Are you married to chip denom colors? (2 Viewers)

[NotRealNameNoSir]

This confuses me. Anyone else see light blue, purple, and orange?

No pinks or greens shown, denoms are printed. I call it dark blue, not mad at calling it blurple or whatever.

 

[MrSonOfABeech]

Not I. I'm grateful to play in a game with denominated chips. I played for 20+ years in a game without denominations, so having denominations, regardless of colour, is a true blessing at the table.

 

[peatmonster]

My group will never play with non-Vegas based colors (red $5s, green $25s, black $10s is a must)...it was close to a group walk-out a few years ago when I broke out a cali set to play in our $5/$10/$25 game....

that doesn't mean you shouldn't have non-conventional sets... although this set is unlikely to ever see play in my weekly, it was used at Matt's (@Irish) last meet-up in 2023...fun times

It means you can sell me all the TP secondary chips since you won’t use them anyway

 

[Saditsfact]

Vegas vs Cali colors..... tourney vs cash.... why not both?

I have a custom 1/4-pie design in progress that incorporates both color schemes simultaneously in a single CA-cash/std-tourney set using no duplicate colors:

.25 / 25 -- red/green
1.00 / 100 -- blue/charcoal
5.00 / 500 -- yellow/purple
20.00 / 2000 -- black/orange
100.00 / 10000 -- white/pink

Cali cash colors when viewing one axis, non-Cali tourney colors on the other axis.

Denominations on inlay/label that can be read either way, but they are oriented left-right with the CA cash colors using decimal points on one chip face, and oriented left-right with the tourney colors (and no decimal point) on the opposite face.

Ten denominations using five distinct chips, with two poker uses in one single set, and with zero color duplications. Perfect?

Would love to see how this ends up

 

[Taghkanic]

I played for 20+ years in a game without denominations

The whole time with the same chips? Didn’t regs remember the corresponding denoms by, like, Year 5?

 

[jrees]

Nope, couldn't do it when I hosted. If I'm playing at somebody else's game, it's their game and I wouldn't complain with different colours. I wouldn't have a problem, just might have to learn a couple lessons before I get used to the change. Hopefully not 'spensive lessons.

 

[chippitydoodah]

There are situations where you have no clue what chips are worth based on color or denominations. I went to this guys home game NLHE Tourney and was so confused all night long. Red $5 chip was 25, Green 25 chip was 50, Blue 50 was 500 & Black $100 was 1000 . Needless to say the next time he invited me I offered to bring my set of Matsui Horseshoe WSOP 43mm chips which everyone loved. I hope he takes my advice and buys a quality set in the future.

All night long I was looking at his cheat sheet before placing my bets.

 

[drdr]

Who says this? I’m outside Philly so AC is my “home casino turf”. That said I’ve played in numerous casinos in Vegas. They have blue chips for $1s. AC doesn’t. I’m close to AC so I go with white. Also, if you play outside of either place or watch poker vlogs in random cards rooms you will see white $1s are extremely common….like in TX.

I played at the Wynn in Vegas and the Wynn Encore in Boston in the course of a month. Unlike in Vegas, their Boston casino uses white $1s
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Oooh those three chips together. Instant attraction!
Do prefer standard Vegas colours. Though did play non standard colours with NCV set for 18 years (and it micro irked me every game).

 

[Huskerchipper]

There are situations where you have no clue what chips are worth based on color or denominations. I went to this guys home game NLHE Tourney and was so confused all night long. Red $5 chip was 25, Green 25 chip was 50, Blue 50 was 500 & Black $100 was 1000 . Needless to say the next time he invited me I offered to bring my set of Matsui Horseshoe WSOP 43mm chips which everyone loved. I hope he takes my advice and buys a quality set in the future.

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All night long I was looking at his cheat sheet before placing my bets.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

 

[PlaidDragon]

I went to this guys home game NLHE Tourney and was so confused all night long. Red $5 chip was 25, Green 25 chip was 50, Blue 50 was 500 & Black $100 was 1000

All night long I was looking at his cheat sheet before placing my bets.

 

[Marius L]

There are situations where you have no clue what chips are worth based on color or denominations. I went to this guys home game NLHE Tourney and was so confused all night long. Red $5 chip was 25, Green 25 chip was 50, Blue 50 was 500 & Black $100 was 1000 . Needless to say the next time he invited me I offered to bring my set of Matsui Horseshoe WSOP 43mm chips which everyone loved. I hope he takes my advice and buys a quality set in the future.

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All night long I was looking at his cheat sheet before placing my bets.

At least he made a cheat sheet! What a mess.

I'm happy to mix colors. I have sets with different colors/denoms. Makes having multiple sets a bit more fun for me. I still prefer to have some standard ish colors, and maybe mix in one or two denoms. For my tigers I mixed between the pri and sec set, just to get a lineup I liked the most. As long as they are denominated it's all good!

Spoiler: My tigers

If playing with non denominated chips, you should have standard colors. (But i dislike nondenoms in general)