You’ve said some things I agree with and some things I don’t agree with, but mostly I think we should run you off this site for suggesting it’s okay to put US quarters on the table.All right, I'm going to provide the unsolicited opinion of an outsider...
Although I do play cards, and years ago hosted home games (in the "cash only" days), I have much more frequently used my chips for hosting table games (primarily baccarat & black jack). That all kinda dried up a number of years ago when we got our first local casino...
Disclaimer - None of my friends/players are "chippers" (ok, technically I do know one guy Mike) and I wouldn't self identify as a "chipper".
Here are my observations...
From Poker
- The fewer the denoms the better (3 is best eg. $1's, $5's and $25's or whatever stakes your game is (sorry I don't play for coins)
- Some people/players prefer $1, $5 and cash ($20's, $50's, $100's) - to them the chips are strictly to facilitate "change" (they don't want to carry around a wad of $1's and $5's).
- In this vein, if we did use "fracs" we would literally use quarters from the US mint - One less thing to cash in/out.
From Table games
- No one wants the snappers, period. Whenever someone hits a black jack, or insta pays the vig in baccarat, and they end up with a snapper, it is almost always put in as part of a bet on the very next hand (hoping to win and have it swapped for a $5 or if they get two they frequently ask for it to be replaced with a $5).
In general
- Standard colors and denominations, for your region, are best/easiest (and no math). It's just too much wasted time and energy trying to explain to the half-wit or drunk that "no, the green chip is not worth $25 it's worth xxx".
- Side note - Also, for some reason it's really hard to tell some people that the blue chips are not $10 (My best guess as to why they would think that is the cheap ass plastic chips come in red, white and blue and since the white is 1 and the red is 5 that the blue MUST be 10 - because it's both penny, nickel, dime and $1, $5, $10).
- Never have the cost (or value) of a chip be worth more than it's standard use value (i.e. if you use it as a $5, make sure it's worth less than $5 a chip). The chips will always walk away.
TLDR - Chipping may be your fetish (or one of them) but most people don't give a shit. Non-chippers (let's call them Norms), being kind and generous people, will indulge your penchant to a point, most will think you are half a loon (you should hear some of the questions I get from friends about Mike - the one chipper I mentioned above).
Ok, that's my 2 cents. Feel free to criticize anything you disagree with (I couldn't care less and nothing you say will offend me). To the less vocal among you, send in the angry emojis.
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JustDogbert
Two Pair
Well, this will bug you then...
I used to pay bets that included a snapper, with another snapper. Most players didn't really care for that, and would stop me and ask to swap for a red chip.
My solution was to stop using snappers altogether and instead pay them with two whites and two quarters (yes, us mint quarters).
The benefit to this is that they frequently just let me keep the quarters.
So yes, I removed snapper from play and replaced them with us mint quarters.
jpietrella
4 of a Kind
Yaaaassssss
I guess I’m kind of used to that - I’ve played in “casinos” that do that. And when they do it with a half dollar coin, I don’t even mind - those things are cool.Well, this will bug you then...
I used to pay bets that included a snapper, with another snapper. Most players didn't really care for that, and would stop me and ask to swap for a red chip.
My solution was to stop using snappers altogether and instead pay them with two whites and two quarters (yes, us mint quarters).
The benefit to this is that they frequently just let me keep the quarters.
So yes, I removed snapper from play and replaced them with us mint quarters.
Generally speaking, I agree with everything you said about the fewer the colors better. I’m a big white red green guy (though I love a fancy colored frac and I like having some $100s around because even non chippers love that, if you can find an excuse to get one or two on the table.). I started this thread because I didn’t want to play snappers as snappers, but felt like I needed to, due to a shortage of $5s.
What I don’t agree with is cash on the table. That might be more of an old school thing, though I have played in casinos where hundred dollar bills behind, play. Though, I feel like as soon as they go into they’re converted to chips. Regardless, if you’re playing a big bet game, where it’s important to be able to know how much is in your opponents’ stacks, bills are a liability.
Oh and I don’t understand guys who don’t like snappers at the blackjack table. I liked them even before I was a chipper. But I’ve only ever dabbled in blackjack. I suppose if you’re a hardcore blackjack grinder, I could see it.
JustDogbert
Two Pair
Agreed, I personally prefer the larger denoms (black, purple, orange) and have racks of them but they generally only come out for baccarat are rarely for black jack (I've never hosted a card game that was that big).
Yes, I know, I did read the whole thread and intended to reply as an answer to that very question.. and then I saw a shiny object and rambled off at the mouth... Hopefully I didn't derail your thread too badly.
100% agree - I'm not a fan myself (way to easy to take cash off the table + what you said about stack sizes). This was mostly the older players (which are probably mostly dead now since I'm getting old myself).
I was one of them. I was told that you should put it up in the tip circle (play for the dealers) whenever you get one.
On thread topic - I do remember playing at FoxWoods decades ago (baccarat) and I was just putting my pink chips in a pile (change from paying the vig) when I got up for a break and some random dude comes up to me and asks to "buy" all my pink chips for like $4 each. I was confused, and I remember trying to explain to him that they're only worth $2.50 each. He was adamant (I thought it was a scam) so when I was done playing I sold him all my snappers. So I might have unknowingly harvested some of those snappers for ya
CrazyEddie
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