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Casino Chips
Casino chips are used in gambling establishments instead of currency or coins. Before commencing play you must place your casino chips (money) on the table in order to meet the minimum bet for that particular game. Virtually all tables will have a placard to tell you the minimum bet required.

Casinos use chips instead of real money to keep accurate tabs on the winners and losers at their gaming tables. The chips will remain on the gaming tables when paper money would often fly off through player activity, laughter, jostling, and all other manner of human activity that goes on at casino tables.

Casino chips are much easier and faster to count then real money, are pleasing to the eye (in their various colour and design guises) and can help distinguish the bets of individual players. This leads to more efficient, faster gambling, which is a major objective of the casino. Chips can vary in weight from 9g through to 11.5g and are approximately 40mm in diameter.

If you are a newcomer to casino gambling you will first need to convert your money into chips. At your chosen table stack your casino chips neatly to avoid mixing them with other player's chips, and place them in the appropriate betting area. The colour's of the chips used in the majority of casinos are the same. The denominations of the colors are:

• White or Blue chips are one dollar
• Red chips are five dollars and are called nickels
• Green chips are twenty-five dollars and are called quarters
• Black chips are one hundred dollars
• Purple Chips are five hundred dollars and are called Barneys
• Orange chips are one thousand dollars and are called pumpkins

You may occasionally encounter a different colour for the dollar chips but red and green are the standards in most casinos.