With the booming of the poker industry there has been a booming need for poker chips also. China is seen to be the biggest manufacturer of poker chips.  There are many varieties of poker chips of which the radiant laser chips is the latest fantasy among those that are interested in collecting poker chips.

Laser poker chips are available in varying colors ranging from glowing red, glowing blue, glowing yellow, violet, green and lot more. All the laser poker chips are radiant and slow attractively when the light are turned off. There is not just one model of laser poker chips there are more than 20 models of laser chips.  There are laser chips of stripes, blocks and contrast colors. Interesting in the group are the poker chips that come with cartoons and pictures of poker champions of the year.

Poker chips are available with those that have printed value and also as those that do not have any printed value on the chips.  Antique poker chips are gaining popularity these days.  The poker chip sets of olden day poker pros are set out in auction and people are ready to purchase it for the mightiest money possible within their limits. The value of one poker chips that is an antique one can be as high as $25.

Poker chips have stories to tell about what could be running in one’s mind.  Poker psychology explores how the player deals with poker chips to figure out what their poker chips handling method tell about their mental disposition at any given situation.

Poker chips are one of the important equipment of any brick and motor casino.  There are some hobbyists that have a very bad habit of stealing a couple of chips whenever they play in the casino! Should sound silly, but it is true and this kind of stealing for fun or hobby is medically termed as kleptomania. Pot stealing for poker chips in a game is skill and stealing it for hobby is an act of fraud.

Poker chips are used in handcrafts and hand bags and some interesting T-shirts have poker chips installed in the logo embroidery of the T-shirts.  The cost of such T-shirts is fancifully as high a $50 and people are ready to buy them.

Gold foil poker chips and silver foil poker chips are in the top list of chips collection cranks.  Not only chip leaders are crazy to win poker chips, but there are crazy hobbyists who are behind to have a huge collection of the many varieties of chips.