official chip values?

are chip values set (white is $1, blue is $5, etc) in general or do different tournaments/casinos have different values for their chips?

pretty much same colours everywhere ive have been....
$1- baby blue or white
$5- Red
$25-Green
$100- Black
$500-Purple
$1000-yellow

most casinos use the same color chips for each denomination. there may be an exception for very high denominations, but the standard ones are the same everywhere.

Yep, even in the UK they use the same colour chips for the vaule.

This is the most common colour scheme - Full Tilt use it online as well (other sites could too, for all I know).

Some casinos decide they're special and make exceptions. The $500 chip they use on High Stakes Poker (South Point Casino in Vegas) is red and white for example.

My local casino uses the standard colours up to $500, but then uses blue for $1000 and orange for $5000 and white plaques for $25,000 (not that I know from personal experience )

Higher denomination tournament chips can be all kinds of colours too. The WSOP changes their colourings almost every year and if you watch episodes of the WPT they're rarely the same from episode to episode. This year the WSOP changed them after the orange-pink-peach "WTF is this chip?!?" problem in 2007.

thanks guys, i use to just play them by bill colors in canada, white is $1, blue-5,green-20,red 50....