Is it common knowledge that a $2.50 chip = "snapper" (1 Viewer)

[moose]

I was a BJ player before I became a poker player and a chipper. I knew the word snapper from the BJ days.

Pink chip

Snapper from the sound, snapper from the fish, pink snapper, snapper from women's body part, also pink.

Barrel is a chipper term. When I buy into a poker game I always ask for 2 stacks of red and the cage always knows what I mean. Barrels, I think would get me funny looks.

 

[stocky]

Snapper

But yes always know $2.50 chips as snappers from the chipboard

 

[bentax1978]

When I was unboxing and racking the 1500 chips in my avatar, I said to my wife, "these would make really sweet snappers". Her response, "what the fuck is a snapper?".

So based on my one data point, I'd say "no".

 

[Poker Zombie]

I've asked for barrels buying in before and have never been questioned, but I suspect that it's all in context. I could ask for 3 mushu's of singles and the rest in redbirds and any intelligent cashier will figure it out.

Unless redbird is also a chipper term... (n) :thumbsdown:

 

[abby99]

I've asked for barrels buying in before and have never been questioned, but I suspect that it's all in context. I could ask for 3 mushu's of singles and the rest in redbirds and any intelligent cashier will figure it out.

Unless redbird is also a chipper term... (n) :thumbsdown:

I remember walking up to a cashier, plunking two $100 bills on the counter, and requesting "a rack and a stack." She knew exactly what I asked for, and I would have been impressed had I not known that this is how nearly everybody requested chips for that particular game. Odd that I can remember how I requested the chips but can't recall where or what game it was for. Sigh!

 

[DrStrange]

Snapper was a new term to me. For the longest time I thought it was any pink chip.

DrStrange

 

[Ronoh]

I always thought 2.50 chip was called a snapper because it referred to the sound that the blackjack dealer made when the dealer used their index finger pull a chip from the front of the stack in the tray and it hits the chip in their hand already. Pay 7.50 on a 5 bet on the blackjack.

Middle finger

 

[bergs]

They're moving that way JF. Casinos gonna, er, casino.

 

[Mental Nomad]

I was a dealer and pit boss in Vegas for seven years and never heard the term "barrel" until joining chipper forums.

I was a dealer and floorperson in Atlantic City in the early 90's. I pumped a lot of cards at blackjack. I don't recall ever hearing the terms "snapper" or "barrel" in a casino.

I learned those terms on chipper forums.

In the casinos where I worked, what chippers call a "barrel" was always a "stack." Anything less than 20 chips was not a "stack." Also, two stacks is a "tube," referring to a full count in a dealer's chip tray. If you said you have four tubes of red, that meant $800 in red chips.

 

[Mental Nomad]

I always thought 2.50 chip was called a snapper because it referred to the sound that the blackjack dealer made when the dealer used their index finger pull a chip from the front of the stack in the tray and it hits the chip in their hand already.

I always pulled the pink first... and then pulled the red into it. That way, when I dropped the checks, the pink was on top. Can't have the smaller denom on the bottom when you go out to cut the checks on the payoff.

 

[Ronoh]

I was a dealer and floorperson in Atlantic City in the early 90's. I pumped a lot of cards at blackjack. I don't recall ever hearing the terms "snapper" or "barrel" in a casino.

I learned those terms on chipper forums.

In the casinos where I worked, what chippers call a "barrel" was always a "stack." Anything less than 20 chips was not a "stack." Also, two stacks is a "tube," referring to a full count in a dealer's chip tray. If you said you have four tubes of red, that meant $800 in red chips.

Can't really comment on snappers as I never worked anywhere they used a $2.50 chip.

Short trays back in the day in AC, eh?

 

[ovo]

I like a nice pink snapper

 

[Mental Nomad]

Short trays back in the day in AC, eh?

No, same as I see today. A Tube wasn't the max you could fit in a tray, it was the standard amount to stock in one...

Just as 20 isn't the tallest you can stack chips, but 20 is the amount we call a Stack.

 

[Ronoh]

No, same as I see today. A Tube wasn't the max you could fit in a tray, it was the standard amount to stock in one...

Just as 20 isn't the tallest you can stack chips, but 20 is the amount we call a Stack.

I've never been to AC, just curious if they tend to use smaller trays than Vegas as my working experience was always 3 stacks to a tube with plenty of room to spare. It has been nearly 12 years since I left but if memory serves there was exactly room for 75 chips and 9 one dollar slot tokens (used for spacers) and only using two stacks/tube would leave it only half full which would seem very strange to me as a dealer.

I only remember this due to smaller limit games with a single tube of max $100 cheques in the rack where we ended up with an influx of black the tube would max out the real estate at:

Stack(spacer), stack (spacer), stack (double spacer for capping the tube), 5chips(spacer), 5chips(spacer), 5chips (double spacer to cap max and there was room for one single token more in the rack).

 

[Mental Nomad]

I've never been to AC, just curious if they tend to use smaller trays than Vegas as my working experience was always 3 stacks to a tube with plenty of room to spare. It has been nearly 12 years since I left but if memory serves there was exactly room for 75 chips and 9 one dollar slot tokens (used for spacers) and only using two stacks/tube would leave it only half full which would seem very strange to me as a dealer.

I only remember this due to smaller limit games with a single tube of max $100 cheques in the rack where we ended up with an influx of black the tube would max out the real estate at:

Stack(spacer), stack (spacer), stack (double spacer for capping the tube), 5chips(spacer), 5chips(spacer), 5chips (double spacer to cap max and there was room for one single token more in the rack).

I only remember being able to fit ten extra on top of a tube, if I recall...

Ah, found a stock photo which is typical of what I remember everywhere in AC:

This looks to me like he's running down his chips for the final count to close the table; you can see the tray cover on the table.

There are clearly two stacks in each "clean" tube, and you could not fit a third stack.

 

[dennis63]

The term is frequently used on The Chip Board to refer to $2.50 chips.

Lots of CC&GTCC members there. They only collect / buy / sell / trade real casino-used chips, and steer away from customs and fantasy chips.

 

[pltrgyst]

Snapper

Looks more like a grouper -- maybe a PCF'er.

 

[Grobin03]

I only remember being able to fit ten extra on top of a tube, if I recall...

Ah, found a stock photo which is typical of what I remember everywhere in AC:

This looks to me like he's running down his chips for the final count to close the table; you can see the tray cover on the table.

There are clearly two stacks in each "clean" tube, and you could not fit a third stack.

Pretty much the same in france, we can fit 2 stacks and a half, but not 3.
Meanwhile at the cash game table we can fit 3 stacks...
It all depends of the table and the casino I guess... But the usual is 2,5 stacks in a tube...

 

[RainmanTrail]

I've been around the poker scene in card rooms full time for most of my adult life. The only "snapper" I've ever heard of was either for dinner or at a strip club.