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Posted: Tue, 01 Feb 2005, 1:42am Post subject: The Weight of Poker Chips
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During the last year, I started keeping a $1 chip from every casino and poker room I had played in. I now have 22, from across the country, cluttering my shelves.
The funny thing is, I weighed each chip when I brought them home placing them on my hi-tech, Ohaus scientific triple beam scale. Please, before you say, "What kind of a wierdo brings Poker Chips home...and weighs them?!!", I recently produced an instructional DVD on performing poker chip tricks and flourishes and part of my research was determining the best weight for doing such table acrobatics. 11.5 grams was the winner. The heaviest weighted chip I tried was 13.5 grams which seemed, well...a little heavy. I also found that I need at least 8 grams of weight to perform the shuffles, flips, twirls, and rolls with the profiency I'm accustomed to.
Here's the surpise of this story...only one of the 22 casino and poker room chips weighed, reached the weight of 11.5 grams. All were "clay" or more likely acrylic composite chips. The only chip that met the 11.5 gram so called "Standard Professional Casino Grade" weight as claimed on the internet was found at a harness racing track in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Yes, I only had one chip from each casino and it might not be representative of the average chip of that casino, but it probably is. All the chips I weighed were of average looking quality for that particular establishment, with no defects. With that said, below are some interesting statistics.
Weight of a cheap plastic chip: 1.5 grams
Weight of an inexpensive "clay" acrylic composite chip: 8 grams
The following weights are of $1 denomination Poker Chips taken out of play from corresponding casino/poker rooms during 2004.
LAS VEGAS:
Circus Circus 10.7 grams
Sahara 9.3
The Mirage 8.9
Plaza 9.3
Bellagio 9.2
ATLANTIC CITY:
Borgata 11.1
Trump Taj Mahal 10.9
Sands 9.8
Tropicana 9.8
Bally's 9.7
FLORIDA:
Seminole Hard Rock Casino, Hollywood 10.7
Seminole Indian Casino, Coconut Creek 10.4
Seminole Indian Casino, Hollywood 10.5
Miccosukee Gaming, Miami 10.6
St. Tropez Cruise Ship, Port Everglades 10.4
Calder Race Course, Miami 10.8
Pompano Park, Pompano Beach 12.1
Hollywood Greyhound Track, Hollywood 10.5
Miami Jai-alai, Miami 10.0
Dania Jai-alai, Dania 10.0
Palm Beach Kennel Club 10.8
CONNECTICUT:
Foxwoods 9.2
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Posted: Tue, 01 Feb 2005, 1:54am Post subject:
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LAME HUMOR THAT MAKES FISH LAUGH
Joined: 28 Sep 2004
Posts: 8077
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Location: This room is a good place to be
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Remove the last line of that post and I won't eat your children.
And your means to have children. (your lady friend... not the other thing. That's what BigRed is for.)
-'rilla |
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Posted: Tue, 01 Feb 2005, 2:18am Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
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Location: Nest of Douchebags
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Posted: Tue, 01 Feb 2005, 4:16pm Post subject:
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Flush
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interesting staticstics.
this place actualy has video on line... as opposed to that other (apparently misnamed) link.
http://pokerchiptricks.com/
also, there dosn't seem to be a 'buy now' link anywhere on poker chip tricks, so it seems a whole lot less like an advertisement, and more like a real website. |
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Posted: Tue, 01 Feb 2005, 5:52pm Post subject:
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LAME HUMOR THAT MAKES FISH LAUGH
Joined: 28 Sep 2004
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Location: This room is a good place to be
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| whileone wrote: | interesting staticstics.
this place actualy has video on line... as opposed to that other (apparently misnamed) link.
http://pokerchiptricks.com/
also, there dosn't seem to be a 'buy now' link anywhere on poker chip tricks, so it seems a whole lot less like an advertisement, and more like a real website. |
He's just whoring around for some hits on his website. That's why he made the exact same post elsewhere in Home Games and Geat (I think).
Stop giving the whore what he wants!
-'rilla |
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Posted: Tue, 01 Feb 2005, 7:44pm Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 07 Jun 2004
Posts: 1412
WPP: 78
Location: Milford,Ct.
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Yeah. Nothing in the home section, but he posted the same site in the tools section.
Bannage will commence soon. Peace out. Thanks for visiting. |
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Posted: Fri, 04 Feb 2005, 12:12am Post subject:
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Straight
Joined: 11 Jul 2004
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Location: Tijuana Donkey Show
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| How many different sites are you going to whore this post/your site on, Tom? This is the third one I have seen now. |
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Posted: Fri, 04 Feb 2005, 12:37am Post subject:
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But who will mod the mods?!
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citytom has been banned for solicitng (in the other thread... he apparently edited this one after 'rilla threatened him).
Interesting stats, though. I'm going to move this to Home Games and Gear. It's not really about home Poker Chips, but the info here seems most useful with the other poker chip discussions.
{Moved from FTR Community} |
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