I have a 500 piece set of these, along with a handful of the plaques. I just adore the design of them. They look good on the table and they feel good in the hands. As far as China Clays go, these are my favorite set, and I'm super happy I bought them.
@@oh5186 For my set it was: 100 x $0.25 150 x $1 100 x $5 100 x $10 50 x $25 I added on 15 x $100 plaques and 1 x $500 plaque just to have it. In hindsight, I probably would have dropped the $10 chips entirely and gone with 50 more each of the $1 and $5. I mostly used these for a cash game which ran for about six years.
I ordered and received 2 10 piece sample sets of the Majestic chips. Haven't weighed and measured them as of yet but overall pretty nice looking chips but if you like small stakes games, forget it. The 25 and 50 cent chips are nearly the same color except for the edge spots. Speaking of edge spots the $10 ship leaves a lot to be desired. in that area. Pretty nice chips overall for the money.
You can always play at a ratio. I usually play 5/10 - 25/50 games with my main crew, so I have higher denomination chips. So when I have friends that want play without gambling $5,000, I'll play the chips at a ratio of 100:1. If you buy in for $20 you get $2,000 in chips
Thanks for your videos! Just bought my first set of decent poker chips - went for some Lucky Dragon ceramics (in part due to availability in the UK). But after your vids I've ordered samples of Tiki Kings and these Majestics from the US (as well as Valentino ceramics, and a handful of Paulson's for comparison...)
got sample chips today. disappointed to find stickers faded in center where "JES" in Majestic. is there anything I can use to spray the chips to prevent this? Great colors though!
Sounds like the factory might have been running low on ink. There is a bi-linear gradient across the chips which shows up on the text/graphics you can see it in the video but it sounds like you are talking excessive ink fading? Sometimes when these printing devices get low on ink a bi-linear gradient becomes excessive. How does the background look, is that faded too? I love hearing about people's experience with these chips. If anyone else has experienced fading let us all know. Unless this is UV fading, I don't think there is anything to be done. Thanks for watching and I'll keep a sharp eye for more information about this subject.
my set was oiled easily by putting a bunch in a zip loc bag with a mineral oil soaked rag, shaking around, then just clean toweling. Then I set them out for 3 weeks in a room. smell is gone completely now, I'm guessing off gassing some VOC was needed in open air. chips are great. Thanks to Josh at Apache!
Pretty chip!! The spinner issue comments have me a bit concerned. I just bought 750 nexgens and I'm really happy with them. But I still have the chip bug so I'm still looking for another set:)
Hey hobby!! What are your thoughts on Game on chip company? You think they're just as good if not better than PGI? Reason why I'm asking is that I just found out my paulsons are worth a lot of money & I don't wanna use them anymore so I'm gonna do a full custom ceramic chip set. About 5,000 chips. Any suggestions? Thanks!
John, do you think Championship Poker Series Chips are better than Majestic Chips? I am not sure which ones to buy. In my opinion CPS Chips are higher quality and look nice but Majestics just have such a nice design.
That is such a tough call. Do they have the CPS chips in stock? Personally, I like the CPS chips because they are the only China clay that I know of with that interesting, but not perfect, texture. This is a win, win decision. Right now, I'm leaning toward CPS if they have enough in stock. Good, tough question. Hope that helps.
Yes, thank you. Personally I also like the CPS Chips more, but currently the 5K Chips are out of stock at Apachepokerchips.com so I think I will take the Majestics because I like those too. :)
@Hobbyphilic, Hi you should try the Monte Carlo chips. The weight, the sound of the clacking, as well as the inlay shiny holographic sticker is really really impressive.
Paulson chips are no longer sold to the general public, so there's no sense in trying to pursue a set (unless you're exceedingly rich). However, to honor the spirit of your original question, Paulson chips are made in Mexico.
@@levipospichal8521 the prices got horrible, majestics are 0.79 for me now .... i might still go for them though, ordered a few different samples of china clays and ceramics.
