What Color Poker Chips To Get
29 June 2008What Color Poker Chips Should You Get
When you are buying a poker set, you need to decide how many poker chips to get, and also what colors you want your chips to be. It isn’t too difficult deciding what colors your poker chips should be, you just need to decide how many different colors you want in your set, and then look for a set with colors you like.
You need 4-5 colors
You only need 4-5 different colors to run a home poker tournament. If you look at the example poker tournaments, all of them can be run with 5 colors or less. There is no need to get more than 5 colors unless you plan on running an extremely large tournament, with 50-100 people. If you do run a large tournament, you will need several additional colors, 6-9 colors in all, so that you can chip up as the tournament progresses. If you have too many colors for a small tournament, and don’t have enough chips of a given color, you can always double up on colors and make two different colors worth the same value.
What are the standard color values ?
If you would like to get chips representing the standard range of values, you can see the table below. Although there is no rule that you must keep these values, you should keep the order rankings of the chips the same, or your experienced players will get confused
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Poker Chip Values
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White
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1
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Pink
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2.5
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Red
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5
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Blue
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10
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Green
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25
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Black
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100
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Purple
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500
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Yellow
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1000
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Gray
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5000
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Many poker sets come in 5 different colors, White, Red, Blue, Green, Black. Those are the only colors you need to host a good home poker tournament. If those colors don’t suit your style, then you can get the colors you want by buying an empty chip case, and then buying racks of 50 chips in the colors you desire.
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