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The Advantages Of Poker Chips
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May-27-2010
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Poker chips have been around since the inception of the poker game. But the poker chips that were used in the earlier era would not catch our fancy in the modern times.
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Poker chips have been around since the inception of the poker game. But the poker chips that were used in the earlier era would not catch our fancy in the modern times. In those days, there were no standardization of a particular currency and most of the people used to use gold pieces as poker chips. But it was not wise to carry gold pieces all the time for a game of poker. And this is when people thought the the concept of a standardized poker chips would be a safe and convenient solution. Although there was a time when materials like wood, bones and clay, etc were used for making the chips. The only downside of this trend was that people used to bring their own set of poker chip and in order to get rid of this unscrupulous practice, the concept of manufacturing a standardized poker chip set.
A lot of designs were created so that one establishment could differentiate their chips from that of the others. From the beginning of the 1800's itself clay poker chips gained a lot of prominence and popularity amongst people. These clay chips remained popular till the 1930's. At the very beginning of the 1940's, plastic chips were introduced. These plastic chips also got very popular as it was easy to handle and carry around. People started buying the plastic chips for playing a game of poker at home. With the rise of plastic ships, the popularity of clay poker chips suffered a bit. The plastic chips have remained successful through the test of times and even today people use the plastic chips. With the popularity of the plastic chips, more and more people are inclined to purchase a very high quality of such chips.
The advantages of plastic chips are that they are durable and quite affordable. Casinos use a very high quality of chips and generally most of them have a custom made design for their chips. The quality of these chips are a lot better than the poker chips that are used for playing poker at the home. One can easily purchase these kind of chips that are used in casinos, if they want to experience the feel of a casino while playing poker at their homes. The plastic chips can be conveniently bought at your nearest departmental stores and its price is purely based on its design and quality. Most of the casinos use clay chips and you would hardly find any plastic chips there. Most of the people think that these chips are made of clay but actually these chips are made of composite ceramic. The name has remained as 'clay chips' because of their popularity. The only reason the solely clay is not used for the manufacturing of chips is because of the fact that clay is not capable of providing the chips with adequate durability. One can find a lot of manufacturers who deal with poker chips these days and it gives the consumer immense choice to select chips from a very wide range.
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Arts and Entertainment
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