Casino chips color
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Do you know that the color of each chip in casino indicates its nominal value? That’s what we’ll talk about in today’s article.
Speaking of chip color meaning, one may remember a story that took place in one casino. One of the players took his sit at blackjack table and betted one 5-dollar chip, waiting for the dealer to deal him the due cards. The dealer looked at the player, then drew his attention to the green sign of table limit and stated: “Sir, this is not a five-dollar table”.
The visitor answered: “Oh, sorry, I didn’t know”. Then he collected his pile of red chips and took himself off. If from the very beginning he consulted a table limit, he could avoid this inconvenient situation. For all the games in casino there are lists of minimum bets at the table. In most cases just to look at the color marking one or another table should be enough.
Most of casinos mark play tables with the same color, which is used for painitng a color of the tip, eo ipso incicating the minimum bet limit. That is you just need to look at the corresponding table color. Chips colors used are identical in most of casinos. Below there is a table on chips color nominal values:
Color – Nominal value
White/Blue – $1
Red – $5 (nickel)
Green – $25 (quarter)
Black – $100
Purple – $500 (Barnie)
Orange – $1000 (pumpkins)
In a poker community there lives a story that happened about ten years ago in one of Las Vegas casinos where all the 1-dollar chips happened to be painted black. This provoked something like a protest among those casinos that use black color only for $100 nomilal value. Many expressed the opinion that cheaters won’t wait long to start turning this situation to their advantage, mixing black chips of different value. Under the pressure from neighboring gambling houses this casino had to stop using 1-dollar black chips.
In some rare cases it is possible to come across other colors of particular chips, but basically all the gambling houses try to apply traditional color scheme. First of all, appropriate colors help dealers themselves, service and security staff, who monitor the bets of the players with the help of cameras, located all over the pit.
Thanks to the color marks of the tables the visitors can just by one sight determine the minimum bet in the game and decide if this limit go well with their plans. Red color will tell you, that a bet of minimum $5 is accepted at the table, and green color will serve a sign of bets starting from $25. This is very convenient. Sometimes you can meet the tables, that do not correspond with any chips color, $10 and $15 tables for example. In this case it is necessary to get aquainted with the color scheme of limits, which exist in the casino. If you are a regular player of this particular gambling house, you’ll get used to the chosen colors and won’t each time check against limits tables.