Hi there,
http://www.homepokertourney.com/chips.htm gives advice on poker chips.
The chips you refer to are too heavy for my own personal taste (14g). We play with 11,5g chips and I think they are already heavy enough. It can get tough doing fancy chip tricks with chips as heavy as 14g. 9g is generally used in most casinos. The problem here is that, in my opinion, composite chips of 9g appear somewhat cheap since they are not clay or clay composite (that's why I think "dice" or "suited design" composite chips need the extra grams to feel better) - if you have real clay chips, 9g is the ultimate poker chip experience.
I'm not much of a friend to denominations printed on the chips, because you get confused once you need to change the distribution or the denomination. If you stick to the standard colors like white, red, green, black, purple and yellow, everybody will know the denomination at a glance. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
However, that's just my personal opinion. I know there are people out there that prefer 14g - why not! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Personally, I like the "suited design" composite chips, because they are cheap(!), have a nice look, don't have denominations, come in a great variety of colors, are durable and do the job just fine. See here:
http://www.pokersupply.com/carsuitcomcl.html
A lot of players worship Paulson's Clay Poker Chips:
www.pokerchips.com
Their feel and look seems unsurpassed. Yet, telling from what I've heard, Paulsons chip over time, they'll get scrached and marks. That's why I prefer the composite chips because they are not that easily chipped.
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