custom chips

Custom Chips & Card Guards

Custom chips can be customized with your picture, logo, or design, all while maintaining the professional aesthetic expected of tournament quality chips. Choose from a wide range of colors, materials, and customization options for your creation today.

Customizing Chips

Custom chips are an idea perfect for all kinds of marketing campaigns or as a fun giveaway. Highly customizable and versatile, they can be designed with company logos, catchy messages and sophisticated designs - giving them the power to promote any brand or business in style. Moreover, chip design isn't limited when it comes to creativity; using injection molding techniques alongside screen printing, hot stamping and digital printing processes create endless possibilities allowing you to bring your visions alive!

Custom professional grade chips are professional and easy to create. We understand standard tournament denominations and will work with you to create customized chips and card guards that meet the standards of tournaments. 

customize coin with enamel

Made to order in days!

Want to flaunt your prestige as a player and your dedication to the game? If you’re an event organizer, these custom card guards are also a great way to honor players in a particular tournament.

The Monterey Company is the go-to source for truly unique chips. Our designs cater to customers far and wide, from elite hotels and private organizations to gaming enthusiasts who come looking for a special touch of personalized flair. Whether it's original artwork or personal engravings, our handmade creations can be tailored in hundreds of ways - ensuring your product perfectly reflects skill on the felt or serves as an unforgettable reminder of memorable tournaments!

Card Protectors

Have you ever watched a professional game? Those unflappable cool cat players that seem so intimidating you can barely imagine talking to them? Part of the mystique, other then their flat affected faces is the overall look they sport. It's not just clothes and very mysterious glasses, but it's down to the details, like their card protectors.

printed card protector

Why Order?

  • To commemorate a particular tournament or event
  • To build camaraderie in a group of players
  • To show your skill and prestige as a player
  • To use as a card guard
  • To build brand recognition and loyalty for a hotel
  • As a promotional piece for a private club, hotel
  • To create a piece of collectible commemorative art

The History of Chips

Did you know that chips were created so that the game host has some control over the safety of the chip count? If a house has its own chips with different colors for different denominations, then counting them is easy, and duplicating them becomes a bit harder. Custom engravings, numeration, and designs that are intricate and that change yearly also ensure against theft or duplication.

The game has been bringing people together for high-stakes, strategy and luck loving entertainment for hundreds of years. Derived from such games as the Spanish “Primero” and the French “Poque,” the game as we know it gained traction around the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Becoming formalized after the rise of the 52-card deck, this game became a staple for entertainment along with river boating culture up the Mississippi and for soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. Then, moving out of just the rough and tumble saloons and working-men culture, gained notoriety when Queen Victoria learned to play from the U.S. Minister to Great Britain. Today, the game is played everywhere from casual basement gatherings to televised world championships, loved for its intensity, strategy, and fun.

As rich in history the chip has been essential in assisting players to navigate their game. Originating in such materials as ivory, bone, wood, or paper, the chip has evolved into the clay, metal, and plastic denomination pieces we know today. Often beautifully adorned, these pieces signify the amount of money they're worth, tournament, or club they’re from.

Collecting Chips

There are several factors to consider when you order, and we are here to help you every step of the way. If you have an iconic design we would recommend using either soft or hard enamel. Both of these styles will have a raised metal edge separating out each color. If your design has a full-color graphic, we would suggest a printed style coin. This style does not have a metal edge between each color.

Ordering Chips

There are several factors to consider when you order, and we are here to help you every step of the way. If you have an iconic design we would recommend using either soft or hard enamel. Both of these styles will have a raised metal edge separating out each color. If your design has a full-color graphic, we would suggest a printed style coin. This style does not have a metal edge between each color.

Adding Engraving
Adding engraving to your design will allow you to have a personalized design with a name or serial number to commemorate your special event.