While I will keep trying to eliminate the 50s from a 25-50-100-500 breakdown, this really puts it in perspective.

Genius! I'd try to collect as many of those chips as possible just for this. It wins on so many levels.

Just to tack on, yellow $20 chips can be found at the Borgata asian games too.

I think one of favorite moments at the Borg was by some freak chance I managed to obtain one of every color chip from white to black (minus the pink) while playing 1/2, and a situation came up where I bet a "rainbow." And actually, the dealer had purple sitting the rack, which I was tempted to buy for a bigger rainbow.

Casino Arizona (near me) has Brown 10's, and has waffled between pink and white ones over the years.

http://museumofgaminghistory.org/cg_...SCC2&sort=type

I have never seen them in any tray, but the Harrah's 30 minutes outside of Phoenix has peach 10's and blue 20's.

http://museumofgaminghistory.org/cg_...PHHA&sort=type

Back to "Blue" 10's for a bit... ....I'm uh, gonna have to disagree. Brown seems way more common in California, although there is a bit of blue.

As to California starting with the big card rooms, the moving to casinos, Commerce uses Mustard 10's, Bay 101 uses red 10's, The Bike has brown 10's, Huster goes Brown for 10's as does Hawaiian Gardens. Pechanga has Blue 10's, Cache Creek has Blue 8's, San Manuel has a picture of a car on their 10's and none of the other super-size casinos use a $10 at all. I didn't look at all 77 active card rooms listed...

So, there's a lot of brown out there on 10's, but plenty of other colors, even in been-playing-forever CA.

In most Irish places it's:

Pink 50c (blackjack only)
White 1
Red 5
Green 25
Black 100
Yellow 500

There are bigger ones out there but not really allowed at the pokerz table (nor are the pinks).

Special mention goes to the stupid Sporting Emporium for making their $25's black and confusing the hell out of everyone. The amount of times I've had to pull back a raise or bet due to misreading the chips! (Well, not that many times because I call the amount before chips go in).

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about the yellow 20's which is surprising considering how much time I spend playing pai gow and Asian poker.

A little variation from "standard", but in my home limit game, chip colors are

white = 25c
blue = $1
red = $5
green = $25
black = $100

the greens and blacks are just theoretical, it's a very low-limit game (.25/.50). We only use the whites and blues, once in a blue moon a couple of reds might show up in someone's stack if we've got a full table and a lot of re-buys (rare).

I recently ordered a few more racks of whites, same style...once they arrive, just going to play with one color, make it a little bit more like a casino limit game.

Probably counter to many's experience, but our group (all of whom know no-limit) seem to prefer limit hold-em, and the sophistication of the game has risen over past few months. We mix it up with some 7-card stud as well from time to time. I'm hoping to get 'em to try some razz and maybe slowly build this into a limit rotational game. Unfortunately, we rarely have more than six on any given night, and i'm hesitant to try introducing Omaha8 or 7-card stud hi-low under such conditions.

Because I'm bored today...

Other authorized AC chip colors -

Gray - $5,000
Mustard Yellow - $20,000
Gold - $25,000

Also, $1,000 is officially "Fire Orange". I guess plain old orange isn't good enough.

At the Rio, they use $2 powder blue chips for poker (at least at the WSOP cash games), notably for mixed games with $2 antes.



Also, during the 2006 WSOP they ran low on red $T5 chips during the razz event and had to use dark blue $T5 chips simultaneously. At least we weren't sitting in the tent-sauna that year tho!

As far as I know, the only "standard" colors are for 5, 25, 100, 500, and 1000.

At Harrah's New Orleans, though:

$1 - white
$2.50 - pink
$5 - red
$25 - green
$100 - black
$500 - purple
$1000 - yellow
$5000 - gray
$25000 - light blue











1s are often blue, 1000s are often more orange or gold than yellow, 5000s are often pink in tournaments, 25ks are all over the place, and other in-between denominations have no real official color at all.

Do the chips really have the slight variation in size suggested by the images? o_O

i played at casinos where $2 chips were purple

i've seen the chips worth more money be larger than the average chip

I wish I had the opportunity to hold these chips to be able to tell you. :P

Wikipedia says that 1k chips are often oversized, so it's possible - and if the 1k is oversized, then there's no reason that the higher denominations shouldn't be as well.

