Chip Race

A chip race is a possible occurrence in poker tournaments .

In larger poker tournaments, as the blinds rise , those chips that are no longer needed due to their low value are exchanged ( color up ). For example, five $ 10 chips will be swapped for one $ 50 chip when the blinds have risen to $ 50/100 and the $ 10 chips have become redundant.

If the chips cannot be fully exchanged, the remaining chips are rounded. If the value of the surplus chips is closer to the upper limit, it is rounded up, otherwise it is rounded down (for example, for four $ 10 chips you get one $ 50 chip, for eleven $ 10 chips you get two $ 50 chips.)

If a player only has two $ 10 chips, the chips go into a pot . After all players at the table have put their non-exchangeable chips into the pot, the actual “chip race” takes place . For each non-exchangeable chip, players are dealt one card face up.

Either the player with the highest card receives all the chips or the chips are distributed according to the value of the cards. So the player with the highest card would get the first chip, the one with the next lower card would get the next chip and so on.

A player may not be eliminated from the tournament through such a "color up". If the collected chips are the last ones he owned and if he would not get a chip because of bad cards in the Race for Chips, he must at least get one chip from the dealer.