why do people deride those 11.5 g clay "dice" chips?

[Rhone]

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umm...because it has no real flavor and leaves a bad aftertaste?

There, see how easy it is to give a real answer when you try?

[jon_1van]

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i have the "crappy dice chips" but i'm not ashamed. i would have rather spent my money on a nice casino style table than casino chips. but the dice chips definately get the job done. nothing wrong with them.

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I agree with wanting the table instead of the chips. But there are 2 problems. 1. I don't have space for a great table. 2. A table (with chairs) is much much more expensive then 2k smoking chips.

Hensly Tables

I'd kill for one of these table...but....I just don't have the space for one.

[jon_1van]

Hey...I actually like PBR.

But people make fun of it.

Its the same logic. And slightly more obvious

Its like

cheap plastic bee chips == moonshine
dice chips == rail liquor (A HUGE step up from moonshine)
paulson type clay == grey goose / tanguery ten (a much smaller step up from rail...but very expensive)

[Johnny5]

You know most here aren't big fans of 11.5 gram dice chips, so if I were you, i'd be more suprised that I didn't get a lot of answers like:

'CAUSE THEY SUCK

If you don't care about the quality of chip you play with, then go for the inexpensive 11.5 gram chips. If you do, and can afford it, go for quality chips like the ones you find in casinos.

J5

[Rhone]

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You know most here aren't big fans of 11.5 gram dice chips, so if I were you, i'd be more suprised that I didn't get a lot of answers like:

'CAUSE THEY SUCK

If you don't care about the quality of chip you play with, then go for the inexpensive 11.5 gram chips. If you do, and can afford it, go for quality chips like the ones you find in casinos.

J5

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Actually, the whole point of my post was not that I don't care about quality, rather, I'm trying to figure out what precisely makes one chip more of a quality chip than another. I don't know enough to have my own opinions on the subject yet. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Slow Play Ray]

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A table (with chairs) is much much more expensive then 2k smoking chips.

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My table came in at $225 + my labor. My chips are costing me $637.50.

Wow, I wish I didn't just see that in print like that.

[jon_1van]

I live in the city.

So I don't have the space / "willingness to crap up my place with dust" to build my own table.

Because that table would have to be double as cool poker table AND "guest quality" dinning table.

I can't hack off my wife by buying something that will look strange when we have guests over. And since we only have space for 1 table. The poker table will also have to be a dining table

[Spooky]

Have you every played in a casino?

If so, what kind of chips were they? (you have probably seen pictures of the various types by now to tell)

If you were to do a side-by-side comparison of all the different types of chips, there would most likely be one kind/type/style of chip that you thought was the best. For me it would be a classic clay chip due mostly to the feel and sound, I'm almost 100% sure of that. For someone else it might be a chipco style because of the snazzy graphics. Either way, it probably would NOT be the "dice" chips.

Once you see the differences that are out there you will appreciate how people can have the different prefferences. But in the end it indeed boils down to a comparison like "Oak Furnature" vs. "Oak veneer Particle-Board Furnature" They will both do the same function almost equally well, one will look a little better perhaps with more "style", the other will be more afordable.

[Slow Play Ray]

gotcha.

[warewulf]

Short answer: Made in China

Long answer: There are few chips worse in quality than the dice chips. They are unstable in stacks of 10. The paint on them wears off after a short period of time -- I have a friend that has a set that is less than a year old. He got them hot stamped. Not only is the hot stamping wearing off, but the paint on the chips is also wearing off which makes them look terrible.

I'm not going to bother talking about how much better real chips are. The main thing to realize is there are better cheap chips out there. My original set of 5 gram diamond hot stamped chips are much better than dice chips. I have a set of 300 that are over 15 years old, still use them sometimes. They are stable in stacks of 10-20, they sound closer to the real thing. If someone hands you a free set of dice chips, good! If you're spending your own money on them, get something better. You can't do much worse.

If someone gave me a choice of a set of 500 dice chips or 500 of these: http://www.5stardeal.com/deals/10Exp...ctCode=10-1600

even though they're less expensive than the dice chips, I'd still take the cheaper ones because they have a better feel, weight, and stack better. Will also not fade over time.