I've had the 500's & 1000's and they were slightly larger than the 100's and smaller. I don't there are any other size increases after that one, but I may be wrong.

I've had oversize 500's, and normal-size 500's, but most have been normal.

That's about where some chips start getting big.

You can see that the Harrah's set above has oversize 1k chips and above.

Thanks guys!

I think I'll be buying a 1000 piece chip set in the near future. I'll probably do the denominations this way:

Blue - .25
White - 1.00
Red - 5.00
Green - 25.00
Black - 100.00

Some casinos, particularly in Europe, use plaques for $1k and up.

you're playing a .25/.50 game with $200 buyins? or is it a mix of stakes?

normally you don't need more than 3 or 4 colors for a cash game.

Some of my players want to play .25/.50 NL with a $50 cap. Some want to play 1/2 HORSE.

I want to play .25/.50 PLO with a $200 cap, but I also want to be taller and that's not gonna happer either.

We'll probably play a mix of 1/2 limit poker games, because I believe limit poker is better in a home game setting. More sustainable, while still allowing good players to excel.

I'll probably only ever pass out 1-2 greens per player, and only when playing NL or PLO. I doubt I'll ever field the blacks, but they don't sell 900 piece sets, do they?

I should probably just get a 500 piece set with just blue, white & red.

For FL, I recommend making it a 3/6 or 4/8 structure. 2/4 if you have to. 1/2 is just boring and doesn't create any pots. Part of the fun of FL is scooping enormous pots and building castles. Psychology is important, after all.

I would want at least 800 chips for a FL game, tho' I'd prefer 1k or more. And my next chip up wouldn't be a 4x or 5x. For example, I wouldn't use dollars and fives for a $3/6, I'd use dollars and $20s or $25s. For a $1/2 I'd use quarters and fives. Mmmmaybe 50¢ pieces and $10s.

Remember, these chips don't have value. They are quantities. The big chips represents a full stack, at least. In my 75¢/$1.50 game, the $5s are called "twenties".

Granted, not all of us have the budgets or space for this, but if I'm building from scratch, that's my goal.

under no circumstances!

what kind of chips are you getting?

keep in mind that the "standard" values are just a suggestion. Some people claim that sticking to the standard is less confusing, but I've never run across real problems using very non-standard combinations. Blue/white/red is far too common for my tastes. Makes me think of those awful bicycle plastic chips.

Since you probably never need the hundos, you should get more 1s instead. At the stakes you'll be playing, you could use lots of 1s and/or .25's, so I'd get plenty.

White chips are an abomination (which is why casinos use that color for 1s -- "who want's those piddly and disgusting once-whites? tip the dealer with them and play at manly stakes!"). So get a nice color for 1s and throw convention out the window, imo. I use blacks for ones because blacks are awesome. I have blue edge spots on them to calm down the traditionalists.

Likewise, there is no standard for .25s, so make them something nice, again. Don't do blues and blacks in the same set. My quarters are brown. Since they might play alongside 5s, make sure they contrast with your reds or whatever you choose for 5s. You're right that you won't use a lot of 25's.

The way it was explained to me, a typical nl/pl structure will have a blinds chip, a value chip, and a color chip. you use the blinds for preflop bets and maybe use a lot of these depending on the exact stakes (1/1 will use lots, 2/5 will use more 5s). The value chip is your 5s in a 1/2 game, and you will need a lot. Color is only there to keep the big stacks from sucking up all the chips in the set. They mostly only get bet in all-ins.

For limit, you just want a boatload of one color chip, plus some color chips. You can skip the middle value entirely.

But if I play 7 Stud/Razz then I'll also need an ante chip.

I've been looking around at chips. I notice there's a lot of "chip snobbery" here. Yes, I'd like something a little better quality than the bicycle plastic chips you get at Wal-Mart. But I also see a lot of snobbery over "dice chips." Frankly, I like the dice chips. I like them a lot better than the chips with "Vegas Baby $25" on them.

I've thought about ordering some custom chips. I've love a set of chips with this on them:



But I don't think I can see my way clear to spending $500+ on chips.

Dan Frazier might object...

Really? You'd think he'd be honored....