Question of the Day - 13 October 2020

Anybody else remember the $25 chips at ElCo back in the day?   Years of cigarette smoke and grime had turned them an ugly shade of brown....

ANOTHER REASON TO ALLOW SMOKING IN A CASINO

As someone who collects $1 chips, I can tell you White and Blue run about even, at least in Nevada. And yes, several go with Brown. I agree with the $5/$25/$100 basically being standard everywhere. 

We recently returned from a trip to Laughlin, where we played Pai Gow awhile at the Aquarius. $1 chips there were light blue.

the five-dollar checks were dark blue with red edge accents. That was before the closure and Harrah's buy-out in 2004.
I also remember brass one-dollar "slugs" at the Thunderbird (later the Silverbird/El Rancho) in the late 1960's.

I remember seeing pink chips at the Riviera and other places that were worth 50 cents, they were used to pay off blackjacks when you'd bet $5. I guess some casinos preferred that instead of having to keep a bunch of half-dollar coins on the table. And I've seen a variety of colors for $1 chips as has been mentioned, such as white or brown. White seems the most common $1 color where I've played, and often it was the one most needing to be washed. Many of the $3 blackjack tables use $1 metal tokens about the size of a silver dollar instead of the usual $1 chip.

I'm colorblind. I was playing blackjack at an Indian casino in Sacramento. The casino was very dark and the tables was located right next to the bar where a gaggle of beautiful cocktail servers were constantly walking by. It was a $5 table and I was betting $10 or $15 most hands. IIRC, the red were $5 and green were $25. Somehow, likely when I was distracted by the sights, I got a $25 chip in a payout and didn't notice because in that lighting I couldn't tell the red and green chips apart. So apparently I'd put that green chip in play and kept winning far more than I though. It hit a head when I somehow had two $25 chips out and got two aces. I said split, picked up two red chips, thinking they were all red chips, and the dealer said I had to put more out. Only then did I notice what had been happening. I put another $50 out, hit two 21s, winning both hands. I got help separating my chips and saw I was up $400 so I quit while I was ahead.

the orleans and gold coast have the same brown colored $1 chips. i think they're sister casinos or something like that. also have seen the pink chips valued at $2.50 for those 3-2 payouts on $5 bj bets.       GO LV RAIDERS !!!!

Caesars/Horseshoe Louisville has yellow $20s. Almost golden!! So close so close 

We've learned over the last four years that anything orange is worthless.

Back east, there are pink $2.50 chips since blackjack tables don't use coins.  Borgata uses a yellow $20 chip at baccarat and pai gow tables since it is easier to calculate commission since the commission on $20 is $1 as opposed to $1.25 on a $25 chip.  Hard Rock Atlantic City used the $20 chips when they first opened but dropped them within the first year they were open.

And in my experience pumpkins are $1,000.

I remember playing dollar bj at Slots a fun in 1975 (on a fake ID). Dollar chips were Eisenhower dollars . Kennedy halves were also used. Tropicana used $1 silver slugs up to mid-2000s. Maybe they still do. Haven't been back since offers stopped. These days I also have trouble distinguishing colors, especially black$100s and purple $500s 

Go LV Rydahs!!

Hacienda had yellow $5 chips.

At Atlarge (Atlantic City “edition” of Barge), we have pink chip poker games.  Gets pretty wild most times. The stacks of pink chips are usually huge. 
Last Atlarge at the Borgata, we couldn’t get the pink chip games going.  Seems the Borg didn’t have enough pink chips to accommodate us. 😄

The SP has brown $10 chips

The SP has brown $1 chips