Poker Chips Talk

Poker Chips are made from a variety of materials with clay poker chips and ceramic poker chips being the most popular. Stock poker chips are pre-made and ready to ship within 24 hours. Stock clay poker chips are made with a sticker label inlay and are available in up to 12 colors. The game of poker has its own slang or “poker talk.” If you are new to poker, learning the poker slang will greatly improve your knowledge of the game. From the small blind to the straight flush, here is a poker glossary of the important poker terms to know. Act: check, bet, raise, or fold.

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Opening comment[edit]

I take exception to the statement that the weighted ABS plastic poker chips 'approach casino chips in in look, feel, sound, and texture.' Other wise I think this is a great summary of the current poker chip market. - TenPercenter

I disagree. My cheap piece-of-drek chips (used mainly in Risk:2210 in lieu of energy counters) resemble the Paulson cane-and-hat designs, such as those I possess from Harrah's New Orleans and Trump Casino Indiana. My 'premium' set, a WPT/Bellagio set, is close in feel to the chips I got from Ho-Chunk Casino, Wisconsin Dells (dunno maker) and the Bourgogne et Grasset chips used at Aviation Club de France. The flat, edge-to-edge printed chips from companies like Chipco (you can see examples of this style at the Palms, Las Vegas and Potawatomi Casino, Milwaukeee, amongst other places) have a distinct feel to them which no cheap chip can easily replicate. d.valued

External Links[edit]

What's wrong with a link to the largest poker chip discussion board? (ChipTalk.net) That'd be the best link I can think of for an entry called 'poker chips.'

You placed links to this site in 6 articles. This is spamming. What does a poker chip discussion board have to do with stud poker? Exactly... I reverted all contributions because Wikipedia does not tolerate spammers, advertising, or self promotion. Oh, and yes, I can tell this is self promotion. Your IP traces to Plano, TX. I look at ChipTalk.net and see that there's an administrator on right now. He's from... Plano, TX! Strike three. CryptoDerk 04:44, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

There's been some back and forth on the External links section. The issue appears to be whether the links to the chip makers ought to be included. Since these links are for makers, not resellers, I think it puts it into a grey area. There's definitely some interesting reading in the links, but they are without question commercial. I'd find it useful if the editors who insert/remove the links make their case in the Talk page.--Toms2866 21:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The issue has nothing to do with commerciality of the links, and of course shouldn't. The person deleting the links was just vandalizing the page because the link to his company was removed. He readded the link now. In my opinion his link is okay and could stay, despite him vandalizing the page several times. 2005 21:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Colors[edit]

I think that listing 1 dollar chips as usually white in casinos is false, I think that it's a 50/50 split in that casinos also used blue quite often (Treasure Island in Las Vegas for sure) as a one dollar chip. Anyone have any further info on casino chips?Mike

Blue as a color is something I have never seen outside LV. I've visited all the tables in Metro Detroit - all white. Tables in Wisconsin - all white. Tables in metro Chicago - all white. Tables in Minnesota, in New Orleans, in AC - all white (as well as synced up in all the other colors mentioned as well.) In addition, all the online gaming sites I've seen interfaces for use the white-1/red-5/green-25/etc. schema.d.valued

Oops, I didn't see this thread before making that edit. In short Mike is right: Blue chips are used in a clear preponderance of rooms Vegas and in California, occasionally in Arizona. I've not seen any outside those places, but that accounts for a huge number of cardrooms. Therefore I'll stand on my edit to make $1 'white or blue'. PhilipR 16:07, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to edit the following list to add to it. -- PhilipR 16:07, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

California Rooms with $1 blue (virtually all; white usually means $100 in CA):

• Bicycle
• Commerce
• Hustler
• Oceans Eleven
• Normandie
• Crystal Park
• Trump 29
• many many many more I don't have in my collection hence can't recall first hand

California Rooms with other colors for $1

• Lucky Chances (gray)

Vegas rooms with $1 blue:

• Golden Nugget
• Mandalay
• Bellagio
• Mirage

Nevada rooms with $1 white:

• (Horseshoe) presumably now Binion's, but I haven't been there since the name change
• Circus Circus Reno (Don't know about their LV site)

Vegas rooms with other colors for $1

• Sahara (gray)
• Imperial Palace (gray)
• Orleans (brown)

Other rooms with $1 blue

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• Casino of the Sun, Tucson, AZ
• Boomtown Reno, Reno NV —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tthaas (talk • contribs) 13:30, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Other rooms with $1 white

• Virtually every cardroom outside NV and CA

Spamming[edit]

You're right, I added my URL to several entries at once, but they were all poker related. To be honest, I didn't think they were actually being changed on the internet, just in my browser cache. I was amazed when members at the chiptalk.net forum were telling me that they could see the changes.

