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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.
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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. |
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Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
Personally, I prefer denominations especially in cash games.
Advantages =========== 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 ============= 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). |
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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. [/ QUOTE ] 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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Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
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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". [/ QUOTE ] 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. |
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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 |
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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 [/ QUOTE ] 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! .......Sorry!, end of threadjack [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] |
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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 [/ QUOTE ] I live in LA and convinced some of my home game guys that we needed to play in a live tourney. These guys were skeptical, so I scoped out a $20 buy in $10 rebuy event at the Club Caribe on Saturday afternoon. We show up and the tourney chips have no denoms on them! To top it off, blue were 5, tan were 25, and black were 100. I actually had to ask the dealer how much chips were worth. Good news is, we had 5 total people and 3 of us made the final table out of ~45 people. I was out in the 20s so I had 3 people cash in their first live tourney. I now have a hooked group of live tourney goers whenever I feel the need to have someone with me to support my gambling addiction. |
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Re: Advantages of denominations on chips
I went without denoms for my nexgen labels, but for "serious" custom chips, I probably would use denoms. I don't know exactly why I think this, but figuring out my thought process is beyond the scope of this forum.
Anyway, I think the the ONLY way to get by without denominations on your chips is if you stick strictly to the standard casino colors of red, green, black, purple (and maybe yellow) only. For tournaments, it makes perfectly normal sense, and if you get a bunch of white or blue for $1's, your cash game should be fine also. Of course this depends on your cash game limits, but anything higher than $1 is fine, and if you need to go lower, I wouldn't have nickel, dime, quarter demoms anyway - you just need to scale down what you have. |
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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 |
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