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The smarter they are, the stupider! Seriously, we have about 5 PhD/College Professors among the regulars (and two people who are from France and Austria, only Masters degrees at the moment, but are at our college for a year to teach their native languages. Both are fluent in English, of course, but never played poker IN THEIR LIVES before. And they have no problem understanding!). Not that degrees = smartness (I count myself as a prime example!), but still, these are not otherwise stupid people. (And the Math Professor is the worst: has NO clue about odds, draws when he feels like it regardless of the odds.) That's why I think it is more about psychology, rather than them not being capable of understanding.

Thanks for the suggestion Wylecoyo -- when we've played tournaments (about once every 6 months or so), we have had similar charts. And interestingly, NO ONE has a problem then, even though we were playing with the usual chips, same colors, but different values. (No one except me, I should add -- last tournament (which was Halloween), I screwed up big time and raised 30 times the bb, not 3 a couple of times. I actually posted about that then because I felt like the biggest idiot in the world!) I guess I could try that.

As to noelsarchs suggestion -- my biggest chipset is the Pharaoh NCVs, so there's no problem in that. Should we really have a .25 chip playing .20/.40? It seems strange to me. Maybe all dimes is the best solution after all.