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April 2nd, 2014 at 7:35:36 AM permalink
Playing in Belgium, France and UK, I have seen all kinds of different colors for chip denomination from casino to casino.
Yet on this forum, there are regular mentions of "red chip" players or "black chip" play, etc.
Would someone be kind to post a list of the monetary value of these (semingly official) colors?
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:09:18 AM permalink
$1 - White
$5 - Red
$25 - Green
$100 - Black
$500 - Purple

Those standards hold across North America and the Caribbean.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:11:57 AM permalink
Quote: dwheatley

$1 - White
$5 - Red
$25 - Green
$100 - Black
$500 - Purple

Those standards hold across North America and the Caribbean.



I wonder if there are places that do it differently. My casino does exactly that, with larger orange chips at $1000 and larger gray ones at $5000.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:15:33 AM permalink
Quote: hwccdealer

I wonder if there are places that do it differently.



Plenty. Look at Doc's collection in the Chip of the Day thread. The Golden Nugget uses blue for $1 chips, for one.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:21:48 AM permalink
Blue $1 chips are pretty common, so are pink or orange $5 chips (I suppose those are reddish or red-enough to fit the broader pattern). Also, the most common $5 color in California is yellow. Brown, blue, green, tan, and purple $5 chips can also be found there.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:26:53 AM permalink
Yeah, the $1 chips are usually white, but some places, mostly in Vegas (Nevada?) will use blue or grey instead of white.

Although 3:2 Blackjack is becoming an endangered species, where it exists, you'll often see pink $2.50 chips.

You'll also find odd colors for odd denominations. Some poker rooms have special $4 chips for their max rake as well as for $4/$8 limit games. I have a $4 rake chip fremont the Venetian. It's brown.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:36:29 AM permalink
I found this in the New Jersey regulations regarding chip colors-very detailed :)
Also includes specs for rarely/never seen $10 and $20 chip denominations.



19:46-1.1A Value chips; denominations; physical characteristics
(a) Each gaming chip which contains a denomination on each face thereof shall be known as a "value chip."
(b) Each casino licensee shall be authorized to issue and use value chips in denominations of $1.00, $2.50, $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $25.00, $100.00, $500.00, $1,000, $5,000, $20,000 and $25,000 and in such quantities as the casino licensee may deem appropriate to conduct gaming or simulcast wagering in its casino or casino simulcasting facility.
(c) Each denomination of value chip issued by a casino licensee shall contain a predominant color unique to that denomination to be known as the "primary color." A "secondary color" on a value chip is any color, other than that chip's primary color, that the Commission authorizes a casino licensee to include on the face or edge of the chip as a contrast to the chip's primary color, except that no primary color shall be used as a secondary color on a value chip of another denomination where such use on the edge is reasonably likely to cause confusion as to the chip's denomination when the edge alone is visible.
(d) Each gaming chip manufacturer shall submit sample color disks to the Commission that identify all primary and secondary colors to be used for the manufacture of gaming chips for casino licensees in Atlantic City. Once a gaming chip manufacturer has received approval for a primary or secondary color, those colors shall be consistently manufactured in accordance with the approved samples. In order for a primary color to be approved for use, it must visually appear, when viewed either in daylight or under incandescent light, to comply with the colors set forth below or such other similar colors as approved by the Commission:
1. $1.00 - "White" which shall mean that color classified as N9/ on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Value V+ N9.4/ to V- N8.75/
Chroma 5R 9/1 5G 9/0.5
5 YR 9/1 5B 9/0.5
5Y 9/1 5P 9/0.5
2. $2.50 - "Pink" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5R 6/10 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75R 6/10 H- 1.25R 6/10
Value V+ 2.5R 6.75/10 V- 2.5R 5.75/10
Chroma C+ 2.5R 6/12 C- 2.5R 6/8
3. $5.00 - "Red" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5R 4/12 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75R 4/12 H- 1.25R 4/12
Value V+ 2.5R 4.5/12 V- 2.5R 3.5/12
Chroma C+ 2.5R 4/14 C- 2.5R 4/10
4. $10.00 - "Blue" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5PB 4/10 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 5PB4/10 H- 10B4/10
Value V+ 2/5PB4.5/10 V- 2.5PB3.5/10
Chroma C+ None C- 2.5PB4/9
5. $20.00 - "Yellow" which shall mean that color classified as 5Y 8.5/12 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 7.5Y 8.5/12 H- 2.5Y 8.5/12
Value V+ 5Y 8.75/12 V- 5Y 8/12
Chroma C+ 5Y 8.5/14 C- 5Y 8.5/10
6. $25.00 - "Green" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5G 5/12 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75G 5/12 H- 1.25G 5/12
Value V+ 2.5G 5.5/12 V- 2.5G 4.5/12
Chroma C+ None C- 2.5G 5/9
7. $100.00 - "Black" which shall mean that color classified as N2/ on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Value V+ N2.3/ to V- N1.5/
Chroma 5R 2/0.5 5B 2/0.5
5Y 2/0.5 5P 2/0.5
5G 2/0.5
8. $500.00 - "Purple" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5P 4/10 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75P 4/10 H- 1.25P 4/10
Value V+ 2.5P 4.5/10 V- 2.5P 3.5/10
Chroma C+ None C- 2.5P 4/8
9. $1,000.00 - "Fire Orange" which shall mean that color classified as 8.9R 5.9/18.5 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ .15YR 5.9/18.5 H- 7.64R 5.9/18.5
Value V+ 8.9R 6.4/18.5 V- 8.9R 5.4/18.5
Chroma C+ 8.9R 5.9/20.5 C- 8.9R 5.9/16.5
10. $5,000.00 - "Gray" which shall mean that color classified as N5/ on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Value V+ N 5.5/ to V- N 4.5/
Chroma 5R 5/0.5 5B 5/0.5
5Y 5/0.5 5P 5/0.5
5G 5/0.5
11. $20,000 - "Mustard Yellow" which shall mean that color classified as 5Y 7/6 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 7.5Y 8.5/6 H- 2.5Y 8.5/6
Value V+ 5Y 9/6 V- 5Y 8/6
Chroma C+ 5Y 8.5/8 C- 5Y 8.5/4
12. $25,000 - "Gold" which shall mean that color classified as 5Y 6/6 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 7.5Y 6/6 H- 2.5Y 6/6
Value V+ 5Y 7/6 V- 5Y 5/6
Chroma C+ 5Y 6/8 C- 5Y 6/4
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:49:05 AM permalink
In some jurisdictions, the colors are specified by the regulatory body and are the same for all casinos. In other areas, it's just a matter of convention. Chips above $100 value seem to have quite a variation in which denomination is represented by the "plums", "chocolates", "pumpkins", "lemons", etc. Of course, I personally almost never have to deal with any of those.

