Color blind blackjack players?

How similar do the red and green chips look to color blind people?

I recently played with a gentleman who asked the dealer to give him only reds because he couldn't tell green chips from red ones, and I was somewhat surprised that I hadn't seen more color-blind blackjack players before. I know that there are high percentage of color-blind people, especially among male population. Are there any color-blind players on this board? Do you guys think it's harder to play blackjack in any way, and do you feel that you (collectively) go to casinos less frequently because of your color-blindness? Do you suppose you were ever cheated by casinos? Do you feel that you always need to go to casinos with companions?

Sorry for too many questions, but if somebody can give me some first-hand insight into this issue, I'd really appreciate it.
~Blackjack in the Box.

If you look at the aides of casino chips, you wills see that they have little markings on the edges. I don�t know what they are called. They are like �Stripes�, although don�t think that is a good word to describe them.

The different denomination of chips have different patterns of the stripes. These help the dealers make payouts. If you have a stack of chips line sup, the deal;er can tell the denominations just by looking at the stripes. Experienced dealers key on those, rather than on the chip color.

I would guess that color-blind players area lot more aware of those, and use them as a guide. But this is just a guess.

I don't know much about color blindness, but it does sound like it could be a great cover for jumping your bets.

Colorblindness is hereditary (one of my brothers is also colorblind). It has been a big problem in my life (especially when I was a house painter).

But it has never been a big factor in blackjack. For whatever reason, there is usually never a problem for me distinguishing between the colors (maybe because of the reasons mathprof stated). Reds and greens give me fits in most areas of life (such as at traffic lights), but the casino colors almost always look different.

Having said that, there was one time where I accidently chunked out a $1000 chip, thinking it was a different and much lower denomination, and was shocked to hear the dealer call out "Checks play, table max."

However, that is the only incident I remember and fortunately God sometimes smiles on the stupid and I won the hand.

Depending upon the quality of lighting , I can have trouble telling red from green chips (it seems like the very small stack is green).This has prompted me to wear my reading glasses more . Some casinos have chips which are very different in appearance while others are very close .
Haven't noticed any dealers paying my stack of red with a stack of green ,but I guess they wouldn't have lasted through their first shift.

--- Kevin Blackwood wrote:
> Reds and greens give me fits in most areas of life (such as at traffic lights), but the casino colors almost always look different.

My understanding is that the severity of color-blindness varies from individual to individual (please correct me if I'm wrong). Some of my color-blind friends told me that they use the position of the lights, not the colors, of the traffic light when they drive. I wouldn't be totally surprised if the casinos considered this issue when they designed their chips. But the gentleman I met a few days ago didn't seem to be lying or exagerating his problem, and it didn't appear that he was using this as a "cover". His betteing level was around $50 ~ $100, and he was "stacking" red chips, which looked a bit "inconvenient" to say the least.

--- DdWTO2 wrote:
> Depending upon the quality of lighting , I can have trouble telling red from green chips (it seems like the very small stack is green).This has prompted me to wear my reading glasses more . Some casinos have chips which are very different in appearance while others are very close .

I don't know if color-blindness is considered a "handicap", but it seems that some casinos are more "section 508"-compliant (handicap-friendly) than others. I also notice similar variations among casinos. Some casinos use cards with extra large pips(?) (with smaller picture areas), which makes it easy for me to count cards. (I am semi-legally blind.) In other casinos, I use pictures to identify cards' ranks. (That is, I literally count the number of, say, hearts in Eight of Heart, for example. Well... almost. I "recognise patterns".) In any case, I feel that I'll never achieve a proficiency of extremely fast card counters because of my "handicap", which I BTW don't believe to be absolutely necessary to be a good counter.

~BJ in the Box.

Color blind people can distinguish different shades of the same color better than most. I had a friend that was able the distinguish between the red on hearts and diamonds on a particular deck of cards.

So, chances are that, even though red and green are percieved as the same color, a color-blind person should be able distinguish by shade.

Rick is right. I can usually tell two colors are different, but I am often unable to tell you if there are red or green. Those two and brown give the most problems.

As for traffic lights, your friend is correct. I generally go by the position as the color is not always obvious to me. Of course if there is any uncertainty, I just gun it (JK).