How to introduce new chip colors in tournament
 

What are the most common procedures used in tournaments to introduce new chip denominations into play? I can think of two ways:
- Color up large pots using the new chips before awarding the pot
- Color up large supplies of smaller denoms to the new chip when racing off still-smaller denominations.

What is your opinion of these, or other methods?
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Scott

Re: How to introduce new chip colors in tournament
 

Color race at certain intervals is your best best.


Goto www.homepokertourney.com

good resource

Re: How to introduce new chip colors in tournament
 

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Color race at certain intervals is your best best.


Goto www.homepokertourney.com

good resource

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Thanks. I've read most of the Home Poker Tourny site - great stuff - but I didn't see anything there about the mechanics of getting new chips into play.

I don't see how racing the smallest chips will introduce a new biggest size chip. Aren't you always racing from smallest to next-smallest ($1 to $5 or $25 to $100)?

If you start with 1s, 5s, 25s, & 100s do you just race off until everyone has 100s and then race up to 500s or 1000s later? Clearly in a huge (WSOP) tourney this wouldn't work and isn't what's done.
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Scott

Re: How to introduce new chip colors in tournament
 

The color-up is done to remove chips smaller than the smallest denomination currently being used. Unless you are hosting a very large game, I doubt you will need to remove the 100's.

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The color-up is done to remove chips smaller than the smallest denomination currently being used. Unless you are hosting a very large game, I doubt you will need to remove the 100's.

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Racing is good and should be done.... Also - sometimes we'll take a timeout between levels and just "exchange" in larger chips all at once - if we're becoming fairly deep-stacked and want to introduce the 1000 or 5000 chip or something...

I think doing it as you go on the fly is just ASKING for trouble.

You gotta be so friggin' careful with races and exchanges - 'cuz it'd suck if you lost a tourney solely 'cuz some guy 'somehow' ended up on the better end of a mistake.

Re: How to introduce new chip colors in tournament
 

Usually re-buys and add-ons are given in the larger chip denoms as well.

As far as Color Up/Chip Races, for my home tourney we have specific intervals in the blind schedule for color up and a 10 min break. If you are going to have more than 2 tables, I would advise having a trustworthy friend help with the color ups or you may be running around a lot. You can try doing it during the action, but it's a big pain when you are playing.

G$

Re: How to introduce new chip colors in tournament
 

Like many casinos, I have the chip lead buy up all the lower chips.

Ex. When the blinds go up from 150/300 to 200/400 all the 25's get colored out. When the blinds go from 300/600 to 500/1000, you can get rid of the 100's. As others have mentioned, good time for a quick break.