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Ever seen 1,000,000+ poker chips?

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First note: I'm posting this as a trip report, and with respect to our forum sponsors who deal with poker chips, as this doesn't [directly] complete with them directly as the chip room deals with "repurposed" chips, versus custom.

That being said..... I've seen the light... and it was glorious!

Jim at The Chip Room was kind enough to open his doors to a few PMC'ers local to the area and do an exchange on a fouled deck of cards. He welcomed us to tour his warehouse and allowed us the 'kid in the candy store' pleasure of digging around for chips, chips, and more chips. Turns out it was good for business as several of us made purchases.
While I gave up on my chip fetish of collecting sets several years ago, I couldn't leave empty handed. I grabbed a chip from each of the sets / casino's he had in stock at the time.

Jim has built a niche business in finding casinos and cardrooms across the country that are getting rid of their old chips for new chips, and reselling them to the poker masses for private use. There is a lot of work involved in it including the legal aspects of it which can be daunting at times due to gaming control laws and politics, but Jim has figured it out.

At the end of the day, Jim offers 100's of thousands of chips ranging in quality and quantity, used, new, very used, fresh uncirculated, clay Paulson's, Chipco's, Bud Jones, and others as well as mass production chips found commonly for sale online and in some B&M poker / gaming stores for home game use. Think Desert Sands, "China Clays", etc.

I kicked myself while there for not bringing a nicer camera, because I could have had a field day with photographing them all, but I did manage to have a camera with me which had a built in phone. My wandering allowed me to grab a few shots. I didn't take pics of the mass produced stuff, just the paulsons, and chipcos.

If you're looking for customs, ceramics, etc. please support our sponsors. If you're looking for some clays or ceramics from a retired or rebranded casino, give Jim a call.

Jim, thanks again for having us.

One side of the warehouse:


Another side:


Pallets and pallets of chips:




Shelves stocked with chips from floor to ceiling.






Bins of chips.... 1000's of them.....






Stock cart with lots of 100's. Probably for a cash game!


These were just Terrible.






The samples I ended up bringing home.




Peep that large 44mm Grand Victoria chip.




 
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I'd love to get those Grand Victoria chips. Thats one of the local casinos here that was recently rebranded "Rising Star" Either those or some of the old Argosy Casino Lawrenceburg which is now Hollywood and the main poker room around here....well until the Horseshoe opens up next marchish....

Definitely need to make another field trip when me and Cat make it up that way agian.
 
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Chips Features:
Grand Victoria Casino and Resort, Rising Sun, Indiana
Benny's Riverside Inn, Tukwilla, Washington
Terrible's Mark Twain Casino, Lagrange, Missouri (pronounced mizzurah)
Grand Central Casino, Tukwila Washington
Happy Days Casino, Lakewood, Washington
Silver Dollar Casino, Everett, Washington

No post processing other than a crop and resize. Mixture of natural light and overhead bulbs. Lens was pretty wide open, hence the depth of field and focus.





































 
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