Tips On Designing A Set Of Custom Poker Chips
For years you have been playing poker with very basic plastic poker chips. These chips are the same that everyone else is playing with because they were purchased at a local retail store. Your chips are now just “plain”. Now is the time to get yourself a new set of custom poker chips. You know you want them, but now the problem is what the poker chips should look like.
This is a very common situation. Many poker players and poker game hosts understand that they need custom poker chips and they really WANT them, but they just haven’t thought about the design. This can be fairly simple if you break it down into a couple questions that need to be answered.
The first question to think about is what type of custom poker chip do you want? There are basically three types of custom poker chips. Clay poker chips are the standard and are used in many casinos. The only problem is that real custom clay poker chips are hard to find and when you find them they are very expensive, often costing $1.25/chip or more when considering the fees involved. Ceramic poker chips another casino-quality version. Unlike clay poker chips these have become readily available to home poker game players. Not only that, but custom ceramic poker chips are much lower in cost and they are FULLY customizable. The third option is to customize different variation of plastic poker chips with stickers, labels, stamps, or something similar. These are low cost but also often low quality when compared to clay or ceramic poker chips.
After you determine the type of poker chip you want, you need to consider what games the chips will be used for. If they will be used for cash games of varying stakes and tournaments then you may want to consider chips with no denominations on them. Chips with no denominations on them can be very versatile, but they do take a while to get used to as you will have players constantly asking what the value of each chip is.
Next, brainstorm and think about what your interests are. Often, a personalized poker chip set can revolve around what you are most interested in. This will help define your chips. Your theme could be anything – cats, motorcycles, skyscrapers, anything!
After you have an idea of the theme for your custom poker chips, take some time to look at other poker chips. Do some searching online and review the design of casino poker chips and of custom chips that others have had made in the past. While you don’t want to copy some other poker chip design this will be helpful to give you ideas regarding design elements that you may want to use.
Finally, it is highly suggested that you seek out help when it comes down to the actual designing of the artwork. Unless you have experience with graphic design, you will spend countless frustrating hours trying to design what is in your head. Instead, find a graphic designer that has worked on custom poker chips in the past. Provide them with your ideas as well as examples of chips that you like. This will cost a little bit but it will be well worth it.
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