Chip fatigue

Ever since January 22nd, I’ve lost the appetite.

Got ‘let go’ that day.

Chips don’t cheer me up much. Don’t check CT, don’t do much other than scramble frantically around the intertubes looking for a job in the area.

Now, the stacks and stacks of white cardboard boxes look like mortgage money.

Or Cobra payments.

They don’t bring joy. They look like obligations.

I will never have an opportunity to play with all of them. Why do I have them all?

why bother?

Although today, after checking CT after a few days away, I did get a twinge for the Hammond Horseshoe set, so the sickness still beats, just not so urgently.

And so I have a theory. Call it the ‘beat back boredom at work with irresponsible chip purchases’ syndrome:

BBBAWWICP for short.

Have to work on that name.

But the idea is this: nothing like a little high from an eBay click or a check mailed off and seeing a USPS flat rate box show up at the office to alleviate the pain. I made at least a day a month into my own personal Christmas. Beat chugging Coke for a lift.

So I think it was an outlet for me, to avoid the truth, which was that I was not finding total fulfillment at work.

Here’s to a better job for me and less chips to mark the time.

Woops, went the wrong way

100 plum boots, from eBay. Thanks Uly!

So I guess I have to keep the lime greens and whites after all.

100 lime green T25, 210 white T100, 100 plum T500.

Should look great!

Recent sales

Sold 2 racks of Caesars Palace LV $1’s, mint to Roca-fella, along with a rack of the gold Caesars Tahoe NCV’s.

Also midstream in a sale with chipandachair for the Rasta Grand Casino Biloxi set, 500 total. Keeping 1 rack of lime greens for the mixed set with the Caesars Tahoe white NCV racks.

Will probably find something else to pry loose this month. Backed both of the sets above out at cost.

The chip history spreadsheet says I have 4,692 chips total.

I guess spreadsheets don’t lie.

Casino Aztar tourney = 400

the Outpost tourney = 600

the Outpost cash = 990

Caesars Tahoe = 560

King’s Crown tourney = 520

TRK solids = 900 +/-

Odds and ends = 700 +/-

I guess the odds and ends need to be pared down drastically.

Let’s see:

A. 120 St Jo secondary $100’s - gotta hold

B. 100 St Jo Ricochet arc yellow spotted chips - don’t know what to do with them, but love em

C. 62 Palais de Congress $20’s - gotta hold – backup $20’s for cash

D. 100 lime green Grand Casino Bilxo NCV’s - holding due to the recent ‘Boots’ purchase.

E. 210 white Caesars Tahoe NCV’s -‘Boots’

F. 60 Grand Casino Gulfport $2.50’s - gotta hold

G. 60 Arc yellow starbursts - who would want them?

H. 60 gold cherries – same here, doggies.

I. 50 Oceanside 8v’s - no use for them, they’re my giveaway chip

J. 30 lime green Comstock NCV’s - awesome chip, if I had 200 of them

That’s already almost 800 chips that are not attached to any other chipset.

There is also 265 LCV Outpost Casino $2’s that could be let loose. Who the heck needs 565 of one fucking denomination?

The TRK solids pile could be trimmed as well. 260 Plantations would go nicely with the blue ‘ARM’ solid $5 denom. The ‘LG’ chocolate and the ‘ARM’ lavender $10’s can back that up either way. Just don’t know what to do for the fractional. The yellows are beautiful in the “ARM’ side of the family but horrible on the’LG’ side. There are odds and ends for quarters and dimes but not enough.

So there should be 200 yellow TRK solids that could go. Hmm.

hard to sell all the bits. Feels like a bargain bin mess.

Casino Aztar primaries and secondaries coming soon

100 sec $25’s(T25)

200 pri $100’s (T100)

100 sec 50 centers (T500)

Hope to get another rack of pri $100’s. A nice, full SNG set that will (again) not be used.  At least it keeps me sane.

I really enjoy the real shaped inlays and the really nice broken in T100. Hope that the 50 center will play well with the others, and I think it will.

The fact that two of the chips’ edgespots will ‘add up’ to something that is close to 1″ is funny.

818 =1″

3T14 = 2 1/4″ (oh well. Not even close)

2A12 – 1″

I just love the pri $100 though, and I knew the sec rack would be more expensive and harder to get, so pri rack it was.

I like have a ton of the second denom for tournaments. Makes the game ’splashy’ with raises.