Until I saw all of the yellow $5 chips from the California card rooms that rdw4potus posted in the Casino Chip of the Day thread, I had never seen a yellow $5 chip. Very regional issue, I think. I also think that Nevada's $1 chips show by far the greatest color variations I have seen anywhere. In addition to my being a cheapskate, that is a big reason I chose to collect the "whites" (which can be blue, gray, brown, orange, etc.) instead of something that would make almost all of my chips the same color.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:51:39 AM permalink
Quote: Scooter77

I found this in the New Jersey regulations regarding chip colors-very detailed :)
Also includes specs for rarely/never seen $10 and $20 chip denominations.




Borgata uses yellow at all Pai Gow Poker and Baccarat tables.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:51:55 AM permalink
Quote: DJTeddyBear

Although 3:2 Blackjack is becoming an endangered species, where it exists, you'll often see pink $2.50 chips.



We have 6/5 BJ in our "party pit." We still have pink chips in case players play odd numbers and want to take insurance.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:52:53 AM permalink
One of my local places does:

1 - Blue
5 - Yellow
25 - Purple
100 - Grey
500 - Black

I was talking to one of the dealers once and and he said that, at baccarat, somebody once bet 25$ on three tie spots.... And got paid in 4 blacks each. Not grey. (Or whatever the appropriate amount was.)
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:53:00 AM permalink
I'm not sure what color this is, but I like the color
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April 2nd, 2014 at 9:04:16 AM permalink
Quote: Venthus

One of my local places does:

1 - Blue
5 - Yellow
25 - Purple
100 - Grey
500 - Black

I was talking to one of the dealers once and and he said that, at baccarat, somebody once bet 25$ on three tie spots.... And got paid in 4 blacks each. Not grey. (Or whatever the appropriate amount was.)



At first, I thought you were talking about San Manuel but their 100 is white and 1000 is grey. SM dealers also have stories of patrons being paid in the wrong denomination. Supposedly, a dealer was fired on the spot for giving black 500s thinking they were 100s.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 9:23:16 AM permalink
Quote: RogerKint

At first, I thought you were talking about San Manuel but their 100 is white and 1000 is grey. SM dealers also have stories of patrons being paid in the wrong denomination. Supposedly, a dealer was fired on the spot for giving black 500s thinking they were 100s.



