Casino Chip Values

[12Motion]

Hey, I am trying to mimic the Casino motiff in my home as well as I can. Can you guys tell what color chips are for thier value? I live in MN so the only club I can go to is the Canterburry Card Club. They have the following chips.

Blue = 1
Yellow = 2
Red = 5
Wierd yellowish clay = 10
Green = 25
Black = 100

I know the 25, 100, 500 are almost always green black and purple but what about everytthnig else? does this match?

[Dynasty]

In Las Vegas

$1: White (light blue at Mandalay Bay and Flamingo)
$5: Red
$10: Orangish


At the Commerce in CA

$1: Blue
$2: Green
$3: Red
$10: Yellow

[Jim Kuhn]

Casino chips are usually per the following:

.50 pink
1. white
5. red
25. green
100. black

[JTG51]

Foxwoods is almost the same color scheme you listed. The only difference is their $1 chips are white. Also, there are no $10 chips.

Mohegan Sun is the same as Foxwoods, except they don't have $2 chips. Instead, they have brown and green $3 chips (called turtles).

[docidiot]

the a.c. casinos have white $1, red $5, no $10, green $25, and black $100. of course they have pink $2.50 for the pink chip game.

[12Motion]

Jeez, I wish they all kept it the same. Canterburry doens't really have 10$ chips. They very rarely make an appearnce at the 30-60 game but they look totally diffrent then the regular chips. Why aren't there 10 chips anywhere? Thats just silly. Hmm well i guess I will buy more blue chips.

[DanS]

Here in Norcal it's generally the same as SoCal:
$1-blue
2-green
3-teal
5-yellow
10-weird reddish color (at Bay 101), weird bluish (at Lucky Chances)
20-varies
100-still referred to as "black," but white in color

The Oaks does this weird color scheme which mimics Bay Area sports teams. Weird. Perhaps Tommy or J.A.Sucker could fill in on the $20s.

Dan

[CrackerZack]

I enjoy the turtles. They have a little turtle on them and are a brownish green if anyone really cares. Not green like the $25s.

[chaos]

The casino standard is to use a denomination chip that is 4 or 5 times the next lower value chip (i.e. 1, 5, 25, 100, 500). For most casino games there is not much making change.

Other value chips were introduced by card rooms. They reduce the need to make change thereby speeding up the game. Also playing with a single denomination chip makes the pots look bigger. So card rooms introduced the $2, $2.50, $3 and $10 chips. These color shave not been standardized to the extent of the other casino chips.

[rharless]

The Bellagio and the Mirage do have the dark blue $1 chips. Low limit slummers like me are used to getting the fine blue powder under our fingernails.

In Colorado, every casino (with a poker room -- I don't go to any other casino) has $1 white and $5 red. Occasionally you will see a green $25 but that is used only for coloring up from the blackjack tables. As some of you know, in CO we can't bet more than $5 on any game, so we don't need any of those other fancy shmancy color chips. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

rh

[J.A.Sucker]

Here's my recollection of chip colors from places I go:

$1 - Blue (pretty universal for Cali, IME)
$2 - green (also ubiquitous)
$3 - Teal @ Bay 101, but I recall them red at Lucky Chances, but may be wrong. I forgot what they were at Commerce... Also red at Garden City.
$5 - yellow. (This seems to be the standard across the Golden State)
$10 - Pinkish-red/white candy-cane like design (at Bay 101), At commerce they are some bland color that I can't actually think of the name for it (maybe they call that brown, but maybe not), and I can't recall ever seeing a 10 at Lucky's.

$20 - These are dark chips (I would call them black) at the places I go to in the Bay Area

$100 - White. I think this is standard across Cali, for the most part, too.

$500 - Purple, but really everyone just calls them the "Big Chip", because they are larger in diameter than the other chips. I like the big chip, especially for shuffling (and cashing in /forums/images/icons/grin.gif )

[Dynasty]

Sorry. The Yellow chips at the Commerce are $5 chips.

[Ulysses]

The three places I play at (Lucky Chances, Oaks, and AJ's) all have different color schemes. The first two have been mentioned already. Just to add further confusion, I'll list AJ's colors:

1 - pink
2 - yellow
5 - red
20 - blue
100 - purple

[Softrock]

California has had ten dollar chips as long as I've been playing. For years there were no $10 in Las Vegas - at least not in common usage. Any of you recall playing 40-80 at the Mirage with $25 and $5 chips? What a pain in the butt that was. Tournament time in Reno we'd frequently get 30-60 spread but with $25 and $5 chips - not as bad as 40-80 (because the standard bets had equal numbers of each - ie. $30 bet was one of each and $60 bet 2 of each). I guess it's been awhile because I frequently played with Jennifer Harman in those games and she's way out of my league now (may have been then too and I didn't know it).

I swear that 40-80 game probably was a good 3-4 hands fewer per hour just dealing with the chip/change issue.

[DanS]

Good, uhh, synopsis, but...

Lucky Chances has the unique scheme of yellow $3 and $5 red...only know this because I was playing $9-18 there the other day.

Dan

[DanS]

Softrock,
The last time I went up to the Peppermill at tourney time they only had 10-20 to 20-40, but I was told that when 40-80 goes they play with $5 chips. Ugh.

Dan

[J.A.Sucker]

You're probably right. This might explain why I'm always stuck /forums/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Ed Miller]

That blue powder is just plain nasty. It is my least favorite part about playing on real felt (which we don't have in Seattle).