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Originally Posted by Schmendr1ck
I'm planning to break this up over 4-5 orders since I simply don't have the cash to order everything at once. I can probably manage about half this year and half next year, and I'm planning to split the set up into multiple orders to keep it in financially manageable chunks:
Order 1: 500 chips (140-200-100-60-0).
This gives me a playable one-table .25/.50 NL/PL set immediately with a total bank that is significantly larger than my typical one-table games.
Order 2: 440 chips (100-200-100-40-0).
This allows for two-table .25/.50 NL/PL games while also giving me enough $1 and $20 chips for a reasonable single-table FL game.
Next Year: 1060 chips (0-800-200-0-60).
This completes the set and will probably be split over 2 orders.
bumping a several month old thread, but just in case this project is still in the works, i felt compelled to comment on the batch-ordering strategy here. i've done the same thing and would advise doing it strictly by denom.
i know that's not really the best way to allow you to use the chips between orders, but if you split a single denom into two separate orders and two different batches of clay are used, you're very likely to see some color variation between the two orders. the degree of color variation in ASM/CPC chips varies depending on the color, but even something as straightforward as regular white will very often produce noticeably different tones in two different batches.
particularly at this moment as CPC is experimenting under new ownership, i would be surprised if they weren't trying to improve some colors. obviously this is a good thing, but only makes it more likely that you'll get variation within your denoms if you split them over two or more orders.
i've become much less picky about chips over the years, but this is still something i do my best to avoid. it would be difficult to split your breakdown into three orders with the first being highly playable, but i would consider it worth it to me if it were my set.