Poker info III
Chip race in poker games is not a common feature in house games or casino games, nor is it applicable to online poker games. Only in major poker tournaments do the concept of chip race come into play and it has a beneficial aspect of speeding up gameplay by taking away smaller denomination chips when they are no longer needed in course of the game and replaced by bigger chips of same value.
In case some players cannot convert all their smaller chips into larger chips and there are some left over. In this case the players are dealt one face up card for each chip that could not be converted and the pattern of dealing is the player seated at number one position gets the first car, his neighbor gets the second card and so on. Players however do not get the card dealt in the traditional fashion but receive all their due cards at one go. So if a player is stipulated to get three cards for his three chips, then he will get all his three cards simultaneously before the next player due to receive them gets any.
In order to assign larger chips to the players, not their poker hands but their highest single cards are considered, with the condition each player may receive only one chip. If there is a tie with cards of the same rank, then the suit of the cards are taken into account with spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs in the descending order of importance. Any other lower value chips are taken out of gameplay.
An important thing to remember regarding chip race is that players do not get eliminated by this condition. If his last remaining low value chips are taken out of play due to chip race, he is immediately given a colored up chip if it is available. The extra colored up chips are given to the winner or winners of the chip race.
