New nasty plastic chips (Borgata, et al) WHY?

[pubz r 4 nubz!]

Umm...no. They are, in fact, magnetic.

Put one next to another casino's magnetic chip, and you will certainly notice magnetic attraction / repulsion when you fiddle around with them.

[bunky9590]

Scrub was actually wrong about something. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[bunky9590]

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you will certainly notice repulsion when you fiddle around with them.

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You still talking about those anal beads again aren't you?

[BigRedAce]

I've seen more of these new chips broken or missing their labels (revealing the inner sluggo) than I've ever seen of clay.

But then, I guess it is pretty easy to calculate the expectation of moving to these cheaper chips over time...

[trevorwc]

There is something in the middle of these chips. Bud Jones also makes a "speed chip" that does not have this insert and is lighter. They are MUCH better to play with - and shuffle. Canterbury in Minnesota uses these.

[BigRedAce]

It's more the sticking together that gets me than the no-shuffling. You go to make a bet and you end up with extra chips stuck on the stack. VERY annoying.

I don't think they are actually magentic. I think it is either vacuum suction of static electricity. Either way it is a major pain in the a$$.

[BigRedAce]

They are the same brand and chip.

[Arsene Lupin III]

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Umm...no. They are, in fact, magnetic.

Put one next to another casino's magnetic chip, and you will certainly notice magnetic attraction / repulsion when you fiddle around with them.

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Are you sure you aren't talking about beads?

I've heard speculation that the chips are magnetized from being banged together so often. Doesn't make sense...

[AviD]

LOL I was thinking the same thing! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[alittle]

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Umm...no. They are, in fact, magnetic.

Put one next to another casino's magnetic chip, and you will certainly notice magnetic attraction / repulsion when you fiddle around with them.

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Are you sure you aren't talking about beads?

I've heard speculation that the chips are magnetized from being banged together so often. Doesn't make sense...

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I had a stack of cheap "dice" chips with a metal insert on me desk that I would fiddle with a lot. Since they weren't very flat, I could spin part of the stack on top of the other, and found myself doing this a lot. Anyway, after some time a bunch of them became magnetized.

I would guess that the Borg chips aren't magnetic on purpose, but that the metal inserts do actually pick it up over time.

I have a small rare earth magnet at home, so I purposefully magnetized a couple of them pretty well and could actually "levitate" one chip above the other.