Coloured betting chips vs standard chips

[NewsBot]

Coloured betting chips vs standard chips

Most roulette tables have two types of betting chips: coloured and standard. Coloured chips are of a specific colour (ie red, blue, green etc). When you buy chips from the croupier, you can choose the colour, and it makes it easier for you to know where your bets are, and which wins are yours. You […]

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[ausguy]

What a load of BULL DUST the source advice is "To keep it short, only use the standard chips" ?

At live casino dealer tables the coloured dedicated chips are there to make the plays flow smoothly without delays. Most delays are caused by universal standard cash chips used by some players (especially those table surfing) disputing who's chips are valid for a payout on any win as all the cash chips are the same value & colour. As it's anyones guess who put what chip where only a video review can sort it out.

Sometimes you might have 3 or 4 players disputing their bets, as in, "they're my chips", says player 1, "BS buddy, their mine", says player 2, "nah you've both got it wrong, they're mine" says player 3. Player 4 tells the supervisor " don't bother checking the video I've got a photographic memory & all those chips are mine".
All too often this delays the next spin while the supervisor checks the video so the right player gets paid.

Many players are so self centred they don't use the coloured chips when they easily could ? It's easy to cash back to the universal chips at any time.

Casino's love these dick head players as it's money in the bank for them which is why they tolerate this chip quirk.

[Steve]

Ausguy, are you saying its bulldust that coloured chips help casinos track professional players?

[ausguy]

Steve - I was only discussing the time lost value aspect of the coloured chip vs the standard cash chip. The article wasn't specific about the casino tracking angle with pro players.

As the coloured chips only represent the minimum inside number limit eg a $5 table I would expect a pro player to use higher value standard cash chips anyway for larger bets. It's somewhat ridiculous to see a high stack of $5 chips (cash or coloured) all over the layout when a larger single value chip will do the job.
Such as $10, $25 & $100 cash chips or even higher depending on the table limit.

What I was getting at was, what disciplined player enjoys waiting, all too often, while casino staff sort out who wins & who doesn't. Over an hour this could delay the play by 10 + minutes. Over 5 or 6 hours of play it could mean an hour of lost play time ? At a spin cycle of 3 minutes that may mean 20 less spins in a session.

For a winning player lost time/spins = lost profit. The other side of the coin, to balance the argument, lost time/spins for losing players saves them money.