Poker Chip Sets

There are many options available to the poker player when deciding on what chips to purchase and use. Traditional poker chips used to be made of clay and these poker chip sets can still be acquired. However, clay poker chips, despite the ruggedness of their material, always had the disadvantages of being expensive to make, hard to clean and wore down or broke even with normal use. Since the 1920's most professional poker establishments have turned to ceramics for their casino poker chip sets. While weighing in about the same as clay poker chips (9 to 11.5 grams each) these ceramic or ceramic/clay composites are easy to maintenance, can have more detailed security features included, and will stand up to the most aggressive play tactics.

Having a personalized poker chip set is a mark of distinction and all casinos have their own designs and logo poker chips. You can buy fully customizable poker chip sets for your personal use, as presents or as promotional gifts for your company. The usual sizes of professional quality poker chip sets come in 300, 500 and 1,000 poker chips per set. The standard "rule of thumb" for the amount of poker chips in your set is to have about forty to fifty chips per person playing and a mix of about 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 from the lowest to the highest denominations. While the standard color motif is white for lowest up through red then blue and the highest value of green you can customize the mix in your personal poker chip sets any way you wish.

You can buy poker chip sets for individual games such as the Texas Holdem poker chip set. For a real touch of class at your next big poker fest, you can buy a World Poker Tour chip set. These exclusive poker chip sets, featuring the World Poker Tour Logo, include 300 11.5 gram clay-filled chips (150 blue, 100 red and 50 black chips), two decks of casino quality playing cards contained in a stylish aluminum carrying case for under $150.00.

For those who really don't need to get into the professional style with your Saturday night games with friends, there are many discount poker chip sets available. You can get a cheap set of plastic poker chips at any decent sized department store. There are also free poker chip sets available as prizes and rewards from online poker sites and as promotions from real-world casinos that can sparkle up your gaming table and give you that professional feel right at home.