Do they do this on purpose?

[AKQJ10]

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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.

[RR]

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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.

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I believe both places have both oversized and regular sized. Oversized if you are playign some game where it is significant (like you just colored up) and regular sized for a white chip game.

[Lestat]

Wow! Nice find on the link!! You're right. I never played a hand in CA before, and I NEVER in a million years would've thought to look up standard CA chip colors!

Hope you realize I'm being slightly tongue in cheek. I don't really think they're trying to cheat anyone. But I did find it a little dangerous. When you've played thousands of hours with whites being a dollar and black being $100, it's not that hard to make a mistake. Especially a space cadet like me.

Btw- The Commerce starts over-sizing their chips at $5k I think.

[bugstud]

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Wow! Nice find on the link!! You're right. I never played a hand in CA before, and I NEVER in a million years would've thought to look up standard CA chip colors!

Hope you realize I'm being slightly tongue in cheek. I don't really think they're trying to cheat anyone. But I did find it a little dangerous. When you've played thousands of hours with whites being a dollar and black being $100, it's not that hard to make a mistake. Especially a space cadet like me.

Btw- The Commerce starts over-sizing their chips at $5k I think.

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nope, the $100's are bigger than the rest, on upwards.

[AKQJ10]

I took it in that tone, and I hope you took my reply in the same tone. At least, i hope you're not as nitty as my dad looking over the check.... *shudders*

[TheBronzer]

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

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They have them at the Taj, too, for 40/80. The game rarely kicks off but I saw one this weekend, so maybe there will be a regular one this summer. The blue chips there are new and shiny since they are rarely used, a staunch difference from the dirty red ones.

Yellow is $20 at the Borgata, haven't seen them at the Taj.

[AKQJ10]

FWIW I noticed a single yellow $20 and a blue $10 in the tray in a $1-2 NL game at the Borgata. Just to convince the table I was a bit eccentric (Caroesquely, I suppose), and because I enjoy being a nerd about such things, I bought them and put them into play. I was sorta surprised that the dealers (Lourdes, Julissa, and Chandra IIRC) didn't color them out, but they indulged my silliness.

But then my conscience kept reminding me of the recent "hidden high-denom chip trick" thread, and I thought someone else might accuse me of shooting angles. So I colored them out myself using some spare quarters that I had on hand but not playing.

But hmm, I've never seen the Taj's blues, though Archie Black has a photo here. I'll have to see if I can spot the $40/80 there.

And now, I've officially contributed to the hijacking of this thread.

[TheBronzer]

Yeah, they look really really new. They had a 40 game running this past Saturday at around 2 pm. I assume there will be one again this weekend, especially because of the holiday.

[El Diablo]

Lestat,

At Lucky Chances near SF, 20s are black and 100s are white.

Anyway, for next time, stop being such a cheapskate and avoid confusion at the same time by doing what the rest of us do when at Commerce - toss the waitress a redbird for your meal!

[DeathDonkey]

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toss the waitress a redbird for your meal!

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Except "redbirds" are yellow in california!! This place is crazy!!!

-DeathDonkey