Search advice for Desert Palms "pure clay" (1 Viewer)

[Kiba]

Hi everyone,
me and my friends like to play small cash games from time to time. A few years ago I tried to up our game by switching from dice chips to Desert Pals "pure clay". First we started with tournaments and I got a pre made 500 chip case. After getting into cash game I was lucky to find 200 1$ chips in France (we are living in Germany). Since the Breakdown of the case is not optimal (200/200/150/100/50), I want to get some more chips to enable tournaments of up to 20 persons and some more 5$ chips for cash game. This is what i am aming for after doing some research in this forum: 100/300/160/160/80/140/60 (for a 1/2$ 10 person cash game and 10k tournaments). It turned out that these chips are not around anymore and therefore very hard to find. Do you have any helpful advice for me?
Cheers, Kiba

 

[allforcharity]

Really, not around? Even on eBay?

 

[Kiba]

Unfortunately not in europe.

 

[ovo]

try finding some desert palms china clay, which are a step up in quality, they handle much better and you will never look back at pure clay

 

[Kiba]

I just bought a sample Set of Dia de los Muertos. They look very nice too. Maybe I will switch to ceramics ^^

 

[Kiba]

The Dia de los Muertos samples look and feel awesome! I am still not sure to get rid of my pure clays. Is there an online store in the states or somewhere in Europe that could still have some Desert Palms pure clay?

 

[allforcharity]

The Dia de los Muertos samples look and feel awesome! I am still not sure to get rid of my pure clays. Is there an online store in the states or somewhere in Europe that could still have some Desert Palms pure clay?

Desert Palms are not pure clay. They are actually not any clay. They are injection molded plastics.

 

[Kiba]

It is true, they are composite chips and were sold by the company uder the name "pure clay". I just use this name, so they are not confused with the BCC variant.

 

[BGinGA]

All of the Desert Palms chips -- china clays, injection-molded plastics, and the BCC real clay versions -- were brought to market by Jim S. of TheChipRoom. None are still being produced, but they do show up for sale occasionally in the PCF classifieds.

You might try contacting Jim, he's a PCF Vendor. @TheChipRoom

There are/were a few other similar chip lines to the plastic version made, using the same colors/spots on various theme-based molds -- you might be able to use some of those with custom labels to expand your set.

 

[feltschmerz]

So the BCC versions aren't so-called "China Clay"?

 

[Kiba]

Thank you so much! I will keep my eyes open if something is offered here and will try to get in contact with TheChipRoom.

 

[CrazyEddie]

So the BCC versions aren't so-called "China Clay"?

That's correct! BCC made real clay chips - chips made via compression-molding, similar to the types of chips most commonly used in casinos (in fact, some of BCC's customers were casinos).

The Blue Chip Company (BCC) was started by the Endy Brothers, who were the same people that started Paulson. They sold their company and then started a new one not long afterwards.