History Of Poker Chips : Poker Tournaments

In 1626 the first betting started, in 18th century the poker chips came in way of life. Before these chips people used to play with the gold dust, gold nuggets and gold pieces or coins. Then these kinds of chips came in. In 1880 and 1930 there were several companies that came in the market and started making these chips. During this time fame round about 1000 designs came in the market and then people had lots of choices. Poker chips used in poker tournaments are entirely different, in poker tournaments chips have more value than expected. But before this, people would play poker with the chips made with deferred materials such as wood, ivory, bone, and paper. Few poker chips have colors, if they have red they are assigned some value, and green another value and so on.