...That's what I get for posting from bed before fully waking up. Something felt wrong in there, but I figured I could sneak back in and fix it after coffee.

My sincerest apologies for the unnecessary emotional trauma imposed upon the world in my lapse of chromatic judgement. =) And for the lame attempt at a humorous cover-up.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 9:32:13 AM permalink
Quote: Scooter77

I found this in the New Jersey regulations regarding chip colors-very detailed :)
Also includes specs for rarely/never seen $10 and $20 chip denominations.



19:46-1.1A Value chips; denominations; physical characteristics
(a) Each gaming chip which contains a denomination on each face thereof shall be known as a "value chip."
(b) Each casino licensee shall be authorized to issue and use value chips in denominations of $1.00, $2.50, $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $25.00, $100.00, $500.00, $1,000, $5,000, $20,000 and $25,000 and in such quantities as the casino licensee may deem appropriate to conduct gaming or simulcast wagering in its casino or casino simulcasting facility.
(c) Each denomination of value chip issued by a casino licensee shall contain a predominant color unique to that denomination to be known as the "primary color." A "secondary color" on a value chip is any color, other than that chip's primary color, that the Commission authorizes a casino licensee to include on the face or edge of the chip as a contrast to the chip's primary color, except that no primary color shall be used as a secondary color on a value chip of another denomination where such use on the edge is reasonably likely to cause confusion as to the chip's denomination when the edge alone is visible.
(d) Each gaming chip manufacturer shall submit sample color disks to the Commission that identify all primary and secondary colors to be used for the manufacture of gaming chips for casino licensees in Atlantic City. Once a gaming chip manufacturer has received approval for a primary or secondary color, those colors shall be consistently manufactured in accordance with the approved samples. In order for a primary color to be approved for use, it must visually appear, when viewed either in daylight or under incandescent light, to comply with the colors set forth below or such other similar colors as approved by the Commission:
1. $1.00 - "White" which shall mean that color classified as N9/ on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Value V+ N9.4/ to V- N8.75/
Chroma 5R 9/1 5G 9/0.5
5 YR 9/1 5B 9/0.5
5Y 9/1 5P 9/0.5
2. $2.50 - "Pink" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5R 6/10 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75R 6/10 H- 1.25R 6/10
Value V+ 2.5R 6.75/10 V- 2.5R 5.75/10
Chroma C+ 2.5R 6/12 C- 2.5R 6/8
3. $5.00 - "Red" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5R 4/12 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75R 4/12 H- 1.25R 4/12
Value V+ 2.5R 4.5/12 V- 2.5R 3.5/12
Chroma C+ 2.5R 4/14 C- 2.5R 4/10
4. $10.00 - "Blue" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5PB 4/10 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 5PB4/10 H- 10B4/10
Value V+ 2/5PB4.5/10 V- 2.5PB3.5/10
Chroma C+ None C- 2.5PB4/9
5. $20.00 - "Yellow" which shall mean that color classified as 5Y 8.5/12 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 7.5Y 8.5/12 H- 2.5Y 8.5/12
Value V+ 5Y 8.75/12 V- 5Y 8/12
Chroma C+ 5Y 8.5/14 C- 5Y 8.5/10
6. $25.00 - "Green" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5G 5/12 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75G 5/12 H- 1.25G 5/12
Value V+ 2.5G 5.5/12 V- 2.5G 4.5/12
Chroma C+ None C- 2.5G 5/9
7. $100.00 - "Black" which shall mean that color classified as N2/ on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Value V+ N2.3/ to V- N1.5/
Chroma 5R 2/0.5 5B 2/0.5
5Y 2/0.5 5P 2/0.5
5G 2/0.5
8. $500.00 - "Purple" which shall mean that color classified as 2.5P 4/10 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 3.75P 4/10 H- 1.25P 4/10
Value V+ 2.5P 4.5/10 V- 2.5P 3.5/10
Chroma C+ None C- 2.5P 4/8
9. $1,000.00 - "Fire Orange" which shall mean that color classified as 8.9R 5.9/18.5 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ .15YR 5.9/18.5 H- 7.64R 5.9/18.5
Value V+ 8.9R 6.4/18.5 V- 8.9R 5.4/18.5
Chroma C+ 8.9R 5.9/20.5 C- 8.9R 5.9/16.5
10. $5,000.00 - "Gray" which shall mean that color classified as N5/ on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Value V+ N 5.5/ to V- N 4.5/
Chroma 5R 5/0.5 5B 5/0.5
5Y 5/0.5 5P 5/0.5
5G 5/0.5
11. $20,000 - "Mustard Yellow" which shall mean that color classified as 5Y 7/6 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 7.5Y 8.5/6 H- 2.5Y 8.5/6
Value V+ 5Y 9/6 V- 5Y 8/6
Chroma C+ 5Y 8.5/8 C- 5Y 8.5/4
12. $25,000 - "Gold" which shall mean that color classified as 5Y 6/6 on the Munsell System of Color Coding which shall be reproduced to within the following tolerances:
Upper Limits Lower Limits
Hue H+ 7.5Y 6/6 H- 2.5Y 6/6
Value V+ 5Y 7/6 V- 5Y 5/6
Chroma C+ 5Y 6/8 C- 5Y 6/4




