Advice If Buying 11.5g Striped Dice Chips

[Ben4040]

I bought a set of 500 11.5g striped dice chips back in December. They are excellent chips, but there are a couple things I would do different if I could purchase them again.

First, don't buy the white chips with the blue chips. The blue chips and white chips may appear very different, but when one accidently gets mixed in a stack it is very hard to tell that it is there because they are essentially both the same color scheme when viewed from the side. A blue chip may get mixed in the middle of a stack of whites and you wouldn't be able to tell it was there.

Also, I bought my chips as follows: 200 white, 170 green, 100 red, and 30 blue. The default selection is 200/150/100/50, but I didn't do that. I took 20 extra green and 20 less blue. I wish I wouldn't have messed with the ratio because it limited me more than I thought as far as how many people I could get into a tournament. You wouldn't think 20 chips would make a big difference, but it does. Take the 4/3/2/1 ratio if buying four colors.... just my opinion.

I'm hoping to start a poker club at college and I'm going to need extra chips so I'm thinking of ordering another 500 chips and selecting 20 extra blue and 20 less green to compensate and even out the chip sets. Like I said though, I wish I wouldn't have gone with both the blue and white... If you like both of those colors you will just have to keep an eye on how you are stacking your chips. :D

Hope this helps someone.

[mindgame]

Very good heads up on the white/blue problem. You'd have thought that someone would have spotted that by now. This is one of the downsides (admittedly minor) of buying these cheaper chips. The people making them for casinos spot these kinds of issues immediately...and you can bet that to a casino this is a HUGE issue...so none of your casino-grade chips will have any sort of problem like this.

Of course I mix chips from different casinos, so I have to be careful for other reasons. I have green $2 chips and green $25 chips. Almost the same green, both PaulSon chips, only the edge spots are different. Fortunately I haven't had a situation where I'd want the $2 chips and the $25's out at the same time.

By the way, do you really think you can start a poker club on even 1000 chips???? Seems way to few to me.

[Ben4040]

By the way, do you really think you can start a poker club on even 1000 chips???? Seems way to few to me.

I hosted a multi-table tournament for 21 people with my 500 chips a few days ago. It ran rather smoothly. I'm hoping if I have 1000 chips I can have multi-table tournaments with 30-40 people. I'm with you, I think it's going to be tight. I have a feeling that more than 40 will want to play as well, so I'm going to have to convince the university to give me a lot of money for more chips. :D

[Ben4040]

I just emailed 5stardeal.com asking them if I could ship them 30 BLUE and 20 GREEN 11.5g Striped Dice chips in exchange for 50 ORANGE of the same chip. What do you think the chance is that they will fullfill my request if I will pay for shipping both ways?

[Oldgzer]

I own a set of 500 11.5g dice chips, too. I know what you mean as far as the white & blue chips are concerned...In my home game, we play .25/.50 blinds, my white chips are .25 and the blue chips are $5. We use the blue chips more as a "color up" chip, rarely do they get into the pot. Also, maybe it's just the neat freak in me, but the dealer always has to stack the chips in the pot before the next card(s) is/are dealt. This way, we always know how many of each chip are in the pot.

[Ben4040]

I am somewhat of a neat freak as well... and I do wish I would have known about the white and blue chips before a bought the chip set and I wish I would have kept the 4:3:2:1 color ratio. It is starting to bug me. 5stardeal said they wouldn't exchange colors with me. Oh well, it was worth a try. I might have to buy more chips like I said anyway. If I do, I'll probably just buy more blue and less green to compensate like I said. It's not so much the blue/white chips that bothers me, but rather the ratio. If I wouldn't have messed with it I could have 4-5 more players per tourney and a better blinds structure (if I used all of the chips in a MTT).