Welcome! That’s a big open ended question on what to move to next.
What budget / how much are you comfortable spending? That’ll help folk guide you. Next questions will be around Cash or Tournament and what stakes do you play (for denominations).
Once you have a better idea of how much you’re able to spend, then try and buy a sample set or a couple of chips first.
For me, I started off with Dice chips, then metal insert Bicycle chips, then this Nexgen Pro set:
Last year I found PCF when trying to find poker chips I played with at University - turns out they were
CDI 98 chips and waaay out of my budget and hard to find a complete set turnkey.
So I started looking at more affordable options, I got samples of ceramics and some more plasticky ‘clay’ chips and former casino chips:
https://brpropoker.com/
https://www.apachepokerchips.com/
For me, the bang for the buck and feel are the Nexgens. Now they are ‘Remix’ - no idea what that means, but out of the more budget friendly options, I’d recommend checking them out.
https://www.thepokerstore.com/products/1000-nexgen-pro-classic-9-gram-poker-chips-bulk
I went hard down the rabbit hole of jumping into designing a complete custom
CPC set initially:
http://www.classicpokerchips.com/
And as always, this meant MOAR samples:
However there’s considerable cost and time there (can be sticker shock since it’ll likely be in the thousands of $) - hence why budget is a key question.
I’m still working on my set, however I built it from other PCF members by buying/selling and even asking a member on the other side of the country to harvest live casino chips to get to the below and it’s still a work in progress:
So my final two points would be to check the classifieds, there might be racks you like in your budget you can buy and build a set from there. There’s also a black friday sale coming up in the Classified where you’ll likely find the best price for actual casino chips:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/black-friday-sale-2024.126037/
Edit: this is a great starting thread
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/new-members-start-here.85303/
Cheers and GL,
Kam
