Chip sets

Chip sets in Poker Club HQ represent the physical chips you use in your tournaments. Telling the app what chips you own keeps the generated blind structure in step with them.

Why chips matter

When a tournament has a chip set, the blind structure generator uses it to:

• Snap every blind and ante to a multiple of your smallest chip value, so you never get a blind you can’t actually make change for
• Suggest a sensible initial big blind

It also warns you if your starting stack is outside the usual 80–600× your smallest chip.

Without chips defined, the generator falls back to generic values that may not match your physical set.

Adding chips to a tournament

In the tournament Settings screen, tap the chips area to open the Chips screen. Tap + in the top right to open the Add chips sheet, which lists — with a preview of each — in this order:

1. Chip sets belonging to your other tournaments
2. Your saved chip sets
3. Individual chip designs

Tapping a tournament or chip set copies in every chip you don’t already have. Tapping a single design adds one chip using it and opens that chip’s settings so you can set its value and colors.

Built-in chip sets

The app ships five chip sets covering common value ranges. They aren’t named — the app labels each one by its values:

• 1, 5, 10, 25, 100
• 5, 10, 25, 100, 500
• 10, 25, 100, 500, 1K
• 25, 100, 500, 1K, 5K
• 100, 500, 1K, 5K, 25K, 100K

Each one uses conventional poker chip colors — white, red, blue, green, black, purple, yellow, orange, brown, and grey — assigned by value.

Editing chips

Tap any chip in the chip set to open its settings:

• value — The denomination of the chip (0 to 1,000,000)
• count — How many of this chip you physically own (0 to 1,000,000). Leave it at zero and the app assumes you have plenty.
• Colors — Tap the color swatches to customize the base color, spot color, and value text color using a full color picker. The value text color only appears once the chip has a value above zero.

Custom chip images

If you’re signed into an account, you can upload photos of your actual chips. Tap the camera button in the chip settings to select an image from your device. The image is cropped to a circle to match the chip shape.

A custom image replaces the chip’s drawn design, so the color swatches disappear — the value and count settings stay.

Chip stack display

Chips appear in several places throughout the app:

• Tournament settings — A thumbnail showing the current chip set
• Chip set screen — Full-size chips sorted by value, each showing its count
• Timer screen — A stacked chip display along the edge, toggled from the timer’s customize menu under Show/hide chips
• Add chips sheet — Preview stacks when browsing available chip sets

Stacked chips overlap slightly and are always ordered by value. When the strip is taller than it is wide the chips stack vertically; when it’s wider than tall they run horizontally.

Managing chip set libraries

Chip sets can also live outside of tournaments as standalone items. From the home screen, tap + and choose Chip set to create a reusable set you can then import into any tournament. Like anything else on the home screen, chip sets can be organized into folders — see Home screen & folders.

This is useful if you have several physical sets and want to switch between them quickly when setting up a tournament.

Deleting chips

To remove a single chip, tap it and use Delete chip at the bottom of its settings. To remove every chip from a set, tap the Erase all chips icon in the app bar of the Chips screen — it asks for confirmation first.