As I said before, the last game I went to, the $100 buy-in gave you chips worth "$2000". I couldn't remember how many of each chip we got, so I asked my buddy, and he thinks it went something like this:

2 Green $500 chips = $1000
6 Red $100 chips = $ 600
16 White $25 chips = $ 400

So I suppose the chip values were actually:

2 x $25.00 = $50 greens
6 x $ 5.00 = $30 reds
16 x $ 1.25 = $20 blues

A more than they nickel/dime/quarter games I'm used to!