Cash Game To Plaque or not to Plaque? (1 Viewer)

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I have been hosting a monthly game for about 8 months. Typically alternating between a cash game (0.25/0.50) and a 2 table tournament.

One of the regular cash game players is color blind, and cannot see the difference between red and green. The starting levels of the tournament were tough for him since I run a T5 game. The cash game was much easier. $50 buy-in so we had pink, blue, and red on the table. However, we recently opened the buy-in max up to $100 and will likely end up with $1,200-$1,500 on the table by the end of the night.

Would it be silly to get $25 (or $20) plaques, so we don't put greens on the table for my one color blind friend? We play with the Nevada Jack Skulls, and I could order some custom plaques for $5 each.

There's not a problem playing with all reds, I have 3+ racks and 3 racks of greens. Really the question is, how much "fun" is it to play with plaques, because it seems like I'm trying to find an excuse to buy them...
 

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Plaques are the way to go. They can be spendy. We went with cheaper dice plaques and are going to experiment with hot-stamping.

The cool thing is that they play in all my cash sets so maybe we’ll consider upgrading someday. Doubtful though because plaques are plaques.

We use $5’s and $25’s and have some $100’s
 
If you're looking for an excuse to get some plaques DO IT!!

My colorblind friends have thanked me for having chip sets with different types of edgespots. Most of my sets they don't have any issues with but there's one in particular that they do. Wouldn't you know it's the one with the same edgespot pattern...
 
I am colour blind so I always build my sets to be colourblind friendly

While some red and green are hard to see when mixed together, not all red and green does the same thing

Example, darker red will be fine when mixed with a lighter green.

Also there are other colours combination that will have issue too like for example certain blue and purple
 
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Plaques are cool. And a few sprinkled on the table at some of the later rebuys will cause excitement.

Another alternative would be to get a Cali colored set, you know… if you’re looking for an excuse for more chips. No red, no green. Easy :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
Plaques are cool. And a few sprinkled on the table at some of the later rebuys will cause excitement.

Another alternative would be to get a Cali colored set, you know… if you’re looking for an excuse for more chips. No red, no green. Easy :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
Do you have a recommendation for a CA set?
 
Thanks for all the feedback here! It took me a whole 36 hours to decide to order some. I'll post pictures when they arrive, but likely will be a few weeks to a month. Having $25 printed on the NJ $25,000 plaques. Likely won't need any $100s any time soon, but may have to place an order of my game scales up in the future.
 
Plaques are good, especially for tournaments where you know they'll get in play. For cash at your highest denom, not necessarily so much.
I’ve noticed a problem with a few of my players and the CDI $100 and CDI $500…you?
 
I have been hosting a monthly game for about 8 months. Typically alternating between a cash game (0.24/0.50) and a 2 table tournament.

One of the regular cash game players is color blind, and cannot see the difference between red and green. The starting levels of the tournament were tough for him since I run a T5 game. The cash game was much easier. $50 buy-in so we had pink, blue, and red on the table. However, we recently opened the buy-in max up to $100 and will likely end up with $1,200-$1,500 on the table by the end of the night.

Would it be silly to get $25 (or $20) plaques, so we don't put greens on the table for my one color blind friend? We play with the Nevada Jack Skulls, and I could order some custom plaques for $5 each.

There's not a problem playing with all reds, I have 3+ racks and 3 racks of greens. Really the question is, how much "fun" is it to play with plaques, because it seems like I'm trying to find an excuse to buy them...
If you play PLO I highly recommend
 

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