just got two more racks of the golds for lower denominations (25 cents or 50 cents).

The snappers are my favorite out of this set. Pink chip, punched inlay, what's not to love?

The funny thing here is that I have never played a cash game with these chips.

All things Paulson

No, this blog is not about Henry M Paulson, our current US Treasury Secretary.

It's about poker chips, specifically, current or obsolete casino poker chips made by Paulson, a former US based company now owned by Gaming Partners International.

I became recently obsessed with poker chips due to a poker article in the New York Times a year and a half ago.
I now collect obsolete casino sets in playable quantities with the intent to use them in games, but so far, the only consistent playing partner I have is my 4 1/2 year old daughter. We play War with betting.

Managing this obsession has been interesting, to say the least.
I have given myself 'rules' for collecting. These rules have been broken multiple times, but they're useful as baselines.

1. Figure out a monthly budget and stick to it.
2. Find a consistent 'theme' to the collection.
3. If you get bored, sell them and start again.


Once I figure out how to post photographs, I'll have a little show and tell.

In the meantime, check out chiptalk.net for fellow chip freaks.