Aluminium Case Poker Sets
All the sets on this page feature 11.5 g chips made from a clay & polymer compound.
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Dice Poker setThis smart chip case fashioned from aluminium includes either 300 or 500 11.5 gram “dice” style poker chips (40mm diameter), which incorporate a metal centre to give a nice weight in the hand and ensure a satisfying thud as you throw them down. Excellent value for high quality two-tone chips, also included are 2 packs of playing cards and 5 casino dice plus a dealer button. Do not mistake this set for some of the cheap and nasty dice chip sets available in some outlets. These are much nicer. The 500 set will contain the colours in the picture. The 300 set contains 100 x white, 50 x red, blue, green and black. As a general rule of thumb, 500 chip sets may be needed for 8 players and above. 300 chip sets should be adequate for typical games of 7 or less players. Dimensions of 300 set: 395 x 220 x65mm
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Dice Poker Set (300 Chips) |
£16.94 | £19.90 | 2 + transit time | ||
Dice Poker Set (500 Chips) |
£25.45 | £29.90 | 2 + transit time | ||
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Numbered, Suited Poker SetSuper smart aluminium chip case available in either 300 or 500 capacities. The set includes quality clay style 11.5gm 'suited' numbered (one side) poker chips like the ones used in real casinos, 2packs of 'Jackpot Poker Cards' playing cards, a dealer button and 5 poker dice. If you want a quality product that will impress then look no further. 300 set contains:
500 set contains:
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Numbered Suited Poker Set (300 Chips) |
£25.45 | £29.90 | 2 + transit time | ||
Numbered Suited Poker Set (500 Chips) |
£33.96 | £39.90 | 2 + transit time | ||
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Pro-Tournament Poker SetNumbered Tournament Pro-Series style poker chip set in a smart aluminium case.. High quality 11g poker chips at just the right price. You get 500 chips, 2 packs of cards, 5 casino dice and a dealer button. Chips consist of:
Dimensions: 580 x 220 x 65mm
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Pro Tournament Poker Set (500 Chips) |
£32.26 | £37.90 | 2 + transit time | ||
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History of Poker
Poker is without doubt the most successful and popular betting and bluffing game in existence. The earliest known ancestor of Poker was a German game, called Boeckels. A French derivative of this, "Poque" is overwhelmingly the most likely etymological source for the term "Poker" which appeared in the first half of the nineteenth century and so the most obvious and likely theory for the link from the old card games to the new is simply that Poker, invented in French America, was derived directly from the French game of Poque.
The second most likely theory for the creation of Poker is that it comes from the old Persian game of "As-Nas" and inherited only the name from the French connection.
Poker was invented in New Orleans, part of the old French territory of what is now the USA. New Orleans is famous for its Mississippi leisure steamers and the game first appears to have become popular in the smokey saloons of those notorious boats. Two former gamblers have described the game existing at least as early as 1829.
The early pioneers described the game as it was then - we can call it "20 Card Poker". It was a four player game played with a 20-card pack (Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks and Tens only), so that all the cards were dealt out. There was no draw and the five scoring combinations were melds only - i.e. no flushes or straights (runs). So the game was quite a different affair to modern Poker games and the best hand - four Aces was unbeatable.
The first reasonable description of the 52 card version of the game turned up in an 1850 version of "Hoyles book of Games" and within a decade the 20 Card game was evolved out of history and virtually disappeared. Like American Pool, this has happened a lot to different Poker versions to this day - the most recent example being that of Texas Hold'Em completely eclipsing the formerly popular game of Stud Poker.
The version played with 52 cards allowed some creative thinking in terms of the rules and permitted a variety of new additions to the rules after around 1850 including The Draw, The Flush, The Joker, The Straight and The Jackpot.
None of these concepts, except the Jackpot was original to Poker and so it is clear that Poker mainly evolved by borrowing useful concepts from other games.
Stud Poker, formerly "Stud Horse Poker" is supposedly a cowboy invention that occurred around Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In this new variant, the Draw which had previously been a single one-off affair of 1, 2 or 3 cards for each player each hand, was stretched out to 4 draws of a single card for each player each hand. The reason for this is readily apparent - more draws means more rounds of betting and since betting and bluffing have always been the primary motivation for Poker, this must have appealed. The first documentary evidence for the game is an 1864 Hoyle.
Read more about the history and Origins of Poker at the Online Guide to Traditional Games.