Coloring Up

[coolio4433]

So, I understand the process of coloring up small denomination chips, but what if you want to introduce a higher denomination chip late in a tourney?

I just can't think of the best way to add 1000 or higher chips after starting with $5, 25, 100, 500. Is it really even worth doing or should I just not worry about it?

TIA

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So, I understand the process of coloring up small denomination chips, but what if you want to introduce a higher denomination chip late in a tourney?

I just can't think of the best way to add 1000 or higher chips after starting with $5, 25, 100, 500. Is it really even worth doing or should I just not worry about it?

TIA

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Step 1: The well buys smaller chips with 1000 chips, either directly from players or by coloring up pots.
Step 2: There is no step 2.

[coolio4433]

Thanks, I guess I was just curious if there was a "right" way to do it. (Obviously it happens in events like the WSOP when they have thousands of players and they bring out the $10k chips)

After discussing with my other tourney host, we decided it's not necessary to use anything more than $500 chips anyway.

[PantsOnFire]

Normally, I wouldn't worry about it. Those chip denominations are perfect for even a deep stack tourney with 5/10 starting blinds.

The only time I might consider what you are suggesting is if there are many people in the tourney like 40-50 and with a only few players left. They might each have a huge amount of chips in front of them. But even then, coloring up the 25s will leave only 100s and 500s which should be managable.

Let's see an example. 20 man tourney, 5/10 starting blinds, deep stack starting chips 250xBB is t2,500.

Each player:

5 - 10 (total 200)
25 - 10 (total 200)
100 - 7 (total 140)
500 - 3 (total 60)

Chip up the 5s and you add 40 more 25s, chip up the 240 25s and you add 60 more 100s.

Now you have 60 500s and 260 100s. With say four guys left with even stacks they have 15 500s and 65 100s each or 80 chips. This doesn't seem unreasonable.

Besides, it's cool to have a lot of chips in front of you near the end.

[Drunken Monkey]

I would think the main reason for adding such a high denomination chip is because there are not that many smaller denomination ones and there is one dominate chip leader.

In my homes games we would just have the largest chip stack at the table "buy" the larger denomination chips in order for the smaller denominations to be despersed as needed to the smaller stacks.

[Lottery Larry]

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Besides, it's cool to have a lot of chips in front of you near the end.

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Only if your chips can be stacked safely and stacks can be slid easily without falling.

[pfapfap]

I start with 20/100/500 chips. (20/20 first round) Because of my chip count, sometimes re-buys are with 1000 chips, but usually I just throw them in with the add-on or when I'm coloring up at breaks. I do have 5000 chips, but these days I don't bother with them. The blinds don't usually get past the 5k/10k round, and that's the only spot where they'd be useful. Plus, people at the end like having big piles of chips.

[coolio4433]

Thanks for all the responses.

At this point we are expecting around 40 for our event, and we were concerned about having a huge pile of chips at the end. Partially because the chips we're using for the tourney are the cheap "dice" chips, and they're impossible to keep stacked higher than 10 because they're too slick.

I figure now though that with the blind structure we are using, and the relative inexperience of the majority of our players (it's more of a social gathering with a poker game, than the other way around), we won't really have a major problem with the chips getting out of hand.

And, it is fun to have a huge pile of chips :P

[Slow Play Ray]

I will never understand why everyone uses a 2X chip like the $1000 - it just seems so pointless...

[gusmahler]

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I will never understand why everyone uses a 2X chip like the $1000 - it just seems so pointless...

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The 1000 is just used as a means of starting over. The next chips will follow the traditional 5X chip (5k, 25k, 100k).

I wouldn't use a 1k unless the tourney was certain to need the 5k chips.

The one I don't understand from the WSOP is the 10k. Serves no real purpose.