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Poker Chip Values

When poker-shop.co.uk started over 20 years ago we could not find any definitive guide to poker chip values. We did notice that red was nearly always used as the casino chip value 5 and most poker suppliers in the US used green as 25 and black as 100 so we applied these combinations but everything else varied wildly.
We got our hands on a 40 year old toy roulette set that we borrowed the colour values from this and white was 1, yellow 2, blue 10 and grey was 20. We then almost randomly assigned 50 for orange, 250 for pink, 500 for purple, burgundy as 1000, dark brown for 5000. It was flattering to find years later that almost all other UK poker chip sellers were using our poker chip colour values and quoting them as the industry standard!
In the early years fun casino hire operations were slowly being set up by former casino croupier and these were the main buyers for our numbered casino chips and we learnt from discussions them that UK casino mainly use 1, 5, 25, 100, and 500 values, the 2 and 250 values were superfluous so they were removed. We also received feedback from our most important fun casino customers that frequently worked in poorly lit conditions that the burgundy 1000 and dark brown 5000 were easily confused and White was usually the easiest chip to identify and 5000’s were rarely needed. Therefore, we decided to change 1 to yellow and 1000 to white and since Brown 5000 was potentially confusing with Black 100 we changed pink to 5000.
A few years later Texas holdem poker tournament became all the rage and so as they mostly ignored values below 25 we started to offer red as 500 in poker sets that we created for this new demand and light blue was added as a 10,000 value. As demand has declined for poker tournament chip sets we have amalgamated then into a universal home gaming set that covers values from 1 to 10,000 so red has now returned exclusively to the 5 value.

Poker chip values chart

1 = Yellow
5 = Red
10 = Blue
20 = Grey
25 = Green
50 = Orange
100 = Black
500 = Purple
1000 = White
5000 = Pink
10,000 = Light Blue

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