History of Poker Chips

Poker Games, in previous blogs, we talked about the history of poker. Now we are going to write about the very important element of the game, The Chips. You can’t play poker without the chips. The chips itself has a history too.

Early chips were too easy to copy, and then by the year 1880s some commercial companies were started manufacture customized clay chips. Then these chips were carefully stylized to make them particular to a given customer.

 In poker game, Basic chips are white, red, blue, green and black, which are used generally. And high-stakes tournaments may use many other colours. When you are playing online poker games like Texas Holdem ,Ohama Holdem, the colours of your chips are very important. Because each chips colour indicate the value of money, it’s vital to players to each chip how much worth,

Basic Poker Chip Colors and Standard Values

• ·         White, $1
• ·         Pink $2.50 (rare for poker; sometimes used in black-jack)
• ·         Red, $5
• ·         Blue, $10
• ·         Green, $25
• ·         Black, $100

Full Poker Chip Colors and Standard Values

• ·         White, $1
• ·         Yellow, $2 (rarely used)
• ·         Red, $5
• ·         Blue, $10
• ·         Grey, $20
• ·         Green, $25
• ·         Orange, $50
• ·         Black, $100
• ·         Pink, $250
• ·         Purple, $500
• ·         Yellow, $1000 (sometimes burgundy or gray)
• ·         Light Blue, $2000
• ·         Brown, $5000

There are some variations to these denominations (e.g. green is occasionally played as $20).