Currency is usually difficult to stack or handle, so most online Poker games are played with chips. These are coin-shaped tokens of uniform size and weight. Their usual width is 39mm and 5 to 16 grams in weight. In the past Poker chips were made of bone. Modern casino chips are often made of clay. Another variety of chips are ceramic chips. Plastic chips are also available, at a wide variety of quality levels.

The chips money value depends on their color.The most common colors used at United States casinos to differentiate between chip denominations are:

White or blue, $1
Pink, $2.50
Red, $5
Blue, $10
Green, $25
Black, $100
Purple, $500

Poker chips are fabricated with complicated graphics and edge spot patterns for the purpose of making them difficult to counterfeit. The process used to make these chips is a trade secret and is very expensive.

Common designs depict the six faces of a die or the suit symbols around the edge of the chip. They are manufactured with injection molding technology.