Question of the Day - 26 July 2019

Plenty of chip manufacturers offer custom poker-chip sets. 

Apache Poker Chips is just one of many, but representative of what you'll find out there in chip land. 

You can buy 1,000 casino-quality clay chips, customized with your name and city, and even a logo, for $899; for faster service, select from one of Apache's existing designs.  

Five hundred custom chips will cost you $490, 300 custom chips for $240, and 300 blank chips for 32 cents apiece.

Though most chip companies sell ceramic and composite chips, look for Milano clay chips, which weigh 10 grams each, same as in the casinos.

For local chips, the Gambler's General Store sells chips manufactured by Nevada Gaming Chip (formerly headquartered at at the store). They make chips for the Mob Museum, Las Vegas' Mayor Goodman, and  casinos around the world, at their facility at 1916 E. Charleston Boulevard. From our understanding, it's the only chip company in the world that prints ultra-high-resolution chip inlays (1,600 x 1,600 DPI). They also use high quality and durable paper and laminate coating on the market. In fact, their chips are even heavier than Milanos, at 11.5 grams, and will customize. Prices start at 79¢ per chip for a minimum of 100 and go down to 65¢ for orders over 2,000. Call 702-305-4002 or email at [email protected]. 

Also in Las Vegas, Spinnetti's Gaming Supply (810 Commerce Street) has a large selection of poker chips, jetons, and plaques starting at eight grams and going higher. They come with or without denominations and you can buy stock or custom chips. Their prices for 11.5-gram chips start at eight cents apiece.

PokerChipMania.com sells non-custom Milano chips in 12 different denominations (25 cents to $10,000) in sets of 25 for $7.50. It also sells all kinds of carriers, cases, carousels, trays, and tubes to keep them all organized; eight different brands of playing cards; and poker tables if you really want to simulate casino conditions.

And again, plenty of suppliers out there will sell to you; our Google search came up with eight million results, including pokerchips.com, custommadecasino.com, casinologoit.com, chiplab.com, the pokerdepot.com, makeplayingcards.com, and of course etsy.com, all on the first search page.