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  1. The Rise and Fall of Ceramic Casino Chips

    For decades, the leader in casino chip manufacturing was Paulson. Their logo is the iconic "Hat & Cane". This logo can be found on the clay mold of many of their chips or within the inlay. Paulson is now part of the larger Gaming Partners International, or GPI for short, which also owns B&G and Bud Jones.

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    $1 Pioneer with H&C mold (left) and $1 TI with H&C logo on inlay (right)

    Gamblers and poker players alike ...
  2. WSOP Tournament Chips

    I booked my trip to Las Vegas this week for the 48th annual World Series of Poker. I'll arrive on June 5th and stay 18 nights. I'm catching up on a few PFA podcasts and listened to one yesterday where Druff suggested that the WSOP should have more than 2 racks of tournament chips. These two items gave me the idea to write up a Rio/WSOP chip article.

    The first thing I did was to check the Nevada Gaming Control Board Gaming Commission website. Each month they publish the Chip and ...
  3. A year passes by...

    A whole year has passed since I dusted off the computer and shared my poker experiences with the community. The main reason I haven't chose to share is simple, bad play. It's easy to write when you're winning but damn near impossible to recap your losses when you have no financial reason to share your downfall.

    After a quick and disappointing Colossus at the 2016 World Series of Poker ( QQ<KK ) I came back to California with no desire to play poker at a competitive level. I played ...
  4. 4 Instances in Online Poker Where I felt I Was Cheated or Something Wasn't Right



    The year was around 2006 and I was working as a sous chef in a high end restaurant. At the time I was heavily involved in sports gambling and was playing poker at least 20 hours a week. I would play a lot in local live 1-2 nl games and play some 5-10 and 10-20 limit at Foxwoods as well. And I had been dabbling in online poker as well since 2004. I never really played over 5-10 limit online accept the few times I ran my roll up in a drunken ...
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  5. Shitty Day / Another Deep Run

    Whats up yall ,

    Its me again , today went about as wrong as possible for me early on and I was just getting crushed all day . I was busting on the bubble to some awful coolers and bad beats . I felt really frustrated and wanted to unregister everything that I had already planned on playing but decided against it , especially due to Merge Pokers big Poker Maximus Series running . I had already made a couple deep runs in these soft fields with a much better structure but have not ...

    Updated 03-09-2012 at 08:40 AM by sah_24

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