Poker Chips in Movies
20 July 2026 by CG Thomas
A great way of adding an extra bit of fun to your home or club poker game is to play with a set of chips as featured in a great poker movie.
Want to recreate the scene from Casino Royale where Daniel Craig's James Bond pushes millions of dollars' worth of plaques forward to go all-in, eventually showing a Straight Flush to beat Le Chiffre's Full House? Or feel the satisfaction of Matt Damon's Mike taking revenge against Teddy KGB in the final hand of Rounders?
Here are some of my favourite poker movies, where I've used Blinds Are Up! to recreate the poker chips used in some of the best poker scenes of all time.
Although the app supports just two colours per chip (for the main body and the edge stripes) the resulting images should be an adequate approximation when displaying them for reference during a game, and especially handy if the chips you're using do not have the chip values written on them.
If you use Blinds Are Up! to manage your poker games, you can use the app's chip set editor to select the chip colours and values shown in the images below (go to Set Up Tourney > Chip Set).
If you have any Blinds Are Up! upgrade, you can simply download and import the CSV settings file for the chip set you're interested in (go to Tools > Import Settings). The new chips will be added to your existing chip set and selected ready for your next movie-themed game.
Casino Royale (2006)
I've been a fan of Bond movies since I was a kid, and Casino Royale is by far my favourite. Not least because it has one of poker's most famous (infamous?) poker hands.
Yes, that final hand is a highly improbable piece of poker (the showdown saw a flush, a full house, a higher full house, and finally Bond's straight flush). But this is a James Bond movie. I think of this scene as the poker equivalent of one of Bond's many hair-raising car stunts, or a Bond villain's grand underwater lair - spectacle always trumps reality.
The Montenegro casino scene features just five denominations of chips and plaques, with the $5,000 chips exchanged after the first break, and the $25,000 chips exchanged just before the "final phase" of the game.
Each player's $10,000,000 starting stack contains:
- 40 x $5,000 Light Blue chips
- 32 x $25,000 Pink chips
- 40 x $100,000 Black chips
- 6 x $500,000 Red plaques
- 2 x $1,000,000 Blue plaques
Chip values used during Casino Royale's Montenegro poker game.
Many replica sets found online contain extra chip values to round out their sets, so I've added some of these to the chip set in the downloadable file.
Here's the CSV settings file you can import into Blinds Are Up! containing twelve chip denominations:
BlindsAreUp-ChipSet-CasinoRoyale.csv
The Casino Royale chip values included in the settings file.
Rounders (1998)
Generally considered to be the best poker movie ever made, Rounders is the poker player's poker movie, with some pro players saying it was responsible for getting them into the game.
The key scenes at Teddy KGB's poker room feature five denominations of chips, ranging in value from $1 to $500.
Here's the CSV settings file you can import into Blinds Are Up! containing the five chip denominations:
BlindsAreUp-ChipSet-Rounders.csv
Chip values used at Teddy KGB's card room in Rounders.
Molly's Game (2017)
My own favourite poker movie tells the true story of Molly Bloom who ran exclusive high-stakes poker games for the rich and famous in L.A. and New York.
This is the set of chips used during Molly's first stint of running her own game, at a Four Seasons hotel suite in L.A. These appear to be from the widely available "Eclipse" chip set. Here, I've included all the dollar-value chips.
Here's the CSV settings file you can import into Blinds Are Up! containing nine chip denominations:
BlindsAreUp-ChipSet-MollysGame.csv
Chip values used in the L.A. hotel suite games in Molly's Game.
The Sting (1973)
A classic 70's movie, The Sting features a poker game on a train where Paul Newman's con-artist manages to out-cheat Robert Shaw's crime boss.
In this scene, four colours of chips are in play with geometrical designs and no numbers indicating their values. We only hear the values of two of chips: the brown $100 and the yellow $500.
Although the values of the white and the blue chips are not stated in the movie, it was common in the 1930s for these colours to represent $1 and $25 respectively, so these are the values I've used here.
Here's the CSV settings file you can import into Blinds Are Up! containing the four chip denominations:
BlindsAreUp-ChipSet-TheSting.csv
Chip values used in the game on the train in The Sting.
