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Just wondering if anyone has had a chance to mess with chips from crowsheadpoker??? I recently purchased a few sample sets and am wondering about how the clay Impala casino j resort chips match up against a paulson??? Any help appreciated
 
Their website is down for me, but even without seeing them I can almost certainly guarantee you they aren't clay chips. At best they're ceramics with a mold design, or more likely just your run-of-the-mill cheap plastic chips advertised as "real clay".
 
Site wouldn’t load for me either, but looking at their offerings from google images, they appear to be ceramics. Quite different than Paulsons. I recommend some Paulson samples before pulling the trigger.
 
I like the designs, for the most part. The stock breakdowns are garbage (who needs 350 quarters for a .25/.50 game?), but they allow you to choose your own. 39¢/chip for ceramics mean they're just cheap Chinese blanks, but I'm sure they're fine for the price.

I really like the Impala chips. They look to be regular plastic chips with a sticker, so they're probably slugged plastic, 13.5g chips. However, I do like the look of the mold, the edge spots, and the colors. Maybe they're unplugged, and a softer, less slippery plastic. I would have a hard time paying 99¢/chip for them unless they're somehow much nicer than the current china clays (which is unlikely).

I sent a request for weight and a sample set. We'll see.
 
They are exactly 10 grams I weghed the whole sample set. They are super easy to shuffle and light-years better than crappy Magestic or the bank poker chips. Those are garbage. My only concern was the inlay really. The clay they use is quality but who knows on the inlay? Yes the design is amazebalz.
I like the designs, for the most part. The stock breakdowns are garbage (who needs 350 quarters for a .25/.50 game?), but they allow you to choose your own. 39¢/chip for ceramics mean they're just cheap Chinese blanks, but I'm sure they're fine for the price.

I really like the Impala chips. They look to be regular plastic chips with a sticker, so they're probably slugged plastic, 13.5g chips. However, I do like the look of the mold, the edge spots, and the colors. Maybe they're unplugged, and a softer, less slippery plastic. I would have a hard time paying 99¢/chip for them unless they're somehow much nicer than the current china clays (which is unlikely).

I sent a request for weight and a sample set. We'll see.
 
They are exactly 10 grams I weghed the whole sample set. They are super easy to shuffle and light-years better than crappy Magestic or the bank poker chips. Those are garbage. My only concern was the inlay really. The clay they use is quality but who knows on the inlay? Yes the design is amazebalz.
Again, they’re not clay, they’re plastic. They may be pretty good plastic, but they don’t compare to real clays.
 
They are exactly 10 grams I weghed the whole sample set. They are super easy to shuffle and light-years better than crappy Magestic or the bank poker chips. Those are garbage. My only concern was the inlay really. The clay they use is quality but who knows on the inlay? Yes the design is amazebalz.
Are they slippery?
 
Just wondering if anyone has had a chance to mess with chips from crowsheadpoker??? I recently purchased a few sample sets and am wondering about how the clay Impala casino j resort chips match up against a paulson??? Any help appreciated
Pick up a sample of Paulsons so you can see the difference between a true clay chip versus these plastic chips. These are way overpriced for plastic chips.
 
They aren't clays; they're plastics. Anyone can call their chips "clay"; the term is meaningless outside of places like PCF. What we here on PCF mean by "clays" are compression-molded chips like those used in casinos; the Impalas are injection-molded and are very different from the chips that casinos use.

You can learn more about the different kinds of chips (including plastics, ceramics, and clays) here and here.

Also, welcome to the forum! :)
 
They aren't clays; they're plastics. Anyone can call their chips "clay"; the term is meaningless outside of places like PCF. What we here on PCF mean by "clays" are compression-molded chips like those used in casinos; the Impalas are injection-molded and are very different from the chips that casinos use.

You can learn more about the different kinds of chips (including plastics, ceramics, and clays) here and here.

Also, welcome to the forum! :)
While it is true that anyone call their chips "clay," it is not true that they can get away with it. Fraud laws being what they are, you definitely don't want to say things like "real clay" if the product doesn't contain some amount thereof. That being said, I looked more closely, and their description of their "Gambler's Clay" suggests to me they are suspending granules of clay in a matrix of plastic:

these amazing chips are forged from Crow’s Head’s exclusive mold, and are made with Gambler’s™ clay, the highest quality clay available, with only necessary binding agents for durability

It's possible that this technology is awesome, but I doubt it, because they're downplaying the differences between this stuff and old-school clay rather than accentuating those differences.

Thanks for the links! I definitely have some questions about the construction methods.
 
While it is true that anyone call their chips "clay," it is not true that they can get away with it. Fraud laws being what they are, you definitely don't want to say things like "real clay" if the product doesn't contain some amount thereof. That being said, I looked more closely, and their description of their "Gambler's Clay" suggests to me they are suspending granules of clay in a matrix of plastic:



It's possible that this technology is awesome, but I doubt it, because they're downplaying the differences between this stuff and old-school clay rather than accentuating those differences.

Thanks for the links! I definitely have some questions about the construction methods.
They feel super soft and slippery compared to a Paulson. I finally got to test both.....so disappointing
 
Even clay chips are made out of plastic.

Almost anything made out of plastic is a composite of multiple materials, including one or more polymers (what we might notionally think of as "plastic") plus plasticizers, fillers, reinforcements, and colorants. One of those fillers can be clay.

The particular formulation of the composite is what gives any particular composite its properties, including the way it feels. The composite formulation for whatever plastic is being used for these chips (or any others that advertise themselves as "clay", "clay composite", "real clay", "true clay", etc) may or may not include clay, and if they do include clay, it may or may not be present in sufficient quantity to have any significant effect on the way the composite feels and behaves. There's not really any way to know. Presumably there's enough there that if sued by the Fair Trade Commission or some similar agency for false advertising they'd be able to prove that their claim is technically correct, but honestly that's a pretty thin presumption. I'd be prepared to bet that there's not a bit of clay contained within any of 'em, and they're relying on a) not being sued or otherwise called to task by anyone over it and b) being prepared to claim that "clay" has no standard definition within the context of poker chips (which is true!) and that it can legitimately be used to describe any chip that resembles in any manner any chip that has historically contained clay.

But the bottom line is that none of that matters. No matter how much clay these sorts of mass-market injection-molded plastic chips do or don't contain, they are completely unlike the sorts of chips that people think they are when they hear "clay" - i.e. they're completely unlike the clay chips (which are also made out of plastic) that are widely used in casinos. They're not made from the same materials, they're not made in the same way, they don't look alike, they don't feel alike, and while quality is subjective almost no one thinks that the injection-molded plastics are anywhere near the quality of casino clays.

Thanks for the links! I definitely have some questions about the construction methods.

Ask away! ... either here, or in a separate thread if you prefer. The PCF membership is here to help. :)
 

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