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Sidepot
Partners for Online Clay Poker Chip Contest with
Innovative Design Tool
April 27, 2006
Online retailer of high-end poker chips and supplies
for home games, Sidepot Gaming Company, and Internet
poker forum ChipTalk.net have partnered for an innovative
online contest that includes poker players in the
actual chip design process. The winning design will
be used for Sidepot’s newest clay poker chip
line, the Protégé. (read
more)
Sidepot
Gaming Company to Offer Custom Clay Poker Chips
December 8, 2005
Online retailer of high-end poker chips and supplies
for home games, Sidepot Clay Poker Chips Company,
announced the launch of the first customizable poker
chip line that uses the same high quality clay chips
as those used in top Las Vegas casinos – and
is also available to private players. (read
more)
Neophyte
Poker Chips Chosen for Poker Magazine’s Gift
Guide
December 6, 2005
Online retailer of high-end poker chips for home
players, BuyPokerChips.com, and their “Neophyte”
chip line have been chosen for the All In Poker
magazine’s Holiday 2005 Gift Guide as a top
pick for home poker chips. (read
more)
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Company
Milestones
| September
2003 |
BuyPokerChips.com
was founded by Stephan Aarstol in San Diego, California
in the fall of 2003 to address the severely underserved
market for high-end poker chips. |
| October
2003 |
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| November
2003 |
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| December
2003 |
Opened
for Business
Introduced
our first high-end clay poker chip, the Vintage
Vegas line. It was an instant success. Sales outpaced
production capacity after only a month and there
was a 2-4 month waiting list for the first six
months following its introduction. |
| January
2004 |
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| February
2004 |
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| March
2004 |
Partnered
with Mark Brandt, a woodworker and poker enthusiast,
to develop a comprehensive e-Book
on how to build high-quality poker tables.
Sales were brisk, and knock-offs showed up
within a few months. We made this freely available
about a year later.
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| April
2004 |
Developed
our first proprietary clay poker chip mold, the
Courts & Numerals mold, in cooperation with
one of the most prominent families in Las Vegas
chip making over the last half century. |
| May
2004 |
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| June
2004 |
Launched
the Modern
Clay poker chip line, developed on the
Courts & Numerals mold. With the introduction
of this line, our production capabilities
finally caught up to demand. We cured the
waiting list problem.
Published
a comprehensive online image index
of casino chips currently in play at the
top 40 casinos in Las Vegas. This was done
to alleviate consumer confusion over what
“real casino chips” were like.
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| July
2004 |
Expanded
the breadth of our product selection by adding
our first high-end
ceramic casino chip, the Archetype line.
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| August
2004 |
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| September
2004 |
Introduced
our first high-end poker table, the Monolith, produced
by the same company that outfits the World Series
of Poker and most of the prominent televised poker
shows. |
| October
2004 |
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| November
2004 |
Opened
a retail outlet at the Pangaea
Outpost in Pacific Beach, San Diego.
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| December
2004 |
Changed
our official company name and brand from BuyPokerChips.com
to Sidepot Gaming Company.
Introduced
our first “mid-range”
poker chip, the Neophyte line, to address
a more price sensitive segment of the customer
base that we were attracting.
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| January
2005 |
Expanded
the customer base we served to include over 30
countries worldwide.
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| February
2005 |
Archetype
line selected by ClearVision Technologies
to be used as the chip images in their DealMaster
2.0 dealer training software.
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| March
2005 |
Sidepot
offices relocated from San Diego to Bellingham
(above Seattle, WA).
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| April
2005 |
San
Diego retail location closed down due to company
relocation.
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| May
2005 |
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| June
2005 |
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| July
2005 |
Launched
the Poker Championship
Series (PCS), a free poker league tracking
application at Sidepot.net, for customer use.
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| August
2005 |
Developed
the innovative Cigar & Snifter mold, a unique
smooth clay poker chip mold, to wide acclaim within
the poker chip aficionado community.
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| September
2005 |
Images
of Archetype line selected by publisher FSG to
be used on the cover art of Fortune’s
Formula, a novel by William Poundstone.
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| October
2005 |
Crossed
$1 Million sales revenue milestone.
