Gaming chips have been manufactured from a wide selection of materials in an almost infinite variety of variations since the advent of betting and the requirement to track winnings. The most familiar materials employed today in the manufacture of new poker chips are plastic, clay composite, and acrylic composite. Clay chips, the primary of the bunch, have been made in America since the late 19th century.
Back in the 19th century, poker players appear to be using any tiny valuable object imaginable. Early poker players occasionally employed jagged gold pieces along with chips – mainly made of wood and clay. By the 1900s, poker chip designs started to enjoy a bigger prominence, and the smooth sides of older chips gave way to chips with engraved slits to keep them neatly stacked with each other.
There is little debate that poker has expanded steadily in appeal since its origin in the 19th century. With the explosive increase of web gambling and specialty TV shows, public appeal in poker has accelerated a lot faster than ever before. Most people are initially introduced to poker by TV showslike Bravo’s "Celebrity Poker Showdown" or "Poker After Dark," and most will bet on their first hands on the net. Despite web poker’s rise, not much competes with the feeling of shuffling heavy clay poker chips in your hands, tossing chips into the middle of a poker table, or stacking high pilesstacks of chips after displaying a winning hand.
