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Red chips don't bother me so much, but I think California Colors are the best ever. Blue $1's, Green $2's, Yellow $5's and Black $20's are awesome.
 
Poker Zombie said:
Red fives = Standard colors. Love them that way. Feel free to ship me your redbirds.
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I wonder if it's a age thing? I just remember growing up all the adults would be playing cards and the traditional were the colors used. I am a traditional color fan.

That being said I do like the pink quarter and blue $1 chips.
 
I don't think the so-called traditional colors are as standard or as traditional as you think. Do a little research and you'll find there are no real standards except where legislated (like CA).
 
Chicken Rob said:
I don't think the so-called traditional colors are as standard or as traditional as you think. Do a little research and you'll find there are no real standards except where legislated (like CA).
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I accept that. However, Vegas and Atlantic City use the same legislated color schemes. Most of my poker (and gambling) experience comes from Vegas, with AC running a distant 2nd. Cali is in the also ran mix, which includes Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana the latter 3 tend to conform to the Vegas colors.

Merriam-Webster says:
Standard: something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example
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Since most casinos in my experience use the legislated Vegas colors - by law (authority) or by choice (general consent) - they are, by definition, standard (except in California).
 
I think the only difference from Vegas to AC chips, is that in AC 1's must be White base color, I believe they can be either Blue or white in Vegas.. Otherwise same. Most or the majority of other popular US Casinos follow AC/Vegas colors ( Foxwoods, PA, DE, Ms ect) so there is definitely an overwhelming long standing "standard" ...
 
Blaster said:
I think the only difference from Vegas to AC chips, is that in AC 1's must be White base color, I believe they can be either Blue or white in Vegas.. Otherwise same. Most or the majority of other popular US Casinos follow AC/Vegas colors ( Foxwoods, PA, DE, Ms ect) so there is definitely an overwhelming long standing "standard" ...
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The Horseshoe (soon to be JACK) in Cleveland follows "standard" colors.
 
It seems that the Nevada Gaming Control Board does not specify chip colors, although Nevada casinos do tend to use the same "standard" colors for denominations $5 and higher. Most $1s are white or blue, but there also ochre (Orleans), beige (Saraha), and gray (Imperial Palace) $1s. Check it out for yourself here (Regulation 12).

One of my favorites: 12.030.1(d) Each chip must be designed so that when stacked with chips and tokens of other denominations and viewed on closed-circuit, black-and-white television, the denomination of the chip can be distinguished from that of the other chips and tokens in the stack.
 
It seems that the only standard seems to be the 5, 25, and 100, and I may be wrong about that.

As mentioned there are.a varieties of 1s, this is also true of 2s, 10s, 500s, and 1000s+.

3 chip denoms don't make a standard to me.
 
500s and 1ks seem pretty standard as well . w/ sone sort of violet & sone sort of yellow/orange .
 
It took me a long time to get comfortable with blue singles.

I still dislike hotstamps... and my first set of Paulsons, in 1990, was Paulson hotstamps.
 
Yellow and orange are 2 different colors. So which one is standard?

$500s are sometimes white in Vegas, but I can't remember where they had those. Does anyone here know?
 
oh yeah, ban the OP ~I do like red 5s. pretty much red-brown-yellow & shades thereof

those ^ colony clubs are amazing
 
Chicken Rob said:
Yellow and orange are 2 different colors. So which one is standard?

$500s are sometimes white in Vegas, but I can't remember where they had those. Does anyone here know?
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In general, $1000 cash checks are yellow, and T1000 tournament chips are orange. There are definitely many exceptions, but also many that follow that unwritten standard/rule/guideline/commonly-accepted-practice.

There are at least two white $500 chips I can recall -- Dunes Hotel/Casino, and Eddie's Fabulous 50s. But various shades of purple are very common for $500 checks/chips, except in California (where the $25 chips are usually purple) and Missouri (orange $500s).
 
I would agree that white/red/green/black/purple/yellow are probably the most common colors. I don't know why calling it standard rubbed me the wrong way. I've untwisted my panties and will just say that standard chips suck for me, because there is not enough blue, orange and yellow in the workhorse range at stakes where mortals play. And those are my favorite colors.
 
I like both traditional and California sets @ChaosRock has some gorgeous sets...

I struggled with $1 though blue or white...I went blue quarter and white one and still don't know if I made the right decision!

:mad:
 
Chicken Rob said:
I've untwisted my panties and will just say that standard chips suck for me, because there is not enough blue, orange and yellow in the workhorse range at stakes where mortals play. And those are my favorite colors.
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That makes sense. Most of my games are tournaments (vs cash), so I'm typically locked into playing with 25 through 5000 denominations (which means for the most part, I miss the blue/white/red colors). Usually stuck with 'standard' green-black-purple, with yellow/orange and pink/gray topping out the set. Consistency helps with player recognition and corresponding increased speed / decreased errors, but it sure can get a bit boring -- especially in the tournament workhorse range (T100-T500-T1000). I've experimented with gray, charcoal, blue, and white T100s, with pink, blue, red, and white T500s, with gray T1000s (the bright yellow spots helped), and even with blue T5000s. I like bright blue and orange colors.

One planned custom double-duty set will use light-green/bright-blue/pinkish-red/yellowish-orange as base colors for 25-100-500-2000, which can be used as tournament units or cash game cents (a fifth no-denom chip can function as 5c, $100, T5, or T10000 as needed). Another planned double-duty set uses 1/4-pie colors that correspond to both vegas and cali colors for each denom...... a little something for everybody.
 
BGinGA said:
In general, $1000 cash checks are yellow, and T1000 tournament chips are orange. There are definitely many exceptions, but also many that follow that unwritten standard/rule/guideline/commonly-accepted-practice.
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courage said:
It's the other way around all of the places I've played.
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Hmm. Never played at Aria, Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Cosmopolitan, Flamingo, MGM, Treasure Island ,Tropicana, The Venetion, or Wynn in Las Vegas?

All of the Atlantic City casinos use orange $1000 cash checks, because the $20 checks are required to be yellow. Most of your local casinos (in Indiana) also use orange for $1000 cash checks.
 

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