It's my fault for not knowing how wikipedia works (I learned a great deal as soon as I discovered it that night). It's amazing and I apologize for what was considered spamming.

I stand by the edit for 'poker chips' external link though. ChipTalk.net is the 'home' for poker chip fanatics, it should be listed. I'll let you decide that (whoever 'you' are, I don't even know who I'm talking to here. :) )

I would be in favor of adding the link here, but only here. Poker people on Wikipedia seem to be tough on external links; I got a link to 2+2, the second-most-important discussion site on the web, reverted from Poker. Do check out our side wiki project at http://poker.wikicities.com -- you may be able to help us update our excruciating detail on poker chip colors. - PhilipR 05:09, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Chip colors[edit]

I made a few bold edits in the colors section, and some others that I expect to be uncontroversial. I'm going from memory, but here goes....:

• Blue is by my observation substantially more common than white for $1 in LV and CA. Granted, everywhere else almost always has white, but LV and CA are the preponderance of the casinos in the country! So I consider either standard for $1.

• Yellows are standardized by law at $20 in AC. I've read that at least twice -- any challenges to substantiate will be answered, in other words, I'll look harder for written evidence.

• I've observed yellows for $2 first hand at C del S and also seen photos on the web. I believe there was something about yellows being rare, but in fact they're not rare -- just not very unstandardized!

• Yellows are also $5 in most of CA; I should probably add that.

• Blue $10s are relatively rare, but not exceptionally rare. They apparently play all the time in the Borgata $40/80, and the cage had no problem selling me a stack (even though I was buying them for novelty value; I don't play that high!). This is another AC color fixed by law. 'Exceptionally rare' means to me either, you can't find them playing regularly anywhere, or if you can it's somewhere out of the way. The Borg is one of the prominent casinos on the East Coast, and $10 blues are elsewhere in AC, hence not exceptionally rare.

• Grey -> gray: United States locations, US spellings.

• $1000: Orange is standard in AC (again, I believe, by law) and used at Foxwoods. See http://www.callzia.com/dghome/acchips/home.htm for extensive AC examples including $1000 pics. I believe orange is at least as established as yellow.

Please let me know if you believe any of this to be in error; I want to be bold but not reckless. Cheers, PhilipR 05:20, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Materials[edit]

I don't think the article is accurate or complete as it ought to be with regard to the materials used in poker chips. For example, Chipco markets their 100% ceramic chips as the premier line (and also market less expensive ceramic composite). Kardwell markets 100% clay, clay composite and plastic chips. Gaming Partners (Paulson/Bud Jones) makes 'clay' (Paulson) and plastic chips (Bud Jones). Security features such as edge designs, UV pigments, laser lock, alpha dot, and embedded microchips should also be described in more detail.--Toms2866 19:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I have never participated in wikipedia before however when I found this section last night I felt compelled to make some adjustments. I've also tried to adjust the external links but apparently someone regards them as spam...? None the less I think I have been able to improve the article quite a bit. I would like to make a few more contributions but I will wait for now and consider the info more carefully. --Elij 16:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Improving it is certainly welcome, but you should read WP:EL about external links. 2005 01:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Poker Chip Tricks[edit]

How about a section on tricks with poker chips? They're quite fun and you catch glimpses of them in televised holdem games. Sites like http://www.pokerchiptricks.com have good examples / tutorials.

Re-merger[edit]

The merger from Poker chip to Casino token was done on 20 April 2007‎, but was undid on 16 March 2011,‎ by User:Earth Wikipedian, who as of now has been blocked indefinitely. Since the two articles are highly duplicated, I'm re-merging the content. --Tomchen1989 (talk) 17:21, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

The game of poker has its own slang or “poker talk.” If you are new to poker, learning the poker slang will greatly improve your knowledge of the game.

From the small blind to the straight flush, here is a poker glossary of the important poker terms to know.

Act: check, bet, raise, or fold

Action: whose turn it is, as in “Action is on you.” Also, slang for gambling, as in “He loves action.” Or a lot of betting, like “The 2/4 game at Pala has a lot of action.”

Active Player:player still in competition for a pot

Add-on: additional chips that may be purchased to “add on” to your chip stack, usually at the end of the Re-buy period, though some tourneys allow add-ons earlier and some tourneys even allow for multiple add-ons (and/or Re-buys)

All-in: a player bets all of his or her remaining chips

Bad Beat: when a player has the best of it and the odds are heavily with him or her, but gets beaten in the hand by a long-shot draw

Bankroll:the money a player has set aside to gamble with

Behind: a player who acts after another player in a betting round

Benjamin: a hundred-dollar bill (Benjamin Franklin’s portrait appears on a U.S. $100 bill)

Best of It: the player who has the odds on his or her side

Bet:money initially wagered and put into the pot (during a given betting round, subsequent betting action beyond an initial bet is termed a “raise”)

Big Blind: the larger of two forced “blind hands” in community card games like Hold’em and Omaha; the big blind is generally located two to the left of the “dealer button”

Big Hand: a really good hand

Big Slick: Ace-King hole cards (see Hole Cards)

Blank: community board card that looks like it is harmless or couldn’t really help anybody

Bluff: a bet or raise that appears to represent a good hand, when in fact the bettor has a mediocre or at best a drawing hand

Board:(see also, Community Cards) the playing surface and the community cards on the “board” that are shared by all players in games such as Hold’em and Omaha. Players use the community cards to complete their hands.

