color up question

[4ceps]

Originally Posted by billsrcursed

A bit of a thread jack, but on the same topic;

How do you introduce new chips?? I will be using 6 colors, but starting stack will only have 4. How do I introduce the 2 other colors? Do I color up twice in one shot?? Help!!!!

the earliest you'd introduce them would when your bb reaches that denomination.

at that time, when colouring up, colour up the big chip leaders to the new denom as well as the regular colour up

[Dimes]

Originally Posted by billsrcursed

A bit of a thread jack, but on the same topic;

How do you introduce new chips?? I will be using 6 colors, but starting stack will only have 4. How do I introduce the 2 other colors? Do I color up twice in one shot?? Help!!!!

If during a colour-up or a break a player has more than, say, a stack of the largest denomination, you could colour up the excess chips to the next denomination.

You will probably need a large game to need 2 higher chips.

TT

[rowlin]

We race off the T25 chips during a five-minute break after 100 minutes of play, and the T100 chips during another short break an hour later. We use the method described above, except instead of using suits to break ties, we deal another card to each of the tying parties. It is typically a single-table game, so we are not dealing with uneven remainders, but with only a two or three tables I would probably race off the odd chips across all tables, though it might involve the use of more than one deck.

[WolfPack]

Thanks for the responses. I think from now on I will just color up to the next highest denom.

[cnw400]

I played a tournament at the Borgata yesterday. We started with T25, T100, T500, and T1000 chips in play. At the second break, they raced off the T25 chips and also added T5000 chips to some of the bigger stacks.

A couple weeks ago I played a tournament at the Tropicana and they did it a bit differently. The color up was the same, but they introduced the T5000 chip at the add-on which was for an extra 5000 chips, so if you did the add-on you got a single T5000 chip.

[billsrcursed]

Makes sense, thanks everyone!!

[steve5k]

I played in a $100 satellite tourney at the Taj Mahal in AC a few months ago for the US Poker Championship. During the break, the players were colored up (T25 to T100). When we sat back down, no one even knew a color-up was going to happen. I asked the dealer how he settled the odd chips, and he said that anyone with *any* odd chips was given a T100 for them.

[4ceps]

Originally Posted by steve5k

I played in a $100 satellite tourney at the Taj Mahal in AC a few months ago for the US Poker Championship. During the break, the players were colored up (T25 to T100). When we sat back down, no one even knew a color-up was going to happen. I asked the dealer how he settled the odd chips, and he said that anyone with *any* odd chips was given a T100 for them.

the colour up is probably mentioned in the official tournament rules as well as the method for the odd chips. but no one ever reads the official tourney rules....except me!

[Gameface]

Originally Posted by on tilt

I had the same question and researched it. The following explanation is very clear:

Let me see if I can give a practical example of how the process works.

Dealer announces that you’re going to color up the green (or whatever other color) chips.

Players put their green T25 chips in stacks of 4 so that they add up to T100 and place these stacks of 4 in front of them. If they have odd chips (as in 1, 2 or 3 green chips) at this point they just hold onto them for the time being.

The dealer collects each stack of 4 green chips and exchanges it for a black T100 chip.

Once all the stacks of 4 have been collected the dealer tells players to put out their odd chips.

Starting at the dealers left he gives each player a card for every odd chip they have, in this case up to 3 cards. The cards are dealt face up and a player receives all their cards at one time (or in a row).

Once the cards have been dealt the dealer collects all the odd chips and puts them in stacks of 4. A T100 chip is issued for every stack of 4 chips. If there is a stack with 1, 2 or 3 chips an additional T100 chip is issued for that stack (note, some people do not issue a chip for this stack, or they only issue a chip if it is a stack of 3 chips, it’s up to you).

Now that you know how many T100 chips will be issued for the stacks of odd chips you start with the player that has the highest ranked card (pairs and so forth do not count, just the rank of the highest individual card). If there are two aces or any other card of the same rank, you determine the winner by the suit of the card. The rank of suits from highest to lowest is: Spade, Heart, Diamond, Club (reverse alphabetical order).

When you give a player a chip remove all of their cards as they are not eligible for more than one chip per chip race.

If a player is all-in on the chip race give them the first chip. A player cannot be eliminated during a chip race.

Start the next level and enjoy
Some people just round everybody up. It’s easy and people generally do not complain about being rounded up.

When I’m in a game that rounds up I’m very likely to limp on the last hand before the color up if I will still be rounded up to the same amount of chips, so I don’t really like the round up option because it offers the idea of a free play

Hey man! I appreciate the compliment of quoting my post, but you could have at least given me credit for it.

But to addrss the question of when to add higher denom chips above the scheduled color up, well I just do it if there is a player who has a massive amount of chips. Take some of their plentiful lower denoms and give them a few of the higest denoms. Nothing formal.

The other alternative is to color up the pot when you are the dealer. Let's say there is a big pot, like 3K-4K, when the blinds are 100-200. Just bust out some 1K chips and get rid of a few thousand worth of T100 chips. Now the winner has essentialy been colored up.