Vegas things that had me wondering
 

Recently I was in Vegas for 12 days. I had a lot of fun and got to play a lot of poker. But I have two questions.

1. Why is it so cold in the casinos. I come from a country where you have to heat most of the year and if I visited someone with such low temperatures in his room I would say he was saving a lot of oil. It seems that you can know the seasoned players, because they all have more clothes than a t-shirt.

2. Why are they playing with so many chips. I played the Mirage 20-40, Bellagio 15-30 and Bellagio 30-60. I can see the reasoning for 5 dollar chips in the 15-30 and ten dollar chips in 30-60 games but why not play 10 dollar chips in the 20-40. I got some heat because of my slow chip-handling.

Kim

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It is cold inside of casinos in Vegas because it is farking hot in Vegas.

Lots of chips make pots look bigger and get more GAMBOOLERS.

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Cooler temperatures make you less prone to getting tired, and they want to keep you there.

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The inside of the casinos themselves are acutally warm, it's just the cold heartless gamblers at the table that cool things down....lol [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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2. Why are they playing with so many chips. I played the Mirage 20-40, Bellagio 15-30 and Bellagio 30-60. I can see the reasoning for 5 dollar chips in the 15-30 and ten dollar chips in 30-60 games but why not play 10 dollar chips in the 20-40. I got some heat because of my slow chip-handling.


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Physical pot size. The 10/20 is played with $5 chips, so it's a 2/4 chip game. That's pretty common in LV - except for the 15/30 which is played with $5 chips.

In California, in the bay area where I have played, 6/12 is played with $2 chips and 9/18 is played with $3 chips. That seemed pretty weird to me.

In any event, it's about building bigger looking pots.

Regards,

T

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Yeah. I think I read somewhere that the more chips used, the more action there is. So according to this theory, a 4-5 game would be livelier than a 5-10 game because there are a lot more chips in play.

Or I may have made that up. Not sure which.

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The cheques are like that for convienience.
one stack of 20*$5 = $100
one stack of 20*$25 = $500
one rack of 100*$5 = $500 = 5*$100 = 20*$25 = 1 pretty purple chip
I don't think I've ever seen a "real" $10 chip. I have only owned dimes ($1k) once, when I used to play blackjack. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Re: chips, I'm going along w/ the others here, big looking pots.

At Canterbury they play the 4/8 with $1 chips. There are some big looking pots there.

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but why not play 10 dollar chips in the 20-40. I got some heat because of my slow chip-handling.


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Actually, if you watched any 20/40 or above games at the Bellagio, they do use $10 and $20 chips to speed things up. The mirage does not as they dont normally run higher than 80/160. I believe you can use green and red (25 and 5) on those games though.

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At Canterbury they play the 4/8 with $1 chips. There are some big looking pots there.

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Yeah, I played in that game a few weeks ago. I rolled-up with a rack of yellow ($2) chips and the dealer made me get the $1 chips to play.