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Dan Luu @danluu@mastodon.social

12/23/2025, 5:19:49 AM

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Useless information about poker chips:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/146484203

I don't really play poker, but I did some reading about the poker chip scene recently and thought it was fairly interesting. The poker chip scene is mostly made of poker players, but some board gamers are also into poker chips. For board gamers, people who play "18xx" games say that using poker chips (instead of the standard paper money that's included with the game) will speed up a 3 hour game by about half an hour because physically looking at and handling poker chips is so much more efficient than doing the same with paper money. More on that later.

For now, let's start by looking at some of ways people have ordered poker chips from the most sought after manufacturer, including making fake casinos (the manufacturer only accepts orders from casinos and won't take orders from private parties, unless defrauded) and how much lead is in poker chips (some of the older, most sought after, chips are roughly 50% lead by weight, exact amount varies by the mix of colors).

On the fake casino bit, the most sought after poker chips by poker playing American poker chip aficionados are overwhelmingly Paulson chips. European and Asian poker chip nerds may have different preferences, and a lot of board gamers definitely have different preferences. Some board gamers have made benchmarks to measure objective* qualities one might want in a poker chip and they generally find that Paulson chips are mediocre (among high-end poker c...

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