We've all done it. Signed up for a poker run, get three cards in and have a crap hand and lose all enthusiasm for the remainder of the ride.
Now, honestly if you sign up for a charity poker run with the expectation of winning and coming out ahead, then you're probably doing it for the wrong reason. But, from a competitive spirit kind of thing, we all hate to lose and it's even worse when halfway through the game you know there's no way you can win.
That's why we like a slight variation on this old standard..the POKER CHIP RUN.
How many chips does each player start with? As a rule of thumb the starting amount of poker chips per player should be 40-80 chips. Starting with this many chips gives each player enough of each of the starting chip colors. However, I have played in many tournaments were everyone starts with 20 chips and this works. This 500 chip set from Da Vinci has a beautiful modern design in the classic poker chip coloring. With red, blue, green, black, and gray chips marked in denominations ranging from $1 to $500, this is a great basic poker chip set. The chips have large lettering for denominations and all have the same picture of a crest in the background. When it comes to starting chips, the number varies according to the event. Regularly scheduled tournaments will have a set defined number of chips. While significant events, such as the $215 buy-in 888poker $100,000 Mega Deep Challenge, may start with larger starting stacks, have longer levels, and feature a more favourable tournament structure.
What makes this game better than a standard 5 card poker run is NOBODY has a clue if they have a good hand or a bad hand until they return to the starting point.
That helps you (as the event organizer) in several ways. The first is the majority of your participants will enjoy the event all the way through, you'll ensure that almost everyone will return to the start (instead of dropping out halfway) and the old 'I don't know how to play poker' excuse some people use for not attending your event.
How it works
The poker chip run is the simplest run you can set up. Here's what you need to do.
1. Decide on the number of stops you will have. Typically you can have as many as 5 or as few as three. If you're short on volunteers to man your stops, then we recommend having only 1 additional stop someone along the route. This gives you 3 draws from the poker chip bag. One when they register and before they leave, one at the stop out on the route, and one when they return to the starting point.
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Poker Tournament Starting Chips
Divide the chips into equal numbers in a opaque bag so your participants can't see which color they're getting.
Poker Tournament Starting Chips
At each stop have your participants draw out 3 chips. Then note the colors drawn on their registration sheet.
That's it. Pretty simple huh?
Oh yea, once everyone leaves for the run, or (preferably) once everyone is back in and all the sheets have been returned, stage a public drawing where you put 1 chip of each color in the bag and have a volunteer reach into the bag and blindly draw out a chip. The first chip drawn is worth 20 points, the second chip is worth 10 points and the third chip is worth 5 points.
For example, if the first chip drawn is red, then every red chip drawn on the ride is worth 20 points. If the second chip is white then all the white chips are worth 10 points and the blue chips were worth 5 points.
The beauty of this is that because the value of the chips wasn't established until AFTER the ride concluded, no one knew if they had a good hand or not. They could've had all blue chips, or all red chips or all white chips and they either won big, or was a big loser!
Just make sure the person blind drawing the chips has no way to tell which color is which when they're in the bag and that person doesn't know anything about the participants scores or who has what colors on their sheets.
But if it's a blind draw, it's still pretty hard for anyone to cheat with this system.
If you have questions, or need more info, call us at Biker Nation, 478-268-7528 and we'll be happy to answer any questions about this system. We've used this dozens of times and it works great!
The game, just like regular poker, is a game of skill and therefore, each player requires sone important skills to ensure they win the game. In Texas Holdem, large amounts of money are dealt with because during the game, many bets are executed by the involved players. If the card game is to become exciting and reach the expectations of the players, the host in the casino or at home must make sure the equipment for playing is available. This card game becomes more exciting if it is well organized, having good structure, using quality poker supplies and many more conditions. A most important part of this game are the chips which are the equipment used to bet. When playing Texas Holdem, the chips are bought by players and they act like actual cash.
The playing chips used when playing Texas Holdem depends on the players available at each table. For a table of around fifty players, then 75 chips can be issued to each player or when there are around 40 players at the table, the chips issued to each player can be less than 5 colors. When we speak about colors of chips used in Texas Holdem, we mean the colour of the different chips used when playing the game.. The colours of the chips used in this card game include white, red, blue, green, black, purple, yellow pink and orange. Each colour has a certain money value attached to it and each player is given money according to the chips they have after the game ends. The values of the chips indicated is mostly $1,$5,$10, $25, $100, $500, $1000, $5000, $10000 respectively.
Texas Holdem is played using these chips and after the game ends, each player is rewarded according to the number of chips they have. Using chips as a form of money is better than using real cash which would be tedious. When playing this game each player is awarded the same number of chips and after the game, some players end up with nothing.
In conclusion, it is clear that playing Texas Holdem is easy and that’s why the game has become so popular. This game however, is more complicated when played at higher levels where great skill and a lot of luck is required. Moreover, we have seen that chips used in a particular game vary with the number of players at each table.