Chipology 101 presentation in pdf format looks GREAT on screen, especially when using "Full Screen" mode under View.

These definitions will help enormously in accurate chip descriptions. However... before we adopt these descriptions as "official", I have a few questions about your insert descriptions:

1. Your definition of pies (and 1/2 pies, 1/4 pies, etc.) is different from Herz book (pg. 24). What you call a 1/2Pie, he calls a Pie, etc. I realize that the Herz "Pie" insert LOOKS more like 2 "1/2Pies", but it was my understanding that the Herz terms came from the way the manufacturers themselves described these inserts (Paulson &/or TR King). If so, there could be confusion about comparing mfg. records to this nomenclature, if adopted by the club.

2. What you call a double-split insert on the $5 Bellagio chip is described as 12-1/8" parallel inserts (abbreviated 12-1/8pl) in Herz terminology -- see similar insert pattern on the Mirage $5 in Herz, page 194. There are other types of split inserts, such as the various Bud Jones split-edge inserts shown in Herz, pg. 30.

Do you know if Herz has changed the way he refers to these inserts, or do you just have different definitions as used in Chipology 101? (Please don't misunderstand my "pickiness" as criticism. I really think the seminar and the pdf is GREAT! It's just that if our aim, as a club, is to standardize how we describe a chip's characteristics, then consistency is important.)

Full disclosure: I do have a bias for the Herz descriptions, particularly on insert descriptions, vs. the method found in TCR. TCR is more compact, for fitting in the space alloted, but personally, I can visualize a chip much better (without seeing it) with the Herz method. (To each his own.)