I'm in the air between Majestics and Milanos. I was about to order the Milanos and then BAM I see this video and now I'm scratching my head. If you HAD to choose, what would you pick? Majestics or Milanos?
+William White Majestics, in my opinion - unless you found a really good deal on the milanos. They are so similar, there is no wrong choice. Thanks for watching.
+Hobbyphilic I'm planning on getting a set of 600. The price difference for 600 chips is only about $20 more for the Majestics. I think that's what I'll do. I did order a little 25 chip sample of both though to check out first. I'll post my final decision later. Thanks John!
+William White ...Milanos had ridiculous variation in chip thickness by color. Stacks of 20 in each color... some were more than 1 chip's thickness different. They were "unplayable" imo. They also didn't fit uniformly in racks, even special racks designated for china clays. Just wanted to give you the heads up.
+xSovereign Of all the chip reviews on Milano's I have watched, I have never heard anyone make that complaint of major chip thickness issues. John Hobby's reviews on Majestics and Milanos basically pointed out that both sets have similar minor thickness issues - that is common among pretty much all china clays. I got 25 black $100 chips of both the Milanos and Majestics and have been playing with them. I have to say, the Majestics are extremely slippery and have major "spinner" issues. When I stack 25 high and attempt to spin the stack, the Majestics spin on almost every chip and slide around too easily in my opinion. The Milano have a bit more of a "chalky" feel to them. I had much fewers "spinners" with the Milanos and when stacked 25 tall, the stack was much more stable and felt less likely to slide and topple than the Majestics. Before getting the samples, I kind of had my mind made up (based on watching reviews) that I'd go with the Majestics. However, after seeing, using, and handling both chips, I much prefer the Milanos. That's just my opinion and I'm not an expert.
+William White I'm happy your milano's don't have a problem. I still have pictures of 20 stacks of 8 different colors with evidence of their preposterously different thicknesses. I was issued a full refund from the vendor of the milanos after showing proof and fighting with them on the phone for hours on multiple occassions. I really really wanted to love the milanos, because I liked that chalky feel, classy look and nice sound. But when stacks are entirely different heights they were unplayable to me. I ended up ordering a full set of custom CPS chips from PGI. Much better on the thickness issue, and its really cool to have my own designed sticker "inlays". Expensive though! I'm happy with the CPS customs, but if I could do it all over again from scratch I'd probably just get China Clay Pharoah's and call it a day, for the price. Multiple edgespot design is just too cool. Majectics would be second place, and I wouldn't touch Milanos for half price at this point after my experience. Maybe they fixed the mold in the past year or whatever. Hope your milano set ends up being everything I hoped mine would be!
I can't decide between the Majestic or Milanos. Right now, the Majestics have the edge only because they offer a 5cent chip which would be useful for when I'm playing with either family members or super small stake cash games (5cent/10cent blinds) with newer players at my home game. If anyone can recommend either the Majestic or Milano, I would greatly appreciate it because I'm so torn between the two ughhh..
You probably already made a decision, but it should be noted that the Milanos are made out of genuine compression molded kaolinite while the Majestics/Pharaohs are made out of composite plastic. Hopefully, that helps sway a/your decision one way or the other.
John, could you comment on "spinners" in your Majestic set. You almost always do a spinner test on your reviews, but didn't on this one. I ordered 25 black $100 Majestic chips to try them out and the spinners are really prevalent. I can spin the stack on almost every chip. Of all my sets of chips, the Majestics have by far the highest percentage of spinners and just have an extremely slippery feel in general. Thanks!!!
+William White Yeah, I just checked, mine do that too. Some stacks are worse than others. I compared them to Milanos. While close, I think the Majestics are slightly worse. Great observation, thanks for the comment, I forgot to do the flatness testing.
