Types of Poker Chips

If you think that the poker chips you use at home in your games with the family are the same as those used in Las Vegas or Atlantic City casinos, then think again because nothing could be further from the truth. There are several different types of chips, and the ones used at home are the least expensive, most mass-produced kind. These tend to be made of plastic, and were brought in as cheaper versions of the clay chips that were used in casinos almost exclusively from the 1880s to the 1930s.

The clay chip sets that have been traditionally used, and which are still used in some places even now, weren't made entirely of clay except at the very beginning. It was soon discovered that the clay-only chips broke too easily, so the makers began creating them from composites, of which the most common one now is a clay-ceramic mix. It's very unlikely that you'll find this type of chip in a home set, however; as these would most usually be casino poker chips.

An interesting development more recently has been another type of composite poker chips; this time made with cores of metal called "slugs," and then covered with an injection-molded plastic. These have a similar look and feel, not to mention weight, to chips found in a casino. With the right stamping of pattern, color and monetary denomination, one of these chips is almost indistinguishable from a more traditional casino chip. There are even some chips made almost completely of metal, which can be anodized to be certain colors, that is, coated with a protective colored film by chemical or electronic means. But these are not yet common. Where they are used, however, is in a casino setting rather than in a home game, because they tend to be expensive.

Among the various kinds of poker chips, the ones most common today are those made of cheap plastic that you'll find in home sets, and the most widely used professional casino versions, which resemble the original clay composite chips, but tend now to be made with a hard, injection-molded resin. Both these and the clay composites are made with formulas that are often specific to an individual casino, and will usually come with several security features, including marks that show in UV light, or radio frequency ID tags. The plastic home versions may distantly resemble these, but the casino poker chips will always be the authentic deal.

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