Are you using "fun" chips in your games ? (1 Viewer)

[Beakertwang]

I’d be down for a show’em chip, if it came with an amount paid to the shower, like half the bet, or 10x the big blind. In our 5¢/10¢ game, it would be a dollar.

I’m not sure where I stand on the rabbit hunt.

 

[sir bluffs alot]

I’d be down for a show’em chip, if it came with an amount paid to the shower, like half the bet, or 10x the big blind. In our 5¢/10¢ game, it would be a dollar.

I’m not sure where I stand on the rabbit hunt.

Definitely for a cash game situation. You gotta pay...

 

[arch3r]

We don't have any special 'fun' buttons but we allow rabbit hunting if you show your hand. Probably happens a few times a night.

 

[glom]

Personally, if given a choice, I won't play where either show-em or rabbit-hunt chips are used. No place for that time-wasting crap in poker.

Don’t want to keep the game fun for the fish? Only play poker to grind that hourly?

 

[glom]

In one game I play in you can rabbit hunt only if you show your hand. Cut down on the hunting a lot.

 

[beyondtilt]

We play where each gets
1 STFU
1 SHOW'EM
1 RABBIT HUNT
Can only reuse STFU

 

[BGinGA]

Don’t want to keep the game fun for the fish? Only play poker to grind that hourly?

Not mutually exclusive. And no, I don't grind -- I play for fun.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I'm with BG. Rabbit hunt is terrible for the fish. Nothing like telling the losing player that they could have won to make the fish play even worse.

I wouldn't say no to playing in a game like that, but it would take very special circumstances to make me a regular (like it's the only game in town, and aliens have taken all my chips back to their home planet as evidence of intelligent life on earth).

 

[Nex]

Instinctively, I would have said rabbit hunting is good for the (attentive) fish. After all, they see how things would have played out without paying all the way to the showdown. A fish that isn't completely braindead sure would realize after a good amount of rabbit hunting that gutshots just don't arrive often enough to justify calling against a made hand of some sort.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I would agree, except fish aren't very astute. It's the reason slot machines do so well. Look how many times you lost. Now get up and the next player hits it big (a fair rabbit hunt/slot machine comparison).

Result? Never get up. Keep dropping your money. Next time it might hit.

Rabbit hunting is bad for the fish.

 

[Wils]

We used to use "show 'em" chips but I've moved away from them. As others have said, they run counter to everything poker should be about (don't say "poker should be about fun" - we all know it isn't )

You could have loads of different kinds and I think that's where it could get messy. Like chess if you introduced being able to swap three pawns for a rook, the purity of the game is lessened. It ends up being Magic: The Holdeming

Just my two pence.

 

[markleteenie]

Re-viving this thread.

Re-hashing a common one - I'm honestly liking the Show Em can be used at a monetary cost. Free is fun for everyone but the bettor.
Not sure if a fixed price like $5 is to my liking. Right now, I'm thinking a sliding scale based on the bet - so something like 1/4 or 1/2 the bet makes sense.


I've been thinking about "fun" chips recently and wanted to see if any new members had different ideas/games.

 

[Darthhoodie]

Since you received this thread, I'm gonna open it up more. I have always used fairly serious chips, either fantasy casinos or real casino chips. My players ages range from 30ish to 70ish. On a whim I picked up some tiki kings just to add a whimsical set to the collection. I have not resumed live games yet so I don't know what the reaction will be, but I did text pics to a few of my players and the reactions ranged from love to ugh. If you have any "Fun" sets show'em and tell the tale.

 

[Justin Olson]

Re-viving this thread.

Re-hashing a common one - I'm honestly liking the Show Em can be used at a monetary cost. Free is fun for everyone but the bettor.
Not sure if a fixed price like $5 is to my liking. Right now, I'm thinking a sliding scale based on the bet - so something like 1/4 or 1/2 the bet makes sense.


I've been thinking about "fun" chips recently and wanted to see if any new members had different ideas/games.

5x to 10x big blind makes more sense to me
I also make sure everyone has a “Blocker” that blocks show’ems

 

[RadicusScout]

5x to 10x big blind makes more sense to me
I also make sure everyone has a “Blocker” that blocks show’ems
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The blocker button is interesting! I wrestled with introducing a 'Show 'em' chip to our group and ultimately decided against it.

I'm planning on making a 'High Hand', 'Bad Beat', 'Bomb Pot', 'Hero' (for something cool a specific player did that night - not always rewarded at every night), and the 'Old Man' (a non-player hand which players have to beat - used for some our circus games).

 

[TheWhat]

We don't have any special 'fun' buttons but we allow rabbit hunting if you show your hand. Probably happens a few times a night.

