Can't color up to $100's, WTF?

[MarkGritter]

I'd been having a good night at the $4/$8 Stud Hi/Lo game at the Garden City in San Jose. I filled two racks of blues and asked the chip runner to color me up. He came back with 10 blacks ($20) instead of the expected 2 whites ($100). When I asked about this the chip runner and dealer explained that they couldn't give the $100 chips to players at a "small" game any more.

(Never mind that when I bought in originally the floor gave me a $100 chip and a rack of blues for my rack of $2's.)

I really don't understand what could have motivated this change--- the $20's still aren't particularly usable in a $4/$8 game. Did somebody in management decide that players were wasting too much time converting racks to $100's and back, or what? I'd prefer not to juggle a stack of blacks.

Can anybody offer some insight as to why this policy was put in place?

[Oblivious]

I cant provide any insight, but I do recall a time when I attempted to color up a couple racks of blue ($2) at the cage at Casino AZ. I requested $100 chips but the cage refused. Im not really sure why.

[iversonian]

Maybe because too many players are ratholing the $100s after the color up, or they're hiding them from view?

[Hass]

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I cant provide any insight, but I do recall a time when I attempted to color up a couple racks of blue ($2) at the cage at Casino AZ. I requested $100 chips but the cage refused. Im not really sure why.

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CAZ does not allow chips on the table that don't 'play'. At the 20/40 and higher players are allowed to have anything they want on the table. Lower limit are only allowed $1's, 2's, and 5's.

[NaturalSelection]

oh come on, you don't color up at a limit game, you build mother [censored] ing castles!

[Pisan]

Color up = weak = not used to having a lot of chips = afraid going to lose.

[n.s.]

They do it because lots of weak players like to color up some of their stack to "lock up" a win, but then they invariably have to break them back down when they start to lose again. When some idiot starts calling $18 bets with a $100 chip, it slows the game down immensely as the dealer has to count out a ton of change and may even run out of chips in his rack. I get annoyed enough at the players that do this with $25 chips ($100's don't play in my game either).

As others have said, don't color up in a limit game.

[jjshabado]

I tried to colour up $1500 in $5 chips to 15 $100 chips at the Borgata so that I didn't have to hit the cage when I came back later that night and they wouldn't let me because you had to buy chips in increments of 20. Seemed kind of silly to me at the time.

[psandman]

Another consideration is that it is easier for a player to rathole a single $100 chip then a stack of smaller chips. In my experience in low limit games a player asking for a $100 chip intends to take it out of play 80% of the time.

[PokrLikeItsProse]

I have to color up when I am winning big. I am fairly clumsy and knock over my chip stacks constantly if I build them up any higher than about 15 per stack.

I make an effort to color down preemtively players who have lost most of their little chips.