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Clay Poker Chips
When talking about the home market, there are two major categories of poker chips, clay poker chips and composite poker chips.
Clay poker chips are considered to be more desirable than composite poker chips for several reasons. First is that in the old days of Las Vegas casinos, poker chips used to be made out of clay.
These days, casinos use closely guarded secret combinations of clay and composite materials to make their poker chips, so the clay poker chips available for the home market most closely resember the clay chips used in casinos years ago.
Clay poker chips offer many advantages over composite poker chips.
The first advantage is that clay chips stack very well. Because real clay poker chips are softer than composite poker chips, they do not slide together as easily as composite poker chips, making them easier to stack.
This advantage also makes them better suited for doing poker chip tricks such as shuffling chips. Another advantage to clay chips is that they sound more like real casino poker chips when you clank them together.
ABS composite poker chips are known to have a little more of a plastic click than the authentic clay thud.
The only way to know whether you prefer clay poker chips or composite poker chips is to buy a poker chip set and play with it. Because each type of poker chip presents its own advantages, getting some playing time in is the only way to really know what you prefer.
Many people who want their poker chips to have the same feel and sound as casino poker chips prefer clay poker chips.
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