After the game I played in a few nights ago, I will never be able to criticize anybody's chip amounts/denominations again. It was a 1/2NL game with a average buyin of 2-300. The game hadn't started yet when I got there and I was the first to buyin. I gave him 200.00, and this is what he gave me:
(keep in mind these were the generic dice chips with no denominations on them)
1 black
3 green
6 red
7 white
3 blue

I looked at this stack for a good 5 minutes trying to find someway to make it add up to 200.00. After thinking about it for a while I came to the conclusion that he had given me 242.00. When I spoke up and told him he had given me too much, he looked at the stack and said "no, it's right". He then gave me the breakdown:
1.00 = blue and white. Now I don't mean the 1.00 chips are blue and white, I mean blue chips are 1.00. White chips are 1.00.
5.00 = red
20.00 = green WTF???
100.00 = black
So I said "uh, ok. got it". Then someone else chimed in..."yeah, just like in a casino"

i'm at a loss here. so you basically have to make change right away. I'm not even going to talk about the denominations, that's just horrible. To call it ******ed would be a disgrace to mentally challenged people everywhere.

most common color for 1 is blue or white right? let's use both!! red 5? standard. some casinos use 20 instead of 25, and 25 is commonly green, so let's make 20's green. Black 100? super standard.

let me guess, the host only has a 200-pc chipset?

Host has about 4 500-pc sets. To make matters worse(if that is in anyway possible), most every rebuy is done with just black chips. By the end of the night, there was about 5k in play, 4k of which was blacks. Needless to say, more time was spent making change than playing cards.

He's one of these "gotta use every chip colour in the case types". He should use one colour for the $1 chips and only use $1, $5 and $25. If he runs out of $25 then bring in some $100.

It'd be a hundred times faster with the current chips with converting them ALL to one value, except for one color.

Greens are $25, and everything else is a buck...
or Whites are $1, and everything else is $5.

...or, you know, buy a chipset.

This is a lot like the other thread on chip colors. Do we need another one? I'm tempted to merge them.

i suppose, if it was a table loaded with fish, i could make do. i hope you cleaned up.

I have five chips and by gum I'm going to use them!

The blues are useless. They're easily confused with both white and black.

The $20 chip isn't so strange. That's the standard in California, and we had poker before Vegas. They work well if you use a lot of $20s for buyins. Tho' for a $200 standard buyin game, I'd make 'em $25.

At least you don't have $1, $2, $5, $10, and $25 chips.

I play at a game that equates whites and blues all the time, and it works fine. If blacks play, those are 1s as well.

reds are 5s.

only rarely do we put another color on the table, and then greens are 20s because that's the increment people buy in with. Basically we tell people, reds are 5s, everything else is 1s.

I vote we start a public interest group to lobby congress for trade rules preventing imported chipsets from containing blues.

I wasn't sure whether to just post in the other thread or start a new one. I didn't want to derail that thread with a slightly different topic.

It was. I did.

this actually kind of tilts me...

+1

i wanna smash the people running the game

wow that much money getting thrown around and theyre playing with $80 worth of cheapo chips.....host should use some rake to buy some decent chips. in decent denoms, obv

Yeah, at least they don't have 2$ chippos. I mean whenever someone starts talking about 2$ chips in any sort or way, I nearly get cancer. Hell whenever I bring 600 Paulsons (3 colors) to a four handed game and people ask me what denoms these are and then they're like ok but where are the 2$ chips, then I'm tempted to make the game three handed.

Long story short: I feel with ya.

I play NL/Limit in California the last few years, 3-4 days a week everything from 8/16 limit to 10/20 NL and have never seen a $20 chip. Weird.

maybe it's just a weird norcal thing.

I dealt a home game once where there were inexplicably $10 blue chips involved for a 1/2 NL game. This was the first home game I had seen them in. On top of this, greens were rarely if ever used. Thus I must have had dozens of instances where I by rote announced $10's as $5's when they were bet.