Advantages of denominations on chips

[hachkc]

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.

[TenPercenter]

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.

Ten

[fishfeet]

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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.

Ten

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I agree with this.
When I create my labels Ill have values for the tourny chips (since thats what we mostly play.. although im trying to get more cash games going)

and then use 2 other colors bland for cash games.. and I can reuse the $1 chip from the tourny set as well in the cash games.

Denominations on chips look better, IMO. It completes the chip.
When I did my designs, I did them with and without denoms.. and without just looked bland and empty.


The chip says to the denominations "You complete me"
The denominatinos say "you had me at hello"

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[E Hanhan]

In our usual home game we have 50 cent/$1 or 25/50 cent. I dont think it would be hard to use a $25 chip for 25 cents but raises other questions. I just got some samplse of the home paulsons and i liek the demonms, i just worry it might confuse the home gamers

[Fins]

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I dont think it would be hard to use a $25 chip for 25 cents but raises other questions.

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Like what?

- Fins

[Johnny5]

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Like what?

- Fins

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There's one. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

J5

[slamdunkpro]

The biggest disadvantage is that you have to inventory your chips after EVERY game. If I play a $1/$2 game on Tuesday and blues are $1 and reds are $5; a Tournament on Thursday where you start with T500 for $20 and blues are T5's and Reds are T25; and a micro limit game on Friday where Blues are $.10 and Reds are $.50 - without denominations sooner or later some bright squid is going to start pocketing reds on Thursdays and Fridays and cashing them on Tuesday. Don't laugh, I've seen it happen too many times.

[Lottery Larry]

I'd want to inventory them anyway, ESPECIALLY for the cash game, unless your custom chips can't be duplicated and snuck into the game.

The concerns are much higher for cash games than tournaments. That's why I say you should never use the same chips for cash games as tourneys.

One minor exception would be nl cash games where you inflate the chip value, similar to tournaments. That way, cheating doesn't cost you the face value of the chip.

[Hedge Henderson]

Without. No matter how constant your game is at the moment, your need for denominations may change in the future. Our game had $5 buy-ins for over a year. Today, the average is about 5 times that.

We do 16-player tourneys, 4-player mini-tourneys, and all sorts of ring games for different groups. I've got a big dry-erase board that has chip values, blinds, and special rules for whatever "event" is happening that particular night. It's visible to everyone in the room. It might not help "drunk Bob" much but, when you get right down to it, very little ever does.

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Besides I've never played in a casino where they hand you a red chip and say "These are $5's today".

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True, but I've never played in a casino that doesn't take a rake (or time charge), lets you BYOB, provides a full ice chest for the beer you bring, lets you smoke cigars, lets you contribute your own music to the mix, lets you choose the game for the orbit, lets you vote on the stakes and structure for next weekend's game, and lets you deal the cards when you've got the button. C'est la vie.

When I'm trying to recreate the casino experience for my home game, chip values are pretty low on the list of priorities.