This chip stuff has gotta stop, but in the mean time.

Which roulette chips from these

http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/r...psf9ed33a9.jpg

would go best with these.

http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/r...pse69efc0d.jpg

The roullettes would be .50's.

I'm thinking that the peach would match the spots on the whites.

I'm thinking I might want to get these before finishing the Venerati set that I have half of toward a 500 chip set. The Veneratis will be there.

I planned on 2 racks each of red and white, but after asking my denomination question in another thread I am rethinking the versatility of one rack of whites and 3 reds.

I asked on the other thread if this would be enough whites to avoid too much change making at a lower limit game, .50/.50.

Thanks for the help. Its easier if its out there as opposed to rattling around in my head.

A rack of these fractionals might be enough.
http://www.thechiproom.com/products/...ar-Tacoma.html

The orange goes with the whites, but the red is kind of iffy.

There's enough peach in the low-value chips already, imo. You don't want the same color reused too much, because that's what becomes confusing.

I'd suggest the pale blue. It's in the same general color pallette, but contrasts enough to stand out. Your brain can ignore all the peach and orange in the spots, since all the chips have it, and you end up with blue, white, red, and green chips.

I acquired a set of the Par-A-Dice. I did a Salmon Roulette for a quarter and then actually did the light blue for a nickel.

I am pretty sure the availability of the roulette's has dried up... like the first day the Chiproom had them. He did a sale on ChipTalk and they went fast.

The order button is still up and they go into the basket. I guess the proof is in the puddin.

I just went and couldn't find anything saying sold out. I did see a pic with that peach chip next to the rest.

http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/thechi...0-chips-2.html

Only 38 number 5 peach roulettes out of 100 were available, went back and number 4's were all there.

You won't see what's actually left until you click the checkout button. At that point (before you pay and finalize the order), your quantities will be adjusted to the amount still available, or the item will be removed if it is sold out.

Why do you want 50c chips if you already have dollar chips?

In any game I've played with a 2x chip, things have slowed down and become confusing. Even if the players don't realize they're pausing half a beat while trying to remember which chip is which, they are. It doesn't matter that they're labeled. In my current job, I was dealing for six months before I thought to look at the numbers on the chips.

Need for a lower limit game.

Quarters are out of the question?

Right, that's what I mean. Why not quarters and dollars? The 2x increase slows down games, because they're not distinctive enough. You see it in tournaments during the phase when both 500 and 1000 chips are in play. For some reason they trip people up in a way that a 4x increase doesn't. It's not a major thing, but if you're doing it all night, it adds up.

I figured quarters would only be for blinds, so make it half/half rather than quarter/half. The info re increments makes sense though. Better rethink. thanks.

Would you recommend a different tourney denomination set up?

Get rid of the easily confused purple 500 chip?

FWIW, in a 2/5 game, the whites are only used for blinds. But if your game is 25/50, why wouldn't the quarters be used for betting? I think I'm misunderstanding something.

Tourneys are difficult structures, because of the way we count things. The blinds keep going up, so we keep needing to adjust the base point. Ideally it'd be 25/100/500/2500/10k/50k, etc... but that doesn't scale well with our number system. We basically "reset" at 1k. A 500 and 2500 chip would just confuse things because it's not easy for people to get their heads around, even though they do just fine with 5c and 25c.

I got it now.

What about fifty/dollar games? I'm thinking one rack of ones might work without making change a distraction.

I'm getting the par-a-dice chips, ones are 59 cents each, reds are 29.

The thing is that 50c/$1 games are an awkward spot for chips. You could just do 1/1, but I feel the loss of quarters bumps up betting a bit, and as we know this is a game of exponents which can get big in a hurry. But 50c chips are confusing, and quarters seem like a waste.

What would work well are 50c pieces and $2.50 pieces, but as with tourneys, people have difficulty with that kind of thing. Or just use 50c and $1 chips, it's not really THAT big of a deal. I tend to over-analyze these things.

If you're going to do 1/1, then you don't really need more than one or two two stacks of dollars per player. The rest should be fives, because those will be the primary betting chips.

^^^ this.


didn't someone run a game with $5, $25 and $100 chips at 1/10 face value? If you can get enough of the hundos, and your players are into it, that would be one way forward.