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08-18-2005, 08:31 PM
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Newbie question: coloring up
I played my first live NL tourney at the luxor and noticed that they simply round up when they color up chips. At home, we had been in the habit of distributing 'lottery tickets' for each chip you had such that the high cards got to round up and you could only get a max of 1 chip.
Is the method of rounding chips upward used mostly everywhere, or what is the usual approach? 
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#2
08-18-2005, 08:46 PM
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Re: Newbie question: coloring up
I have lots of experience in home tournaments and limited experience in casino tournaments (several dozen). I have read about chip races, but have never seen one. True, that might simply prove my lack of experience in tourneys, I would agree, but I have always seen chips rounded up.
I believe there is a small unfairness about it, but in its defense, the players are on smoke breaks and whatnot during the color up process and it just makes things run a heck of a lot smoother. I'm all for rounding up and keeping it simple. Onaflag..........
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#3
08-18-2005, 09:55 PM
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Re: Newbie question: coloring up
Most of the tournies at Tunica round, and that's the way I handle it at my home events. I tried the raceoff a couple times, but rounding is simpler, quicker and in the end one extra or one less chip doesn't usually affect the outcome (yea, yea, the "chip & a chair" thing ...I know).
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#4
08-19-2005, 06:28 PM
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Re: Newbie question: coloring up
[ QUOTE ]
I played my first live NL tourney at the luxor and noticed that they simply round up when they color up chips. At home, we had been in the habit of distributing 'lottery tickets' for each chip you had such that the high cards got to round up and you could only get a max of 1 chip. Is the method of rounding chips upward used mostly everywhere, or what is the usual approach? [/ QUOTE ] The last live tournament I played in was the afternoon tournament at Binion's ($110 or so after all was said and done). They used a proper chip race to get rid of the green chips.
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#5
08-19-2005, 07:20 PM
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Re: Newbie question: coloring up
Interesting -- I've only played in a few home tournaments (run by the same guy, who started me in poker) and one at the Bike, so I thought racing off low-denom chips was just standard practice.
So in the rounding method, everyone with a "partial chip" gets an extra chip? This slightly changes the number of chips in play, but not enough for anyone to care I s'pose.
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#7
08-19-2005, 07:34 PM
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Re: Newbie question: coloring up
every tournament i played in vegas raced, everywhere else has rounded. I always end up with just the correct number of chips and don't get to be rounded up so I consider it unfair. Really though, it is easier to just round.
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#8
08-19-2005, 07:56 PM
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Re: Newbie question: coloring up
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every tournament i played in vegas raced, everywhere else has rounded. I always end up with just the correct number of chips and don't get to be rounded up so I consider it unfair. Really though, it is easier to just round. [/ QUOTE ] The difference is really very minimal anyway in actual equity and the ease of rounding makes it so much better IMO.
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