$10 chips (1 Viewer)

[Nex]

Color ups.

 

[BGinGA]

For you guys who complain about multiple denominations, how do you handle tournaments when there is always tons of different denominations?

Color ups.

 

[Rhodeman77]

I think $10 chips are pretty damn sweet!!

Photo from Andrew Neeme, and he even has some $5’s & $1’s in his stack, they can all get along just fine!

 

[derekdd23]

That was meant to be a rhetorical question, also color ups don't happen for a while. I'm guessing the people complaining are also the same folks who count chips in stacks of 2.

 

[gmunny]

Use a $10 chip in our HORSE game. $2/$4 blinds with $2 and $10 chips.

 

[JustinInMN]

I think $10 chips are pretty damn sweet!!

Photo from Andrew Neeme, and he even has some $5’s & $1’s in his stack, they can all get along just fine!

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What are they playing?

I'm guessing the fives and ones are just rake/tip change.

 

[Rhodeman77]

What are they playing?

I'm guessing the fives and ones are just rake/tip change.

$5/10 NL Hold’em. $5 chip is just for the small blind. $1’s are for tipping.

 

[Sal Bandini]

Might as well add $0.50 chips, too.

 

[Mike mac]

I use 100 of these yellows for 10 chips - people never complain - plus I like the many colors on the table - when the game gets 4K deep the pots are like a spilled bag of skittles - very satisfying even if I'm not winning

 

[AWenger]

My avatar is a $10 chip (what do you think I'll say?). Back before I got into chipping or even knew what a Paulson chip was, I used to play in a regular dealers choice spread limit game (a lot of stud variants), where the spread was between $0.25 or 0.50 to $3, with 2 max raises per round -- so the bet was capped at $9 per round. The players bought in for $20 or $40 at a time. The chip denoms (on blank dice chips) were typically a frac, $1s and $2s.

After I got into chipping, one of my first used Paulson purchase was some California Bell chips, and I ended up building one set of chips with denoms of $0.50, $1s, $2s, and $10s, with that spread limit game specifically in mind. The set kind of worked itself out, because all the California Bell $2 and $10 chips are in much better shape (fit only 20 per barrel) along with most of the $1 chips. (Some $1s and almost all of the $5 and $20 Cal Bell denoms are super worn 'bicycle tires' that fit 21 or 22 to a barrel.) The bad/sad news is I only had the chance to get that set in play one time. I still hang out with that group from time to time, but poker isn't always on the agenda, and if it is, it might be NL or PLO varieties.

I also agree with others who use the $5 as the workhorse chip in a $1/2 or $2/5 NL game, a $10s chip is sort of a nuisance in those games.

 

[JustinInMN]

$5/10 NL Hold’em. $5 chip is just for the small blind. $1’s are for tipping.

Usually in such games only chips used in the blinds are counted as "all in" so having singles in this case really isn't a nuisance. Looks like if you have to count a stack, it's basically fives, tens , and hundreds.

 

[Old State]

I am in the camp of using $5 and $20. I just don't like the aesthetic and non standard approach of using 10s. I like real casino chips and emulating real casino experience as much as possible. If that doesn't matter to you then do whatever you want.

This is my philosophy....the recreating a casino experience part. That said I think $5s and $25s are more appropriate. $20s are probably almost as rare in a casino at $10s....at least in my experience and especially at a poker table.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

They would also be useful for .10 / .20 games.
With .10 / 0.50 / 2 (or snapper) / 10.