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

[lighterjobs]

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Somtimes, I think some people here don't even play poker... they just collect chips. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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some people like to talk about how to bet with a small pair on 4th street and some people like to talk about how 11.5 gram chips aren't "official" casino weight.

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.

[dakine]

MSB, That's cool. If you can afford to step up-go for it. We still use the dice chips and it works for us.

[dakine]

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You didn't offend me at all.

I am obsessed with chips. Half the reason I play poker is to play with the chips. Really.

The dice chips suck. I have a set of them. They suck most vociferously.

I like the chips.

No offense taken at all, but what was your point again? [/quote

You wanna get rid of your Dice chips? send them to me. I'll take them off you hands. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[dakine]

Quote: I'm half way to paying for my 4000+ chip collection with my winnings. I am a chip snob in that I hate playing with crappy chips. EO Quote

Amazing!! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[grandgnu]

I too am a dice chip owner (notice I didn't say a "proud" one)

The dice chips are 14 cents apiece, while the real chips usually run 95 cents or more per chip. Since I have a set of 1,500 total chips, it was much better on my budget to go the cheaper route.

I have custom labels on my chips as well, which saved me some money vs. hot-stamping them.

I would LOVE to get custom clays (not a big fan of ceramics) with the logo from my home game on them. But I'll need to win a lot of money to accomplish that.

Thus far I'm up $265 this year (only hold a couple of tourneys per month) and that doesn't even cover the custom-built poker table I got (well-crafted, seats ten, racetrack style with cup holders)

I'd rather have a nice playing surface and sacrifice the chips a bit.

So far I've tried out samples of the following chips:

Chipco Crystal Oysters (hated them)

TR Kings (didn't much care for them either)

Modern Clays from buypokerchips.com (love the feel of them, but hate the insert graphics, I'd want something more custom)

[Lottery Larry]

Other than the fact that they don't feel right and are hard to keep in stacks... maybe no reason.

[Rhone]

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Other than the fact that they don't feel right and are hard to keep in stacks... maybe no reason.

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What is it about the better quality chips that "feels" better? just curious...

[jojobinks]

i have dice, btw, and i like them fine, but have been buying samples for a month now, and can't wait to upgrade.

the feel: it's hard to describe. i think it might just be the friction. they actually riffle; i thought i was a retard b/c i couldn't riffle my dice; they're just pretty hard to do, b/c they slip all over the place. the clays don't want to slip all over. they stack without wobbling. the dice have a hard time over 20 or so; if you're on a table with foam padding, 20 is questionable.

and they look worlds apart.

the sound of dice: terrible. they sound like party poker chips, that obnoxious sound effect...ugh. clay chips are much more subdued, less grating of a sound.

[Slow Play Ray]

Simple - most people on this forum are the "poker snob" of their respective groups...myself included. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the 11.5g chips, functionally speaking. But the fact is that the type of people who seek out forums like these are generally the ones who care about the authenticity of their game, and all of the "little things" that contribute to that. So that's why you see the attitude towards "inferior" equipment here.

[jon_1van]

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