Do they do this on purpose?

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You see, I'm used to white chips being a dollar. $1. A buck. 100 pennies. At the Commerce they're $100. A C-note. At most places I've played, dollar chips usually have at least a white theme to them. $100 chips, a black theme. $25 chips, a green theme. $10 chips a brown (or yellow) theme. $5 chips a red theme. I suppose I've seen variations of this, but it's basically correct. To the point where I thought this was universal, because I'd never played a single hand in California before, and I didn't know I could look up standard California chip colors before posting.


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You're paranoid. I've heard the real reason for special California colors has something to do with the significance of red and black in Asian culture, but I consider that apocryphal. Regardless, they're quite standard in California. (Here's a 2-year-old design for a Bike $100 chip.) No one's trying to cheat you. (You sound like my dad reading the check at a restaurant, except that he'd never play poker for money.)

I haven't seen a Commerce $100, but the Bike's are oversize so you'd have to be pretty oblivious to just toss one to someone casually.

Oh, and $10 is officially blue in Atlantic City, though I've only seen them at the Borgata.