Boat:full house (aka “full boat”). three of one card, two of another. ex. JJJ99

Brick and Mortar: a casino with a physical world spatial existence (as opposed to merely online or cyberspace); some casinos, like Pala, have both a brick and mortar and an online existence.

Broadway: ace-high straight

Bubble: in a tournament, one place away from making it to the money

Busted: broke. Lost all chips and out of the tournament.

Button:(aka Dealer Button), disc that denotes which player is the “dealer” for that hand. Button position is dealt the last card and is last to act in each betting round

Buy-In:the amount of chips a player must buy in order to enter a card game. For tourneys, the buy-in is a set amount of money for a set amount of starting chips. For cashgames, buy-ins are generally expressed as minimums, but can have an optional limited or unlimited range beyond the minimum as well.

Buying the Pot: to win a pot with a bluff or semi-bluff that forces other players out

Call:to put in the amount that another player bet: “I call”

Calling Station: you bet and bet and he calls and calls; generally a weak player who calls too much but doesn’t usually bet or raise.

Case Card: last card of a given rank left in the deck… the other three are already out

Chasing: hoping an upcoming community card will “hit” to complete a so-far unmade hand

Check: to not bet when it is your turn. can say “I check” or tap on the table in a live game

Check and Raise: to check initially, but then make a raise if another player bets after your initial check

Chop:in tournament play, the last remaining players decide to split up the prizepool rather than play to the end; or, in a hand, where the end result is a tie and the pot is split up and distributed evenly to the tied players.

Community Cards:(see also, Board) the community cards on the “board” that are shared by all players in games such as Hold’em and Omaha. Players use the community cards to complete their hands.

Connectors:(see also, Suited Connectors) two or more cards in sequence; for example: 89 or 10J

Counterfeit:In Omaha Eight or Better, when the board pairs one of your low cards

Cracked: to lose a hand you were initially favored to win, as in “My Aces got cracked!”

Crying Call: a very reluctant call

Dealer:player or staff member who deals the cards out to players; however, see also, Button

Dead Man Hand: A famous hand that consists of the black eights and the black aces

Deep Stack:a tournament in which players begin with an amount of chips that is relatively high in relation to the blind or ante.

Dog:underdog. Not favored to win.

Dominated: a hand that is beaten due to shared cards. for example, A-8 is “dominated” by A-K

Draw: hand that needs additional cards to become a winning hand

Drawing Dead: when there are no cards left in the deck that will make a draw hand into a winner

Draw Poker: each player gets a set amount of cards and then can replace some of his or her cards with others dealt out from the remainder of the deck

Duck: a deuce, a 2

Early Position: approx. first third of players to act in a hand

Face Down: cards, like the hole cards, that are unexposed to other players

Face Up: exposed card that everybody can see

Fast Play: aggressive style emphasizing a lot of betting and raising

Favorite: based on odds alone, most likely hand to win

Fish: a novice or poorly-skilled player, expected to lose money

Flop: first three community cards dealt face up on the board

Flush: hand containing five cards of the same suit

Fold:to get rid of one’s cards, and in doing so forfeiting the right to any part of the pot.

Four-Flush: having four of the five cards needed for a flush… and hoping for the fifth

Free Card: a betting round where all players have checked, thus allowing the next community card to fall without anybody putting any money in the pot

Freeroll: a poker tournament in which certain qualifying players get in for free. “Freerolling” also is an expression sometimes used to describe somebody who has won a lot of chips already and is “rolling” through the game with other people’s money.

Four-of-a-Kind: Hand containing four cards of the same rank, like J J J J.

Full House: hand with two of one rank and three of another, like 9 9 J J J

Hand: the cards a poker player holds, combined with any community cards, to make the best five card combination

Head-to Head: aka “Heads Up”

Hi/Lo: type of poker where the highest hand and the lowest hand each take half the pot

Hole Cards: cards held by a player, unseen by other players

Implied Odds:what a player thinks his actual payoff will be if he hits his hand, relative to how much it will cost to play

In Front Of: a player who acts before another player

Inside Straight Draw: a draw where only one card will complete the straight, for example a hand like 6-7- – 9-10… needs an 8 to complete

Isolate: to bet and raise so as to get heads-up against a weaker hand or weaker player

Joker: a wild card, or slang for a really lucky card that came to complete a hand against odds

Kicker:unmatched card in a player’s hand that is not used except to break ties. Example, two pair 5-5 and 8-8 with A kicker beats two pair 5-5 and 8-8 with Q kicker.

