| For about the price of a beer in your local pub, now you can see and feel
the authentic casino quality of our clay poker chips before you buy. The 2 InPlay Clay
Poker Chip Sample is an extremely cost friendly two-pack of our Inplay Clay
poker chips sent out via First Class Mail (3-5 business days delivery). Shipping
is included in the price!
Two chips are just enough to get the feel of how nicely high-end clay chips
slide across one another with just the right amount of friction, and how they'll
sound when splashing the pot, just like you were in the casino. At this price,
there's no excuse not to give them a test drive. Do yourself a favor and see
how nice high-end home poker chips really are before you settle for an inferior
set of chips.
To allow us to continue offering our samples as these rock bottom prices, the
two chip denominations included are determined solely by our inventory levels.
Sorry, but no specified denomination requests are accommodated.
About the InPlay Clay Poker Chip Line
The InPlay Clay line is the successor to the popular Modern
Clay line, the first great clay poker chip that we designed and built from
the ground up. Our goal with the InPlay Clay line was to go above and beyond
“a great clay poker chip” and create the finest home game poker
chip on the market.
How can you improve a great clay poker chip?
When poker players were telling us they wanted chips, “exactly like the
casinos use”, we took them literally and designed and produced the exact
same chips that casinos order, straight from the manufacturer, with the dust
still on them. That’s what they were screaming for, so that’s what
we gave them.
We could have stopped right there and still have had what is widely considered
the premier clay poker chip on the market today. Of course, we're not really
ones to rest on our laurels.
In our continuing relentless pursuit of a better poker chip, we asked ourselves
if it was possible to make even better chips. So we decided to delve into the
mind of home game poker players and ask them what reservations they had (if
any) about the top clay poker chips on the market. What we found out was a little
surprising. While they loved clay poker chips, there were a number of reservations
that were widely shared. They biggest complaints were as follows:
- The chip edges are too sharp - The most common complaint
we heard was that the clay poker chips people were buying for their home games
had sharper edges then they remember casino chips having. Since casinos use
chips for about seven years on average before destroying them, the average
chip you see in a casino is about 3.5 years old and thus has nicely rounded
edges. In fact, most people have never even seen a brand new casino chip,
so when they were asking for chips “exactly like the casinos use,”
they really were asking for a chip that’s been worn in for 3.5 years.
- The chips are too rough –We heard a lot of people
complaining that the face of the clay chips they were buying for their home
games were overly rough, unlike what they were used to in casinos. This complaint
is related to the issue of the edges being too sharp (people are used to worn
in chips, not new chips right out of the factory), but has a slightly different
root cause. The mold for most clay chips used in casinos is intentionally
made with a rough, textured surface. The exact reasons for this intentionally
textured surface is debatable, even among industry insiders, but the general
consensus is that it makes for better friction between chips which makes them
stay in stacks better. Nonetheless, most casino chips become smooth after
just a few years in play and still stack just fine, and casinos continue to
use them another five or more years. As we found out, home game users far
prefer the feel of the smooth “worn in” chips. The tradeoff in
ability to stack is negligible, if noticeable at all. From what we can tell,
the reason casino chips are intentionally made rough, may be just be based
on unsubstantiated notions, or worse yet, just plain habit.
- Inlay design is severely lacking – A widely held
belief is that casino chip design, namely inlay design, is fairly poor. Not
only for home game poker chips, but for actual casino chips as well. There
is a lot of frustration on the part of home game poker players when it comes
to design.
- Home game mold designs are lacking – Home game poker
players tend to agree that the molds the casinos use are pretty nice. Their
thoughts about the home game poker market mold designs are quite different.
The general consensus seems to be, “Why is it so difficult? Especially
when you’ve got great casino mold designs to model them after?”
The birth of a legend
Knowing exactly what home poker players were dissatisfied with in the currently
available clay poker chip market, our task was simple.
- Give them a clay poker chip that mimics a casino chip that’s been
in play in a casino for about 3.5 years.
- Create a mold design on par with top casino molds.
- Go outside of the currently lacking poker chip design world and get fresh
design inspiration from other industries where design is considered outstanding.
The resulting effort created a rather innovative leap forward in clay poker
chips, in terms of both design and the all important touch and feel component.
Our InPlay Clay line utilizes our throwback Cigar & Snifter mold, what
some insiders in the poker chip industry consider the finest mold ever produced.
The engraving design features an intricate cigar and snifter design, repeated
8 times around the track of the chip. Two concentric circles frame this repeating
design, one inside and one outside.
The innovation that really sets the InPlay Clay line apart from every poker
chip in the world is the innovative (and intentional) smooth feel of the track
and edge of the chip combined with the popular textured, cross-hatched inlay
surface. Unlike all other clay chips in the world, which come out of the factory
with a rough surface, the InPlay Clay chip has an unmistakable smooth feel.
It feels just like a chip that has been in use in a casino for 3-5 years, exactly
what home users have been screaming about for years.
Lastly, our idea to bring good design to the poker chip market is a very simple
and straightforward idea. If the industry is plagued with bad design, then go
outside of the industry for your talent. Give that talent full autonomy to design
a poker chip as if it were the first chip ever designed, and intended to establish
a benchmark for all future designs. Have them borrow from award winning designs
in other design disciplines, as well as completely unrelated industries that
are known for great design. Our InPlay Clay line very successfully took this
approach and borrowed from proven international currency design. |
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