I am from NJ as well. I am curious why are 10 dollar chips (blue chips according to this reg) so rare? I Have never seen one in a AC casino. It seems like the perfect amount, there is a big gap from 5 to 25? I remember one of the first times I was in a casino I asked for $10 chips and everyone looked at me like I was an idiot lol. But it seems like a denomination that should be more common (or in existence anywhere) since there are many $10 tables and it is annoying having to get a bunch of 5dollarchips...
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April 2nd, 2014 at 10:13:57 AM permalink
Quote: Scooter77

Also includes specs for rarely/never seen $10 and $20 chip denominations.


It's probably for the best that $20 chips are not common in NJ, since the spec has $20 chips and $20,000 chips as different shades of yellow. That has the potential for a rather large mistake.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 10:21:28 AM permalink
At the Seminole Hard Rock in Ft. lauderdale, the $20 chips are light blue, and only used on the PGP tables. They look distressingly like both the white dollar chips and the black $100 chips from the same casino, for different reasons. I'll try and get a picture for comparison, but some of the trouble is that the insert face goes out nearly to the rim on all 3. You can tell the $1 from the $100 pretty easily, but the $20 looks enough like both that it's a problem, according to the dealer there, for many people, not just me. They buy back the $20 chips when you're getting up or from the tips if they happen to get one, rather than having you take them to the cage.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 10:31:06 AM permalink
I have a hot pink $0.25 chip from the Fremont. Does anybody else have recent actual quarter chips? Are they similar color, or is there no "standard" for these?
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April 2nd, 2014 at 11:01:26 AM permalink
Quote: wudged

I have a hot pink $0.25 chip from the Fremont. Does anybody else have recent actual quarter chips? Are they similar color, or is there no "standard" for these?



Riviera used to use a hot pink 50 cent chip years ago, not sure if they still do.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 11:15:05 AM permalink
Quote: SlangNRox

I'm not sure what color this is, but I like the color

They're grey. When classifying them by color, you ignore the edge inserts.



Quote: wudged

I have a hot pink $0.25 chip from the Fremont. Does anybody else have recent actual quarter chips? Are they similar color, or is there no "standard" for these?

I have pumpkin orange 0.25 chips from Jokers Wild. They're very plain. No alternate edge color, and the name/denom is hot stamped in foil. It's just about the chrleapest manufacturing process available for a clay chip.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 11:23:37 AM permalink
Quote: Gandler

I am from NJ as well. I am curious why are 10 dollar chips (blue chips according to this reg) so rare? I Have never seen one in a AC casino. It seems like the perfect amount, there is a big gap from 5 to 25? I remember one of the first times I was in a casino I asked for $10 chips and everyone looked at me like I was an idiot lol. But it seems like a denomination that should be more common (or in existence anywhere) since there are many $10 tables and it is annoying having to get a bunch of 5dollarchips...



For the same reason they always sold hot dogs in 10-packs and hot dog buns in 8-packs - more money.