+Hobbyphilic I just compared the Milanos and Majestics side by side (25 stack of black $100 chips each). Literally every Majestic spins. None of the Milanos spins. To me that means a lot because I like stacking my chips 40 high. Majestics won't cut it for me. To spinny and slippery. Unrelated side note, I also just got a 25 stack of Tiki ceramics to try out. Love them. No spinners there either.
Chip sound tells a lot about the quality of the material. They can have awesome design but if they sound like cheap plastic it ruins the playing experience.. Because it gives away that its just that, plastic chips with a nice sticker. I personally like Paulsons and other quality chips.
..want to add that china clays like the Milanos or Majestic is good enough considering the price point though. The think the clay material is way better than many other so called 'clay composite' chips out there.. Slippery with dull colors, sounds horrible and with a nice, cheap plastic feel. I'd rather save my money for a year. :)
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I have a 500 piece set of these, along with a handful of the plaques. I just adore the design of them. They look good on the table and they feel good in the hands. As far as China Clays go, these are my favorite set, and I'm super happy I bought them.
+Brugality Probably not gonna happen, but I'll see what I can do.
What was your amount pr each denominator for a 500 set?
@@oh5186 For my set it was:
100 x $0.25
150 x $1
100 x $5
100 x $10
50 x $25
I added on 15 x $100 plaques and 1 x $500 plaque just to have it.
In hindsight, I probably would have dropped the $10 chips entirely and gone with 50 more each of the $1 and $5.
I mostly used these for a cash game which ran for about six years.
surprisingly enough, I bought 100 of these and none of them rocked like the ones you got. love you videos!!! very informative!!
Hi Jon, loving the new rating system. Would it be possible for you to do a short video on ur ratings on the other chips you have reviewed?
Hey! At the current state of poker chips, should I get milanos or majestics?
You need to have where to get them in your Description’s
I’m trying to find some I saw on another one of your post
I ordered and received 2 10 piece sample sets of the Majestic chips. Haven't weighed and measured them as of yet but overall pretty nice looking chips but if you like small stakes games, forget it. The 25 and 50 cent chips are nearly the same color except for the edge spots. Speaking of edge spots the $10 ship leaves a lot to be desired. in that area. Pretty nice chips overall for the money.
You can always play at a ratio. I usually play 5/10 - 25/50 games with my main crew, so I have higher denomination chips. So when I have friends that want play without gambling $5,000, I'll play the chips at a ratio of 100:1. If you buy in for $20 you get $2,000 in chips
Smell the same as the Milano's?
Thanks for your videos! Just bought my first set of decent poker chips - went for some Lucky Dragon ceramics (in part due to availability in the UK). But after your vids I've ordered samples of Tiki Kings and these Majestics from the US (as well as Valentino ceramics, and a handful of Paulson's for comparison...)
+chewie matt Lucky Dragon? Perfect timing, stay tuned for next week's episode. Thanks for watching.
got sample chips today. disappointed to find stickers faded in center where "JES" in Majestic. is there anything I can use to spray the chips to prevent this? Great colors though!
Sounds like the factory might have been running low on ink. There is a bi-linear gradient across the chips which shows up on the text/graphics you can see it in the video but it sounds like you are talking excessive ink fading? Sometimes when these printing devices get low on ink a bi-linear gradient becomes excessive. How does the background look, is that faded too? I love hearing about people's experience with these chips. If anyone else has experienced fading let us all know. Unless this is UV fading, I don't think there is anything to be done. Thanks for watching and I'll keep a sharp eye for more information about this subject.
So the big question is Majestic or Ceramics from BRPro. Which do you prefer?
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my set was oiled easily by putting a bunch in a zip loc bag with a mineral oil soaked rag, shaking around, then just clean toweling.
Then I set them out for 3 weeks in a room. smell is gone completely now, I'm guessing off gassing some VOC was needed in open air. chips are great. Thanks to Josh at Apache!
laid out flat , BTW. I think stacked they would not get the air circulation.
