[ky70]

Originally Posted by B.C.

Same as colour-up. Damn colonials..............

No worries...I actually hear "chip up" used quite often

[Matthew]

Color up (or colour up) is the exchange of lesser value chips for higher value chips. i.e. 4 green 25s for 1 black 100.

What was described so well above with the "odd" chips is technically called the Race.

So the expression most offen used is "Color up and Race"

We color up and round in our home game.

[chokerpip]

Originally Posted by youngin57

I believe that is the correct spelling. It is the metric spellling.

young...

Metrics?!? We don't need your stinkin' metrics!

[youngin57]

I grew up learning the metric system only to get into the work world and find out most of my tools are imperial.

young...

[TenPercenter]

We always use the method described in Robert's Rules:

"The lowest denomination of chip in play will be removed from the table when it is no longer needed in the blind or ante structure. All lower-denomination chips that are of sufficient quantity for a new chip will be changed up directly. The method for removal of odd chips is to deal one card to a player for each odd chip possessed. Cards are dealt clockwise starting with the 1-seat, with each player receiving all cards before any cards are dealt to the next player. The player with the highest card by suit gets enough odd chips to exchange for one new chip, the second-highest card gets to exchange for the next chip, and so forth, until all the lower-denomination chips are exchanged. A player may not be eliminated from the event by the chip-change process. If a player has no chips after the race has been held, he will be given a chip of the higher denomination before anyone else is awarded a chip. If an odd number of lower-denomination chips are left after this process, the player with the highest card remaining will receive a new chip if he has half or more of the quantity of lower-denomination chips needed, otherwise nothing. "


http://www.chiptalk.net/x-poker-chip...rules.html#S15

[rowlin]

We do it during a five-minute break, as it was slowing down the action previously. I like the Robert's Rules method, and we have added the stipulation that each person may not receive more than one of the new chips.

[Claypot]

Originally Posted by youngin57

I believe that is the correct spelling. It is the metric spellling.

young...

Is SPELLLING the metric spelling of SPELLING ?

[Devilboy]

Originally Posted by on tilt

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.

Easier: get the players to make 4 equal stacks. Then just make a stack of $100s of that same height. Works better if you have lots of chips on the table.

Originally Posted by on tilt

If a player is all-in on the chip race give them the first chip.

WRONG!!!! The all-in player still plays the chip race, but if he loses he's given a single $100 chip at the end of the race. (see RROP)

Giving him the first chip reduces the chance for other players to get their chip which is unfair to them.
E.g. if I have 3 $25 chips and another player only has 1 $25 chip left in his stack, and no-one else has odd chips, I should still have 75% chance of getting a black chip. With your rule I'll have 0% chance as the first and only chip goes to the all-in guy.

[Gameface]

WRONG!!!! The all-in player still plays the chip race, but if he loses he's given a single $100 chip at the end of the race. (see RROP)

Giving him the first chip reduces the chance for other players to get their chip which is unfair to them.

E.g. if I have 3 $25 chips and another player only has 1 $25 chip left in his stack, and no-one else has odd chips, I should still have 75% chance of getting a black chip. With your rule I'll have 0% chance as the first and only chip goes to the all-in guy.

You're wrong here. The player does not have to get the first chip, but there is not an additional chip issued to keep this player in the game if they lose the color up. The chip is basically taken from the person who would have been issued the final chip based on the race. So it really doesn't matter when you give the person a chip, they're going to get one no matter what and there will not be additional chips issued except in the very unusual circumstance that several people stand to be eliminated by the race and there are not going to be enough chips issued to keep them all in the game. I've never seen anything like that before.

[smoore]

duh... everyone knows you spell it COULAR!

Get a brain, morans.

Go USA.

/mullet