Chip sets
Chip sets in Poker Club HQ represent the physical chips you use in your tournaments. Setting up your chips correctly ensures that blind structures only include values your chip set supports.
Why chips matter
Section titled “Why chips matter”When you add your chip set to a tournament, the auto builder uses the chip values to:
- Generate blind levels that use values compatible with your chips
- Set appropriate starting chip amounts
- Calculate a sensible initial big blind
Without chips defined, the blind builder works with generic values that may not match your physical set.
Adding chips to a tournament
Section titled “Adding chips to a tournament”In the tournament Settings screen, tap the chips area to open the Chips screen. Tap the + button in the top right to see your options:
- Custom chips — Start with a default chip design and customize it
- Existing chip sets — Import from a saved chip set in your library
- Tournament chip sets — Import chips from another tournament
Starting presets
Section titled “Starting presets”The app includes five built-in chip set presets covering common value ranges:
| Preset | Values |
|---|---|
| Small games | 1, 5, 10, 25, 100 |
| Mid-range | 5, 10, 25, 100, 500 |
| Standard | 10, 25, 100, 500, 1K |
| Higher stakes | 25, 100, 500, 1K, 5K |
| High stakes | 100, 500, 1K, 5K, 25K, 100K |
Each preset comes with industry-standard colors (white, red, blue, green, black, purple, yellow, orange, etc.) based on common poker chip conventions.
Editing chips
Section titled “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 physical chips you have (0 means unlimited). If you enter chip counts, the app can warn you when there aren’t enough chips for your expected players.
- Colors — Tap the color swatches to customize the base color, spot color, and value text color using a full color picker
Custom chip images
Section titled “Custom chip images”If you’re signed into an account, you can upload photos of your actual chips. Tap the camera icon in the chip settings to select an image from your device. The image is cropped to a circle to match the chip shape.
Custom images replace the default SVG design while keeping the chip’s value and count settings.
Chip stack display
Section titled “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
- Timer screen — Stacked chip display along the edge (when enabled via the “Show…” menu)
- Import menus — Preview stacks when browsing available chip sets
The chip stack display overlaps chips slightly for a compact, realistic look. In portrait mode chips stack vertically with the highest value on top; in landscape mode they arrange horizontally.
Managing chip set libraries
Section titled “Managing chip set libraries”Chip sets can also be created and managed outside of tournaments as standalone items. From the home screen, tap + and select “Chip Set” to create a reusable chip set that can be imported into any tournament.
This is useful if you have multiple physical chip sets and want to quickly switch between them when setting up different tournaments.
Deleting chips
Section titled “Deleting chips”To remove a single chip, tap it and use the Delete button at the bottom of its settings. To remove all chips from a set, tap the delete icon in the app bar of the Chips screen (this requires confirmation).