[jojobinks]

please?

[Wylecoyo]

Try this: http://www.homepokertourney.net/colorup.htm

Hope it helps.

[SpaceMonkey]

Each player receives a card for every odd chip they have left. You deal clockwise starting from the one seat. No one player can win more than one chip.

Some links:
http://live.checknraisepoker.com/cnr...wsop_rules.php (Rule #3)
http://www.texasholdem-poker.com/wsop_rules.php (#2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_race_%28poker%29
http://www.homepokertourney.com/colorup.htm

[KYBill]

thanks, i have been wondering about how to do that for awhile.

[Double Eagle]

Per Robert's Rules of Poker by Bob Caffione: 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, that player 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 having half or more of the quantity of lower-denomination chips needed, otherwise nothing.

[casinogosain]

What, you don't believe me?

-Ash

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by casinogosain

What, you don't believe me?

-Ash

what struck me as weird is exactly what was wrong. high card gets a chip. suit is a tiebreaker...

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by Double Eagle

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, that player 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 having half or more of the quantity of lower-denomination chips needed, otherwise nothing.

Robert's Rules here is missing the disclaimer that one one player can not win more than one chip. I prefer the TDA rules for that. Wouldn't be bad to give credit to the rule either.

[casinogosain]

Originally Posted by jojobinks

what struck me as weird is exactly what was wrong. high card gets a chip. suit is a tiebreaker...

It struck me as odd when it was done at Trump this way too.

I don't have the energy to determine if there is a mathematical difference between the two methods.

-Ash

[hachkc]

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

At most you're giving each player an extra SB or ante depending on the blind structure which seems pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. Seems to be easier than worrying about the chip race and maybe fairer.

The only possible exception is if you color up at the late blind levels where the blinds are a sizeable % of the stacks. Assuming chip stacks with no more than the following values in play 5, 25, 100, 500, 1000 (T500-1500), would anyone color up past the 5 & 25 chips?