They just don't make chips for the public like they used to...

[Bum]

I'm very disapointed. You would think that with the explosion of online poker, and the number of new players jumping into home games and casinos after watching a WPT episode, we might see a new high-end clay chip maker that can make a decent set of chips for the public.

I'm in the market for a 1000+ set of poker chips, and I want the best of the best. It seems that you can no longer get a fully customized clay chip. In a perfect world, I'd have tri-colour edge spots with two separate custom designed colour faces on 1000 Paulson chips. In this world, I'm stuck with pokerchips.com. I can't go through with getting my set of chips with pokerchips.com when I can't even customize the edge spots to my liking.

I wasn't considering ceramic chips until I figured out that I can't get the 'best of the best' clay chips. I received some nice samples of ChipCo's protech series. They feel just as nice as the wannabe-clay chips from pokerchips.com, and I can customize them anyway I want. The fact remains that they are ceramic, and I really want clay chips.

Finally I found buypokerchips.com, and I got all excited! Old-style clay chips? Multi-colour edge marks? I finally found a place to buy some custom chips!.. oh wait.. they don't customize chips...

bgchips.com -- I thought I hit the jackpot on this one until I read "They are injection moulded", not to mention they have the most unresponsive sales team I've ever run into.

Help! I need to find a place that can supply me with the product I'm looking for (or at least get really close to it). Any ideas? Again.. 'custom' faces, 'custom' edge marks, and as close to old-style clay chips as possible =)

-- Mike

[RollaJ]

It sound like pokerchips.com is the closest match. Aside from the LONG wait, and one poster not liking the customer service, everyone else has seemed to be happy with what they got.

They let me:
Choose the mold (chip style)
chip color
edge spot colors
custom color artwork, every side of every denomination can be different
custom color artwork, done by their artist, different on every denomination...... is only $50 extra you cant beat that!

Now if they could only fill an order in under 4 months.....

Ill post pics when I get mine (in August [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] )

[Bum]

If pokerchips.com let me create my own mold/engravements, that's one thing, but picking from their premade 4 mold types isn't anything special. As for the custom colour artwork, that's an expectation more than anything else. If I end up going with a ceramic chip, the custom art work goes above and beyond what you're able to get on a pokerstars chip. However, even with all that being said, if I want any type of clay/clay-composite chip, it's starting to look like I'm stuck with pokerchips.com.

I don't see anything wrong with dropping $2000 USD on a nice set of chips, granted that they're exactly what you want, however I do see a problem with spending $600 on pokerchips.com and getting something that doesn't live up to your vision of the perfect poker chips =/.
Mike C.

[slamdunkpro]

Try Blue Chip in Las Vegas

[Bum]

Forgive my ignorance if I'm way off on this one. Isn't blue chip run or paritally run by people who started or partially started Paulson? Any idea on contact info/website for them?

Mike C.

[ohgeetee]

casinos havent used clay chips in decades. they wore out way too fast. the ceramic composite chips are the real deal pretty much.

I'm pretty sure even pokerchips.com clay chips are not clay at all. If you like the feel of casino chips on the strip(not tourney chips) then those ceramic ones are what youre looking for. Tourney chips are usually a cheap plastic since they need so many.

[AliasMrJones]

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I'm pretty sure even pokerchips.com clay chips are not clay at all.

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Errr, why do you say this? Do you have pokerchips.com chips? On their site they say that that all clay chips are clay composite, but they are the clay that people think of when they say clay chips. If you have handled them, you know they feel like clay, sound like clay and look like clay. They are in fact real casino-quality clay chips.

Also, while the full-face ceramic chip may be the norm on the strip, other casinos definitely use clay chips. When I was at the Ameristar riverbarge in KC about a year ago, I found them using clay chips. Whether a riverbarge qualifies as a real casino is another matter...

[ohgeetee]

I say it because the original poster spoke of wanting clay chips like he used to see back in the day, but is "stuck with" pokerchips.com chips. Those "back in the day" chips havent been used in 75 years, and while pokerchips.com chips are going to be about as close as you get to them, they are not clay chips.

He isnt going to find a place to get custom chips from that offers what he wants in a true clay chip, because they dont last very long and no one makes them. he will have to stick with a place that sells composite chips and offers those customizations.

[demonx5]

This might be a silly question, but would anyone happen to know which type of chips are in the movie Rounders (at Teddy KGB's club, or even the Chesterfield)? We get a couple of closeups on them and it seems to me that they're fairly nice, although the sounds they make aren't particularly accurate (most likely produced by a foley artist behind the scenes) I think their style is pretty good (especially the black with green edgespots).

[AliasMrJones]

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This might be a silly question, but would anyone happen to know which type of chips are in the movie Rounders (at Teddy KGB's club, or even the Chesterfield)? We get a couple of closeups on them and it seems to me that they're fairly nice, although the sounds they make aren't particularly accurate (most likely produced by a foley artist behind the scenes) I think their style is pretty good (especially the black with green edgespots).

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I believe Rounders used pokerchips.com chips.