Why are there $3 chips in some casinos? (1 Viewer)

I was talking more about $2, $2.50, $3, $20 chips, etc. those are only used in poker, and you don’t find those in regular table games. I have seen fracs used for rakes and dealer tips in poker. MOST casinos use actual coins for $.25 and $.50 for black Jack and such, but some do have chips.
$2.50 is mainly used for blackjack. $20 tends to be baccarat.
 
I was talking more about $2, $2.50, $3, $20 chips, etc. those are only used in poker, and you don’t find those in regular table games. I have seen fracs used for rakes and dealer tips in poker. MOST casinos use actual coins for $.25 and $.50 for black Jack and such, but some do have chips.
I've never once seen a snapper in a poker game (supposedly there's one casino on the east coast that does it, but it's certainly an anomaly). Snappers are for pit games. Pretty much exclusively. They were created for paying 3 to 2 odds on $5 blackjacks.

No casino anywhere on earth is using fracs for rake chips. I guarentee it. Not one. No where in the world. Not ever. Also, I like being hyperbolic. But ya, this ain't happening.
 
I’m not sure if you mis-spoke but lets be clear - the only poker games to use fracs are home games. They come from some table games that I’ve never played (pai gow maybe, I honestly have no idea) but The point is that fracs only exist to be used as payouts in some odd table games.
At Harrah's two years ago, the dealer was using .50 cent chips in the poker room. They were NOT in play. The dealer was using them to keep track of something. I don't know if it was for the rake, keeping track of the bank, or something else.

Any dealers here that can explain what this might have been for?

Edit: it was a $1 / $2 NLHE game.
 
At Harrah's two years ago, the dealer was using .50 cent chips in the poker room. They were NOT in play. The dealer was using them to keep track of something. I don't know if it was for the rake, keeping track of the bank, or something else.

Any dealers here that can explain what this might have been for?

Edit: it was a $1 / $2 NLHE game.
Probably tracking the number of hands per down. Could also be used to track players for various reasons (could be warnings given or something like that). Dealers sometimes use spacers for stuff like this, but they could just as easily use fracs.

Source: I was a dealer in my early 20s.
 
I was planning on posting the same thing but more so about the $20 chip. It just seems to me that a $25 chip is much easier to count in stacks ($500 vs $400)

Agreed, in PCF land the $20 is seen as a good cap chip for smaller limit games (like 0.25-0.50 blind) because it can readily be exchanged for a full barrel of chips. In bigger limit games where one could amass a full barrel (like 1-2 or 1-3), 25s make more sense because a barrel is $500.


I’m not sure if you mis-spoke but lets be clear - the only poker games to use fracs are home games. They come from some table games that I’ve never played (pai gow maybe, I honestly have no idea) but The point is that fracs only exist to be used as payouts in some odd table games.

The 2/4 and 3/6 stud games at Canterbury Park use a 50c chip for antes. Players also use them for tips at lower stake games too.

Also the blackjack pit doesn't buse snappers so the "pumpkins" get use there for paying off 3-2 blackjacks.

Late edit, fellow Canterbury Afficianodo @Nanook covered this extensively above, sorry I missed it.
 
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Fair enough. I’ve actually played 2/4 stud games that just don’t use antes, for lack of appropriate chips, and they’re poop.
Good lord....
2/4 stud with antes is an extremely small game. Can't even imagine it without antes as it's going to play even smaller.

Stud is actually a great game, just has to be a lot bigger. $6/$12 wouldn't be too bad. My preference would be at least $15/$30 or bigger, but I understand a lot of people wouldn't be willing to play that big
 
No casino anywhere on earth is using fracs for rake chips. I guarentee it. Not one.

Actually I do know Canterbury raked their low limit stud games to the nearest 0.50. They do 0.50 on every 5 in the pot to a max of 4. (As opposed to one on every 10.)

I've never once seen a snapper in a poker game (supposedly there's one casino on the east coast that does it, but it's certainly an anomaly).

Here is @pltrgyst 's post on that game

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/limit-poker-breakdown.34143/page-2#post-707023
 
Stud is actually a great game, just has to be a lot bigger. $6/$12 wouldn't be too bad. My preference would be at least $15/$30 or bigger, but I understand a lot of people wouldn't be willing to play that big

Canterbury is opening this week, I think I am going to go play 10/20 mix on Friday. They play stud games $2 ante and $5 force.
 