Late Position: aprox. the final third of players to act in a hand

Laydown:to fold

Limit:the most that can be bet or raised at any one time (see also, Limit Poker)

Limit Poker:poker games where limits exist for betting or raising, as opposed to no-limit poker

Limp: to just call, rather than bet or raise

Live Card:a card whose rank has not yet appeared on the board (nor presumably in another hand)

Live One: a player likely to bet wildly and probably lose like a fish (see Fish)

Lock: a hand that cannot be beaten

Lock Up My Seat: a commitment to take a seat that is waiting for you

Longshot: a drawing hand that has the odds heavily against it and probably won’t be made

Look Up: to call somebody, as in “I’m gonna look you up.”

Loose: playing style that plays a lot of hands and often goes for longshots (see Longshot)

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Made Hand: already solid. Don’t need to hit a draw to have a good winning hand.

Maniac:wild, loose player who bets it up with mediocre hands just to build the pot

Middle Position: aprox. the middle third of players to act in a hand

Monster: an excellent hand that is either a lock (see Lock) or at least probably won’t be beat

Muck: fold. To throw a hand away and toss it into the Muckpile. (see Muckpile) & (see Fold)

No-Limit: a player may bet any amount of chips up to and including everything he has in front of him or her

One Pair: hand containing two cards of the same rank, like Q Q

Overcard: a higher card. So a K is an “overcard” to a Q, and a Q is over a 9

Pocket Cards: see also- Hole Cards

Position: players relative position to the player who acts last; in flop games like Hold’em and Omaha, position is usually considered relative to the button

Pot:sum total of all antes, blinds, and bets put into the center of the table during a given poker hand. It is the pot for which players are competing to win.

Preflop:before the flop

Premium Starting Hands:holding among the best starting hole cards; for example, in Hold’em premium starting hands include A-A, K-K, Q-Q, and A-K, and possibly A-Q and J-J as well. Hi/Lo games also have low premium starting hands of their own, for example holding perhaps A-2-3-5 as a starting hand in Omaha Hi/Lo

Raise:adding more chips to another player’s original bet to make it more expensive for other players to continue to play for the pot

Rake:the amount of money taken out of a pot by the house (the dealer is the house’s representative in this process) as its fee for running the game; the rake is used to pay overhead, including equipment, facilities, utilities, and staff salaries

Reraise: raising another player’s raise

Ring Game: a cash game with a full table of players, usually seven or more for Stud and nine or more for Omaha or Hold’em

River: the fifth (last) community card on board

Royal Flush: an A-K-Q-J-10 of the same suit. The highest ranking hand in poker.

Satellite Tournament: a smaller stakes tourney in which the prizes are one or more entries into a more expensive major event

Set: three of a kind, consisting of a pocket pair plus a matching community card

Shorthanded: a poker game with five players or less, perhaps six or less

Showdown: final act of a poker hand

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Slowplay: playing a powerful hand in a weak manner to disguise its strength and lure, or “trap,” other players into the action

Small Blind: located just to the left of the button, it is the smaller of the two forced blind bets preflop

Standard Raise: typically, three times the big blind

Steal the Blinds: bluffing to make the blinds fold

Straight: a sequence of five consecutive cards, like 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10

Straight Flush: a sequence of five consecutive cards that are all also the same suit

Suck-out:to hit a longshot draw, typically on the river

Suited Connectors: (see also, Connectors) two or more cards in sequence and of the same suit; for example: 8-9 or 10-J of Hearts

Swing:fluctuation of a player’s chip count or even overall bankroll

Table Stakes: a player can only play with the money/chips he or she has on the table in front of him or her; the player’s bet, call, or raise is limited to the number of chips he or she currently has, and the player cannot buy, borrow, or produce more chips in the middle of a hand.

Three-of-a-Kind: three cards of the same rank held in a given hand, ex.: QQQ. see also, Trips

Tournament: a competition in which all players start with the same amount of chips and play continues until one player holds all the chips

Trap: to underplay or slowplay powerful hand so as to lure other players into betting

Trips: three of a kind

Turn: the fourth community card on board, following the flop

Two Pair: a hand that contains two different pairs, like QQ and KK in the same hand

Under the Gun: the first player to act in a round of poker; preflop, under the gun is to the immediate left of the button

Value Bet: betting a hand that is perhaps not a sure thing but that over time will win more than it loses

Wheel: (aka “Bicycle”) a five-high straight: A – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

Wired: to have a pair in the hole from the start

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