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Official WPT 11.5g Chips
Purchased from: Actually won them off the Texas Hold 'Em scratch ticket
Price Paid: 300 for $10 (see above)

I'm not going to lie, when I first got these chips I thought they were the greatest things ever, especially since they were nearly free. I won them as well as a folding poker table off the first $10 Texas Hold 'Em scratch ticket I ever bought. I ended up selling them to a friend. He still thinks they're great, but this site convinced me otherwise
The design on these chips was very nice in the eyes of someone who had at that point only seen or played with dice chips and plastic Bicycle chips. Today I still appreciate the elegance of the design, especially on the Bellagio set of these chips. I've never played in a home game where I felt I needed stacks larger than 20, and these were certainly adequate stackers to make it that high. I can imagine that they wouldn't be very good at stacking much higher, though. I know I wouldn't pay $120 for a set of 300 of these now, and I'm not sure I would have a year or so ago either when I won my set. To summarize:

Pros:
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• Just like the dice chips, they really are pretty good for the price. A smooth design, pleasant sound, adequate stacking ability.
• If you lose any of these or damage them, they are extremely easy to replace.
• If you have a set of nice chips that you don't like to break out for impromptu games, you can use these to avoid harm to your expensive chips.

Cons:

• They aren't very stable in large stacks
• Not available with printed denominations
• Not at all secure unless you go with the all around more appealing Bellagio set

Still, to someone without extensive experience with nice chips, these aren't a bad choice for the price.