I've never once seen a snapper in a poker game (supposedly there's one casino on the east coast that does it, but it's certainly an anomaly). Snappers are for pit games. Pretty much exclusively. They were created for paying 3 to 2 odds on $5 blackjacks.

No casino anywhere on earth is using fracs for rake chips. I guarentee it. Not one. No where in the world. Not ever. Also, I like being hyperbolic. But ya, this ain't happening.
Yup, I saw it at Hawaiian Gardens. The players didn’t get any, just the dealer had them and used them for something.
 
On a side note, does anyone else remember when they had $0.25 craps downtown vegas? I don’t remember if it was the Plaza or another casino, but it was early 90’s last time I saw it.
 
On a side note, does anyone else remember when they had $0.25 craps downtown vegas? I don’t remember if it was the Plaza or another casino, but it was early 90’s last time I saw it.
I remember playing $1 craps in lake Tahoe probably late 80's early 90's. Not sure about 25c though. That seems really small, even back then.
 
Canterbury is opening this week, I think I am going to go play 10/20 mix on Friday. They play stud games $2 ante and $5 force.
I have played in that game. Not my regular game. If it was a little bigger I would probably play it. I know they play 40/80 mix, but that is a little big in some of the games for me. Anyway, you might see me in that game occasionally as I would like to improve at some of the other games.

The game I really want to master is PLO, but we aren't likely to be playing that for a long while in MN. It is good for the cardroom to not have PLO as it kills off players even faster than nl, which seems tough but it can get massive.

Some of the PLO games in FL and other places you can find games at times with 150k or 200k on the table and absolutely CRAYZY play. Gotta be WELL staked in a game like that!
 
The guy I got this $4 chip from said it was being used exclusively as a drop chip, and was harder to get because it was not in play (at least back when they opened)
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I remember playing $1 craps in lake Tahoe probably late 80's early 90's. Not sure about 25c though. That seems really small, even back then.
Yeah, my friend told me about it and we had to go to several casinos to find it. Most had $1 craps during the day/weekdays, but we did find $0.25 craps. They used chips. Roulette was also often $0.25 or $0.50, but those chips were unmarked. Craps was the best, though. Bought in for $40 and played forever. Blackjack used to use those casino silver tokens for the slot machines for $1 at blackjack. I remember we used to toss in a couple of $5 chips and say “give me some silver” when we wanted singles. They didn’t start using $1 chips widespread until slots went to printing tickets instead of coins.
 
I remember playing $1 craps in lake Tahoe probably late 80's early 90's. Not sure about 25c though. That seems really small, even back then.
I just asked my buddy who was with me and he remembers. It was Palace Station.
 
Blackjack used to use those casino silver tokens for the slot machines for $1 at blackjack. I remember we used to toss in a couple of $5 chips and say “give me some silver” when we wanted singles.
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
 
how does the "limit" work. Like I understand it is a limit on the betting per time around the table but is there some sort of cap on the chips on the buy in?
In a fixed-limit game, every bet and every raise is always the same amount. So, for example, while in standard no-limit hold'em game if you decide to open-raise you might bet somewhere between 2x and 6x the big blind depending on your chosen strategy, in a fixed-limit game there's no need to decide how much to raise by. That decision is already determined by the stakes. Your only decision is whether to call, raise, or fold.

Fixed-limit games have a "small bet" which is the bet size preflop and on the flop, and a "big bet" which is the bet size on the turn and river. The big bet is twice the size of the small bet. The stakes are written using the size of the small and big bets; for example, $1/$2 means that the small bet is $1 and the big bet is $2. In no-limit the stakes are written using the small and big blinds; $1/$2 means the small blind is $1 and the big blind is $2. In a fixed limit game, the small blind is half a bet (i.e. half of the small bet) and the big blind is a full bet (i.e. an entire small bet), so in a $1/$2 fixed limit game the small blind is $0.50 and the big blind is $1.

Fixed-limit games usually have a cap on the number of bets and raises there can be in a single round, usually four. So for example, in a $1/$2 fixed limit game, the big blind bets $1, someone raises to $2, someone raises to $3, and someone raises to $4 and then no more raises can be made pre-flop. On the flop there's a new round of betting, which again goes up by $1 with each raise, until it gets capped at $4. On the turn the betting starts at $2 and can be raised by $2 each raise until there's been four bets/raises making it $8. Same again on the river.