Pretty chip!! The spinner issue comments have me a bit concerned. I just bought 750 nexgens and I'm really happy with them. But I still have the chip bug so I'm still looking for another set:)
Hey hobby!! What are your thoughts on Game on chip company? You think they're just as good if not better than PGI? Reason why I'm asking is that I just found out my paulsons are worth a lot of money & I don't wanna use them anymore so I'm gonna do a full custom ceramic chip set. About 5,000 chips. Any suggestions? Thanks!
LOL. Since you wrote this comment, the Game On Chip Company is no longer in business. But an excellent alternative is BR Pro Poker.
Are the Majestics of the clay variety?
Maybe
@@robertomondello2447 No, they're composite plastic (commonly called "China clay" even though they contain 0% clay).
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background had no problems, just the center & that was with 4 of the 10 chips.
Good to know. Something to remember if you are purchasing these and let us know if anyone else has this problem with them. Thanks for the update.
First of all thank you for this! Quick question, do you know if the edge spots are unique on each chip? Or are they just copies on each.
Other than coloring, the edge spots are copies on each.
Awesome, wish i could have seen all the denominations though.
Great chips over all, but the $100 denomination chips I received were almost 2mm smaller than all of the other denominations. Deal killer for me.
John, do you think Championship Poker Series Chips are better than Majestic Chips? I am not sure which ones to buy. In my opinion CPS Chips are higher quality and look nice but Majestics just have such a nice design.
That is such a tough call. Do they have the CPS chips in stock? Personally, I like the CPS chips because they are the only China clay that I know of with that interesting, but not perfect, texture. This is a win, win decision. Right now, I'm leaning toward CPS if they have enough in stock. Good, tough question. Hope that helps.
Yes, thank you. Personally I also like the CPS Chips more, but currently the 5K Chips are out of stock at Apachepokerchips.com so I think I will take the Majestics because I like those too. :)
By the way, do you know any place to buy any Paulson Chips? (Except the Isthmus Chips, I got those ;) )
LeeSinToUrMom :3 apache sells some kits that they have stocled but they no longer make consumer ones.
@Hobbyphilic, Hi you should try the Monte Carlo chips. The weight, the sound of the clacking, as well as the inlay shiny holographic sticker is really really impressive.
Where are Paulson chips made? As oppose to China clay.
Paulson chips are no longer sold to the general public, so there's no sense in trying to pursue a set (unless you're exceedingly rich). However, to honor the spirit of your original question, Paulson chips are made in Mexico.
I believe Apache raised the price from .15 to .36 each!!!! 500 would've cost me $75 last week, double now. Merry Xmas.
Not sure if you’ll see this, but 49 cents now
@@levipospichal8521 the prices got horrible, majestics are 0.79 for me now ....
i might still go for them though, ordered a few different samples of china clays and ceramics.
3 of a kind all 10s
I'm in the air between Majestics and Milanos. I was about to order the Milanos and then BAM I see this video and now I'm scratching my head. If you HAD to choose, what would you pick? Majestics or Milanos?
+William White Majestics, in my opinion - unless you found a really good deal on the milanos. They are so similar, there is no wrong choice. Thanks for watching.
+Hobbyphilic I'm planning on getting a set of 600. The price difference for 600 chips is only about $20 more for the Majestics. I think that's what I'll do. I did order a little 25 chip sample of both though to check out first. I'll post my final decision later. Thanks John!
+William White ...Milanos had ridiculous variation in chip thickness by color. Stacks of 20 in each color... some were more than 1 chip's thickness different. They were "unplayable" imo. They also didn't fit uniformly in racks, even special racks designated for china clays. Just wanted to give you the heads up.
+xSovereign Of all the chip reviews on Milano's I have watched, I have never heard anyone make that complaint of major chip thickness issues. John Hobby's reviews on Majestics and Milanos basically pointed out that both sets have similar minor thickness issues - that is common among pretty much all china clays.
