Casino Poker Chips; What Kind Of Poker Chips Are These?
You just returned home from your most recent gambling adventure. Atlantic City, Las Vegas, maybe you went somewhere abroad. You were playing Texas hold’em and had a nice stack of poker chips. You’re clinking them together and stacking them up (because you really raked it in), and then you finally take notice of the chips. You put one of the five dollar chips in your pocket to take back home. Now, you really begin to think about these chips. Just exactly what kind of poker chips are these? How come the casinos use these chips and not the plastic ones like I use at my house? I wonder how long they will last?
We’re going to take a look at what kind of poker chip this probably is. These poker chips are probably made of clay, but not 100% clay. They more than likely have a compressed core that helps to make them stronger. Keep in mind that these poker chips are handled seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, so they need to be super strong. Clay poker chips are absolutely the very best chip that you can buy, and they will last a very long time. Most poker chips the casinos use will last from three to four years and then need replaced.
If you think about all the things people do with these chips then you’ll begin to understand how durable they really need to be. From throwing them over to your buddy because he lost all of his money, to dropping them on the floor because you’ve won so much you can’t hang on to them all, poker chips really take a beating.
If you have a set of clay poker chips they’re going to last for years, if not a lifetime, if you take good care of them.
An interesting thing about the poker chips casinos use is that they have a security device embedded in them so they can’t be counterfeited or replicated. This could include holograms on the chips or a combination of different colors on the edges or both. The higher denominations might even have a radio frequency ID device that they use to check if the chips are real or not. One thing for sure, counterfeit poker chips at a casino are very rare. Casino staff members are extensively trained on how to ID chips and make sure that they are the real thing. Take for example someone who works at a bank and checks for counterfeit $20 bills. When you’re around it all day, you can spot the fake a mile away.
So now you wonder, how do they make clay poker chips? Well, this is a heavily guarded secret and nobody but the manufacturer knows exactly how. One thing we do know is that parts of the poker chips are made by hand to thwart off counterfeiters and to make a single chip can be a long process.
On most poker chips you can always find out a little basic information. On casino poker chips you can see how much it’s worth and which casino it belongs to. Most all casinos have a typical color pattern they follow for their chips so they can tell what the chip is worth by just looking at the color. As an example, Atlantic City casinos have white one dollar chips and usually red five dollar poker chips.
Owning an authentic casino poker chip set would truly be awesome in my opinion. But, because the manufacturing process is a big secret, the closet you’re going to come to owning a set of poker chips from a casino is to take some home from your next visit to the casino.
That would be one expensive set of poker chips.
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