In
a continued effort to drive the high-end poker
chip market forward, we introduced the innovative
pre-oiled
clay poker chip, the InPlay Clay line,
on the Cigar & Snifter mold. |
| November
2005 |
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| December
2005 |
Neophyte
line selected by All
In Poker Magazine to be featured in their
2005
Holiday Poker Gift Guide.
Initialized
customized
casino-grade dual-edge spot clay poker chip
offering to private players. |
| January
2006 |
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| February
2006 |
In
cooperation with the leading online community
for poker chip aficionados Sidepot launched the
world’s first clay poker chip design contest
(dubbed the Protégé contest), where
the community collaborated and voted on everything
from chip colors to inlay design.
Commissioned
the development of an online application to
design
clay poker chips on the Cigar & Snifter
mold. |
| March
2006 |
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| April
2006 |
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| May
2006 |
Celebrated
serving our 10,000th satisfied customer.
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| June
2006 |
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| July
2006 |
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| August
2006 |
Crowned
the winner of the Protégé contest,
and initiated development of the Protégé
clay poker line, which would re-introduce
shaped inlays to the home poker chip market
for the first time in 30 years. Over 50,000
chips pre-sold before the line was officially
released. |
| September
2006 |
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| October
2006 |
In
cooperation with the leading online resource for
home game poker tournaments Sidepot launched the
Mold Design Project, a clay poker chip mold design
contest. |
| November
2006 |
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| December
2006 |
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| January
2007 |
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| February
2007 |
Introduced
the cost effective Epiphany
custom ceramic chips, a 2nd tier ceramic
poker chip in terms of quality, but at 1/3rd
the price of other high-end customized poker
chips.
In
cooperation with the leading online community
for poker chip aficionados Sidepot launched a
ceramic chip design contest (dubbed the Epiphany
contest).
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| March
2007 |
Commissioned
the development of an online application to
design
ceramic poker chips from a palette of 80
colors and a dozen chip track and rolling edge
designs. |
| April
2007 |
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| May
2007 |
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| June
2007 |
Began
offering value-priced international shipping -
flat-rate of $10 + $2/lb.
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| July
2007 |
Unveiled
the Paradise mold, the first proprietary Paulson
mold for the home market (to be used exclusively
for Sidepot Gaming chips).
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| August
2007 |
Initiated
development of the maiden chip line made on
the Paradise mold, the Le
Paulson Noir poker chip line, which is scheduled
to be officially released in November 2007.
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| September
2007 |
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| October
2007 |
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| November
2007 |
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| December
2007 |
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| January
2008 |
The
Le
Paulson Noir poker chip line receives editorial
acclaim by Inside
Counsel, the leading occupational and lifestyle
magazine for affluent corporate lawyers. |
|
February 2008 |
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| March
2008 |
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| April
2008 |
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| May
2008 |
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| June
2008 |
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| July
2008 |
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| August
2008 |
Introduced
supplemental denominations to our popular Protege
line, which makes the Protege line the broadest
poker chip line on the market by a wide margin
with 17 denominational chips and 6 non denominational
chips. |
| September
2008 |
Company headquarters are re-located to San Diego
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| October
2008 |
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| November
2008 |
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| December
2008 |
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| January
2009 |
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| February
2009 |
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| March
2009 |
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| April
2009 |
Widely
regarded as the leader in the high-end poker
chip market, Sidepot extends it brand by entering
the mid-range poker chip market with the Venerati
line, a premium quality ceramic chip at
a mid-range price point. |
| May
2009 |
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| June
2009 |
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| July
2009 |
Sidepot
Gaming exhibits at the 2009 World Series of Poker
tradeshow event dubbed "Poker Palooza"
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| August
2009 |
Sidepot
Gaming introduces a line of high-end, handcrafted
solid
hardwood poker chip cases priced from $129
to $529.
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| September
2009 |
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| October
2009 |
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| November
2009 |
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| December
2009 |
Sidepot's
Le
Paulson Noir clay poker chips score a trifecta,
by getting exclusely selected for the holiday
guide in all three of the world's top poker
magazines: Bluff
Magazine, All
In Magazine, and Poker
Pro. |
| June
2009 |
Sidepot
opens an 850 sq. ft. retail location in Pacific
Beach, San Diego at 4645 Cass St., Suite 104, San
Diego, CA 92109. |
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