First Poker Chip Advice (1 Viewer)

[Theprofolder]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been playing poker for a few months now on a weekly basis and finally flipped an old barrington table (shown in my other post), but feel like it’s time to get my hands on some chips that aren’t my friends sticky dice chips that we’ve been using…
I’ve read bunch of threads here about good starter sets from a range of budgets etc, but I would like to get some advice on my own parameters.

I’d like to spend around $130-150, the reason for this is because the guys i play with are in their 20s and aren’t as conscious as I am in terms of other people’s stuff - i have a feeling they’ll somehow ruin them. I don’t want to spend an arm and a leg for them to be trashed, this is considered somewhat of a test run? I would like to just have a set to add a new look to the table and provide some more immersion as silly as it may sound.

I know there are a million websites and vendors out there and it gets a little overwhelming, are there any websites to avoid/brands and ones to use? I’ve read things about claysnith chips and they seem relatively cheap, any opinions on those?

 

[BGinGA]

How many players, and what stakes are you playing (blinds and buy-in amounts)?

This will help determine how many chips are needed for your game, and combined with your budget, help determine which chips/sets fall into that category.

 

[EastCoastCali]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/phil-hellmuth-jr-sluggo-cash-tourney-set.122124/

 

[Theprofolder]

How many players, and what stakes are you playing (blinds and buy-in amounts)?

This will help determine how many chips are needed for your game, and combined with your budget, help determine which chips/sets fall into that category.

Usually 8 players. $25 buy in(people usually buy back in, we currently have a 500 chip count broken down with .25, .50, $1, $5) .25 little/.50big blinds

 

[allforcharity]

You'd have to be pretty physically egregious with most home game chips to 'ruin' them during play. Like throwing at walls/floor, splashing pot from 4 feet above table, playing tiddlywinks with them, gnawing on them, etc.

Get yourself a cheap but useable set from Classifieds here, and save up money in the long term for something really nice.

 

[Theprofolder]

You'd have to be pretty physically egregious with most home game chips to 'ruin' them during play. Like throwing at walls/floor, splashing pot from 4 feet above table, playing tiddlywinks with them, gnawing on them, etc.

Get yourself a cheap but useable set from Classifieds here, and save up money in the long term for something really nice.

This has me cracking up, thanks for the heads up! Reassuring to hear that it takes some serious work to beat up chips

 

[PokerSenpai]

@SeanGecko do you have any more sets available? I know you offered some sets in the past around this price point.

 

[Machine]

I’d like to spend around $130-150

Me too! Realistically you should look at Tina's chips, don't google that or even try to understand that, look for one of the vendors here Broken Arrow and justincarothers - ask to join one of the group buys, if you're looking for cash you want to pick up about 700 chips and you should be able to get by on 300 USD for a budget.

 

[BGinGA]

Usually 8 players. $25 buy in(people usually buy back in, we currently have a 500 chip count broken down with .25, .50, $1, $5) .25 little/.50big blinds

An 8-player 25c/50c cash set for your group's $25 buy-ins should contain between 400 and 500 chips:

80-100 x 25c chips
160-200 x $1 chips
160-200 x $5 chips
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400-500 total (no 50c chips needed)

With a budget of $130 to $150, that means you are looking at chips that cost between $0.26 and $0.375 per chip. Spending $150 for 500 chips is right at 30c/chip.

Although there are a number of low-budget plastic chips (both metal slugged and not) at the lower end of that range, I'd highly recommend getting something a bit nicer, and possibly even customized to your personal liking.

As mentioned above, @justincarothers at Broken Arrow Cardroom Supply (a vendor here on PCF) offers some great 39mm ceramic chip options from 39c to 46c per chip. Well worth the few extra pennies over the garden variety plastic junk sold via internet stores.

A 500-chip set of the 46c hybrids will cost $230, while a 400-chip set of the 39c plain ceramics is only $156.

 

[Labrat]

@BGinGA is absolutely correct, as usual.

A lot of people poo-poo the no-mold ceramics from Tina but, from the samples I've received from Justin, they are right up your alley if you ask me.