Snappers - WTF? (1 Viewer)

[Leonard]

I see all the love for snappers (for the uninitiated: $2.50 chips that are usually pink), but I don't really get it.
I understand that they are relatively rare, but what are they good for?
Do you just look at them (not that there's anything wrong with that)? Re-label them? Or actually play with a $2.50 chip?
A long-time chipper wants to know.

Educate me, please. For what it's worth, pics might help.

L

 

[Shaggy]

Use them as 25cent chips

 

[Fleming]

I relabel them. I have done that with Aztar and Par-A-Dice snappers.

As far as I understand it, I think they're a good source of quarters when a set doesn't have one. Or, for situations like mine, where a low stakes game happens and you need a nickel or a dime on the table.

 

[bentax1978]

Use them as 25cent chips

I relabel them. I have done that with Aztar and Par-A-Dice snappers.

As far as I understand it, I think they're a good source of quarters when a set doesn't have one. Or, for situations like mine, where a low stakes game happens and you need a nickel or a dime on the table.

I also bought them to repurpose as quarters. Aside from using them as-is in an epic pink chip limit set like @bergs did, I imaging relabeling them as quarters (or maybe a high denom tourney chip) would be their most common use.

 

[MillyS]

hmm good question, I really love the snapper, and now designing my own set, thinking of where I can use this!. the frac sounds good.

 

[links_slayer]

@bergs , answer this guy's question

 

[Jambine]

@Leonard
Snappers were originally made for Black Jack. Makes it easy to pay a $5 BJ (pays $7.50) without having any silver in the dealer tray.
In casino lingo "Snap" means Black Jack. The term is really old and I don't know the origin

 

[Parrothedd]

I also use them as quarters for my low stakes family game. I don't see the need to relabel them as quarters though. I like keeping them original - especially the trip-moon Horseshoe snappers!

 

[gopherblue]

@bergs , answer this guy's question

Was just about to say this. Legendary pink chip limit set, FTW.

 

[Psypher1000]

play with a $2.50 chip?

Sometimes folks will spread a "pink chip" game of $7.50/$150, yes.

Re-label them?

Many people do this for fracs, or just use them as fracs straight-away w/o relabeling them.

Do you just look at them

I collect them for two reasons. The first and primary reason is that I cut my gambling teeth in the Vegas community where snappers aren't all that common, so they are something of a novelty to me. Grips of people collect $1's and $5's, but snappers are this curious middle ground and helps me to somewhat stand out as a collector. The other reason is because I'm little more than an idiot teenager still. I was never one to sleep around, and even less so now that I'm married, but this way I can say that I've had snapper from around the world, and am something of a connoisseur!

 

[upNdown]

My 2 cents - relabeling them as quarters is fine. They tend to be fancier than a quarter should be, if you're concerned about spot progression, but I don't really mind that.
Using them as quarters, on the other hand, would tilt me. Why even have denominated chips, I say?!

I guess they're best used as a limit set, like @bergs has done with the Horseshoes. But you can probably only do that once per casino. He's got to have the majority of those 8 spot snappers, in existence.

 

[bergs]

Leonard - you'll play in the 2.50/5.00 game at BBOTB VII and you'll see. It's about mixed limit games.

Stacks and stacks of chips. Capped bets every street. Screams of NUTTTER BUTTTTERS. Giving and taking horrendous bad beats without having to lose stacks of hundos or thousands. A wider array of game possibilities than even the circus game offers. Did I mention stacks and stacks and STACKS of chips?

Pink chip games in the casino have always been synonymous with action-filled mixed limit games. NLHE is borrrring. A 15 game mix gives everyone something interesting.

 

[TheChipVault]

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Leonard - you'll play in the 2.50/5.00 game at BBOTB VII and you'll see. It's about mixed limit games.

Stacks and stacks of chips. Capped bets every street. Screams of NUTTTER BUTTTTERS. Giving and taking horrendous bad beats without having to lose stacks of hundos or thousands. A wider array of game possibilities than even the circus game offers. Did I mention stacks and stacks and STACKS of chips?

Pink chip games in the casino have always been synonymous with action-filled mixed limit games. NLHE is borrrring. A 15 game mix gives everyone something interesting.

That's what I was thinking!

 

[Psypher1000]

As for pics, here's a few of my favorites. Unless it's from Nevada, I only collect pink and purple varieties. When the base goes from pink to yellow that's a sign of infection, and nobody likes an infected snapper.

And yes, that's a hologram in the middle of the Lodge chip.

 

[Jambine]

......And yes, that's a hologram in the middle of the Lodge chip.
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Man I wish they still used that chip. Always regretted not getting some when I had the chance........ (I work there)

 

[RowdyRawhide]

As for pics, here's a few of my favorites. Unless it's from Nevada, I only collect pink and purple varieties. When the base goes from pink to yellow that's a sign of infection, and nobody likes an infected snapper.

And yes, that's a hologram in the middle of the Lodge chip.

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If those are still live I need 50 of those Valley View Casino! Who lives in San Diego?

 

[Leonard]

@Leonard
Snappers were originally made for Black Jack. Makes it easy to pay a $5 BJ (pays $7.50) without having any silver in the dealer tray.
In casino lingo "Snap" means Black Jack. The term is really old and I don't know the origin

I was aware of this info. It tells me where they come from. I'm interested in where they are going when PCFers buy them. Not to Black Jack would be my guess

Leonard - you'll play in the 2.50/5.00 game at BBOTB VII and you'll see. It's about mixed limit games.

Stacks and stacks of chips. Capped bets every street. Screams of NUTTTER BUTTTTERS. Giving and taking horrendous bad beats without having to lose stacks of hundos or thousands. A wider array of game possibilities than even the circus game offers. Did I mention stacks and stacks and STACKS of chips?

Pink chip games in the casino have always been synonymous with action-filled mixed limit games. NLHE is borrrring. A 15 game mix gives everyone something interesting.

Definitely looking forward to it. And sooner, at the DCS. I do like pink chips. I have a set of Casablanca's with pink $5 chips. I call them my 'Breast Cancer Awareness" chips and I always break them out in October to match the NFL's pink accessories.

nobody likes an infected snapper.

Agreed and too much like a day in the office for me.

L

 

[inca911]

If those are still live I need 50 of those Valley View Casino! Who lives in San Diego?

I don't live there, but I'll be there soon if you need me to get something for you.

 

[RussB42]

Here's some Mint Green Snappers ------

Sorry abt the pic quality, no tripod available...

 

[BGinGA]

As for pics, here's a few of my favorites. Unless it's from Nevada, I only collect pink and purple varieties. When the base goes from pink to yellow that's a sign of infection, and nobody likes an infected snapper.

And yes, that's a hologram in the middle of the Lodge chip.

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There are a few pretty blue ones, tòo..... shouldn't hold it against them if some snappers are just cold or suffer from restricted blood flow....

 

[BiGGyT]

Everyone likes a snapper after a BJ.

The chip you demented freaks, gezzz.

I would think with just a few barrels to a rack, you could spread a $2.50/$5 NLH instead of $2/$5. Less chips needed.

 

[Psypher1000]

There are a few pretty blue ones, tòo

Confession: I do have a handful of non-Nevada blue ones from a cruise line.

 

[WillAndrew]

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The majority of players don't give a passing glance at the chips, but I hope yours at least acknowledge what you've done here.

 

[moose]