Rabbit Hunting happens on occasion, no real big deal.

I kinda like the idea of a Show Em ... but there would have to be a value, outside of just having one to use. We play a 0.25 / 0.50 don't normally pay attention to average pot size, but wondering what price would be appropriate to charge for use? Thinking ~$10 ... anyone have thoughts?

 

[TheWhat]

The blocker button is interesting! I wrestled with introducing a 'Show 'em' chip to our group and ultimately decided against it.

I'm planning on making a 'High Hand', 'Bad Beat', 'Bomb Pot', 'Hero' (for something cool a specific player did that night - not always rewarded at every night), and the 'Old Man' (a non-player hand which players have to beat - used for some our circus games).

We do Bomb Pots on the hour now, love them.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Since this thread has been necro'd...

 

[MaxB]

Here's mockups of the lastest additions to my Vegas house mold set. The labels were ordered this week. Run it twice, rabbit(lion safari) hunt, bomb pot (2x on one side and 4x on the other) and the three matching Show'em chips that in real life are exactly the same color but not so much in these pics

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Here's mockups of the lastest additions to my Vegas house mold set. The labels were ordered this week. Run it twice, rabbit(lion safari) hunt, bomb pot (2x on one side and 4x on the other) and the three matching Show'em chips that in real life are exactly the same color but not so much in these pics

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I love this if for no other reason than it has Barbary Coast house mold chips. That's such a ridiculous chip to have that I kind of want a rack now.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

@Dugthefish will have a "fun" (first letters are the same ) chip in his new set...

 

[trigs]

I do not like the idea of show 'em chips at all, but I guess I could deal with it if it was limited to once a night per person, and they had to pay for it. However, I'm not sure how much one should pay and where I'd want that money to go - maybe straight into the stack of the player who has to show his cards would be okay with me.

I also am not a huge fan of rabbit hunting as it definitely slows down the game if it starts happening a lot, and I just don't get the point of it. The hand is over - who cares what cards would have came? "Woulda, coulda, shoulda" has no place in poker thinking imho. I also never look at my hole cards if there's a misdeal. The hand is dead - I don't care what my hole cards would have been in the hand.

I have played games that used a rule that if you want to rabbit hunt, you have to show your hole cards to the table first. It hasn't gotten used that often so I've been okay with that. At least they have to give up some information to get some (mostly) pointless information back.

 

[Papasatyr]

Hi there,

Just wondering if you are using those kind of chips in your games ?

Show Em

Rabbit Hunt

Reload / Rebuy

Bounty

Personally, I'm using the reload and bounty chips.
Reload can be used like they suggest but it can also represent the value of a full stack and a player would receive a reload chip rather than the initial stack.
I like the idea of the "Show Em" chip and will maybe consider buying some.

Kid.

Don’t care for the Show’Em and Rabbit Hunt chips. If you want to know, pay the price.

 

[ekricket]

Most of the games Ive played in that use these use them to curb the activity rather than promote it. One game every single hand was rabbited with significant pauses for drama between each card. Time waster. So we instituted no rabbit hunting unless you used rabbit hunt chips and dropped that activity considerably.

 

[MaxB]

I love this if for no other reason than it has Barbary Coast house mold chips. That's such a ridiculous chip to have that I kind of want a rack now.

I had to find a way to use them and the fact that they match the other two made it a must use for something fun

 

[Pinesol13]

I do not like the idea of show 'em chips at all, but I guess I could deal with it if it was limited to once a night per person, and they had to pay for it. However, I'm not sure how much one should pay and where I'd want that money to go - maybe straight into the stack of the player who has to show his cards would be okay with me.

When I use show'em chips, every player buys one and the money goes in to the high hand jackpot for that night.

 

[Eloe2000]

The game I host is the casual small stakes game that we play. We are all decent players and play more serious poker at local casinos or other local underground tournaments or cash games. We use seating chips even for cash games to eliminate issues/bickering about seat placement. We occasionally use the seating chip as your one “show em” chip of the night. No money/chips are exchanged. It is certainly counter to the sport/integrity of poker, but it’s just a “fun” thing that generates some shit talking and makes a casual game more enjoyable. We would not use it in our tournaments which are more serious play even if the stakes are not large.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

I had to find a way to use them and the fact that they match the other two made it a must use for something fun

I went to Barbary Coast a couple of times at the tail end of their life, and I've always thought of it as a relic of the old days where you could play slots and get a cheap breakfast on the Strip. I never considered that they would have house-mold chips, and I don't think they had a poker room - hence my "ridiculous" comment last night.

I think the way you're keeping the themes of these chips but repurposing them to special use is awesome. Let me know if you need my shipping address for a sample set.