Poker Chips in Movies – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2 Viewers)

[bluesman250]

I always cringe when I see a movie with people gambling in a "casino" or a high-stakes home game using dice chips. Absolutely ruins it for me. But then you've got movies where they make an effort to use quality chips. Beyond the obvious ones (Rounders / ASM, License to Kill / CDI 1998), what are the movies that feature quality chips? On the other hand, what are the really good poker movies that use terrible chips?

I'll start: I was flipping channels the other night and happened to see a casino scene from Mafia! (a terrible movie from 1998) with tons of the Paulson CDI 98 chips. In another scene it looks like they have the Generals Series, Native American Series, etc. I didn't see the dogs, but I bet there in there somewhere. I guess they just raided the Paulson store.

 

[Tommy]

Wonder if they are sitting in some props storage room now.

 

[andy699669]

How about 'Casino Royale'?

 

[JustinInMN]

Cincinnati Kid, "Straight Cash"

 

[PhilLaFond]

If recollection serves, 21 used decent chips, at least in some of their scenes...

 

[BPTDirector]

Aren't the Rounders chips ASM Roman mold??

 

[crussader]

I like these from Maverick:

Don't know what they are, but seems like they specifically made these for the movie and didn't just grab something off the prop room shelf.

 

[JustinInMN]

I think Maverick should've drawn the 9 of spades.

 

[Coyote]

Can anybody make an educated guess at what the chips could have been in the poker scenes of the "Havana" movie? (starring Robert Redford and Lena Olin)

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ro...p=1&cbstore=1&vd=0&lb=&fi=2&edrf=&ispremium=1

 

[BGinGA]

I'd guess plastic, just based on the brightness of the orange chips plus that they all share the same white spot pattern.

 

[Coyote]

I'd guess plastic, just based on the brightness of the orange chips plus that they all share the same white spot pattern.

I 've been fearing that for years but couldn't face the truth
Confirmed now.

 

[upNdown]

I recently saw 21 for the first time (though it's ten years old) and saw lots of good chips in there - I think they used some real casino chips, though not sure if they were live, and I distinctly remember seeing some Paulson fantasy chips at one point. The definitely didn't cheap out on the chips for that movie.


And of course the recent The House movie used those Wynn charity chips
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/wynn-charity-chips-in-movie-trailer.20523/

 

[bluesman250]

Aren't the Rounders chips ASM Roman mold??

That’s right...ASM not TRK. OP edited.

 

[duffman]

In California Split you can see some nice TRK's in the opening scene. Also some cool shots inside the Mapes Hotel toward the end of this clip.

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/california-split.27375/

Also some re-labeled Kings Crown TRK's in the movie Honeymoon in Vegas. Pause at 1:19 for a nice shot.

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/honeymoon-in-vegas-trks.27140/#post-505343

 

[Gameface]

"Boiler Room" uses ASM chips on the Roman mold.

 

[Ellasdaddy]

Looked like ceramics on the tables during the Hong Kong Casino fight scene in Black Panther. Chaos erupted too quickly to get any good look at them though.

 

[justsomedude]

The Hangover blackjack scene...

Anyone know what these are?

 

[gmunny]

The Hangover blackjack scene...

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Anyone know what these are?

They look like stickered plastic Langworthy chips. Similar to those used in Casino.

 

[thegreek]

these are cool

 

[Kensco]

"The Hit List" with Jeff Fahey, Yancy Butler and James Coburn. Early '90s, I think. Watched it on Amazon Prime this past weekend and was surprised to see this a little more than half way through:

It was just a quick scene in a dive bar.

 

[detroitdad]

5 spotted scrown chips of which I happen to own 600 of

 

[markleteenie]

Donnie Brasco!! Apologies for the bad camera photos, but you can clearly see some recognizable chips.

 

[yone]

Can’t get a good picture, but I think Rain Man was shot in Ceasars palace. It looked like their house mold.

 

[ATLarchip]

Fellas.. fellas... ... All reds...

No idea on the chips.
Just one of my favorite scenes (among many) from Ocean’s 11.

 

[BiGGyT]

Hard Eight, craps scene - CDI 98

of course, the real CDI chips in License to Kill

Bette Midler in Jinxed!

 

[k9dr]

My Double Down Saloon chips were used in the low budget film Element starring Michael Ironside. The filming took place in Dallas back in 2014.

 

[Willy Gee]

The poker is LOL stupid, but for some reason, I love the poker scene from the Sting and those chips.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/poker-chips-from-the-movie-the-sting.6628/

 

[CherryTree]

Daaaamn, the CDI '98 chips are everywhere!

 

[Jon Udell]

A few months ago at a poker reunion down in the Florida Keys a friend that worked with the prop master from Rounders gave me quite a nice gift. This 500 chip came from Teddy KGB's rack. The prop master whose name escapes me at the moment had a few left from the film. Both of us combined have worked in the movie biz for nearly 50 years and on occasion you get some cool stuff. I ended up giving my friend his first rack of Paulson chips that weekend and he soon thereafter joined the forum. His bank account is a lot lower. I warned him.

 

[WedgeRock]

I didn't recall Teddy have $500's in his stack... I remembered it as all hundos.... Had to rewatch the scene to confirm.

That's super cool.