US currency goes from $5 to $10 to $20, so casino chips skip all that and go directly to $25 - a huge jump. That means that your standard $20 bettor gets four red chips instead of one yellow chip. The person who gets one $20 chip bets it, loses it, says, "Well, poopydoodles," and leaves. The person with four red chips places more bets, loses it, and by the time he loses it, has seen plenty of opportunities to win - and wants it back. And bets more. Soon enough, the red bettor has bought in a few more times, turning a $20 investment into 4-5 times that amount, whereas the one-and-done bettor is probably deciding that losing $20 in one shot wasn't much fun and being done with gambling for a while.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 1:00:36 PM permalink
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I'm not sure what color this is, but I like the color



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April 2nd, 2014 at 1:27:51 PM permalink
El Cortez, MGM Grand, The Plaza have blue $1 and the Downtown Grand has a light blue $1. Main Street Station (and I imagine the other station properties) have a $1 chip that's metal and looks kind of like a train token. They're probably my favorite chips just for being so thematic.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 2:44:33 PM permalink
Barona has $0.50 brown chips on their iPad tables / in the party pit.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 2:46:39 PM permalink
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April 2nd, 2014 at 3:12:18 PM permalink
Quote: hwccdealer

We have 6/5 BJ in our "party pit.".


That's a party I'd hate to attend
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April 2nd, 2014 at 5:05:20 PM permalink
Quote: DJTeddyBear




I have pumpkin orange 0.25 chips from Jokers Wild. They're very plain. No alternate edge color, and the name/denom is hot stamped in foil. It's just about the chrleapest manufacturing process available for a clay chip.



Yea, exactly how my Fremont chip is.

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April 2nd, 2014 at 5:10:39 PM permalink
Quote: michael99000

That's a party I'd hate to attend



It's not much of a party pit, at least compared to the ones in Vegas. In Vegas, you have half-naked gorgeous women dancing in exchange for 6/5 BJ (sadly, the BJ stands for blackjack, not the other thing, AFAIK.) Here? The "party pit" is for lower-limit games, the dealers wear jerseys, and my old shift manager described the pit as full of "monkey games" that "you can't win." (That's not entirely accurate except for 6/5 BJ, the ploppy trap.)

For me, the only advantage to the party pit is that the jersey I bring from home is more comfortable than my uniform.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 5:13:24 PM permalink
Quote: hwccdealer

It's not much of a party pit, at least compared to the ones in Vegas. In Vegas, you have half-naked gorgeous women dancing in exchange for 6/5 BJ (sadly, the BJ stands for blackjack, not the other thing, AFAIK.) Here? The "party pit" is for lower-limit games, the dealers wear jerseys, and my old shift manager described the pit as full of "monkey games" that "you can't win." (That's not entirely accurate except for 6/5 BJ, the ploppy trap.)

For me, the only advantage to the party pit is that the jersey I bring from home is more comfortable than my uniform.



Sometimes you can find a decent video poker machine with a good view of the party pit.

Sadly, most of the people in the party pit aren't even looking at the women. They really like 6:5.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 7:45:49 PM permalink
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I'm not sure what color this is, but I like the color


I am not greedy, I just want win all the chips in this picture during my stay at Aria next month.
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April 2nd, 2014 at 8:55:04 PM permalink
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Quote: SlangNRox

I'm not sure what color this is, but I like the color


I am not greedy, I just want win all the chips in this picture during my stay at Aria next month.



It's amazing to think that these few chips, 80 we can see, can set me up for the rest of my life and have a supremely comfortable lifestyle.....

I remember when I first started dealing many years ago, I was dealing to a South African singer called Johnny Clegg. He was coked out of his mind playing Roulette in the Salon. He had 4 stacks of R10,000 (Approx $80,000USD) chips in front of him. He pushed the chips to his wife/girlfriend and said to her...."here honey, go buy yourself a BMW"......

I then realized how little money meant to some people!
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April 2nd, 2014 at 9:27:59 PM permalink
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I remember when I first started dealing many years ago, I was dealing to a South African singer called Johnny Clegg. He was coked out of his mind playing Roulette in the Salon. He had 4 stacks of R10,000 (Approx $80,000USD) chips in front of him. He pushed the chips to his wife/girlfriend and said to her...."here honey, go buy yourself a BMW"......


quite possible that's just his girlfriend of today (or tonight)
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April 3rd, 2014 at 11:37:18 AM permalink
Quote: AxiomOfChoice

Sadly, most of the people in the party pit aren't even looking at the women. They really like 6:5.



If this is true, this statement is exactly why casinos don't need to worry about 99% of card counters - the vast majority of gamblers are dumber than a box of cow manure.
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April 3rd, 2014 at 11:40:30 AM permalink
Quote: hwccdealer

If this is true, this statement is exactly why casinos don't need to worry about 99% of card counters - the vast majority of gamblers are dumber than a box of cow manure.



