What are the best poker chips in your opinion? (5 Viewers)

[Jdcruz1999]

looking to maybe collect chips and looking for some opinion's/recommendations on some.

 

[doctorchips]

I think you're going to get a range of answers depending on your price range.

 

[MeridianFC]

Chips for collecting and chips for playing are kind of two different categories.

 

[JMC9389]

Nothing beats the feel of compression molded clay chips from Paulson and CPC. Clay chips make up 90% of my collection. However, in CPC's case at least, they are handmade and manufactured one by one and may not be totally uniform. These chips will cost the most between $1 and $10+ per chip in playable quantities. Most CPC chips will settle between $2 and $5/chip and are your best and only option for custom clay chips.

Ceramics and ceramic hybrids, like those made by BRPRO, Sunfly, and more recently the "Tina" and "cards mold" chips made in China are cheaper alternatives for those desiring customs. These can run anywhere from 40 cents to $2 per chip. Ceramics are more durable in terms of maintaining shape but the trade off is that the chip graphics printed onto the ceramic blanks will fade with heavy use. Generally the cheaper the chips are, the quicker they'll fade.

Like anything else in this world, you get what you pay for. Welcome!

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

In my opinion? These right here, badass custom chips that all but say my name on em. Its been said that these are the greatest chips ever made.

 

[Machine]

TRKs​

 

[cpac54]

In the words of a wise man, “buy cheap, buy twice.”

 

[RichMahogany]

TRKs​

This is the only real answer

 

[jpietrella]

The best poker chips are the ones in my stack.

 

[quintooo]

I don't think anything else comes close

edit: make sure you only get the beyond mint ones

 

[ekricket]

They all work the same

Beyond that it’s up to your tastes and needs as to what “best” means.

Some prefer colors over everything
Some prefer feel over everything
Some prefer customization over everything
Some prefer materials over everything
Some prefer availability over everything
Some prefer provenance over everything

 

[BPTDirector]

90% of mine are compression clay also, but I have a set of ceramics I love that are my first customs and a set of Matsui plastics I’m kinda liking a lot too. Clays have an artisan look with some individual identifying characteristics on each different chip in many cases, like a fingerprint but in a stack they are of the same species if you know what I mean. All zebras don’t look alike but are easily identified as zebras for example.

Ceramics and plastics have more perfect looking spots. Ceramics can be whatever artwork you can imagine too, a strong point for some.

To each their own. Of my 20 players there are four different favorites at my place.

 

[calfdemon]

I have all sorts, but none come close to TRK's... Of course, they will cost you too.

 

[Colquhoun]

Famous photographer Chase Jarvis, when speaking about equipment, said, "The best camera is the one you have with you".

 

[Lil Tuna]

I wonder what @HughDrackman thinks?
You can learn a lot from a picture.

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

Based on sales I would think the obvious answer would be:

Pretty sure they're "official weight" too!

 

[HughDrackman]

I wonder what @HughDrackman thinks?
You can learn a lot from a picture.

It’s impossible to hide my opinion. Those TRK’s are next level!

 

[KingWithTheAxe]

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I don't think anything else comes close

edit: make sure you only get the beyond mint ones

Never in my life used the words “beyond mint.” I’m paying $300 for a rack of mustard roulette 1s. Should put all your concerns to rest

 

[Quicksilver-75]

TRK - Old Paulson - BlueChip - New Paulson - Classic/ASM (Not the Red Ott years) China clays and all the plastic shit B&G, BJ, Icon, ect...

 

[pltrgyst]

Round ones.

 

[LeLe]

Chips that I can afford are the best

I prob going to have a hard time putting chips that I can't sufficiently afford in play.

 

[KHarp1]

TRK TRK TRK
TRK TRK TRK
TRK TRK TRK

 

[FDLmold]

Chips for collecting and chips for playing are kind of two different categories.

Wrong!

 

[inca911]

Yellow ones are some of my favorites.

 

[Brandon]

They all work the same

Beyond that it’s up to your tastes and needs as to what “best” means.

Some prefer colors over everything
Some prefer feel over everything
Some prefer customization over everything
Some prefer materials over everything
Some prefer availability over everything
Some prefer provenance over everything

You forgot “spot progression” Kev. Whatever that is. I thought they all have spots

 

[KHarp1]

Yes, Yellow TRK, that's the best chip. Shut the thread down, end of discussion.

 

[Mongoose]

Get samples and see which one’s you like the best…. Not what others say

 

[Lil Tuna]

Yellow ones are some of my favorites.
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Yellows are mighty fine!

But it’s Blurples that melt my heart.

 

[chippitydoodah]

Yellow ones are some of my favorites.
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It's like the Star Destroyer coming into the opening screen of Star Wars

 

[chippitydoodah]