Casino Chips Casinos usually have custom-designed chips with the monetary value and the name of the casino printed or engraved on the face. For a set of 500 poker chips, for example, you should have 200, 150, 100, and 50 chips in white, red, blue and green, respectively.The specifications like the weight, size, color and designs are all specific and every casino has its own brand of chips which can only be found in that particular casino. Casinos usually use chips which are made from either clay composite or clay.Whoever said it was right - you can play poker with cash, but chips make the game far easier to manage.
That pithy sentence is usually attributed to Julius 'Big Jules' Weintraub, a big gambler who essentially invented the 'Vegas junket' for East Coast residents, though I have not been able to identify a reliable primary source for this quotation.