I got 25 black $100 chips of both the Milanos and Majestics and have been playing with them. I have to say, the Majestics are extremely slippery and have major "spinner" issues. When I stack 25 high and attempt to spin the stack, the Majestics spin on almost every chip and slide around too easily in my opinion. The Milano have a bit more of a "chalky" feel to them. I had much fewers "spinners" with the Milanos and when stacked 25 tall, the stack was much more stable and felt less likely to slide and topple than the Majestics.
Before getting the samples, I kind of had my mind made up (based on watching reviews) that I'd go with the Majestics. However, after seeing, using, and handling both chips, I much prefer the Milanos. That's just my opinion and I'm not an expert.
+William White I'm happy your milano's don't have a problem. I still have pictures of 20 stacks of 8 different colors with evidence of their preposterously different thicknesses. I was issued a full refund from the vendor of the milanos after showing proof and fighting with them on the phone for hours on multiple occassions. I really really wanted to love the milanos, because I liked that chalky feel, classy look and nice sound. But when stacks are entirely different heights they were unplayable to me.
I ended up ordering a full set of custom CPS chips from PGI. Much better on the thickness issue, and its really cool to have my own designed sticker "inlays". Expensive though! I'm happy with the CPS customs, but if I could do it all over again from scratch I'd probably just get China Clay Pharoah's and call it a day, for the price. Multiple edgespot design is just too cool.
Majectics would be second place, and I wouldn't touch Milanos for half price at this point after my experience. Maybe they fixed the mold in the past year or whatever. Hope your milano set ends up being everything I hoped mine would be!
I can't decide between the Majestic or Milanos. Right now, the Majestics have the edge only because they offer a 5cent chip which would be useful for when I'm playing with either family members or super small stake cash games (5cent/10cent blinds) with newer players at my home game. If anyone can recommend either the Majestic or Milano, I would greatly appreciate it because I'm so torn between the two ughhh..
You probably already made a decision, but it should be noted that the Milanos are made out of genuine compression molded kaolinite while the Majestics/Pharaohs are made out of composite plastic. Hopefully, that helps sway a/your decision one way or the other.
Great video! thanks
John, could you comment on "spinners" in your Majestic set. You almost always do a spinner test on your reviews, but didn't on this one. I ordered 25 black $100 Majestic chips to try them out and the spinners are really prevalent. I can spin the stack on almost every chip. Of all my sets of chips, the Majestics have by far the highest percentage of spinners and just have an extremely slippery feel in general. Thanks!!!
Just to clarify, I'm asking because I'm wondering if it's just my sample set or if you see the same thing in your larger set.
+William White Yeah, I just checked, mine do that too. Some stacks are worse than others. I compared them to Milanos. While close, I think the Majestics are slightly worse. Great observation, thanks for the comment, I forgot to do the flatness testing.
+Hobbyphilic I just compared the Milanos and Majestics side by side (25 stack of black $100 chips each). Literally every Majestic spins. None of the Milanos spins. To me that means a lot because I like stacking my chips 40 high. Majestics won't cut it for me. To spinny and slippery.
Unrelated side note, I also just got a 25 stack of Tiki ceramics to try out. Love them. No spinners there either.
Great chips but I would be concerned with colors that are almost identical. ie .25 and .50,
$500 and $5000
Chip sound tells a lot about the quality of the material. They can have awesome design but if they sound like cheap plastic it ruins the playing experience.. Because it gives away that its just that, plastic chips with a nice sticker. I personally like Paulsons and other quality chips.
..want to add that china clays like the Milanos or Majestic is good enough considering the price point though. The think the clay material is way better than many other so called 'clay composite' chips out there.. Slippery with dull colors, sounds horrible and with a nice, cheap plastic feel. I'd rather save my money for a year. :)
@@Benne175 Majestics aren't made out of clay. They're made out of composite plastic.
they dont look like made from organic clay like the Paulsons. It looks like Plastik
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