Poker chips

[StacysMom]

I need to buy a nice set of poker chips for a christmas present. Im looking to buy 500-1000 chips of high quality, either clay or very nice non-clay chips. I'm looking specifically for simple design, Red, Green, Black and Purple chips to denote 5, 25,100, and 500 respectively.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to which site would offer quality and a good deal? Possibly a speceific set that you may have purchased and recomend or discourage.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

[smoore]

how much are you going to spend? Actual CHIPCO chips are about $1 each. You can get nice composite chips for $0.11 each. check out pokerchipreviews.com

[StacysMom]

Looking to spend about 350 case included. So I cant get Chipco, but I dont have my heart set on clay anyways. Just looking for good quality and feel. I looked on ebay, but there is just too much I dont know. People advertise "clay chips" but the price is so low it makes me skeptical.

[smoore]

First things first, I recommend buying samples of any chip you're considering.

For $465 you can get 500 chipco chips and a case from apachepokerchips.com The 300 chip set is $290. I'm considering buying some of these, either the "apache casino" or the "chipco classic" print.

One slight (ever so slight) step down in feel/playability of the chips are the nevadajacks.com chips. I just got samples of these and the're nice. The graphic is a little hokey but they feel like CHIPCOs. 500 chips and a case is $350 (matches the budget, might be a sign).

If you want 1000 chips, I'm also considering a budget chip from wedoitallvegas.com that is billed as "10 gram faux clay chip". These got a great review on pokerchipreviews.com. You have to buy in increments of 50 and they do have a "chip set" option that basically looks like you get a small discount on the case. I'm considering these chips because for about $300 I can have 1000 chips that have been hotstamped on one side with a denomiation and have a hotstamp of my custom logo on the other side. I'm waiting for the samples of these chips.

If you want the classiest chips available, get the CHIPCO set for $470. If you want a custom logo like I'm thinking about, then you'll need to step down in chip quality. Personally, I'm leaning more toward a 1000 chip set in the "10g faux clay" because of the inexpensive customization and sheer size of the chip set. Here is the breakdown I would use for my game where we play .25/.50 (rarely) to 2/4 games, some NL, usually playing 1/2.

$00.25 - 200
$01.00 - 400
$05.00 - 300
$25.00 - 100

1000 chips with a face value of $4,450. Even if I can ever talk 10 people into playing a $200 buy in NL game, each player could still reload once.

[StevieG]

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Looking to spend about 350 case included. So I cant get Chipco, but I dont have my heart set on clay anyways. Just looking for good quality and feel. I looked on ebay, but there is just too much I dont know. People advertise "clay chips" but the price is so low it makes me skeptical.

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I have a set of spotted clay chips from pokerchips.com that make a great impression. You can pick the color of chips and a spot color for each one, for 0.50 each. An aluminum 700 case is $75. For your $350 you can get 550 chips and a case.

The problem is that they are slow on orders, and you are looking at Christmas 30 days away. My experience was for chips with a custom inlay, but still, you will want to be careful.

A user named X-Files recently got a set of this type. You may want to send a private message and ask about how long it took for the order.

[StacysMom]

ty guys, info greatly appreciated.

[belboz]

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First things first, I recommend buying samples of any chip you're considering.

If you want 1000 chips, I'm also considering a budget chip from wedoitallvegas.com that is billed as "10 gram faux clay chip". These got a great review on pokerchipreviews.com. You have to buy in increments of 50

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If you want to get these chips, check out 5stardeal. Right now they are .06/chip. I picked up 1000 for $60 (plus 20 shipping though). You don't have to buy them in 50 increments either.

They aren't bad for such an inexpensive chip.

I went with these while I save up for my custom astronomy chips! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Tom

[smoore]

arrrrgh! I just got email back from wedoitallvegas and they won't/can't hotstamp the "10g faux clay dice" chips.

That sucks. I also saw them on 5stardeal and thought that they just wouldn't hotstamp them because of an agreement with wedoitallvegas.

Very dissapointed.

[smoore]

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If you want to get these chips, check out 5stardeal. Right now they are .06/chip. I picked up 1000 for $60 (plus 20 shipping though). You don't have to buy them in 50 increments either.

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so the're at least acceptable? are the centers flush with the rim of the chip or are they indented a little so that you could put some of the "custom chip stickers" on them?

[belboz]

I think they are acceptable (especially compared to a .20-.30 chip). The center is flush. I don't believe you could use a sticker on these anyway, as they are textured.

The negatives I see about these are

-a bit plain
-injection spot