America's Oldest Maker of Clay Poker Chips
No plastics, no shortcuts. Every chip leaves our factory the way the great casino chips always have — compression-molded from real clay on vintage equipment, inlaid by hand. A luxury built to be handed down. Design a fully custom set, or pick up a finished stock set or samples today.
Over two million chips pressed since 2013 — and a century’s worth before that
Two Ways to Order
Whether you're designing a fully custom set or want a proven design you can order today, every chip is made the same way — on the same presses.
Choose your colors, mold design, edge spots, and artwork. Full-color printed inlays or classic plain clay. Our online Design Tool covers every option we can press, chips and inlays alike — the easiest way to build a set.
Start a Custom Set
Our house designs, ready to order at comparatively short notice — including the famous Rounders movie prop replicas reviewed by Adam Savage.
Browse Stock SetsCustomer Sets
A few recent sets from our gallery and the Poker Chip Forum community — every one designed by its owner and pressed in our factory.
How a Chip Gets Made
Slow, deliberate, and expensive to do right — which is why a CPC set is an heirloom rather than an accessory. These are chips that wear in over decades of play and get handed down to the next table.
Real clay compound — the same basic formula since the 1940s — mixed from scratch to the 38 colors on our chart, weighted with fine brass powder, never lead.
Compression-molded under 150-ton presses at over 250°F, twenty chips to a pressing, your chosen mold pattern cast into the rim — the high-pressure, high-temperature process that gives real clay its crisp detail.
Printed full-color inlays, protected by clear vinyl and molded directly into the chip body. Design yours in the Design Tool.
Every chip is checked before it ships. The feel, the sound, the weight — it has to be right.
We make poker chips from the raw materials to the finished product. There is no automation to walk away from — every machine on the floor is run by a person, the way it has been since the 1920s.
Colors, Molds & Edge Spots
38 clay colors — 24 weighted with fine brass powder, nine Dayglos, four 1940s Retros, and Bright White — across 18 mold designs, with edge-spot patterns from simple to spectacular. These five are a taste; the full charts show everything we press.
Our Story
Alonzo Burt Sr. founds the Portland Billiard Ball Company in Portland, Maine.
The company begins pressing poker chips — the start of a craft carried on ever since.
As the Burt Company, introduces the first multi-colored edge spots and the first casino house mold.
Two chip enthusiasts relaunch the works as Classic Poker Chips, near the original Maine location.
A new chapter under owner Mike Amirault: the factory moves to Woodinville, Washington — same presses, same molds, same clay.
Try Before You Commit
Photos can't capture the heft of real clay or the sound of a riffled stack. Order a sample set — all 38 colors, the mold lineup, or a selection of finished inlaid chips — and feel the difference at your own table.
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There is simply nothing else like a CPC set on the table. The weight, the sound, the way they wear in over years of play — these are the chips everything else gets compared to.— Longtime customer, Poker Chip Forum · Read More Testimonials
