25/50 Cash Set Colors (2 Viewers)

[binkcasino]

Hi PCF,

I am fairly new to the poker chip realm, looking to upgrade my dice chip set to something a little more premium.

I want to do a custom Tina set and I was thinking of the following denominations but wanted some help with the colors.

25c - Color TBD
$1 - White/Blue
$5 - Red
$25 - Green
$100 - Black

Does anyone have recommendations for quarter chips and is blue or white usually used for $1?

Thanks!

 

[LinkyBabe]

You could go with:

Blue frac, white dollar
White frac, blue dollar
Pink/yellow frac, white/blue dollar

 

[allforcharity]

Yellow frac works with either blue or white dollar in that traditional line-up. Same with the lighter hue Browns and Greys.

 

[KingZilla]

I see you're located in Utah. What color do they use for $1 chips near you? Where I'm located, the $1 chips are white at all casinos near me so that's what I use. The players are familiar with that. So use what your players may be more familiar with. With a white $1, I use a blue 25¢ but that's just me. Almost any other color that's not repeated in the set would work for 25¢.
In my current set, I don't have a 25¢ denom. Instead, I use a blue chip with "AV" instead of a denom. That means "Assigned Value". Because all the other chips have denoms, I use that ONE color as my "floater" chip. I can use it as a 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, $2, $500.. whatever I need. Some others use an NCV or no denom chip for the same purpose.
Good luck with your project.

 

[Kam]

Here’s a few pics of my RHC set (pre-relabel). I changed the lower fracs a couple of times before I was happy.

I went with a standard vegas white $1, red $5c, $25 green and black $100.

My first 25c were grey with pink spots:

I changed my quarters, ended up with blue. Added a rack of yellow no denom that I can use as nickel etc.

I would say you can be flexible on the quarter color as I think it’s more personal preference and still have the main vegas color scheme for the rest.

Chip example after label replacement:

These are the fairly ‘normal colors’. You’ll find another main variant is ‘cali’ colors, and also a rogue splinter contingent that have black $1s. With Tina’s you there’s so many options it’s up to you. Recommend you have denoms on the chips though, especially if you don’t go with standard colors.

GL!

 

[BirdCage]

U do u!

 

[Camoflaws]

Hello fellow Utahn. What stakes are you normally playing? As someone who built a set of CPC customs I originally went with white. The problem with white and lower stakes is that the $1 is probably the most handled chip in the game and thus gets really dirty, really quick. I loved my $1 but after two years opted to do a blue $1 chip from CPC as an alternate. I love the blue so much better and enough so that I actually sold the white chips. For a quarter I would say....don't do a quarter chip! Now if you have a steady game here in Utah that you already have guys who play micro stakes or .25/.50 cent, sure, make a quarter chip. But if you are going to play more often or host more games you will be able to build more line ups if you just offer a 1/1 game in Utah. I've seen plenty of guys host .25/.50 games where the blinds are just irrelevant and regardless of what number they put on it the game just plays like a 1/1, 1/2, 1/3 game for the most part. 1/1 and put a cap on the buy in if you want to keep it small vs trying to just lower the stakes or chip denominations. Just my opinion having been in the Utah poker scene for a long time.

 

[Machine]

It typically matters what color your $5 is, if red use yellow high contrast, unless you plan to have a 20 then you would use blue unless your $1 is blue, in that case you have a harder choice.

If yellow 5 then use red or pink.

I would Never say never except in the case of a white frac, never use a white frac.

 

[ef28]

It typically matters what color your $5 is, if red use yellow high contrast, unless you plan to have a 20 then you would use blue unless your $1 is blue, in that case you have a harder choice.

If yellow 5 then use red or pink.

I would Never say never except in the case of a white frac, never use a white frac.

Curious if yellow frac and 5 orange are too close in color and would also clash?

 

[Machine]

Depends but there are a lot of tournament sets that use orange and yellow bet it would be fine

 

[jlawzy]

I went with cali colors in my latest group buy purchase. No real reason other than I liked how they looked vs the more classic red $5 and green $25.

 

[BigGrizz]

I'm 100% on team blue 1. White chips get dirty easiest and are usually just kinda boring.

 

[Goosefraba]

Black dollar
White / blue Hundo

 

[Coyote]

IMHO, avoid white as a color for heavy-use, workhorse chips. They 'll turn cream or gray in no time.
Yellow or Lavender are excellent for fractionals, which I strongly recommend to be Non-Denominated, for reasons of versatility and future-proofing.
Edit: considering Blue=$1, Red=$5, Green=$25, Black=$100
If using a Yellow $20, a lavender Non-D fractional is a no-brainer.

