Roulette chips - educate me (2 Viewers)

[joseywales]

i see that roulette chips are usually solid, other than that I’m ignorant to what constitutes a full set. Colors, purpose, etc., for the chips.

I’d like to acquire a foldable or easy take down table, chips, etc. A decent setup

Any help or links is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Frogzilla]

Generally its a lot of undenominated, usually solid chips. You are assigned a color when you buy in to the roulette table so the casino can tell which bet belongs to whom. You then exchange your casino chips for roulette chips and may bet. The link below (3rd or 4th section-roulette chips) says you also specify the denomination of your roulette chips when you buy in https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/how-to-play-roulette.htm

 

[Milo013]

Roulette chips are an easy way to build a set of high quality chips for a reasonable price. The only drawback is that, as mentioned, they are non-denominational chips. The advantage to this is you can use them for cash and tournament play in your home game (just not at the same time).
Another advantage is that you CAN personalize them to a degree. I purchased a 600 pc cash set of roulettes for my wife. The hot-stamp is her initial, the letter "K".
Variance comes into play when you realize that the quality of the stamps can vary greatly, so it requires a bit of diligence to hold out for only the best looking chips.

 

[DJ Mack]

Are you looking to acquire roulette chips for poker purposes or roulette?

If it's for roulette it's fairly simple. Each player needs their own color. A busy table in a casino is 7-8 players. Any more than that and it really slows the game down so the casino will open another table. Hence for true roulette chips you'll usually find only seven or eight color possibilities. The number or letter on the chip only matters if you run multiple tables.

100 chips per color is the bare minimum. I have 160 and find it works well for casino nights. I'm not sure how many @T_Chan has but he also runs roulette at some of his events. I think I've seen pictures with him in the 200s.

Players buy in with a barrel at whatever denomination they want and that leaves me with 40 to handle most payouts and still have a full rack of each color on the table. Casinos will sometimes have 300 per color but given the table layout that requires a full size wheel. If you go with the more common consumer sized wheels (18-22 inch) you'll run out of room trying to arrange stacks around the wheel.

What if someone puts a full barrel on a number and it hits (35:1), you ask? It's extremely rare but when it does I just pay the player directly in value chips.

In sum, for the average casino fun night setup 100 chips per color is the minimum, 140-160 is ideal and 200 is way more than enough.

 

[joseywales]

Are you looking to acquire roulette chips for poker purposes or roulette?

If it's for roulette it's fairly simple. Each player needs their own color. A busy table in a casino is 7-8 players. Any more than that and it really slows the game down so the casino will open another table. Hence for true roulette chips you'll usually find only seven or eight color possibilities. The number or letter on the chip only matters if you run multiple tables.

100 chips per color is the bare minimum. I have 160 and find it works well for casino nights. I'm not sure how many @T_Chan has but he also runs roulette at some of his events. I think I've seen pictures with him in the 200s.

Players buy in with a barrel at whatever denomination they want and that leaves me with 40 to handle most payouts and still have a full rack of each color on the table. Casinos will sometimes have 300 per color but given the table layout that requires a full size wheel. If you go with the more common consumer sized wheels (18-22 inch) you'll run out of room trying to arrange stacks around the wheel.

What if someone puts a full barrel on a number and it hits (35:1), you ask? It's extremely rare but when it does I just pay the player directly in value chips.

In sum, for the average casino fun night setup 100 chips per color is the minimum, 140-160 is ideal and 200 is way more than enough.

Great information. Thanks. I was looking for roulette chips for roulette. I think what you’re saying is that, for starters, the 4,000 no value Nexgen chips I bought should cover me It was a snap purchase from a member here and I bought them, figuring I could use them for family poker, maybe roulette,craps. Now I just need a table!

I picked up one of those decent tabletop wooden kits at a thrift store and we had a ball with it last night.

I want a bigger wheel and maybe use a fold away oval backup poker table as a roulette, or even convert one to a roulette table? So just roulette cloth on an oval? IDK. Just kicking ideas around and I know folks here love to spend people’s money!

 

[T_Chan]

I don't really have anything to add about how the game is played, everyone did a good job explaining that already.

I use 200 of each chip, and 6 colors. I have a 20" wheel and a 4x8 table which is a slightly different shape than most roulette tables.

My first table was just an oval insert that fit inside an 8 player table. Sounds like it might be what you're looking for:

As you can see though, it's quite cramped with my 20" wheel on it. Not much space for chips, and certainly very little space to scoop up lost bets. This photos shows when I was using more than 200 chips and I was using denominated chips before I finally got some blank roulette checks. What could make this insert better is if it sit on top of the rail, making it bigger providing more space. Or, if your poker table is bigger. Mine in this photo is 42"x84".

My new table has much more space being just under 4x8 and it's portable. It takes 2 people to move it around but I still bring it from event to event.

Here you can see my 6 colors of blanks, a nice big space to scoop up lost bets and chip up, plus I normally keep some denominated chips next to where the blue chips are in case I need to pay someone out when I don't have enough roulette chips to pay them when they hit big.

 

[Oggy]

I'm also ignorant about roulette chips! Thank you all for your messages. I'm learning!

Regards

 

[allforcharity]

I'm doing some research how I can pull together a relatively inexpensive, custom 6-player roulette set. Looking at label-my-own options as well as custom print. I'm steering away from full ceramic if possible.