Tile floors (1 Viewer)

[feltschmerz]

The table whereupon my home games would take place is in a room with tile flooring. I've only ever dropped casino chips onto carpeted casino floors, so I don't know for sure, but it seems like this might be something I need to worry about.

What are people's experiences with the resistance to drop damage that each chip material type provides?

 

[Phish1321]

What kind of table do you have? If it has a rail chips should never be hitting the floor.

 

[DoubleEagle]

The table whereupon my home games would take place is in a room with tile flooring. I've only ever dropped casino chips onto carpeted casino floors, so I don't know for sure, but it seems like this might be something I need to worry about.

What are people's experiences with the resistance to drop damage that each chip material type provides?

We play our tournaments in a shop with a concrete floor. Never been a problem with with ceramics, ASM/CPC or Paulsons. We even had a table collapse once because someone forgot to lock the legs. No damage.

Trying to reconstruct chip stacks after the table collapse is another story, lol.

 

[MatthewTreeTree]

Make sure your seats/table doesn't have any rocking in them. Carpet helps a lot with that!

If people dropped cards when shuffling aka they're bad at shuffling..inspect the deck after anyone picks the cards up or just pull out another deck and give a warning - you don't want marked cards obviously, or bent up

The best part about it is when people spill stuff or insist to keep their shoes on

We play on tile floors

 

[feltschmerz]

What kind of table do you have? If it has a rail chips should never be hitting the floor.

It is a dining room table. I'm just at the beginning stages of feeding the compulsion, and I'm pretty sure buying a dedicated poker table is a later stage of the affliction.

 

[MatthewTreeTree]

It is a dining room table. I'm just at the beginning stages of feeding the compulsion, and I'm pretty sure buying a dedicated poker table is a later stage of the affliction.

Oh bro, yeah, just make sure you're not playing with marked cards and have fun!

The poker table will come...
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/barrington-poker-table-thread.30910/

 

[Seeking Alpha Social Club]

@feltschmerz , Not something I would lose sleep over. I had tile in my old basement and we played weekly, drunk as crap most of the time, for 10 years without incident. I even had the great idea to stack my BCC Samurais 440 chips high with no protection from the floor.

Spoiler: Grand Finale!

 

[feltschmerz]

Man, I wish I had been around for the Samurai sets. Best damned looking chips I've seen.

 

[PARADOX]

It is a dining room table. I'm just at the beginning stages of feeding the compulsion, and I'm pretty sure buying a dedicated poker table is a later stage of the affliction.

Still time to leave before the bug really takes hold!

J/K Enjoy the ride of seeing your space evolve and take photos!

 

[Seeking Alpha Social Club]

Man, I wish I had been around for the Samurai sets. Best damned looking chips I've seen.

They were one of the most under appreciated chip for a long time, but I others have discovered their awesomeness. There are variances in the color of $1s, but most of the sets that sold recently didn't have that problem

 

[DoubleEagle]

So many classic sets from the Blue Wall days.

 

[Phish1321]

It is a dining room table. I'm just at the beginning stages of feeding the compulsion, and I'm pretty sure buying a dedicated poker table is a later stage of the affliction.

Gotcha

 

[allforcharity]

I think some of the older stock China Clay/CHIMP style chips did not do well when falling on a hard surface from table height. Some formulae did not age well and became very brittle.

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

I'm pretty sure, I saw a sales ad by ... @WhiteMamba1646 (?) where he had around 3 chips with giant single fleebites because he dropped the rack on a concrete floor when taking pictures for the sales ad.

So I wouldn't say there is no danger for the chips whatsoever.

 

[Coyote]

Tile floors imitating wooden teak floors are majestic, durable and easy to clean.

CPCs can survive the impact, falling from a table. Tested.
Not sure about Paulsons. Probably not the case.
If the floor is hard, buy CPCs.

 

[WhiteMamba1646]

I'm pretty sure, I saw a sales ad by ... @WhiteMamba1646 (?) where he had around 3 chips with giant single fleebites because he dropped the rack on a concrete floor when taking pictures for the sales ad.

So I wouldn't say there is no danger for the chips whatsoever.

definitely not me

 

[philhut]

I would recommend buying a cheap area carpet to place under the table/chairs of players during games to save your tiles from the wear of glasses, etc... being dropped that could chip/crack the tiles. I wouldn't be too worried about the chips they are all just some variant of plastic.

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

definitely not me

Ah well, someone else then. Mea culpa.