What Kind Of Chips Are Most Used In Casinos?

[jtnt1096]

What type of chips are mostly used in Las Vegas casinos (and others)?

Do you mainly use clay (Paulson, Bud Jones), Ceramic (Chipco), or something else?

[theWhale]

As a guess they are 90% paulson, 10% chipco.

I played at the orleans, sahara, pamls and plaza. Only palms was chipco.

I think chipco might be gaining some ground tho because of the graphics. The indian casino in my town that just opened poker has chipcos.

[warewulf]

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As a guess they are 90% paulson, 10% chipco.

I played at the orleans, sahara, pamls and plaza. Only palms was chipco.

I think chipco might be gaining some ground tho because of the graphics. The indian casino in my town that just opened poker has chipcos.

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I would say closer to 60% Paulson
20% Bud Jones
15% Chipco
5% Other (Blue chip, ASM, etc)

[fishfeet]

Anyone know what they use at the Taj in AC?
The $1 and $5 chips are very different.. I really like the $5 chip.. its not a paulson (i dont think. ive never held a paulson, but from all the pictures I have seen, it doesnt look like one)

Anyone know?

[ott]

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As a guess they are 90% paulson, 10% chipco.
I played at the orleans, sahara, pamls and plaza. Only palms was chipco.


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At least 90% chips used at The Palms are B&G. Some LE chips are Chipco and the new Elektra chip is Paulson. The house chips are all B&G.

[tomb1]

The Taj chips look like they are Paulsons, but with a Taj Mahal "house" mold instead of the usual Top Hat & Cane. The thin edge spots for the $1's are typical Paulson, and the design, label, edge spots, and graphics on the $5's also look like Paulson.

But this is from the ChipGuide pictures since I don't have an actual souvenir chip. http://www.callzia.com/dghome/acchip...tm#TAJ%20MAHAL

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New Orleans
Birthplace of Poker

[smoore]

Interestingly, here in Colorado it seems that 70% of the chips are chipco/ceramic and 30% are the paulson/bud jones clay type. Not all the houses have poker, some dont' even have blackjack so they just use metal tokens. That's just a guess... chipguide.com could probably produce some pretty convincing numbers.

[fishfeet]

Yeah, in this picture, it does look more like a paulson.
However, it appears in that picture that the words "Taj Mahal" and area around "$5" are raised on the chip..as well as the entire center logo... while the one I have all of those things are indented in the chip rather than raised. But everything else looks exactly the same.
The one I have has a very rounded edge..
However, the $1 chip has more of a squared edge. It is also heavier (i can feel the difference) than the $5 chip. thats why I figured it could be from a different company.. but that didnt wouldnt make any sense.
But I would figure they would use the same style for both denominations.

Oh well.. I really like the look and feel of the $5 chip a lot more than the $1. If its a paulson then Im saving up for a set of them. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[ott]

Put a blacklight to it and you'll very likely see a THC glowing on the inlay.

[TomCollins]

It's strange, 5 of the first 6 casinos I played at had Chipco. Only Foxwoods used Paulsons. In Vegas, it seemed everywhere used Paulsons. I didn't see Chipcos anywhere.