Chip Distribution
 

Currently have 500 chips in the following collors

Blue -- 150
Red -- 150
Yellow -- 100
Grey -- 100

I've decided to move up to 1000 chips -- any thoughts for the distribution

Use will mostly be ring games with an occasional 1 or 2 table game. I'm thinking of one of the following

Blue 500
Red 250
Yellow 100
Grey 100 (or 150)
Black 0 (or 50)

Any thoughts as to whether this sounds right

Re: Chip Distribution
 

Beats me. You play mostly NL, or limit? Flop games only? Do you mix up the limits? What (relative) denominations are you planning on using for which chips? We use white-red-blue-green-black with an approximate 1-5-10-25-100 relative value. I believe grey is traditionally a $5K chip (a big jump from the $100 black) but I have no idea what yellows are.

Obviously, you'll need the most of whatever your blinds/antes are, but you'll need considerably more of those for a limit game. The second most common chip (and the one we're always short on) should be around 5x the big blind for NL games.

I'd get five colors, with at least some of whatever the "big" chip is so you have a little more flexability for the occasional tournament.

Re: Chip Distribution
 

Ken,

First, I would say to pay attention to what Hedge said about colors and traditional or standard money amounts. That being said, it’s your game and if there are no money amounts on the chips you can make them any money or color you want. I think you con confuse people (especially if they are drinking) when you stray away from the big 5 colors White=1 Red=5 Blue=10 Green=25 Black=100. I run poker games poker games for other and use theses standard values plus Purple=500 and Yellow=1000 with Grey=5000. The first 5 colors are just about universal standards with larger or odd amount chips subject to more variance.

I recently attend a charity event of about 150 players. Since I wasn’t running it I got to play. There were several people at one of my tables who couldn’t ever get the money amounts down because they played their home games for years with oddball colors and values. It creates too much conflict and led to people getting pissed off. Yes, some had been drinking but it just made them more confused. My advice is use what you can from your chips but buy your new chips according to the above colors and your needs and you will never be disappointed. If you don’t mind very plain chips and you want keep a low cost then I would recommend the Faux Clay Chip. The feel good, sound good, and stack well. They just look plain. If you have a little more to spend you can get the Nexgens (nice looking and feel pretty decent for 1000 at $169.00 in an acrylic carrier with trays. Check some of the sites that have chip reviews along with a search here. I have no connection with the below links you may use them or not. They were among my choice for my 3000 chips.

Best Wishes

Kona

Faux Clay Chips
NexGen

Re: Chip Distribution
 

To handle the ring games, I have 900 chips plust extras

175 blues (antes for NL/PL), 475 white, 250 red, 125 green, 50 black. I don't use the greens that much and the blacks hardly ever

For my tournaments, which are 35 players+, I have

475 red and green, 450 black, 250 purple, 175 orange and 100 gray (with the blues as needed for $T25K). That allows me to handle starting stacks in the $T thousands or $10K+

I wouldn't switch color values either- match them to the casino colors your group is familiar with.

Also, I would be careful about switching back and forth using the same chips. An extra black in a tourney isn't going to kill you. An extra black held out FROM a tourney that resurfaces in your cash game, however...

Re: Chip Distribution
 

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To handle the ring games, I have 900 chips plust extras

175 blues (antes for NL/PL), 475 white, 250 red, 125 green, 50 black. I don't use the greens that much and the blacks hardly ever

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I think that's more than 900, but whater, maybe I order 425 White and 75 red, to get myself more in line

Re: Chip Distribution
 

We do sit n go's. We have 800 hundred chips in 4 colors. We just distribute them evenly and make them all equal value. Sounds kinda weird but it works rather well.

When we do cash games we asign them a value but still make them all equal value.

Re: Chip Distribution
 

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We have 800 hundred chips in 4 colors. We just distribute them evenly and make them all equal value. Sounds kinda weird but it works rather well.

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It does sound weird. Hell, 80,000 chips of any color sounds weird for a home game. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Kona has a good point that I missed, Ken. I began using standard relative values because they were, well, standard. I didn't think about it beyond that.

Using standard chip colors/relative values is a good idea because even those who have never played poker before in their lives have probably heard that a black chip is more valuable than a blue chip, a blue chip more valuable than a red chip, etc.

It's confusing enough when you change the value of a black chip from $1.00 to $10.00 or $100.00. When you change the value of it from 20 red chips to something like 0.5 red chips, it causes all sorts of problems.

Re: Chip Distribution
 

Sorry, the blues are tournament chips from the other set. 900 ASM clays for the cash games.