[Minok]

Playing poker off and on over 15 years, I've played a whole variety of games. What I find most enjoyable for regular ring games is dealers choice, where a variety of stuff gets played. As such, I'm not interested in getting a specific Texas Holdem tourney oriented set, but one that will be versatile and stand the test of time.

As we play all sorts of non-sense in the course of a dealers choice game, from "Indian Poker", "Bourré", 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud, and, important for this threads discussion, Blackjack.

As such, I'm curious - does anyone have custom 2.50 chips in thier arsenal?

[smoore]

Not yet, but you'd be my new hero if you made some.

Are you thinking of $2.50 and then a high denom chip? I've often thought that a $10 chip would be great but people can just use them for a bet on the end and I'm assuming you want to play 5/10 with a 2/4 chip structure?

edit: OIC, blackjack. So you'd mix 'em in with 1's, 5's and 25's?

[MacGrad]

No custom $2.50, but I'm going to wait to see if ASM offers another "special" edgespot GB before I think about doing that. Right now, I've used a progression of 1/4" spots on the "main set", and the $2.50 (since it's an irregular chip in our games) would be off-progression -- maybe a V or U spot.

[hachkc]

I play with someone that has a custom ChipCo 2.50 chip.

[viet rounder]

waiting for the quarter pie to do my $2.5

[Minok]

My plan is to build a good, basic (well probably overkill, but I'm a fan of getting all I need at once, rather than in increments, if possible.. and expanding on the top end later with new denominations).

Right now I'm drawing up my design for a 1 : 5 : 25 : 100 : 500 set.

But, give blackjack, there needs to be a way to pay off the bets, hence the need for the 2.50.

It would be a small run. 2.50's would not be allowed to be used for putting in the pot - they would exist soley for recordkeeping. Once a player won a second 2.50, they would fork the pair over and get a 5, so its really limited... never need more than 1x # of players, 2x # players if I wanted to be lazy.

Pink main color is what I'm drawing up currently. The chips are pretty colorfull, given the art I decided to use, and the theme... not the most sleek or beautiful, but its got features that are really personalize the chips for me.

That said, I was hoping to see if folks were using 2.50s and if so, what they looked like.

[MSPatton]

There have been a few made in home sets




Then there was always these

[JM]

Just buy a roll of half dollars from the bank. It'll be cheaper and you don't have to worry about coloring up the 2.50s later. They can just pocket the halves if they want or bet 2 as a buck.

[Chiproll]

Originally Posted by JM

Just buy a roll of half dollars from the bank. It'll be cheaper and you don't have to worry about coloring up the 2.50s later. They can just pocket the halves if they want or bet 2 as a buck.

No offense but isn't this post like saying "what do you need chips for anyways. Just use silver dollars and quarters there just like little metal chips anyways..." If the guys planning on getting customs, he may as well get some $2.50 chips if thats what he wants.

Besides I always thought a low limit game like .25/.50 could use 2.5/10 as a natural progression.

[tastic]

Although the snapper is most commonly utilized in blackjack, I was curious to see if anyone uses the $2.50 chip as a small blind in, say a 5/10 limit game? So having only a handful of snappers for the small blind, and $5s as the workhorse betting chips...