[smitty007]

I was entertaining the idea of get a big set of "cheap" chips for big tournaments. I have a set of paulson's, but need more chips for a bigger tourney and was hoping to go with something cheap, but that people would still enjoy playing with (not the bee plastic chips!) I was wondering what chiptalkers thought about the premium clay chips, faux clay chips, and 10g 6-stripe sopranos. Which one do you feel is a better "cheap" chip? Thanks for any thoughts

[Strange]

Originally Posted by smitty007

I was entertaining the idea of get a big set of "cheap" chips for big tournaments. I have a set of paulson's, but need more chips for a bigger tourney and was hoping to go with something cheap, but that people would still enjoy playing with (not the bee plastic chips!) I was wondering what chiptalkers thought about the premium clay chips, faux clay chips, and 10g 6-stripe sopranos. Which one do you feel is a better "cheap" chip? Thanks for any thoughts

Oh god....

Here come the FCN

You;ll shortly hear from about 25 people who will tell you that there is only one good 'cheap' chip: the faux clay.

[checkm8r]

Faux Clays will work, of course. If willing to bump up a little more in cost, I'd go with the 10-gram Sopranos. But make sure they're the 10g versions.

[BigKyle]

Faux clays are great. NexGens are okay but I don't think they're nearly as good as faux clays. Hotstamped super diamonds are okay, too.

Out of those three, as well as Soprano 10g, I like the faux clays the best. If you have to have security with your chips, get stamped super diamonds.

[panthershutch15]

I'm with BigKyle.

Faux clays are the best of the cheap chip bunch.

I would go with those, but if you need security go with hotstamped super diamonds.

(Wow, my post is basically re-writing BigKyle's, oh well)

[jojobinks]

sopranos are nice enough.

that said, they aren't as good as the faux.

premium clay? they sound awesome!!!!!!!! which plastic chip are we talking about there?

[smitty007]

These are the "Las Vegas Real Clay 9g" chips that I was referring to.

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by smitty007

These are the "Las Vegas Real Clay 9g" chips that I was referring to.

they're pretty nice for cheapies. unslugged. a little slippery. cheesy. but i've played with them a bunch and they're in the top 5 cheap sets easily. they're more like BJ's than clays, though.

[Mike Sears]

Faux Clay sound the best and they are probably the cheapest. I heard that it may be hard to get hotstamping. If you need cheap chips that can be hotstamped Super Diamond's are good and they have plenty of colors to choose from. Unfortunately they don't have as good a sound and feel as the Faux Clay.

I think the new rage might be hotstamped blank clay chips but that might run you fifty to sixty cents each.

[smitty007]

The chips I posted a picture of above can be bought blank, so I guess you could put your own stamp on them.