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For home games, poker chips around 11.5 grams give the weighted feel players associate with a casino, and the chip sets here range from 11.5 to 13.5 grams. Lightweight plastic chips often weigh just 2 to 4 grams and are easy to knock over. The extra weight of a heavier chip gives it a solid feel in hand and helps keep it from sliding around the table.

Buy a poker chip set on its own if you already have a sturdy table to play on, or choose a bundle if you need the playing surface too. Bundles here pair a chip set with either a folding Texas Hold'em table or a poker-blackjack table top. Every chip set, alone or bundled, includes two decks of cards and dealer and blind buttons, and the tables are also sold separately under casino tables.

Poker chips are made of plastic, clay or a clay composite, and the standalone chip sets on this page use Claytec, a clay composite. Claytec chips are less fragile than pure clay and carry more weight and durability than plastic. Pure clay chips are used in some casinos but can crack with heavy home use, which is why composite chips suit regular game nights.

Home poker chips are worth whatever value the host assigns, and a widely used convention is white 1, red 5, blue 10, green 25 and black 100. Each standalone chip set on this page includes all five of those colors. Set the values to fit your buy-in, and agree on them before the first hand so every player counts stacks the same way.

A poker chip case is not required, but it keeps chips sorted by color and helps shield them from dust and knocks. Each standalone chip set here comes in an aluminum case, and a replacement case holds up to 500 chips, two decks of cards and five dice. Stackable trays hold 100 chips each at the table, and chips clean with a lightly damp cloth.