Since the start of the poker boom I thought I was the only one who was weird enough to be into chips this much. I remember being a teenager and dying for paulson chips for my little 4 person .25/.50 game I’m glad to see that I’m not alone.
I’ve been out of the poker chip loop for a long time until recently when I found this site / hobbyphilic’s vids on youtube. After doing research and buying samples of dunes, milanos, and nexgens, I decided to purchase 600 milanos for a home game which this site basically inspired me to start. They are arriving tomorrow so it looks like I’ll have a long weekend of oiling ahead of me.
Some first impressions of china clays from someone who is fairly new and unbiased to buying chips is that while they seem to be the best bang for your buck chip around right now, they seem a bit flimsy and inauthentic to me. They seem more like poker discs than chips to me if that makes any sense; probably because of the rounded edges. They don’t appear to “interlock” when stacked like real casino chips do. They kind of just look like they are laying on top of each other when stacked up. I love the designs of some of them, I just wish they were a millimeter or two thicker and just slightly more square around the edges. Also the fact that you have to oil them manually is mind blowing to me. Seems like an easy thing for the manufacturers to solve but I don’t know all the ins and outs of chip production.
The nexgens have better shape/shine than the CC’s imo but just feel like straight up plastic and are a little too light. That said, those will probably be my next buy for starter tournament set.
Anyway, I look forward to posting / browsing around some more. Cheers!
I’ve been out of the poker chip loop for a long time until recently when I found this site / hobbyphilic’s vids on youtube. After doing research and buying samples of dunes, milanos, and nexgens, I decided to purchase 600 milanos for a home game which this site basically inspired me to start. They are arriving tomorrow so it looks like I’ll have a long weekend of oiling ahead of me.
Some first impressions of china clays from someone who is fairly new and unbiased to buying chips is that while they seem to be the best bang for your buck chip around right now, they seem a bit flimsy and inauthentic to me. They seem more like poker discs than chips to me if that makes any sense; probably because of the rounded edges. They don’t appear to “interlock” when stacked like real casino chips do. They kind of just look like they are laying on top of each other when stacked up. I love the designs of some of them, I just wish they were a millimeter or two thicker and just slightly more square around the edges. Also the fact that you have to oil them manually is mind blowing to me. Seems like an easy thing for the manufacturers to solve but I don’t know all the ins and outs of chip production.
The nexgens have better shape/shine than the CC’s imo but just feel like straight up plastic and are a little too light. That said, those will probably be my next buy for starter tournament set.
Anyway, I look forward to posting / browsing around some more. Cheers!
