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Poker Chip
Denominations
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1
2
5
10
20
25
50
100
250
500
1000
2000
5000
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White
Yellow
Red
Blue
Grey
Green
Orange
Black
Pink
Purple
Burgundy
Light Blue
Brown
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When playing Texas Holdem Poker, or any game that involves chips
as currency, you need to know what each chip is worth. Here are the
poker chip denominations showing the standard values assigned to
each color of Poker chip.
In order to host a 10 player tournament, you should own about
500 chips and 1000 or more chips to host a 16 to 30 player
tournament. This ensures that you can start each player with enough
chips to not have to constantly get change from the bank.
Also, each player should start the tournament with stacks of about
30 to 50 chips to give that feeling of being a 'player' with a 'big
stack' of chips in front of you. You can stack and restack your
chips, you can shuffle them, spin them, twirl them, and intimidate
your opponents with them!
Poker chips come in tubes of 25. So, when ordering a set
containing 200, 300, 400 or 500 chips, you are able to choose which
colours you want, so long as it is a multiple of 25.
Poker chips are manufactured with complicated graphics and edge
patterns intending to make them difficult to counterfeit. The process used to
make poker chips is a trade secret and expensive - usually
involving high pressure compression molding machines.
The typical construction material used is not clay as many
believe, but a ceramic material with clay added for texture and
weight. The breakable, clay chips of the 1960s and 1970s are no
longer manufactured. The clay composition of
modern chips varies by manufacturer, and is typically very slight
(1-10%).
The chips used in American casinos generally weigh between 9.5
grams and 10 grams each. The chips sold for home use vary much
more, depending on manufacturer and construction.
Common designs for home use depict the six faces of a dice or
the card suit symbols around the edge on the face of the chip. They
are typically manufactured using ABS plastic and injection molded.
Some chips are molded around a small metal disc, called a slug, to
give them weight.
European chips often come in Mother of Pearl and the higher value
chips are quite often shaped like plaques.
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A common mistake a new poker player may make is to over bluff. The difference between the bluff and the semi bluff is, when bluffing you usually do not have a winning hand. The semi bluff is used when you have a hand that could win depending on the next card drawn. 