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.