- Clay Chips
Clay Poker Chips
Clay poker chips are the most popular choice of chip when playing poker. They have distinct sound and feel to them. This gives you an overall better playing experience. Once you play with clay chips, you won't want to play with anything else.
Clay poker chips range in weights from 8 to 15 grams. The highest quality clay chips are the Claysmith Poker Chips, they are casino quality.
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Clay chips are not slippery like composite poker chips, which makes them stack better. The chips with graphics have a label inlay on them. These label inlays are recessed into the face of the chip, unlike ceramic poker chips, which the graphics are part of the chip.
All clay poker chips have some percentage of composite materials in them. The composite materials give the chip strength. A 100% pure clay poker chip would be extremely brittle and easy to break. Even our casino grade poker chips which have a higher percentage of clay can be broken in half if you try to break them.
Generally, the more expensive a clay poker chip costs, the higher the percentage of clay it is made with. It is more complex to manufacturer chips with a higher clay content.
Weight has nothing to do with quality. Our highest quality chips are the 10 gram Chips. The weight of a chip is is purely personal prefence. Our most popular chips are the heavier 14 gram clay chips.
All clay chips that weigh more than 11.5 grams have a metal insert in them to give them their weight. The larger the weight the heavier the chip.
All of our clay chips are either 39mm or 40mm in diameter. The thickness of most of the chips are the same too.
