[Nanook]

Originally Posted by Tatdave

With all the time I've been scrubbing, I've been thinking about how it's work to do this. Then I think about how much I actually get paid for working, and despite not making much, it's definately made these over priced for me. Oh well, live and learn. Not hurting as much from this as I've been over my pocket aces losing to someone who was UTG and raising me twice with J7o and then the flop comes Q77.

This is funny. I think that about the only way you can justify it is if you really love chips. Lets just say you are a working joe making $15/hour, I would estimate 2 min per chip to clean and 1 min per chip to oil it up and make it look really nice. That is only 20 chips /hour. That is 75¢/chip for crying out loud!

If you are making really good money, say 100k/yr or more, every time your chips get dirty, you might as well just throw them out (or send them to me free) and buy new ones. lol

AB

[Devilboy]

This is exactly why I STILL don't have a nice set of chips. I want clay chips, and I got samples of Pharaos and InPlay and others. The Pharaos certainly looks and feels like the best chip, but my sample (7 chips) gets so dirty after just an hour of handling that I decided not to buy them.

The InPlay chips are much better - they are harder and therefore do not rub off against each other. Unfortunately their inlays are horrible, so they're out of the running too.

I hear rumors that Blue Chip fixed their warped inlay problem and so I'm waiting for their new Samurai Palace chips to become available.

I've spent $200 on chip samples so far...

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by Devilboy

This is exactly why I STILL don't have a nice set of chips. I want clay chips, and I got samples of Pharaos and InPlay and others. The Pharaos certainly looks and feels like the best chip, but my sample (7 chips) gets so dirty after just an hour of handling that I decided not to buy them.

The InPlay chips are much better - they are harder and therefore do not rub off against each other. Unfortunately their inlays are horrible, so they're out of the running too.

I hear rumors that Blue Chip fixed their warped inlay problem and so I'm waiting for their new Samurai Palace chips to become available.

I've spent $200 on chip samples so far...

samples get dirtier than chips from a set.
reasons why:
1) each chip gets handled less
2) chips tend to be shuffled handled with chips of the same color in a set, unlike samples.

i was with you a year ago. here's a pic of my white JB sample that i posted back in february:


flash to today. i've had my pharaoh's since august. i shuffle a stack of them nearly whenever i play online (nearly every day). they've been in play for 30 hours or more in the home game. they're all broken in pretty well, but i have nothing 1/10th as dirty as what you see in that pic...

[Devilboy]

My InPlay sample set had JUST as much action as my Pharaos samples - and they are still spotless. The Pharaos rub off against each other, and you can literally draw with them like crayons. That's too soft. The InPlays don't do that at all. They're also slicker and therefore don't catch as much dirt from hands.

The Pharaos are still at the top of my list, and if the Samurai Palace chips still have the warped inlay problem, I'm getting the Paulsons. They're sexier than any casino chip I've ever played with.

[warewulf]

Use an electric toothbrush!

[99%evil]

If you've got young'ens, you may have some baby wipes. These have a mild soap in them and they clean chips great, you get a bunch for like $5 and you can clean 10 chips with one wipe. I cleaned up some recently purchased obsolete casino chips with them, they work slick.

[Brewster]

I've heard Oxyclean and an electric toothbrush is the way to go. Just have to get some Paulsons and try this out for myself.