Tourney Tournament chip breakdown (1 Viewer)

[Ace10Spades]

I host a yearly tournament (NLH 25k Starting, Bounty) interested what others do as far as chip allocation. I do 40 chips (10-100, 20-500, 9-1000,1-5000)

 

[BKisback]

There are many threads about this, but I think most vets here would agree that your breakdown has a disproportionate amount of 500s, which are generally least helpful in a tournament. I prefer something like 15/5/11/2 for T25k. 100 and 1000 are your workhorse chips.

 

[FreeBop59]

I host a yearly tournament (NLH 25k Starting, Bounty) interested what others do as far as chip allocation. I do 40 chips (10-100, 20-500, 9-1000,1-5000)

I found this post very helpful in thinking about a 30 person, T100 base chip tournament breakdown:

Post in thread 'Can your chips handle a 30 person tournament?'
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...dle-a-30-person-tournament.99912/post-2069192

If I were to build a 3-table tourney set from scratch today, I'd go with a T100-base set using 30k stacks (10/6/6/4):

300 x T100
200 x T500
300 x T1000 (30x for T100 chip-up)
200 x T5000 (20x for T500 chip-up)
100 x T25000 (12x for T1000 chip-up)
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1100 chips

Sufficient chips for color-ups of the thtee lower denominations and up to 12 re-buys (5xT1000 + 5xT5000). Also supports 2-table BBA 50k stacks (15/9/14/6) with re-buys.

The extra T25k chips allow for more re-buys or larger starting stacks, and also 2-table T500-base high-roller tournaments (10/10/7/5). Add 80x more T25k and 20x T100k for super-baller events (1200 total chips).

Lots of flexibility for 1200 chips, and can even be used as a single-table cash set (10c/20c, 50c/1.00, or 1/2) if desired.

 

[David251999]

I do a 20k starting stack with bonus chips for showing up on time and paying with exact change. Photos attached show my starting stacks, number of chip sets for 10-20 players and blind structures.

 

[Ace10Spades]

I do a 20k starting stack with bonus chips for showing up on time and paying with exact change. Photos attached show my starting stacks, number of chip sets for 10-20 players and blind structures.View attachment 1683907View attachment 1683908View attachment 1683909View attachment 1683910

I really like the exact change bonus chip. Thanks for the idea.

There are many threads about this, but I think most vets here would agree that your breakdown has a disproportionate amount of 500s, which are generally least helpful in a tournament. I prefer something like 15/5/11/2 for T25k. 100 and 1000 are your workhorse chips.

You make a good point. I might have to try this on my upcoming tournament. Thanks!

 

[Preditor]

I host a yearly tournament (NLH 25k Starting, Bounty) interested what others do as far as chip allocation. I do 40 chips (10-100, 20-500, 9-1000,1-5000)

IMO I feel you have way too many chips.

There are two standard breakdowns for a 20K stack, assuming 100, 500, 1K, and 5K denoms.

15/5/6/2 and 10/10/4/7/2.

Which you go with depends on how any players you have. If you have two full tables or more? I would use the lesser of those stacks. Less than 2 tables? go with 15/5/6/2.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

Generally you go 15/5/6/3, 10/6/6/3, or 10/4/7/3 for T25K stacks. The reason for the low quantity of 500s is that you only need one for a given bet, since you can use a 1,000 instead of two 500s.

 

[Ace10Spades]

IMO I feel you have way too many chips.

There are two standard breakdowns for a 20K stack, assuming 100, 500, 1K, and 5K denoms.

15/5/6/2 and 10/10/4/7/2.

Which you go with depends on how any players you have. If you have two full tables or more? I would use the lesser of those stacks. Less than 2 tables? go with 15/5/6/2.

I am expecting 3-4 tables this year. But I also do a 25K starting stack. Unlimited rebuys until second break.
Would you recommend 10/10/9/2 ?

For reference this is my chip inventory:

1000 - T100
800 - T500
600 - T1000
100 - T5000
100 - T10000
100 - T25000

 

[Preditor]

I am expecting 3-4 tables this year. But I also do a 25K starting stack. Unlimited rebuys until second break.
Would you recommend 10/10/9/2 ?

For reference this is my chip inventory:

1000 - T100
800 - T500
600 - T1000
100 - T5000
100 - T10000
100 - T25000

First of all, let me say I firmly believe there's not a "right" way to run a tournament. If your players are having fun, that's prime. So take everything else I write with a grain of salt

Having said that, there are more efficient ways to run tournaments. And I believe if you had come to those forum we would have advised a different inventory for chips. My biggest chipset can run a 40 person poker tournament, and that chipset has 1300 chips TOTAL. I also run T25 tournaments which means those 1300 chips have an entire extra denomination than you need.

You are rocking over 2700 chips and don't have T25s.

If I could redo your inventory, I would start with a 10/4/7/3 chip breakdown for T25K.

Let's assume 50% of the people rebuy once and you use a mixture of T25ks and T5Ks for it. You would need:

T100s: 400
T500s: 160
T1000s: 300-350
T5000s: 250-300
T25Ks: 25-50

You don't need 10K chips. Typically you want each nomination increase to be 4-5x the previous denomination. The sole exception - due to a mathematical quirk - is the increase from 500 to 1000.

Unfortunately right now, you hands are tied in chip breakdowns. I do think 10/10/9/2 is better overall, but you have too few 5Ks to really do much anything else.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

You could do 15/5/11/2 starting stacks, with rebuys 2 T10Ks and a T5K. Color up the T100s with 10Ks, T500s and up with T25Ks.

 

[Defarse]

15/7/10/2 is what I use.

 

[Ace10Spades]

First of all, let me say I firmly believe there's not a "right" way to run a tournament. If your players are having fun, that's prime. So take everything else I write with a grain of salt

Having said that, there are more efficient ways to run tournaments. And I believe if you had come to those forum we would have advised a different inventory for chips. My biggest chipset can run a 40 person poker tournament, and that chipset has 1300 chips TOTAL. I also run T25 tournaments which means those 1300 chips have an entire extra denomination than you need.

You are rocking over 2700 chips and don't have T25s.

If I could redo your inventory, I would start with a 10/4/7/3 chip breakdown for T25K.

Let's assume 50% of the people rebuy once and you use a mixture of T25ks and T5Ks for it. You would need:

T100s: 400
T500s: 160
T1000s: 300-350
T5000s: 250-300
T25Ks: 25-50

You don't need 10K chips. Typically you want each nomination increase to be 4-5x the previous denomination. The sole exception - due to a mathematical quirk - is the increase from 500 to 1000.

Unfortunately right now, you hands are tied in chip breakdowns. I do think 10/10/9/2 is better overall, but you have too few 5Ks to really do much anything else.

I do have T25’s in my other chip set, I just did not include them in this count since the structure I use does not call for them.
I do a higher buy-in for the tournament which I found has my players play actual poker as opposed to just loose calling with the safety net that they could rebuy a bunch of times. So 50% is the high end of rebuys.
After the feedback I have gotten, I am leaning toward 10/6/11/2 and use T10,000 and T25,000 for rebuys.
My biggest thing is to run the tournament as self efficient as possible since I try to participate in my own tournament, but as it keeps growing every year that gets harder and harder to accomplish.