Appreciate the community support! I'm going to try to respond to nearly all how took the time to contribute!
Looks like I would keep a set of sharpies handy. Whereas with clay a chip like this would be the same color, printed ceramics all start out as white blanks. Only one of 20, not too bad really.
This is a good tip, but I also am a little bit on the fence about if this is worth the investment at this point. If I consider the 6.5 hour session moke akin to a 20 hours of use (due to the directive to play the chips when possible, and my constant interventions to guarantee they would be lol), this rate is concerning I think that would mean a failure rate of 0.005 failures per hour? So in a game with 300-400 chips in play for 6 hours, I can expect 9 to 12 failures. That would obviously not be worth the investment, in a 1,000 chip set that would mean ~50 to 80 sessions until I can no longer populate the game with the ammount of chips needed. I don't think that passes the smell test of reality, though, as I can't imagine a world where the forum loves Tinas if they fail at this rate.
These have been the most used and not a single problem yet.
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Wonderful, thank you! Do you mind if I ask about how many sessions of play you've had with these at this point, have you had any failures?
I’ve had a few games already, “Roulette” I think they get man handled a bit more throughout the day. But they are holding up good so far. About 20 hours of gameplay total.
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Looking great! Is roulette generally kinder or rougher on the chips than poker, in your experience?
I had that exact problem with the sun mold chips
From the very first day of use under completely normal playing conditions, the chips began to chip. Sometimes on the table, I could feel tiny pieces of the ceramic material—like fine sand or small particles.
It reached the point where small ceramic residue and debris were left behind on the table.
What you see on the images Is maybe the result after 3 Póker sessions
Oof. This is really concerning then, because I'm counting a minimum of 12 chips in only three sessions. Not sure how many chips you have in play or for how long, but it's hard to imagine that your failure rate is much different than the calculations I made above. Are you playing on felt? I have to imagine you are if you've invested in Tinas.
My suggestion don’t throw the chips and treat them roughly
Ceramic material are hard but brittle enough to be chipped when hit against hard surfaces/material
Also, do you use a poker table or at least a poker mat when playing? I can foreseen a lot of damages like the one example with the sun mold if they are just played on hard surfaces
I mean, definitely theoretically agree, but in practice there's not much I can do about that. We play a decent speed felt mat on a ping pong table (lol), but I also have interest in making sure that the game is fun, and I use up a lot of my social currency as the host in the sense that I'm by far the most winning player in the game, we play some side games that one or two players aren't always thrilled about, and I have to direct the action/blinds/play the floor man role. My players are not particularily rough with the chips, but they do throw them into the pot and such from about 6-10 inches above the table. I would rather invest in more premium chips than have to ask players not to do that.
Always nice to know the scientific term, thank you!
I bought a TINA hybrid sample barrel 1-2 weeks ago and I shuffle it while at my desk on the mousepad material shown. The edges are showing similar wear to others above. This might be a case of "YMMV" / batch dependent.
We look like we got similair, if not almost exactly the same, samples. Most of these chips are in my sample as well.
Amazing how many have had issues, but this went unspoken for such a long time.
Many thanks to
@JMGill12 for bringing this into the light, and to the others who verified (both with and without damage).
Thank you, I'm kinda surpirsed at the ammount of people who have also had this problem!
When I owned two sets I had one chip that suffered damage but it hit a very hard floor on its edge. I didn’t play them many times before selling them though.
Good to know, thank you! That, to me, is obviously part of the bargain. I don't expect the chips to break every time if they're dropped on a hard floor, but I alos don't expect a chip to never break on a drop like that either.