I call for a three-day suspension; hwccdealer is guilty of insulting cow manure, er the vast majority of gamblers :)
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April 7th, 2014 at 11:15:30 AM permalink
I think Red($5), Green($25), Black ($100) and similar amounts in other parts of the world in other Currencies (Euros, Etc) are very common chip colours. kind of the worlwide standard.
Other amounts are all over the board with colours.
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April 7th, 2014 at 12:44:08 PM permalink
Quote: kubikulann

Playing in Belgium, France and UK, I have seen all kinds of different colors for chip denomination from casino to casino. Yet on this forum, there are regular mentions of "red chip" players or "black chip" play, etc.
Would someone be kind to post a list of the monetary value of these (semingly official) colors?



Often its not official coloring or its coloring that is official but allows for segments of the chips to be defined by the casino itself.

>>White or Blue chips are one dollar.
Often this varies and the white is more gray anyway, but for a lousy dollar few people really care.
>>Red chips are five dollars and are called nickels.
>>Green chips are twenty-five dollars and are called quarters.
>>Black chips are one hundred dollars.
Often the surface area of the chips is insufficiently black and I have difficulty, particularly at Seminole Casinos which devote a good deal of the surface area of the chip to non-black artwork.
>>Purple Chips are five hundred dollars and are called Barneys.
I think this name Barney is from the Children's tv series about an insomniac dinosaur named Barney.
Orange chips are one thousand dollars and are called pumpkins.


These were fairly standard but seem to vary. Cashiers cages compare chips by both top view and edge view as stacked. The color coded segments around the perimeter of the chips are part of the definitions.

The color coded cards at craps tables that indicate minimum and maximum bets and odds factor allowed were originally color coded according to the minimum bet, but not all casinos used table signs at all. Now more and more casinos use clear lucite electronic signs so there is no more linkage to chip colors. One dealer seeing an empty toke box at the end of his shift was written up for destroying casino property when he savagely attacked a five dollar table limit sign defended his action by claiming to be color blind which obviously would have excluded him from proper job performance, the CM is rumored to have laughed and torn up the dealer's write up. Electronic LED signs are now able to indicate selectable colors, but Seminole Casinos use the exact same color sign for a ten and a twenty dollar Mini-Bacc table. This confused me no end when I sat down and put two stacks of ten in Banker and the dealer stacked them on top of each other to make my minimum bet and I asked don't you want a toke bet? I was used to that color electronic sign as a ten dollar Bacc table... so I thought I had put down two ten dollar bets, one for each of us. Terribly confusing when the signs are the same color and are at adjacent tables in the neon flashing party pit.

One casino in Vegas got nicked on Black Chips because chip audits counted boxes and examined only samples of boxes. A Cashier's Clerk who was "no spring chicken" got suspicious when a very young man started showing her some interest. It turned out someone had slipped counterfeit black chips at the back of the cashier's drawers, where operational procedures and surprise audits focused on counting the number of boxes rather than minutely examining the look and feel of the individual chips.
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April 7th, 2014 at 7:25:33 PM permalink
Just one more thing on this subject. Casinos also have spare sets of chips which they put in use either every so often, perhaps once every 1 or 2 years or they place them on the tables when an incident has taken place with regards to the chips. Incident would include large amounts of chip theft (especially larger denominations) or if the current set of chips have been compromised somehow.

When you get to the casino you simply see a different chip color than what you are used to. This may throw you off a little but there could very well be a valid explanation for the color change.
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April 7th, 2014 at 8:12:58 PM permalink
Quote: hwccdealer

I wonder if there are places that do it differently. My casino does exactly that, with larger orange chips at $1000 and larger gray ones at $5000.



The Commerce does it very differently, with blue 1's, green 2's, yellow 5's (highest I got).

Most of my gambling is at the Connecticut casinos, which follow the "standard" scheme (plus [beige] "yellow" 2's and grey 10's at Foxwoods, and orange thousands at both, as well as TR).
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April 8th, 2014 at 6:11:07 AM permalink
Quote: Tomspur

Casinos also have spare sets of chips ...

When you get to the casino you simply see a different chip color than what you are used to. This may throw you off a little but there could very well be a valid explanation for the color change.

Not exactly.

Chip "color" refers to the chip's PRIMARY color. The edge inserts / accent color is not considered when talking about the denomination color.

The spare chipset has the same primary color, but different edge / accent colors. This is deliberate so there is NOT any confusion, but still make it easy to tell the old & new chips apart.
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