Poker Chips in Movies – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (4 Viewers)

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.
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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.

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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!!

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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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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.
 
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.
 
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

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