How To Choose Poker Chips

noely

I agree with Annon. There are cheap plastic 7g chips as shown all the way up to the cheap 11.5 to 13 g chips. Weight does not make a good chip. Casino clays are all around 9-10g, Bud Jones/GPI etc injection moulded are a bit heavier, and Chipco type ceramics in the middle. This video provides no useful information on chips at all, and the suggestion for visiting chiptalk.net or even homepokertourney will provide anyone with more information than you could imagine for what a quality chip should be. Chips made by Paulson, GPI, Bud Jones, ASM, Matsui are the top of the line. I would change this video name to buying cheap plastic chips and do another one for higher end chips.

All these chips shown are ALL cheap plastic chips. The weight he is referring to has more to do with the size of the metal slug the plastic is molded around. Real casino "clay" chips are compression molded chips and are much higher quality than those shown. Real casino chips are usually 9-10 grams in weight each. So heavier does not mean better as in this video. I advise visiting http://www.chiptalk.net to really learn about buying high quality chips.

gibouille

What about clay, ceramics, nexgen, custom labels like paper and vinyl... PMG what a waste of footage May I advise this : http://www.homepokertourney.com/chips_review.htm

RafeSacks

Hi, This video really doesn't provide much information. Some important topics such as chip materials - plastic, clay, core metals - has been left out. What about standard color values? Red are often $5, though the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles uses Yellow chips, etc. Black is often $100, $25 are green, etc. As a side note. I would never buy chips with values written on them. It makes it hard to use the same set for tournaments as well as cash games at different stakes.