This....I've had a $500 chip in a 1/2 game and a $1000 chip in a 2/5 game. Players responsibility to know what the other guy has. Don't just call because his stack looks "little".

I saw a guy where I play try to buy into a 1/2 game with a $500 chip. The dealer told him to take it to the cage.

That's the only time I've seen a chip larger than $100 at a 1/2 table here; and $100 chips are fairly common.


--klez

For those not aware, the story the OP is referring to involved a guy in an uncapped game that would buy-in so as to way over cover the table. And then he liked to make a big deal saying "All-in" for a fraction of his actual stack. A pro showed up that night, and upon witnessing this, went to his box and grabbed 4 raspberries. He put them on the top of his stack, and the "All-in" guy did not notice them from standard reds. IIRC, he did his "All-in" with the king high flush, the pro had the nuts.

I believe green chips play in every AZ game. I have seen people color up to green in 4-8 and 8-16 games. When we hit a jackpot at 4-8 at wild horse, they paid us in purple, black, green and red but then said the purple and black had to be colored down if we wanted them to stay in play.

Not sure about 3-6 but I'd think it would be the same rule as 4-8.

i've had a yellow ($1000) chip at the Bellagio $1/2 game before, took 2 racks to cage and got it changed, made for some good stories @ table.

had about $2k total behind in reds, greens, blacks and the single yellow

Yes they play. The amount of what a player exchanges for at the cashiers cage is beside the question. If the player sat down at a table that did not have a max buy in or a table at casino that allowed you to match to some degree the current big stack it is possible that a whole rack full of $5000 chips could play. While I would find it to be a tad of a tale because I don't know of many 1/2 players that walk around with multiples of $5000 in their pockets. Nor do I know of many players who would consider angle shooting in this manner. As it is a tad over kill to bring a single $5000 chip to a table that will most likely have players with less than a grand in front of them.

Isn't the rule that chips someone "hide" don't play? The rule I've come across pretty much everywhere is that you are not allowed to have large domination chips mixed or behind smaller domination chips. The large ones goes on top or in front of the stack. I have seen a guy trying to hide a $500 chip behind two or three stacks of $10's (approximate values) not having it in play when he went all in and sulking away about some **** until he was told he should be glad the other players didn't take him outside. I've also seen that dealers count up the stack when asked to do so in some card rooms.

Most card rooms I've played in has had a color code for chips that pretty much made it impossible to hid any. Since the chips are usually 1, 2, 5, 20/25, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 there are enough colors to have them distinguishable in a good lit room. I have also seen that many card rooms have bigger chips for the bigger denominations making it damn hard to hide them in a stack. I have never played a game with a 5k chip in play but seen the funny plaques in play at tables where some guy had emptied the tray and there were no chips they could take from other tables since it was a Saturday and the card room had lots of games going. I don't know if it is allowed to have these in play but he had it in play this night. It was a 5/10 game.

Not so you can depend on it.
Large-denomination chips hidden behind stacks of smaller ones are more likely to be ruled not in play than are ones mixed in or under visible front stacks (e.g., a couple of blacks at the bottom of a stack of greens, purples at the bottom of a stack of reds or blacks).
But in either case this requires a floor ruling which can go either way, IME.
I have heard floors rule that it's the player's responsibility to ascertain (by looking and/or asking) what the other player's stack size is, or if he has any large-denomination chips (or how many bills he's playing, for that matter).
So protect yourself.

The 1/2 at my local casino occasionally sit's really deep so i've had £1k chips play before now with a 1.3k stack it just depends on how lazy the cashier's feeling that day

I can only speak for Harrah's Cherokee but yes large denominations do play here. I had 4 $100 chips in my stack at 2/5 and the game before that the guy next to me had 2 $500 chips in play.

And some of the dealers there are pretty terribad and I wouldn't count on them to get a count or call someone out on hiding chips.

I like to put stacks on top of $100 bills so that I can just pull the bill over the commit line to ship it all in(or pull it back over if someone's pissed me off and I feel like going for that angle in a room that lets it fly). Also because I never bet bills when I still have chips left. If I end up with 3 or more bills I just get chips.

I would assume so as long as the table allows it on, otherwise i see no issue

I see 100's at 1/2 fairly often, I've seen a $500 once, but the player had about 1500 and had it on top, not sure how it happened but the dealers tray was pretty much empty waiting on a fill so I assume another player tried to rebuy with it and the dealer couldnt change it so the player did for him