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Poker Chip Set Numbered

By Pete On April 18, 2010 No Comments

Las Vegas casino poker chips are the best chips around, but they are not all alike. Rumor says that there is an official weight limit of chips that is not true. To the Online shopping for chips, you will see chips that offer weighing up to 12 grams, at higher prices, but the simple fact is that an average gram weight of a sheet casino is less than ten.

The variation in weight of chips depends on the material is made with the design that is used, and the amount of ink required for that purpose. No two casinos use the same exact composition of the molding chips, and only produced a very small number of companies, all from the United States they are attached. The mixture used is well protected, to prevent counterfeiting of the chip.

Using their own composition formula, Las Vegas cards casino poker injected into a mold that has a design that has been copywrited in a production set that is as safe as the Mint. The formula uses a material synthetic polymer acrylic, with a center that is laminated. Although weighing about ten grams, the size is the same in every casino, which is about a and a half inches in diameter, or thirty-nine millimeters.

The three manufacturers that are generally used by casinos of Las Vegas are Paul-Son, Chipco, and Jones Bud. They all use different manufacturing processes. The technique used by Paul-son is a compression molding system using extreme pressure to merge colors on a solid piece. irregular stripes of color on the edge of each chip (if you play poker in Las Vegas has certainly seen players trying to stack of their chips by evening the lines of the edges of each chip!).

Injection molding is used by Bud Jones. The patterns, letter of pre-formed and denominations came together and solidified by injecting plastic around them. Sometimes they also use metal inlay chips.

Chipco is the newest of the three major manufacturers. Ceramic material used is injection molded in one piece. You can recognize these chips by their color graphics and designs on the edge. They are the only three that prints numbers and letters in the real edge of the chip.

Recently, the casinos began issuing commemorative chips for certain events. The MGM Grand off a chip for the George Foreman fight, the Tropicana issued one for the Kentucky Derby and the Caesars Palace celebrates birthday George Burns with one hundredth. These chips have the same value, and play like any other in Las Vegas casino poker chips at the tables, but most people take them take them home as collector's items. If you see one, and you want it, hold fast!

Since poker has become the "big game" in Las Vegas, many people are buying tokens to play at home. An interesting way of doing this is, literally, to buy them at the casino and take home with you. Use them for home games, and if you ever stop playing, or if you need money, cash back at the casino in which he obtained by the total value. Do not worry about the changes that a casino can do, or even the possibility of a casino to be sold or closed. This will only make your poker chips Las Vegas casino more valuable!

Learn more about Las Vegas Poker Chips and Las Vegas Casino Poker Chips from Brian Garvin & Jeff West at Poker Stars Direct.

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