Why not a snapper for a custom cash set? (1 Viewer)

[doakwolf]

I've noticed most people use $20s instead of $25s for cash sets and this makes sense I guess (especially for lower stakes) but why are so many people adverse to $2.50 chips and instead use $2 chips?

To me it seems silly to have a $1 and a $2 so a $2.50 makes more sense. I understand most will say to scrap it all together and just run with $1 & $5 but for those of us who like a little bit more colour on the table, I'm trying to decide between $2 and $2.50.

Can anyone shed light as to the reason a $2 is considered more suitable by so many players?

(my regular game is either 25c/25c or 25c/50c PLH)

 

[BGinGA]

$2.50 chips are for blackjack.

 

[doakwolf]

LOL - quick reply!

OK I'm building a blackjack table.

 

[stocky]

Play $15/$30 limit. Sb $7.50 bb $15

To me a $2 is more versatile. Can be used for many limit games or 2/5 games

 

[DrStrange]

I wonder how we will make change when someone tosses is three snappers to call a $6 bet? Maybe have a fifty cent fractional? Or two quarters? Every time one or more $2.50 chips goes in the pot, there is a chance this issue comes up. Could come up backwards - say a bet of $2.50 and a call with three one dollar chips.

I do not care for strange denomination chips in play without a reason, so I would avoid both snappers or $2s in favor of $1s and $5s. But if we had to choose, I would prefer the $2 chip

DrStrange

 

[Tommy]

Set of just quarters and snappers.

 

[BGinGA]

fiddies and snappers would be better, 5x



Could even get those pesky $10 chip in play.

 

[doakwolf]

Haha yep OK thanks all, most thanks to Strange for an actual answer!

I think I'll run with a $2 chip. Funny how things make more sense when drunk. Is that a bad sign? :S

 

[doakwolf]

P.S. I can't help that I was born in Tasmania where the local casino runs a $1 / $2.50 (or $2.50 / $5) NLH game using primarily snappers and fives

I was so blind drunk my whole time in Vegas I can't remember the chips haha.

 

[ovo]

it's a custom set, get what you want. You can just look at the beautiful chips and be happy

 

[Psypher1000]

Is that a bad sign?

Nope. Working as designed. To wit...

 

[RagsPoker]

Cliff was awesome on that show.....my favorite show of the '80's.

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

I've noticed most people use $20s instead of $25s for cash sets and this makes sense I guess (especially for lower stakes) but why are so many people adverse to $2.50 chips and instead use $2 chips?

To me it seems silly to have a $1 and a $2 so a $2.50 makes more sense. I understand most will say to scrap it all together and just run with $1 & $5 but for those of us who like a little bit more colour on the table, I'm trying to decide between $2 and $2.50.

Can anyone shed light as to the reason a $2 is considered more suitable by so many players?

(my regular game is either 25c/25c or 25c/50c PLH)

I'm using a $1 and $5 for my cash set. No need for a $2 or a $2.50 in my opinion, unless you want to get a bunch for limit games. After my custom set gets done, I've been thinking about making a snapper for a pink chip game, but that's waaaaayyyyy down the line, if ever.

 

[jbutler]

I'm using a $1 and $5 for my cash set. No need for a $2 or a $2.50 in my opinion, unless you want to get a bunch for limit games. After my custom set gets done, I've been thinking about making a snapper for a pink chip game, but that's waaaaayyyyy down the line, if ever.

I think this is the case for most around here in that the only use for a denom between $1 and $5 would be limit games and honestly a $2 chips is a million times more versatile for limit games than a $2.50 chip.

Even if I was explicitly putting together a pink chip set, I would probably make the pink chip non-denom so I could use it as a .50 (for $1/2 limit), a $2 (for $4/8, 6/12 and 8/16 limit) and, naturally, a $2.50 (for $5/10 and $7.50/15 limit).

 

[BiGGyT]

$2.50/$5 NLH sounds awesome IMO.

 

[doakwolf]

$2.50/$5 NLH sounds awesome IMO.

Good reason for me to get some $2.50 chips then! Lol except my friends and I will never play stakes that high at home

I think I've been talked out of using $2.50s in my game but may still get some made just to look at. After all, I tend to spend more time looking at my chips than using them!

 

[Dale_Doback]

I originally was just going to do a $1, $5 and $25 chip but many years ago at a Casino, they were using a $2 chip in the $1 / $2 game so that's why I decided to do it for mine. You have less chips on the table, don't need to give change as much if people throw $5's in for the big blind and like you said, it adds more color to the table.