Cash games don't usually have a cap on buy-ins, although sometimes home games do. Buy-in caps in no-limit games sort-of keep big stacks from bullying small stacks, although in cash games that's not really important (although a lot of people feel like it is). However, in fixed-limit games, since you can't shove your whole stack, there's not really any purpose to having a capped buy-in. The most you can bet in a single hand is usually 24x the big blind, so having 100bb or 800bb in your stack makes no difference to how a hand will play out.

Also I am new here, Should I not be asking all these questions in one thread? Or wuld posting too many threads be anoying? I just don't want to be a pain.
You should be asking your questions wherever and however it seems right. Don't sweat it. Questions are always great, and are a whole lot less annoying than the memes and insider jokes posted by the usual gang of idiots regulars. :)
 
I’m a NL guy. I must say it must be annoying as f@@k to have to stack or watch someone stack half as many chips every hand. The amount of inconvenience would deter me from even playing.
I have to completely disagree with this. Do you not like chips?

There’s no better feeling than raking in a huge limit pot and taking several hands to finish stacking your reward. Like a pirate fondling his treasure chest booty.

Better still is winning another big pot before you finish stacking your previous win. Limit RULES!!!!!
 
I have to completely disagree with this. Do you not like chips?

There’s no better feeling than raking in a huge limit pot and taking several hands to finish stacking your reward. Like a pirate fondling his treasure chest booty.

Better still is winning another big pot before you finish stacking your previous win. Limit RULES!!!!!
I like limit poker. And I love chips. But I'll never understand this mentality. Not only don't I care how many chips are in front of me, I'd rather have fewer, because they're easier to manage. I only care how much all of my chips are worth. I know I'm in the minority here, but this whole MOAR attitude is silly. I'm a big fan of ENOUGH.
 
I like limit poker. And I love chips. But I'll never understand this mentality. Not only don't I care how many chips are in front of me, I'd rather have fewer, because they're easier to manage. I only care how much all of my chips are worth. I know I'm in the minority here, but this whole MOAR attitude is silly. I'm a big fan of ENOUGH.
Understood. But, let me have my fun. ;)
 
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Probably tracking the number of hands per down. Could also be used to track players for various reasons (could be warnings given or something like that). Dealers sometimes use spacers for stuff like this, but they could just as easily use fracs.

Source: I was a dealer in my early 20s.
He had spacers too, so I assumed the .50 cent chips had some $ significance, but I couldn't figure it out.
 
He had spacers too, so I assumed the .50 cent chips had some $ significance, but I couldn't figure it out.
Could have also been for tokes. Sometimes in smaller games, or just regular games with cheap players, players will throw the dealer a $1 chip and ask for a "chop" indicating that they want to tip him/her 50¢, so the dealer throws a frac back to the player and drops another one in his toke box. But those fracs aren't usually in play and can only be used for tips.
 
I like limit poker. And I love chips. But I'll never understand this mentality. Not only don't I care how many chips are in front of me, I'd rather have fewer, because they're easier to manage. I only care how much all of my chips are worth. I know I'm in the minority here, but this whole MOAR attitude is silly. I'm a big fan of ENOUGH.
WAT?!?!?!?

If 10 is good then 100 are better.

End of discussion.
 
Could have also been for tokes. Sometimes in smaller games, or just regular games with cheap players, players will throw the dealer a $1 chip and ask for a "chop" indicating that they want to tip him/her 50¢, so the dealer throws a frac back to the player and drops another one in his toke box. But those fracs aren't usually in play and can only be used for tips.
Hmmm...I wasn't paying enough attention, but that would be pretty shitty to ask for .50 damn cents back. I didn't see anybody but the dealer with .50s, but again...wasn't watching close enough.

It DEFINITELY wasn't my crew being cheap. True story: My buddy Mike got knocked out of the Main Event, so we went to Harrahs to play poker and get drunk. There were 5 of us in the poker room (half drunk already) and Mike asked for 5 shots of Patron with beer chasers. The waitress said she couldn't bring us Patron. Mike, who @Lil Tuna will tell you, has hands the size of a basketball reached down and palmed a handful of $5s (probably close to $300), dropped them on her tray and asked, "how about now?" Needless to say, she ran Patron to us all night long. :) We definitely didn't get any .50 cent chips back...LOL!!
 

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