Coloring up chips in tournaments

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How does the coloring up of chips work in tournaments. Im still kind of new to B+M, and I dont want to ask cause I feel like a noob. Dont you get like 1 card for every chip they are coloring up? How does it work out, on who gets the chips.

[that_pope]

When they color up chips, you get as many of the smallest denomination chips possible with your stack, and then any odd chips left get 'raced off'. So say they are coloring off the green T$25 chips, and you have 9 of them. You get two black T$100 chips, plus 1 chip for the race off.

All the other odd chips are placed in front of people, and each player recieves as many cards as he has odd chips. In this case, each player gets between 0 and 3 cards, and the total amount of chips is rounded up to the nearest next chip. So if there are 10 odd chips over 5 people, then three T$100 chips will be awarded.

Each player may only recieve one chip. The chips are awarded by high card until no chips are left. Hope this makes sense.

Edit: Also, a player may not be eliminated from a tournament due to racing off chips. So in this case, if a player has only either 1, 2 or 3 green chips left, he is automatically awarded a black chip.

[rubixxcube]

Most places do it as mentioned above however i have played at a few places that do it the following way as well:

2 or more odd chips get you another chip 1 odd chip you lose.

Example

$350-375 in greens gets you $400 in black.
$325 in greens gets you $300 in black.

[NickMPK]

Every tournament I've played in AC has just rounded instead of doing a real "chip race". But the biggest tourney I've played in was $800. Maybe they do it more legit in the major leagues. I've always done the "chip race" in my home tournament, just because it's fun.

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Every tournament I've played in AC has just rounded instead of doing a real "chip race". But the biggest tourney I've played in was $800. Maybe they do it more legit in the major leagues. I've always done the "chip race" in my home tournament, just because it's fun.

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A lot of people that work in poker rooms prefer rounding up because it makes it easier for them to steal a portion of the prize pool.

[Cornell Fiji]

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Every tournament I've played in AC has just rounded instead of doing a real "chip race". But the biggest tourney I've played in was $800. Maybe they do it more legit in the major leagues. I've always done the "chip race" in my home tournament, just because it's fun.

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A lot of people that work in poker rooms prefer rounding up because it makes it easier for them to steal a portion of the prize pool.

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[pig4bill]

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Edit: Also, a player may not be eliminated from a tournament due to racing off chips. So in this case, if a player has only either 1, 2 or 3 green chips left, he is automatically awarded a black chip.

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Ha, this came up in a PH tournament. This girl had just lost an all-in and was left with one black (T100). The break was starting and it was time to color up to T500 (yellows?). Ever since I magically lost money during a color-up, I stay to watch them. The girl was in the 1 seat, so got her race-off card dealt first, saw it was a deuce or something, said good-bye and left. This guy to my left got the lowest winning race-off card and picked up a yellow for his one black. Then the dealer realizes her mistake, explains the rule, which makes perfect sense to me, and awards the yellow to the girl. She's gone, but is officially still in the tournament and her chip sits at her seat.

The guy to my left starts bitching and moaning and doesn't want to give the yellow back. He was lowest card to get a chip and shouldn't have gotten it. The dealer keeps yelling for the floor, but it's break so they're not paying attention. Acoustics are horrible in the poker room and your voice only carries about 10 feet. The dealer says "Okay, I'm making a command decision" and gives whiney guy back his black. I go find the girl and tell her she's still in the tournament. Now there's been an extra T100 introduced into the tournament, and it's a comedy watching each new dealer's expression as they wonder why the hell this one black chip is still in play. Somehow it keeps ending up in the pot on all-ins and it gets passed from player to player like a bad penny.