Personalized poker chips have become highly sought after recently. With the glut of chips around today, numerous players are wanting something different than what everyone else has, and having their own personalized poker chips is the answer to this dilemma.

Personalized poker chips can be made with gold stamping, paper labels, or applying more advanced vinyl substrate printing procedures. Hot gold stamping has its need. You might hot stamp initials or a logotype in gold into a poker chip. A personalized poker chip created with gold hot stamping does not wear down too easily since it's embossed into the chip. The gold color may get blacker as time moves ahead, but the stamp will remain permanent.

Nothing great with gold stamping, it lends a decent effect, and typically cost roughly $.12 per chip. Only a short while ago, the only personalized poker chips you might get were made with hot gold stamping. Things have varied fast. Currently numerous poker retailers are offering personalized poker chips done with printed gloss paper labels.

DON'T PURCHASE PERSONALIZED POKER CHIPS MADE BY USING PAPER LABELS!

Still, if they say the paper is gloss surfaced, do not purchase them. You'll regret you did. Paper labels are printed with standard inkjet printers. They appear decent at first, but have extremely poor endurance. Just after 30 days, personalized poker chips created with paper labels begin to scuff and peel off.

One player in our weekly game had some paper labels set on a brand new set of Nexgen's. Nexgens are a decent chip, but when the labels began to wear down, the chips were done. Unlike the gradual and mellow wear an authentic clay poker chip goes through, wear on personalized poker chips created with paper labels is like to sour milk. You'll need to dump them in the waste disposal.

Vinyl Printed/Heat Sealed Personalized Poker Chips

The sole way that I would advocate creating your personalized poker chips is through a vinyl substrate printing process. The printing is created on vinyl and sealed with heat and lamination to the chip. The vinyl bonds to the chips and it just does not come off. You can scrape and scratch at the printing and you'll not be capable of dislodging it.

I had a great set of personalized poker chips done this way and they are pretty! The detail is fantastic and the cost is very fair for this degree of workmanship. Cost is close to $.50/chip. As of this writing, I have found only one company that is doing personalized poker chips this way, and that's at pokerchiplounge.com.

Below is a listing of websites to avoid that use paper labels for their personalized poker chips. I found these websites after doing a Google search for personalized poker chips. I emailed these sites and received sample personalized poker chips from each. Here are the results:

PERSONALIZED POKER CHIPS THAT USE PAPER LABELS - AVOID:

Customcasinochips.com -

5stardeal.com -

Vegassuppliesandgifts.com -

PERSONALIZED POKER CHIPS THAT USE VINYL PRINT/HEAT SEAL - RECOMMENDED:

Poker Chip Lounge -

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