[pie taster]

Originally Posted by hachkc

Just out of curiousity, wouldn't it be easier to color up any extra chips to the next lowest value in play?

Then a savy player would try to have extra chips so they get free chips when there is a color up.

[hachkc]

Originally Posted by pie taster

Then a savy player would try to have extra chips so they get free chips when there is a color up.

True but you can't get more than 1 chip so how many of us would alter our play to get a fraction of the lowest value chip. Assume you are coming to the end of round 3 (20/40 blinds) with the next round being 25/50 and $5 chips color up to $25 chips. If you keep 1 chip versus 5 chips, you are only getting an extra $20 when the blinds are 25/50; that's not much use. Even so, what's worse taking from the many to pay the few (chip race) or paying the many a fractional chip.

[OnTheButton]

We play a T5000 tourney with these breakdowns.

$25 chips - 16
$100 chips - 16
$500 chips - 4
$1000 chips - 1

When we color up the $25 chips we race exactly as described above.

We will either deal one card to each player with an extra chip(s) and no one person can get more than one chip. Or we do a "wash" where we mix and spread the cards on the table and let the players "pull" their own cards for the same race style.

At the $500 color up, if you've got odd chips, you get rounded up to a $500 chip period. If you've got 1 or 4 odd chips you still get a $500.

When the blinds are $500/1000 that $200 off doesn't mean much, and its more fair to the guy with 4 chips to potentially lose $400 straight out.

[Double Eagle]

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

Wouldn't be bad to give credit to the rule either.

I often quote Robert's Rules and have always listed the credit. Just forgot this time. Thanks for the reminder.