Poker chips have already found their way to being promotional products.  Poker chips are extensively being used for marketing purposes.  There have evolved a number of poker chips online companies that are manufacturing customized poker chips per client needs.  The manufacturing of poker chips is becoming more of a business.  It is becoming a matter of art.  The reputation of poker chips manufactured by a company gets to reach the rest of the world based on how attractive and artistic the print on the chips is.  It is also dependent upon the viral fame of the company manufacturing it.

Casino style poker chips are available for public use on order to the manufacturing company.  Poker chips are also made with denominations printed on them with values and numbers in them, like values in Euros, pounds, dollars etcetera.  Also, the prints can also be those of alphabets, letters or initials.

•    For a 3 to 4 player game one will require to have at least 300 and plus poker chips.
•    For a 5 to 6 player game one will require to have at least 400 and plus poker chips.
•    For a 7 to 8 player game one will require to have at least 500 and plus poker chips.
•    For a 9 plus player game one will require to have at least 1000 and plus poker chips.

There are many types of poker chips in common usage.  Some of them are the clay poker chips, composite chips, plastic chips, featured poker chips, chip sets, euro acrylic poker chips etcetera.

Clay chips are the most famous of poker chips.  Though originally clay was exclusively used for poker chips now a mix of materials is used to make the chips, in fact they are more heavy and durable than clay. Something that one should know about clay poker chips is that there are some kinds of injection molded chips that seems to be like clay, but truly they are filled with some other material other than clay.

The concept of having to use poker chips became important as a representative of money in bet, because when real money was used in betting, there was possible chances for someone to steal the chips.  This concept of having to use poker chips was more safe and reliable and therefore a multitude of casinos have adopted using poker chips for wagering. Interestingly, the price of the poker chips has come down drastically than ever.