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So what is the point of investing so much money on poker chips? After all you can just as easily put piles of money on the table. So why use these expensive little tokens?

Of course this is something that every prospective buyer for a poker chips set considers. Poker chips sets are expensive but the real truth about a poker chip set is its convenience and of course it is somewhat of a status symbol.

In the early days of poker, it was simply more convenient to have some sort of chip instead of carrying around a stack of cash. It was also a heck of a lot safer not to have a ton of money in front of you. At first people used objects of intrinsic value like gold but these items were quickly replaced with chips of bone or ivory among other materials.

Once people started using these poker chips instead of real money, casinos noticed a magical thing. People started betting more often and in higher denominations. For a casino, that’s a very good thing so they started to research why people were becoming so much looser with their cash.

It is true that poker chips only represented money. This meant that the gamblers felt it was easier to disassociate themselves from their money. The chips represented money that was already spent.

This is the perfect mind game. There is no problem when you drop an innocent little chip into the pot. However it is a completely different, when you have to put your hard earned cash in the same receptacle.

The experts think that this fact is what makes people put up more money with online games. Poker chips symbolizing money makes people more lavish with their bets than hard cash. Similarly playing online poker you cannot even handle the chips. This results in a double disassociation and makes players even freer with their bets. This results in heavy losses.

Now you know the value of the little chip. They bring excitement and fun to the game, simply because of the game of disassociation.

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