I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your buddies are not so wrong. All of those colors have actually been used for those values in real casinos or cardrooms at one time or another (chipguide.com might be a good resource for this info). There's really no set standard, so you can actually make any chip worth any denomination as long as everyone understands the value of each color.
What you told your friends was some of the colors that are used in some casinos (not necessarily for poker though). And $50 chips aren't commonly known to be in use. In reality, you may have been the one that was wrong for trying to dictate the chip values if it wasn't your place to do so. I know some people who probably would have invited you to leave.
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Originally Posted by Brewster While setting up for the tourny last weekend I gave everyone their stack of chips and announced that it was to be a T500 tournament. I was ment with blank stares that turned hostile and the shouting began. "I don't want to play with such high numbers" etc. (this went on for a while). They became even more beligerent when I told them the chip values (white = 1, red = 5, green = 25, blue = 50, and black = 100). After half an hour of bitching and griping from the (now drunk) peanut gallery we changed the denoms to what they are accustomed to. For the record, I fought this every step of the way.
white = 50 cents
red = $1
green = $2
blue = $5
black = $10
I found this to be so bloody wrong on every level that I am tempted to take a sharpie marker and write the proper denoms on my chips so this travesty will never happen again.
On a side note, we managed to hit 4 of a kind (aces) not once but twice in the first hour of play. What are the odds of that? |
