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Has anyone had trouble with chipping ceramic poker chips during normal poker play? If so what brand are they? I know concrete is bad for them, but what about vinal floors?
Thanks Matt
Never had a problem with Chipcos. They have been dropped on vinyl flooring over concrete more than once and no chipping so far. The only chipped one I've had was one that I received new that way.
When I first got my NJ skulls I had someone knock over a stack and 5 of them fell on a ceramic tile floor and the edges of them chipped. I was quite bummed and actually started a thread about it to see if it was common and I got mixed reviews. They are supposed to be hard to chip. It has not happened since.
All ceramic chips are pretty hard to chip. You basically have to drop them hard on a hard surface and they have to land with the edge first.
Some players like to throw the chips four feet up in the air, splashing the pot, and when doing so ceramic chips can chip. But during normal play, this is not something you need to be concerned about in my experience.
When landing with the flat side first, ceramic chips can take alot of abuse, atleast ours. Here's a video of me throwing one of our 2006 WSOP replicas hard into a marble windowsill over and over. It didn't matter how many times or how hard I threw it - it refused to break:
Under normal and even extreme use at the table, ceramics will hold up better than anything out there save fauxs or super diamonds. But who wants that junk.
My grandson threw a NJ ceramic from two floors down unto a ceramic tile floor and no damage was done to it. He was 1 1/2 years old, it was the game of dropping something to have grandpa pick it.
I have custom ceramics and 4 are chipped on the edge from people splashing the pot( and not from 4 feet either)..I have very thick carpet so hitting the floor is no problem..But I am getting a set of the China clay dunes to use since my ceramics were expensive....they have since changed the blanks they use so the edges arn't so sharp and easy to chip...
I would rather not say who the seller was as I got extremly good customer service from them..
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