How to Color Up chips in a home Tournament
If your home game likes to hold tournament-style games, there is a need to “color up”, i.e. change the low-value chips for high-value ones, as the blinds increase and low-value chips become inconvenient or obsolete. Here are the steps to make it as easy as possible for the host to do so.
When making the structure of the tournament, make sure the color up periods align with the breaks. If you take a break in the first hour, spend that break changing out the lowest denomination chips and replacing them with high-value ones.
Go in a circle and sell off each person’s low chips to the chip leader. For example, if the lowest chip in play is $25, trade them with the person who has the most chips for $100 chips, and keep trading until the chip leader has all the $25 chips, and then trade those in.
Repeat this process when you take another break to clear out the next lowest denomination.