 

[dizzyChipper]

I did this based on advice of people here. Whites around my area are the standard 1s but they'll dirty and people can adjust.

The rest are the standard Vegas/ AC colors.

 

[BigGrizz]

Still the Vegas standard. More and more Vegas casinos are switching to blue 1s. I would honestly consider it the new standard with white 1s being the AC standard.

 

[Machine]

Whites around my area are the standard 1s but they'll dirty and people can adjust.

Can they? Well you'll see

I think this is the worst-case scenario for using a white frac. The good news is, it'll be easy to switch to a yellow frac

 

[dizzyChipper]

Can they? Well you'll see

I think this is the worst-case scenario for using a white frac. The good news is, it'll be easy to switch to a yellow frac

I don't get it. I meant "Whites are the standard 1s in my area but they'll dirty and people can adjust [to a Blue $1]."

I ordered Blue $1s.

 

[Machine]

White fracs are horrible to use imo. It's the worst-case scenario because you've used all the other colors of the Vegas Standard, it would have been better to use blue as the frac if you need to stay with those colors. To be explicit, what happens is a subconscious value is assigned to the color white, say you're playing in a .25/.5 game, 'it's 3 to you', players put out 3 white chips by default, what's worse is anyone that has played has used the Vegas standard, they are already conditioned to use whites as 1s. For the Cali set, the denom is so high that it calls attention to its value.

I don't really like white ones either, or the Vegas Standard, blue it a better 1 IMO, but white fracs are the worst color selection for any set. There are some amazing-looking white fracs out there, but I still wouldn't use them in a game.

 

[upNdown]

White is the worst color. I'll probably always use it for $1s because that's what I know - that's all that exists in the northeast and it's a vegas thing too. But if I ever found myself using blue for $1s, I wouldn't even consider using a white chip for anything - nor for fracs, not for hundreds, not for anything!

My ideal frac colors are blue fracs with white $1s and Yellow fracs with blue $1s. I always orange fracs are no good if you have red $5's because the two colors are too close. But that's what I've ended up with in my main set, because I love that chip. So I guess my point is, do what you like.

 

[dizzyChipper]

White fracs are horrible to use imo. It's the worst-case scenario because you've used all the other colors of the Vegas Standard, it would have been better to use blue as the frac if you need to stay with those colors. To be explicit, what happens is a subconsciously....

Ahhhh. I get it.

TLDR: You're right!!! But I'll be OK.

Long version:
It'll make you feel better that I've never hosted anything smaller than 2-5 NLHE in the past decade and have not used a frac since I was in high school before the Moneymaker boom.

I have purple, yellow and flag higher denoms coming too and orange and pink specialty chips. I didnt want a similar color to another chip even though a yellow frac and a yellow $1k wouldn't be used at same time.

SO, I ordered 50 of the white fracs just for heck of it. They'll probably be tabled the first time when I'm explaining fractions to my toddler in another 7 years. I ordered 25 x $5k chips too but also have no idea when I'd ever table them.

--DC

 

[Machine]

Ahhhh. I get it.

TLDR: You're right!!! But I'll be OK.

Long version:
It'll make you feel better that I've never hosted anything smaller than 2-5 NLHE in the past decade and have not used a frac since I was in high school before the Moneymaker boom.

I have purple, yellow and flag higher denoms coming too and orange and pink specialty chips. I didnt want a similar color to another chip even though a yellow frac and a yellow $1k wouldn't be used at same time.

SO, I ordered 50 of the white fracs just for heck of it. They'll probably be tabled the first time when I'm explaining fractions to my toddler in another 7 years. I ordered 25 x $5k chips too but also have no idea when I'd ever table them.

--DC

I’m sure you’ll have another go at it with your second set, which may not even be a Vegas standard

 

[MrRossKeys]

Yellow $1's are awesome

 

[dizzyChipper]

I’m sure you’ll have another go at it with your second set, which may not even be a Vegas standard

Nahhh. I'm a stickler. Deviating from white 1s (AC / Parx standard) to LV standard Blue 1s was me getting WILD with 1 chip different. Cali standard tilts me.

Yellow $1's are awesome

Your set is nice. I went with pies too. Quarter and an 1/8. I considered going 1/5 pie $5s and doing 5 shades of Red similar to your 3 shades. But i ended up keeping things more consistent.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

Yellow $1's are awesome

Yes. Yes they are!