The History of Poker Chips
Friday, 1. January 2010
Poker chips have been manufactured from a wide selection of materials in an almost infinite variety of styles since the birth of gambling and the need to keep an eye on winnings. The most commonly seen components employed at present in the creation of cutting-edge poker chips are plastic, clay, and acrylics. Clay chips, the primary of the group, have been manufactured in the US since the late 19th century.
Back in the 1800s, poker enthusiasts appear to be using any small valuable object you can imagine. Early poker enthusiasts sometimes used rough gold pieces along with chips – chiefly made of wood and clay. By the 20th century, poker chip designs started to enjoy a bigger prominence, and the smooth edges of older chips were given up to chips with ridges to keep them neatly piled up together.
There is little doubt that poker has expanded steadily in universal appeal ever since its beginnings in the 1800s. With the explosive increase of web gaming and specialty television shows, community interest in poker has accelerated faster than ever before. Most people are first introduced to poker by TV showssuch as Bravo’s "Celebrity Poker Showdown" or the Travel Channel’s "World Poker Tour," and many will participate in their 1st hands on the web. Despite web poker’s growth, nothing replaces the feeling of mixing weighty clay poker chips in your hand, tossing chips into the center of a casino table, or creating tall pilesstacks of chips after showing a victorious hand.
Posted in Poker by Lilly