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The Nuts said:
Cross your fingers that's about as low as it gets for high.
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Unfortunately it got beat in like 8 minutes lol.
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Finally got to play live poker for the first time in over a year and half! I was so happy to be playing I didn’t care that my buddy forgot to bring the table topper and we had to play on a glass table. In for $100 and out for $280 but the sense of normalcy was worth so much more then any money won. I didn’t realize how much I missed playing until actually playing.
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Have to defend Chip Lab here, I’m a fan of their intuitive and easy design interface and with a 25 quantity minimum it’s super easy to create a very personal and unique chip set. The chips pictured above do indeed have an ugly inlay, but that’s hardly Chip Labs fault, personally I love the design of the chips I made. As for quality, their clay-composite line (which is really plastic slugged) stacks great and holds up well. Also, at the time I made the video I thought the chips were made in China, but a commenter says that the Chip Labs chips are made in house in the USA.

 
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Chris Manzoni said:
Have to defend Chip Lab here, I’m a fan of their intuitive and easy design interface and with a 25 quantity minimum it’s super easy to create a very personal and unique chip set. The chips pictured above do indeed have an ugly inlay, but that’s hardly Chip Labs fault, personally I love the design of the chips I made. As for quality, their clay-composite line (which is really plastic slugged) stacks great and holds up well. Also, Chip Labs chips are made in house in the USA.

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Chris Manzoni said:
Have to defend Chip Lab here, I’m a fan of their intuitive and easy design interface and with a 25 quantity minimum it’s super easy to create a very personal and unique chip set. The chips pictured above do indeed have an ugly inlay, but that’s hardly Chip Labs fault, personally I love the design of the chips I made. As for quality, their clay-composite line (which is really plastic slugged) stacks great and holds up well. Also, at the time I made the video I thought the chips were made in China, but a commenter says that the Chip Labs chips are made in house in the USA.

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I could be wrong, but I suspect when they say they are "made" in the US, what they are referring to is the custom labels are printed here and applied to the chips here. I've definitely seen these same chip blanks on Alibaba. But then, the Chinese also copy a lot of stuff that is made here, so no telling for sure.

Either way, my gripe with them is the cost. They are roughly equivalent to slugged Nexgen Lucky Bees, of which I own thousands. Perfectly good "cheap" chips that I acquired for less than $0.15 a chip. Another comparable chip at that price level would be 12 stripes from Claysmith. Take either of those and design a high end laminated label from @Gear and you have a similar to slightly better chip at a lower cost. Spend a little more for Majestics or one of the other readily available China clay chips and you have a much superior chip at around the same cost as the chiplab chip. I will give them credit for one thing - they are fast. My friend says that they promise delivery within two weeks of your order, so even if they don't make the actual chip here in the US, they definitely keep a large supply on hand.

It's a chip that certainly fits a niche, but not one I expect many PCF chippers would be particularly happy with. At least not at their cost. Not when you can get used casino Paulsons from one of Jim's Chip Room sales for well under $1.
 
TX_Golf_N_Poker said:
I could be wrong, but I suspect when they say they are "made" in the US, what they are referring to is the custom labels are printed here and applied to the chips here. I've definitely seen these same chip blanks on Alibaba. But then, the Chinese also copy a lot of stuff that is made here, so no telling for sure.

Either way, my gripe with them is the cost. They are roughly equivalent to slugged Nexgen Lucky Bees, of which I own thousands. Perfectly good "cheap" chips that I acquired for less than $0.15 a chip. Another comparable chip at that price level would be 12 stripes from Claysmith. Take either of those and design a high end laminated label from @Gear and you have a similar to slightly better chip at a lower cost. Spend a little more for Majestics or one of the other readily available China clay chips and you have a much superior chip at around the same cost as the chiplab chip. I will give them credit for one thing - they are fast. My friend says that they promise delivery within two weeks of your order, so even if they don't make the actual chip here in the US, they definitely keep a large supply on hand.

It's a chip that certainly fits a niche, but not one I expect many PCF chippers would be particularly happy with. At least not at their cost. Not when you can get used casino Paulsons from one of Jim's Chip Room sales for well under $1.
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All fair points, but don’t forget the “killer app” of full customization that you can achieve by designing on your own without a designer or even dealing with a person if you prefer. To me this alone is a great feature that no other vendor has.
 

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