Poker Chips in Movies – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (10 Viewers)

[mike32]

I have a set of these…still looking for ONE MORE rack of reds…

I have a set as well. I need some green $25….Also do you have $1’s? I’m happy to have 2 racks but I’ve never seen others.

 

[Bikshu]

These aren't movies of course, but I actually stumbled upon two different poker scenes in completely unrelated TV shows tonight. The first was Sneaky Pete S01E04 "The Fury" which aired in 2017 and, as has already been noted in a different thread here on PCF, certainly appears to contain just boring old dice chips.

And then the second was the very opening scene of The X-Files S07E06 "The Goldberg Variation" which aired in 1999. This time I really thought they were just plain old dice chips yet again at first, but upon closer inspection there is definitely some type of hot stamp on them. It almost looks to me like they might be no-mold ceramics that say either "BCC" or "RCC" on them with the "C" in the middle being extra large... similar to what you might expect to see as the abbreviation of a country club's name. Granted they still strike me as being fairly bland poker chips, but I suppose they are at least slightly more interesting than the generic dice chips in Sneaky Pete. But all in all, the only thing we can say for sure is that the fact that I came across both of these poker scenes in one day assuredly means that I watch too much TV. LOL!!

 

[Colquhoun]

The second chips were made by Langworthy/RT Plastics.

 

[Bikshu]

Just as a follow up to my previous post, the TV show Sneaky Pete appears to have upgraded the chips used in their poker scenes as the show goes along. In S01E10 "The Longest Day" you can see the chips below, which are definitely not the plain old dice chips they had used in S01E04. Instead, the inlay for these guys looks almost like an extra large and modified CDI design with the green wreath & shield plus a few stars along the bottom. But the outside and edge spots of these guys certainly don't look to be the normal Paulson molds that we'd expect from a CDI chip. So it's almost like they took a CDI style label, maybe changed a few details to avoid any IP issues, then printed them out and slapped them on some cheap slugged chips, and called it a day.

Interestingly, that entire first season of Sneaky Pete dropped all at once on 01/13/2017 via Amazon Prime. So these two different episodes with poker scenes had to have been filmed relatively soon after one another. We therefore have to assume that some cast and/or crew members must have decided that a supposedly high-end card room filled with millionaires would never be caught dead playing with dice chips... which I think we would all agree with. If I ever end up having a beer with Bryan Cranston or Giovanni Ribisi I'll be sure to ask them and let you all know what they say. LOL

 

[JustinInMN]

the inlay for these guys looks almost like an extra large and modified CDI design with the green wreath & shield plus a few stars along the bottom. But the outside and edge spots of these guys certainly don't look to be the normal Paulson molds that we'd expect from a CDI chip. So it's almost like they took a CDI style label, maybe changed a few details to avoid any IP issues, then printed them out and slapped them on some cheap slugged chips, and called it a day.

Think you are right. Those look like the brybelly 8 stripe sluggos that I used in the first Free River Club set.

 

[allforcharity]

Just as a follow up to my previous post, the TV show Sneaky Pete appears to have upgraded the chips used in their poker scenes as the show goes along. In S01E10 "The Longest Day" you can see the chips below, which are definitely not the plain old dice chips they had used in S01E04. Instead, the inlay for these guys looks almost like an extra large and modified CDI design with the green wreath & shield plus a few stars along the bottom. But the outside and edge spots of these guys certainly don't look to be the normal Paulson molds that we'd expect from a CDI chip. So it's almost like they took a CDI style label, maybe changed a few details to avoid any IP issues, then printed them out and slapped them on some cheap slugged chips, and called it a day.

Interestingly, that entire first season of Sneaky Pete dropped all at once on 01/13/2017 via Amazon Prime. So these two different episodes with poker scenes had to have been filmed relatively soon after one another. We therefore have to assume that some cast and/or crew members must have decided that a supposedly high-end card room filled with millionaires would never be caught dead playing with dice chips... which I think we would all agree with. If I ever end up having a beer with Bryan Cranston or Giovanni Ribisi I'll be sure to ask them and let you all know what they say. LOL

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Yeah this is a Da Vinci chip design which takes design cues from CDI with colours and placement but switches out all graphics and text. Anyone can buy it.

