Sunday, August 30, 2009

Making The Jump To Poker Chips With Denominations

By Greg Phillips

The choice between poker chips with denominations and the standard color chips is easy. This decision also depends on what type of game you usually play. It can also depend on other factors such as the frequency, and how many players you intend on using in the games.

Poker chips with denominations are available with a standard set. A standard set contains a mixture of 1 dollar chips, 5 dollar chips, 10 dollar chips, 25 dollar chips, and 100 dollar chips. You have a total of 5 different denominations of poker chips. Your game will be better if you prepare more denominations.

A standard colored chip sets contains 5 diverse colors. The chips come in white, red, blue, green, and black colors. Although having diverse chip colors is good, a corresponding denomination is still needed because without, you might get confused as you go along the game.

What you need to do is determine the nature of game your circle of friends generally plays. Do you prefer tournaments or cash games? If you choose tournaments, poker chips with denominations will work best. In cash games though, you might need to formulate your own distinct set of denominations for each chip, so the plain colored chips would be more suitable.

You have to consider the regularity of your play time, say your game frequency in a particular month. If you play poker 3 or more times per month, it would make sense to purchase a poker chip set that will meet your needs. Its really your decision whether to choose plain colored chips or chips with denominations. I would recommend investing in both types.

Your choice of chips will also be determined by the number of players involved in your poker game. Personally though, I prefer poker chips with denominations. You can still use them in cash games, but they are most suitable in tournaments.

Poker chips with denominations will wow everyone at your poker game. I promise you that everyone will want to play all the poker tournaments with your set of poker chips.

When the denominations on the poker chips do not coincide with the denominations you play in a cash game, you will have to improvise. Unless, you have both kinds of chips, colored and with denominations. You can also get customized poker chips with denominations that will work in your cash game. If you play lower stakes than what are on the poker chips, try to get some customized.

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