SLOWPLAY Poker Chip Sample Set | Clay Poker Chips & Ceramic Poker Chips | Numbered Chips, Blank Chips | 50pcs per Pack

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This sample set includes both "clay" style and "ceramic" style chips. My set somehow included 16 39mm clays with 2 spares/duplicates (18 total), 15 39mm ceramics, and 16 43mm ceramics. The sample was exactly as advertised, an inexpensive way to get your hands and eyes on a sample of these chips.The clays feel really good with a nice weight, a noticeable center indent, clean straight edges, great stacking, and a good sound. They are slightly thicker than the two ceramic types. They stack well, slide well, shuffle well, and tapping/hitting on the top of a stack does not cause anything but minimal wobbling.The clay colors are astoundingly awful: the color choices feel (to me) like someone decided "All those bright poker chips are just too bright so let's mute things for an adult feel, and while we're at it, lets change every color around because change is good." All the colors (even, somehow, the white) feel dull and lifeless, probably because of the majority of the chip being a solid flat black.On the clays, the black inlay sticker with gold ink does not stand out well at all, reading denominations takes a moment for middle aged and teenage vision (longer for senior vision), and the non-standardized color set means any player will have to learn chip colors specific to this set to read their own or another player's stack value.There is a manufacturing mark on the clay chips, visible and tactile, along the edge corner, but is insignificant. A moment (<10 seconds) of effort with a fingernail showed permanent marks, but no real damage, on the edge of and around the inlay sticker. A minute of dedicated effort allowed for inlay sticker peeling. I could not bend or break these chips with a minute of significant effort by hand, and dropping from standing height (6') yielded no damage multiple times. I had to literally throw the chip at a concrete floor (with considerable force) for it to break. Normal usage, even an angry player, will not likely damage these chips. Slowplay was nice enough to send a spare 1 and 5 chip in the clays to allow for destructive testing without making me lose a chip of the sample set.The only positive of the clay colors is that there are only three colors that could be mistaken for the others: the white of the '1,' the yellow of the '5', and the halfway between yellow-white of the '10000.' The rest of the colors, while muted, are distinct. Under bright lighting it is not awful but not clean, normal lighting makes it really possible to miss the color on a stack.On the clay style chips, VERY bright lighting will resolve some of the denomination/branding visibility as well as some of the muted color. An LED flashlight at less than 12" made visibility of the markings fairly clean - regular LED room lighting, much less most 'home' poker table rooms, will not have sufficient light to make visibility anything but difficult. The colors still do not pop and are not vibrant under bright light, but are less dull.The ceramics feel amazing. They are a little light for my tastes, but sound great, have perfectly flat edges with a very fine bevel, and exceptionally clean face printing. Quality is good enough that the chips can stand on edge, and they do not roll. The lack of edge printing/coloring/marking is a disappointment. There are manufacturing marks on every chip that are both visual and tactile, and on some chips there are marks that are visual but not tactile.The same color denomination/branding ink on all of the ceramic chip faces make denomination visibility really poor on certain chips (50, 1000, 5000, 10000); moderate on certain chips (1, 10, 25), but clean on the last (5, 100, 500). On almost all of these chips, there is a visible almost pattern bleed on the edges (most notable on the 1/white chip) caused by printing on the edge corner bevel. Edge markings would resolve this, of course.This is both the best and worst set of ceramics I have had my hands on (which is only about 8 sets so far).The color choices for the ceramics is decent - White (1), Red (5), Green (25), Black (100), and Purple (500) are exceptionally vibrant and (by apparent chance) match the 'normal' standard and the gold ink stands out well on these. The Turquoise (10), Yellow (1000), Brown (5000), and Grey (10000) are very dull, and the gold ink is not as clear. The Orange (50) is about halfway between dull and vibrant. There is a dark blue and dark turquoise without denomination that are vibrant as well.The 43mm ceramics are identical to the 39mm ceramics in colors, quality, appearance, and visibility. They are a tiny bit heavier, of course.

Does a wonderful job at giving customers a chance to get a feel for different materials and weights of chip options without having to make a large commitment.

The media could not be loaded. I definitely like the clay ones the most, but the ceramics are nice too and have a nice crisp sound to them. The 43mm are a bit hard to handle and shuffle for me, so I favor the 39mm sizeI wish there was side printing on the ceramic chips however as it might be a little hard to tell how much is in someone's stack.The print on the white chips is hard to see. A deeper gold color on those would help it stand out a little better.I think I'll get myself a set of the 500 clay with values written on themVery beautiful sample set

Picked this up to get a feel for the different size and style of chips offered by Slowplay. It serves it's purpose perfectly as a sampler.

If you play poker you know most chips have a mark on the edge to make it faster to count chips in a stack, the ceramic set lacks that mark. They feel and sound great and i like the casino weight rather than the heavy chips that are so popular, the clay chips feel amazing but they aren't the traditional colors im used to the 5 is a yellow instead of red and 25 is pink, otherwise these chips are fantastic, the insert is a sticker so be aware of that but overall the clay was a pretty solid choice.

These are good chips but just know there is 49 not 50.

Nice product