I'm new to the scene, just having bought my first samples as I'm searching for my first home set.
I've been watching reviews, reading forums posts, and from everything that I've seen, I was expecting an impressive range of chips. However, I was sorely disappointed when they arrived, as each set of chips seems incredibly low quality. I bought these chips from Thepokerstore and Apachepoker, the sample sets being:
Eclipse - I can't even believe how bad the flashing is on these chips. They almost hurt to hold and riffle.
Monaco Club - again, the flashing makes them feel jagged. Close to unusable.
Classic Ceramic - I was actually excited for the ceramics... until I saw the poorly pasted on vinyl like covering. They look and feel like they were screen printed in the 70's. I was picturing a smooth ceramic feeling... not a screen printed plastic feel.
Milano - Top 3 out of the bunch... but they're still so light and cheap feeling. They riffle decently, except I can't stand the noise of them going together. It sounds like penny chips from Walmart.
Monaco Casino - A bit heavy, but not horrible. It's more the plastic feel and lack of gloss that I dislike. They're probably in the top 3, but I still can't believe this is considered top 3.
Majestic - I heard so many good things about these chips, and how they're so similar to casino chips... but I can hardly feel a resemblance. I'll admit they look sort of nice, but it's the feeling that drives me insane. Plastic and cheap.
I never thought I would be such a chip snob, or that there would be such a big difference in chips. I have a stack of my local card rooms chips that I've been riffling for years, so to adjust to these retail chips is a major downgrade. Although I'm left wondering, did I just order the wrong samples? Did I just get bad samples?
I never thought the chips from my local cardroom were top-tier chips, but they do riffle wonderfully and have a super smooth gloss finish that lets them mesh together graciously.
I'm left wondering - are there any other reasonably priced samples I should try, or is the only way to match even close to casino grade chips to spend a massive amount of money?
I never thought these things could be so expensive.
I've been watching reviews, reading forums posts, and from everything that I've seen, I was expecting an impressive range of chips. However, I was sorely disappointed when they arrived, as each set of chips seems incredibly low quality. I bought these chips from Thepokerstore and Apachepoker, the sample sets being:
Eclipse - I can't even believe how bad the flashing is on these chips. They almost hurt to hold and riffle.
Monaco Club - again, the flashing makes them feel jagged. Close to unusable.
Classic Ceramic - I was actually excited for the ceramics... until I saw the poorly pasted on vinyl like covering. They look and feel like they were screen printed in the 70's. I was picturing a smooth ceramic feeling... not a screen printed plastic feel.
Milano - Top 3 out of the bunch... but they're still so light and cheap feeling. They riffle decently, except I can't stand the noise of them going together. It sounds like penny chips from Walmart.
Monaco Casino - A bit heavy, but not horrible. It's more the plastic feel and lack of gloss that I dislike. They're probably in the top 3, but I still can't believe this is considered top 3.
Majestic - I heard so many good things about these chips, and how they're so similar to casino chips... but I can hardly feel a resemblance. I'll admit they look sort of nice, but it's the feeling that drives me insane. Plastic and cheap.
I never thought I would be such a chip snob, or that there would be such a big difference in chips. I have a stack of my local card rooms chips that I've been riffling for years, so to adjust to these retail chips is a major downgrade. Although I'm left wondering, did I just order the wrong samples? Did I just get bad samples?
I never thought the chips from my local cardroom were top-tier chips, but they do riffle wonderfully and have a super smooth gloss finish that lets them mesh together graciously.
I'm left wondering - are there any other reasonably priced samples I should try, or is the only way to match even close to casino grade chips to spend a massive amount of money?
I never thought these things could be so expensive.