This article is very important if you run any game where money is involved. You may be a pub, club, regular home game it doesn't really matter because if you are using poker chips easily available from eBay or online shops then it is easy and cheap for a dishonest player to import chips into the game.

This is a very common practise in some games, it's not something that a person running a game would want to admit to but I remember a situation where for months nothing really unusual happened, however, all of a sudden, every week, they were ending up with too many chips (Mostly the higher valued chips) and stranger still the same person was coming first or second every week for about 6 weeks in succession. I should point out at this stage that the chips they were using were a very common set that were bought from a seller on eBay and are relatively cheap.

Eventually someone at the game realised what was going on and explained it to the person running the game and that is where we came in. We designed a set of chips suitable for the game and had them ready in 5 days which was in time for the next game, the person suspected of cheating wasn't their usual cheerful self, did badly in the game and was never seen again...

It is actually very simple to add this level of security to your game, the chips you buy from us cannot be bought from anyone else and if a repeat order is made of design we have provided then we insist that we confirm the identity of the buyer so that they cannot be bought by a potential cheat.

Although it would be very dificult to provide solid statistics on this it would appear that the level cheating in this way in pub and club games is extremely high and it would seem that the more people become aware of how easy it is to do them the level of cheating will increase. Instead of custom chips to enhance securuty you may be able to eliminate the issue by using extremely expensive chips like Paulsons, however, this will introduce a new problem of "losing chips".