Poker is the most popular card game in the world based on betting and hand ranking. Depending on different factors such as how the cards are dealt or the quantity of betting rounds which are allowed in the certain game, one poker game can differ from another quite substantially. Such difference led to the poker being divided into few variants of groups of card families.

Although poker is known as the game with money bets, money are not used in casinos at all, but the main and, in most cases, the only casino currency is casino poker chips, also known as casino tokens, usually made of metal, plastic or clay. Casino poker chips are exchanged during or before casino poker for money but it is just for a game as they have no value outside the territory of casino and nowadays almost every casino has its own set of chips. They are of different denominations and colors but in spite of this they are not just much more traditional but convenient for a lot of reasons so as it is easier to count them than a simple currency, they make the variants of theft or counterfeiting almost impossible and they are also the part of casinos' reputation.

But if you still do not like such system you can choose online casino games with even free poker tournaments represented on free poker sites where both money and chips are just virtual.