What is the poker chips value?

Let’s deal with the material aspects of poker chips value that are used in casinos. The following points apply to both tournaments and cash games.

Color coding

The primary colors of value of poker chips are almost universal: $ 5 is red chips, $ 25 is green, and $ 100 is black. (If the player plays with chips of greater denomination, then the player is probably no longer a beginner in poker and may not read this article!)

An exception is a chip of denomination of $ 1, which can be of different colors in different casinos, but the most common colors for it are white or blue. At the same time, poker chips value color often does not comply with the mentioned color designation rules.

Stacks of chips

What is the value of poker chips? Keeping chips in neat stacks of 5, 10, or 20 pieces is worth it due to politeness as well as for strategic reasons. This allows the player and its opponents to calculate or roughly estimate how many chips the player has in total – very important information in unlimited and pot-limit games. In the photo above the player can see an example of chips neatly arranged in stacks that allow a quick glance to evaluate the entire stack.

It is always important to know the number of all chips, in case opponents “stack” (that is, all chips will win in a big hand), or, conversely, to know how much the player can win. Chips that lie in a pile, made up of unequal stacks or mixed in virtues, make counting difficult.

Hidden chips in poker tournament

For similar reasons, it is forbidden by the rules and it is unethical to hide the most expensive chips from other players. If the player has been playing poker for a long time, sooner or later the player will come across a dishonest player who carefully hides several black chips under the red ones or behind a stack of other chips. Such a player wants to underestimate his stack. For example, if the player has $ 500 and the player sees only $ 200 per person on the 4th box, the player may be more likely to call his all-in than if the player would see six hundred-dollar chips hidden behind a stack of red ones.

If the see that someone is trying to hide their expensive chips in this way, the player not only can, but the player must also point this out to the dealer. If the player does not want to be known as a “snitch,” the player can move away from the table and tell the flora about it. Poker rooms strictly refer to such “trespassers”, because they upset less experienced players who were deceived in this way, and the casino does not want to lose them as customers. In blackjack there is a possibility of playing cards with denominations. No big surprise that today blackjack is rather popular.