 

[Bikshu]

Yeah this is a Da Vinci chip design which takes design cues from CDI with colours and placement but switches out all graphics and text. Anyone can buy it.

You were 1,000% correct as always. Turns out that it is called Da Vinci's Casino Del Sol line. I swear some of you guys are encyclopedias of poker chips. LOL

 

[JustinInMN]

Yeah this is a Da Vinci chip design which takes design cues from CDI with colours and placement but switches out all graphics and text. Anyone can buy it.

OH man you are absolutely right. I remember seeing these now. (Thanks for posting the full pic @Bikshu )

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

You were 1,000% correct as always. Turns out that it is called Da Vinci's Casino Del Sol line. I swear some of you guys are encyclopedias of poker chips. LOL

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Our bar league uses these, honestly I prefer the Dice chips. These feel worse, maybe its just nostalgia.

 

[SteveEH]

Oceans 11. The scene where they're building the replica vault.

 

[JustinInMN]

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Oceans 11. The scene where they're building the replica vault.

Those don't exactly look like super diamonds, but these aren't the actual chips from then either .

 

[Machine]

Okay, not a movie and not poker chips, but KEMs and a cash game!

Thought it post worthy, the Dead Man's hand callout

 

[Poker Zombie]

Okay, not a movie and not poker chips, but KEMs and a cash game!

Thought it post worthy, the Dead Man's hand callout

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Definitely KEM - just look how warped that "3" is!

 

[Sisu41]

Does this count?

Big Brother 23

 

[Daniel Albarran]

From Batman 89, Bruce's Save the Festival fundraiser. We got some nice jetons and how about those clay chips? Any ID on them?

 

[Poker Zombie]

From Batman 89, Bruce's Save the Festival fundraiser. We got some nice jetons and how about those clay chips? Any ID on them?

They look to me like ASM Hourglass

 

[Daniel Albarran]

They look to me like ASM Hourglass

ASM seems like a good bet. I'll look at the special features, see if there's more footage.

 

[WedgeRock]

They look to me like ASM Hourglass

Scenes are so darkly lit, I'm amazed you can make any guess at all.

 

[Daniel Albarran]

Scenes are so darkly lit, I'm amazed you can make any guess at all.

Yellows look like HHRs.

 

[foreverdev]

From HBO’s The Wire.. they’re playing 5 figure pots with what appear to be interlocking plastic chips. If I recall one character says he lost 150k in one night. Fantastic and believably realistic series overall except for this.

 

[Bacon Dad]

From HBO’s The Wire.. they’re playing 5 figure pots with what appear to be interlocking plastic chips. If I recall one character says he lost 150k in one night. Fantastic and believably realistic series overall except for this.

If they’re not Interlocking chips, it’s not a real game!!

 

[SteveEH]

Yellows look like HHRs.

I was going to guess HHR too

 

[Poker Zombie]

Scenes are so darkly lit, I'm amazed you can make any guess at all.

Yellows look like HHRs.

Upon reviewing the footage, I'm changing my guess to HHR as well.

Will try to bypass copyright protection to get a screenshot...

 

[Poker Zombie]

Still photo much more blurry than actual motion shot, but definitely hot stamped denominated chips with a busy mold, on the limited spot patterns ASM had in the 1980s

 

[Daniel Albarran]

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Still photo much more blurry than actual motion shot, but definitely hot stamped denominated chips with a busy mold, on the limited spot patterns ASM had in the 1980s

Sure looks like HHRs. Wonder what's their history. Private collection? Set made for the film?

 

[Poker Zombie]

Sure looks like HHRs. Wonder what's their history. Private collection? Set made for the film?

@David Spragg may have some insider information on these. Perhaps just stock prop-house chips, given the jetons and the ASM's used in the same fundraising scenes, but Hollywood is full of fascinating backstories.

 

[WedgeRock]

Fantastic and believably realistic series overall except for this.

I remember thinking the same thing when I saw the poker scenes...