Wynn $3 chips / Excalibur limits
 

I would like to play the 4/8 or 8/16 game at Wynn, however I am so disturbed by the idea of $3 chips that I will not play there if these chips are used.

Does anybody know if $3 chips are used in the 4/8 or 8/16 games?

Also, on a completely different note, anybody know if the Excalibur spreads any limit games higher then 4/8, particularly on weekends?

Thanks much.

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The $3 chips were only being used for the 6/12 O/8B (full kill) game when I was there. And no the excalibur doesn't spread higher than 4/8, even on weekends.

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The $3.00 is used for the 1/3 no-limit game -----it is a DUMB idea------The EX. has a 1-5 spread game

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I would like to play the 4/8 or 8/16 game at Wynn, however I am so disturbed by the idea of $3 chips that I will not play there if these chips are used.

Does anybody know if $3 chips are used in the 4/8 or 8/16 games?

Also, on a completely different note, anybody know if the Excalibur spreads any limit games higher then 4/8, particularly on weekends?

Thanks much.

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Thats good thinking, a recent study showed $3 chips cause cancer.

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The Wynn uses $2 chips for 8/16, which I like. The Bellagio uses a combo of $5 and $1 chips for 8/16, which I think is incredibly dumb. Still, when I played at the Wynn people were complaining about the $2 chips, although they could not articulate any reasonable rationale for this view when I pressed them.

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This reminds me of a great Tommy Angelo article. Here is the link. Enjoy.

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The $3.00 is used for the 1/3 no-limit game -----it is a DUMB idea------The EX. has a 1-5 spread game

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I've only been to the Excalibur a few times but when I was there they had 1-3 spread limit and 2-6 spread limit.

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The Wynn uses $2 chips for 8/16, which I like. The Bellagio uses a combo of $5 and $1 chips for 8/16, which I think is incredibly dumb. Still, when I played at the Wynn people were complaining about the $2 chips, although they could not articulate any reasonable rationale for this view when I pressed them.

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What?!?!?

I'll tell you why... if I cold call a $32 raise I've got to count out 16 blue $2 chips. I'm sure for someone who's used to it they can do it in a flash, but trust me, if you get a bunch of people who aren't used to it, we're going to be holding up your game until we get better at it. Why not use $5 and $1 chips? Heck, the Mirage uses 5 & 1 for the 6/12 game.

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get more chips into the pot to make the pot look bigger to make it look like your going to win more money to make your stacks in front of you bigger to make people think they need to call because their are sooo many chips in the pot---
That is way some places use a chip count like this -----
Why make it easy to put chips in the pot----

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if I cold call a $32 raise I've got to count out 16 blue $2 chips.

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Pull out a stack of blues, remove four from the top and you have sixteen.

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if I cold call a $32 raise

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If this is happening often enough to be an issue, or you don't understand why small chips make good games, you've come to the right place. Starting with an archive search for Ed Miller posts (here) is a good idea.

Martin

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when i first started dealing at my casino we had a $3 rake and the house thought it would be a good idea to have no cash value $3 chips to make the rake "easier" for the dealers.

this was such a bad idea because the racks would get full of whites in less than 30 minutes since the racks were impressed at $500 which was completly unneceesary and counting the rack everytime i got up was such a hassle.

the casino got wise to the fact they were losing money and started using the removable plastic racks which were set at $300 and we could start putting our tokes in there and keep the extra at the end of the night.

moral of the story: i hate $3 chips.

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I'll tell you why... if I cold call a $32 raise I've got to count out 16 blue $2 chips. I'm sure for someone who's used to it they can do it in a flash, but trust me, if you get a bunch of people who aren't used to it, we're going to be holding up your game until we get better at it. Why not use $5 and $1 chips? Heck, the Mirage uses 5 &amp; 1 for the 6/12 game.

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This is more than offset by the fact that the dealer isn't constantly making change. If you play with red and white in a 6/12 game, the dealer will be making change for for several players on every street of every hand.

Once you say raise or call, the action can immediately proceed, even if your chips aren't quite out there yet.

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If this is happening often enough to be an issue, or you don't understand why small chips make good games, you've come to the right place. Starting with an archive search for Ed Miller posts

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Rest assured, good sir, I generally do not cold call raises.

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get more chips into the pot to make the pot look bigger to make it look like your going to win more money to make your stacks in front of you bigger to make people think they need to call because their are sooo many chips in the pot

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Ah yes, I underestimate how easily some players can be enchanted by a mountain of chips in the middle of the table, regardless of their denomination.

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well, i played at the Wynn this past thursday at the 1/3NL and I can assure you the $3 chips are an absolute nightmare. i understand your issue with them completely. no one could get used to them. If you were playing there I was the guy saying... "raise... uh, whatever that is right there." and stacking up about 8 - 20chips. the other observation is made is that nearly all the time raises were smaller denominations than at typical $5 chip tables. it made for smaller stakes unfortunately.

i asked each dealer when they got used to the $3 chips and the answer was the same. "never".

aside from that the wynn is excellent.

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Why not use $5 and $1 chips? Heck, the Mirage uses 5 &amp; 1 for the 6/12 game.

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It is not a coincidence that the 8/16 game at the Bellagio and the 6/12 at the Mirage are two of the rockiest low stakes games in Vegas.

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The Wynn uses $2 chips for 8/16, which I like. The Bellagio uses a combo of $5 and $1 chips for 8/16, which I think is incredibly dumb. Still, when I played at the Wynn people were complaining about the $2 chips, although they could not articulate any reasonable rationale for this view when I pressed them.

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What?!?!?

I'll tell you why... if I cold call a $32 raise I've got to count out 16 blue $2 chips. I'm sure for someone who's used to it they can do it in a flash, but trust me, if you get a bunch of people who aren't used to it, we're going to be holding up your game until we get better at it. Why not use $5 and $1 chips? Heck, the Mirage uses 5 &amp; 1 for the 6/12 game.

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Remove 4 chips from the top of a stack of twenty.

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Someone already mentioned the above i guess.

As far as excal goes 1-3, 2-6 and $100 max NL are the only games i've ever seen run there.