Green casino chip

Many live poker rooms use a similar system of assigning colors to chip value, especially in cash games. Red chips, for example, are worth $5 in most live poker rooms and casinos.

Tournament chip sets tend to vary colors more than cash games, but some common themes can still be found across many poker rooms.

In this article, we&#;ll cover:

Without further ado, let&#;s take a look at some of the most commonly used colors and their respective poker chip values.

(Note: If you want advice for distributing chips in your home game, read How to Distribute Chips in a Poker Home Game.)

Cash Game Poker Chip Values and Colors

The four most common chip colors and their values are:

White or Blue: $1
Red: $5 (some casinos use yellow instead)
Green: $25
Black: $

You will find that these four values are by far the most used by casinos.

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Less common chip colors and their values:

Pink: $ (very rare, usually just used in blackjack)
Brown: $10 (some casinos use blue instead)
Purple: $
Yellow: $1, (some casinos use grey or burgundy instead)
Dark Brown: $5, (some casinos use red-white-and-blue instead, which are known as &#;flags&#;)

$1 Chips &#; White or Blue

Low-stakes limit hold&#;em cash games are often identifiable by the endless piles of blue or white chips at the table. These are the colors most commonly applied to $1 chips in live poker rooms.

Cash game players should often have at least a few of these at their disposal. Posting blinds in low stakes games, as well as tipping, requires the $1 chip.

$5 Chips &#; Red

As cash game veterans know, $5 chips are almost universally red. Live poker rooms will deviate from standard colors for other chip values, but red $5 poker chips are a staple in almost all casinos.

These red chips are at the heart of No-Limit Hold&#;em games from $1/$2 up to $5/$

Note that some casinos, specifically in California, use yellow chips as $5s.

$25 Chips &#; Green

The $25 green chips usually start appearing in $2/$5 cash games and higher. Much like the red $5 chips, green $25 chips are used at many casinos.

Las Vegas poker rooms like Bellagio, Aria, and many others use green to signify a $25 poker chip value.

Aria uses a standard color code for cash game poker chip values.

Note that some casinos, specifically in California, use purple chips as $25s.

$ Chips &#; Black

Black chips at a poker cash game table are usually an indication that the stakes, or at least the maximum buy-in, are getting higher.

Live poker rooms often use black for $ chips. These chips can sometimes be solid black, but are often striped with other colors. Other poker rooms use large white chips as $s.

$ Chips &#; Purple

You&#;re starting to sit in on some high-stakes cash games when stacks of the purple chips are at the table. Purple is often an indicator of $ chips, and a standard chip column of these is a $10, stack.

$1, Chips &#; Yellow

The next level up from the purples, the $1, cash games chips are often yellow across poker rooms that spread high-stakes games.

Tournament Poker Chip Values and Colors

The poker chip values and colors assigned to tournament chips ets vary much more from casino to casino.

Let&#;s take a look at some of the commonly-used colors for poker tournament chip sets. Note that these are the same values used by the World Series of Poker during their Main Event:

Green: 25 chips
Black: chips
Purple: chips (some casinos use pink or blue instead)
Yellow: 1, chips (some casinos use chips that are more like gold than yellow)
Orange: 5, chips (some casinos use grey or a different color)
Dark Green: 25, (this chip color varies from casino to casino)

25 Chips &#; Green

Like cash games, tournaments often featured green chips that are worth Don&#;t get too attached, though, these chips are usually removed from the table during a &#;color-up&#; after a few levels of play.

Chips &#; Black

Much like the $ cash game counterpart, black is often used for value chips. These chips are generally seen in the early stages of a tournament and are the first to be taken out of play as the blinds increase.

Chips &#; Pink/Purple/Blue

Again often matching its $ cash game equivalent, chips commonly display pink, purple or blue in their color schemes. 

The World Series of Poker uses several different chipsets across multiple tournaments each year. In many of those sets, the chips have the signature pink, purple or blue colors.

1, Chips &#; Yellow/Gold

Poker rooms widely use yellow or gold as the color for 1, chips. This color is used for 1, chips in several of the WSOP chip sets, and is also commonly seen in live poker rooms around the globe.

Tournament poker chips from Wynn Las Vegas.

5, Chips &#; Orange

Colors used for 5, tournament chips and higher start to vary much more from different poker rooms. Orange is used often for 5,, including multiple WSOP chipsets.

25, Chips and Higher

Tournament poker chips at 25, and higher vary widely from casino to casino. Even the WSOP uses vastly different colors for high-denomination tournament chips across its multiple chipsets.

The WSOP Main Event chipset uses forest green for 25, chips, and lavender for , chips. For , and above, bigger chips are used. These chips are often referred to as &#;mini-frisbees&#; by WSOP announcer Lon McEachern due to their larger physical size.

Chips from the World Series of Poker Main Event set.

Final Thoughts

It&#;s critically important to know what color is assigned to each poker chip value. This can get tricky when playing tournaments in particular, as so many different colors are used, and the denominations go much bigger than in a cash game.

For more on how to distribute chips in your own home poker game, check out the article below:

How to Distribute Chips For a Poker Home Game

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