Poker Chip Denominations

When playing Texas Holdem Poker, or any game that involves chips as currency, you need to know what each chip is worth. Here are the poker chip denominations showing the standard values assigned to each color of Poker chip.

In order to host a 10 player tournament, you should own about 500 chips and 1000 or more chips to host a 16 to 30 player tournament. This ensures that you can start each player with enough chips to not have to constantly get change from the bank.
Also, each player should start the tournament with stacks of about 30 to 50 chips to give that feeling of being a 'player' with a 'big stack' of chips in front of you. You can stack and restack your chips, you can shuffle them, spin them, twirl them, and intimidate your opponents with them!

Poker chips come in tubes of 25. So, when ordering a set containing 200, 300, 400 or 500 chips, you are able to choose which colours you want, so long as it is a multiple of 25.

Poker chips are manufactured with complicated graphics and edge patterns intending to make them difficult to counterfeit. The process used to make poker chips is a trade secret and expensive - usually involving high pressure compression molding machines.
The typical construction material used is not clay as many believe, but a ceramic material with clay added for texture and weight. The breakable, clay chips of the 1960s and 1970s are no longer manufactured. The clay composition of
modern chips varies by manufacturer, and is typically very slight (1-10%).
The chips used in American casinos generally weigh between 9.5 grams and 10 grams each. The chips sold for home use vary much more, depending on manufacturer and construction.

Common designs for home use depict the six faces of a dice or the card suit symbols around the edge on the face of the chip. They are typically manufactured using ABS plastic and injection molded. Some chips are molded around a small metal disc, called a slug, to give them weight.
European chips often come in Mother of Pearl and the higher value chips are quite often shaped like plaques.