Are desert heat chips decent? (1 Viewer)

[HenryBowman47]

I have an opportunity to buy a 1000 chip set of desert heat chips off Facebook marketplace for 160$ is that pretty fair? Are they decent quality chips?

 

[Bacon Dad]

Are the edges smooth? When I bought my first set of cheap plastic chips, I was careful to avoid chips that had flashing(?) leftover from the manufacturing process. See the first two pics.

I opted for these smooth Monte Carlos. They are cheap plastic chips with metal slugs in the middle. But they fit my budget at the time. These cheap chips will never be what you call a “quality” chip. But they work fine and I still use them on occasion today.

I got my chips from ThePokerStore.com.
https://www.thepokerstore.com/collections/monte-carlo-smooth-14-gram-poker-chips

Don’t stop asking questions. There are a lot of good people on this forum that knows a ton of useless information about poker and poker chips, and I can’t stop reading about it in the threads.
Good Luck.
And welcome to PCF.

 

[MrBoosh]

Monte Carlo's are going to have much smoother edges for a budget chip. I think the desert heat chips are going to be very similar to @Bacon Dad's top two pictures with the flashing on the edges. Also what is the denomination breakdown of the set from marketplace? Some cheaper sets will have poor breakdowns with denominations that are not very functional.

 

[Beakertwang]

Are these it?

OK breakdown for tourneys. too many 10,000's. Could use more 100's, which should be easy to find. Not a horrible price if the racks are included. I'd take a stab at $100. Worse they can do is say no.

Some of the inexpensive plastics can be ok. Sometimes they're too slippery for my liking sometimes the edges are too rough. I've never handled the Desert Heats, but I think they're ok.

 

[Bacon Dad]

Denomination are important.
But you should know if you are buying chips for a cash game or a tournament game?

 

[Beakertwang]

And asking a forum full of chip snobs about inexpensive slugged chips isn't a fair assessment. Most normal people would be impressed with them.

 

[Bacon Dad]

And asking a forum full of chip snobs about inexpensive slugged chips isn't a fair assessment. Most normal people would be impressed with them.

Very true. But I wonder how many of us actually started with Paulsons versus the cheap sluggos and plastic dice chips. I think a lot of us have some type of experience with the cheaper chips.

IMOH, the majority of players either don’t care or don’t notice if they are playing with a chip that costs $0.33/chip or $6.00/chip. Their sites are on the next card.

Check out the search function. Tons of good info.
Read this.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/milano-comparison-w-desert-heat.89130/post-1829439

 

[Beakertwang]

Very true. But I wonder how many of us actually started with Paulsons versus the cheap sluggos and plastic dice chips. I think a lot of us have some type of experience with the cheaper chips.

IMOH, the majority of players either don’t care or don’t notice if they are playing with a chip that costs $0.33/chip or $6.00/chip. Their sites are on the next card.

Check out the search function. Tons of good info.
Read this.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/milano-comparison-w-desert-heat.89130/post-1829439

Most normal people will feel like these chips will make the game legit. Some would prefer them to old worn Paulsons.

 

[TheJack]

If you like design and denoms are ok, sandpaper and some oil will fix the problem.

 

[Timmah]

Very true. But I wonder how many of us actually started with Paulsons versus the cheap sluggos and plastic dice chips. I think a lot of us have some type of experience with the cheaper chips.

My first set was a 2000 chips plastic with metal slug set. It worked at the time. I recently got rid of them and bought a 1700 chip ceramic set from BR Poker. Eventually I would like to put together a nice thc set. Until then, I’ll enjoy my new chips.

 

[HenryBowman47]

Are these it?

View attachment 1208758OK breakdown for tourneys. too many 10,000's. Could use more 100's, which should be easy to find. Not a horrible price if the racks are included. I'd take a stab at $100. Worse they can do is say no.

Some of the inexpensive plastics can be ok. Sometimes they're too slippery for my liking sometimes the edges are too rough. I've never handled the Desert Heats, but I think they're ok.

Yep that it! His description says tournament chips but when I messaged he said he sold those and he has cash chips left. Here are the breakdown

 

[HenryBowman47]

Very true. But I wonder how many of us actually started with Paulsons versus the cheap sluggos and plastic dice chips. I think a lot of us have some type of experience with the cheaper chips.

IMOH, the majority of players either don’t care or don’t notice if they are playing with a chip that costs $0.33/chip or $6.00/chip. Their sites are on the next card.

Check out the search function. Tons of good info.
Read this.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/milano-comparison-w-desert-heat.89130/post-1829439

Yeah I’m just looking for a good set to have a home game with. I’m more looking for denominations than exquisite quality. Just wanted to see if anyone knew anything about theese specifically. I have a 1k chip set without any labels so it gets confusing sometimes remembering what is what. Especially at night since I play on my back porch. Gets hard to tell the dark blue chip apart from the black lol

 

[4SUMERZ]

I have an opportunity to buy a 1000 chip set of desert heat chips off Facebook marketplace for 160$ is that pretty fair? Are they decent quality chips?

I had a set of 400 Cash Club chips made with the same material and they were a good chip. The material is a clay composite. I used them for a few years at my home game, until I found this site and took a turn down the rabbit hole. They are sold per 25 pack for $4.50, so the person that bought these would have paid $200.00 shipped or so for them. Many places sell these, so if you dont need 1000 chips, it may be best to buy new ones.
I sold my 400 chips on Marketplace for $50.00

 

[ChippinUp]

I think the cash club, Milano or Monte Carlo’s are all good options for a first set. There are some reviews for the desert heats also.

Like many things they are a gateway chip. BEWARE

 

[bernielomax]

I would check these out before going with an over the counter set. Looks like the samples have had solid reviews from even more veteran PCF members.

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/greek-samples.110566/page-3

 

[BGinGA]

The material is a clay composite injection-molded plastic.

^ FYP. There's about as much clay in those chips as you have in your ear.

 

[Beakertwang]

Yep that it! His description says tournament chips but when I messaged he said he sold those and he has cash chips left. Here are the breakdown

That seems like an ok breakdown for a .25/.50 to 1/1 game, except the $10 chips are unnecessary, and I'd prefer more $5's.

Weird that the ad shows the tourney set, but he's selling a cash set. Proceed with caution, I guess?

 

[4SUMERZ]

^ FYP. There's about as much clay in those chips as you have in your ear.

I was thinking these were similar to the cash club chips I had. They were definitely clay composite as they were soft to the touch, and if one ran a nail on the surface, it would scratch it. They were advertised as such.
My apologies for leading the OP astray

 

[4SUMERZ]

The OP may be better off trying a group buy on this site. They can be had for a reasonable price.

 

[Beakertwang]

I was thinking these were similar to the cash club chips I had. They were definitely clay composite as they were soft to the touch, and if one ran a nail on the surface, it would scratch it. They were advertised as such.
My apologies for leading the OP astray

Those are also injected molded plastic. They're identical to the Desert Heat set, but with different stickers. "Clay composite" is a marketing phrase. Plastic can be scratched. And some of the slugged plastics have a softer feel than others.

 

[BGinGA]

Those are also injected molded plastic. They're identical to the Desert Heat set, but with different stickers. "Clay composite" is a marketing phrase. Plastic can be scratched. And some of the slugged plastics have a softer feel than others.

Yep. No such thing as 'clay composite', unless you want to consider china clays and compression-molded clays in that category.

But everything marketed as such is just plastic, with zero clay content.