Advantages of denominations on chips
 

I was going to make some labels for some nexgen chips and am considering wether or not to put denominations on them. What are your guy's thoughts on the advantages and disadvanges of doing this.

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

advantage:
you don't have to tell people how much they're worth all the time

disadvantage:
less flexible. you need more chips or to change the denomimations for cash game/tournaments.

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

Personally, I prefer denominations especially in cash games.

Advantages
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1. Never any question on what a chips worth. No more telling drunk Bob at the end of the table Green is $25 for the 100th time.

2. Easier for new or novice players to pick up.

3. Great for those color blind folks.

4. Denominated chips look better, IMHO

Disadvantages
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1. No real flexibility in chip values. Imagine trying to tell drunk Bob that just becase it says 1 its really worth 100; don't go there.

2. Less room for designs in custom inlays or labels.

3. You might need more chips especially if you are using the same set for cash and tournaments.


If you are going to get denomitations, I would recommend that you drop the $/c symbols (if you can) that way the 25 chip could be could be $25 (tournament) or 0.25 (cash game).

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

Denoms for sure otherwise you're a conformist.

Without denoms they're just glorified pogs or pretty shotglass coasters. Besides I've never played in a casino where they hand you a red chip and say "These are $5's today".

- Fins

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

I play a weekly homegame with a bunch of good players. We're all positive players online at $2/$4 or $5/$10 (and one $30/$60 player who thinks he's hot shit. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )

The thing is, we're still mostly grad-students, so we don't really want to take eachother's money. The game's really fun, though. We found that $0.20/$0.40 was about the smallest limit where people could still care about the game. It's hard to play PURELY for pride-points.

So, (my point is) putting denominations on the chips would just be embarassing. I mean, it's a shame when the price of your currency is more than it's value. (I refuse to write "10cents" on a chip.)
-Sam

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

Just make the chips say $10, $100 or even a $1,000. You just need to remember at cash in/out time that they are only 1/100, 1/1000 or 1/10000 of the face value; I don't see anyone screwing that up.

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

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No more telling drunk Bob at the end of the table Green is $25 for the 100th time.

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I don't know where you live (I'm from New Jersey) but I think a guy who plays in my games, Drunk Jeff is related to Drunk Bob. Tell Bob Jeff said, "Hi".

Oh and to stay on topic: I don't like the denominations printed on the chips. I have two 8.5x11 posters hung on the wall that I will re-arrange just for Drunk Jeff if need be.

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I don't know where you live (I'm from New Jersey) but I think a guy who plays in my games, Drunk Jeff is related to Drunk Bob. Tell Bob Jeff said, "Hi".

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Michigan and I'll pass it on.

For those folks that know me (a couple of you follow this site including a Non-Drunk Bob that hopefully will still let me play in his tournament this weekend after this thread), I changed the name to Bob to protect the guilty.

Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

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Denoms for sure otherwise you're a conformist.

Without denoms they're just glorified pogs or pretty shotglass coasters. Besides I've never played in a casino where they hand you a red chip and say "These are $5's today".

- Fins

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Fins....POGS!!!! God I have not seen anyone mention those forever
Though I think they would serve a "slammers" more than POGS

I wish I could sell as many chips as I did POGS back in the day. I'd be retired and golfing every day!

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Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
 

If it's a toss-up, I say use denom, and make one or two chips without. That way you always have "wildcrads" to complete any situation.

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