My games (starting in the next 3-4 weeks hopefully) are gonna be $1/$2 NL, no min / $200 Max.

 

[xdan]

i just did a snapper and a tenner for my bellagio ceramics... before seeing this thread.
i want to plan a 5/10 limit mixed game, so the snapper would be handy.

sorry about the dodgy pic quality..

to go with these:

 

[jbutler]

i just did a snapper and a tenner for my bellagio ceramics... before seeing this thread.
i want to plan a 5/10 limit mixed game, so the snapper would be handy.

sorry about the dodgy pic quality..

to go with these:

Who made those ceramics?

 

[BGinGA]

You have less chips on the table

Bordering on blasphemy.

 

[xdan]

Who made those ceramics?

Hey mate
i got put onto a guy in China. i just have his email and back details.. seems to be working out quite well.

people have been at me for not sharing my contact.. but i simply dont have anything more to share.
i send him artwork and money. he sends me chips. happy days

 

[RainmanTrail]

Why not have a $3.75 chip and some snappers and 5s for a $7.50 - $15.00 limit game?

$2 chips are really only used for limit games like 6/12 and 8/16. I can't imagine any card room using them for anything else. And you'll never see a "snapper", or even hear the term, outside of the pit games.

 

[jbutler]

$2 chips are really only used for limit games like 6/12 and 8/16. I can't imagine any card room using them for anything else.

God, I wish that were true. $2 chips play and are in play often in the $1/2 and $2/5 NLHE games at Parx and MD Live. Not just pointless, but actually slows down the game as people try to count out bets with $2 chips. I despise it.

 

[RainmanTrail]

God, I wish that were true. $2 chips play and are in play often in the $1/2 and $2/5 NLHE games at Parx and MD Live. Not just pointless, but actually slows down the game as people try to count out bets with $2 chips. I despise it.

That's hilarious. I've never seen that before. I bet the dealers despise them!

 

[Psypher1000]

i just did a snapper

If available, I'd love one for my snapper collection!

 

[Dale_Doback]

God, I wish that were true. $2 chips play and are in play often in the $1/2 and $2/5 NLHE games at Parx and MD Live. Not just pointless, but actually slows down the game as people try to count out bets with $2 chips. I despise it.

Everyone has their own opinion but I've played in lots of $1/$2 NLHE games w/a $2 chip and haven't noticed it getting slowed down at all.

 

[derekdd23]

God, I wish that were true. $2 chips play and are in play often in the $1/2 and $2/5 NLHE games at Parx and MD Live. Not just pointless, but actually slows down the game as people try to count out bets with $2 chips. I despise it.

You can say the same for $5 chips, i cant even count the number of times i have seen someone count out in stacks of 2 all over the table, then recount again. 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100... just shoot me.

 

[jbutler]

Sure, you can say the same about all denomination, but the lower the denomination the more frequently they're going to be counting them up. The more diverse lower denominations, the more complicated it is for the knuckle dragging morons and the slower the game goes.

Sure, playing in our home games where most people have their head about them, the $2 chip isn't a problem. Bring it in to the rubber room of the public card room where most guys should be wearing helmets, you may as well put a combination lock on their chip stack it will take them so long to figure it out. $2 chips suck my nuts in big bet games.

 

[derekdd23]

I have played with guys in a local game that have been playing for decades that still count 2 x 2 with the 5s. Personally I like the more standard approach with 1,5,25,100 etc. I wish there was a way to force the helmet wearing crowd to only use big chips.

The chipper in me sometimes wants more denominations on the table because I like chips. I have a rack of CP 2s that are so beautiful, but never see play because of the confusion.

 

[jbutler]

The chipper in me sometimes wants more denominations on the table because I like chips. I have a rack of CP 2s that are so beautiful, but never see play because of the droolers.

I'm with you. I bought 800 CP $2s back in the day trying to get a big limit set going. When I went nearly a year without finding more, I gave up the ghost and sold them all off because I couldn't rationalize using them with my $1s and $5s and my then-current group didn't play an exclusively limit game (only a mix that included NLHE and PLO) and so didn't want to/couldn't use primarily $2s only. Broke my heart, but then I ended up selling off all my Parks anyway.

BTW, I did experience something worse than $2s once. A guy had a $1/3 NLHE home game and used $1, $3 and $5 chips. What a fucking disaster. You'd have thought it was Special Olympics poker. Half the guys were blazed 100% of the time anyway, so it was a giant clusterfuck. He only made the mistake twice. By his third game, the blue chips (whites/blues/reds) were put away and finally we could get through more than 20 hands an hour.