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I'm currently finalizing chip breakdowns for my first versatile "quality" chip set I want to use for all my home games for a long time, and I'm looking for your comments.
They're going to be Nile Club ceramics, which are available in 25¢/50¢/$1/$2/$2.50/$3/$5/$10/$25/$100/$500/$1000:
The decision on the chips is final, so please don't propose that I get a different type of chips. One day, when I got my poker bankroll fully set and a good amount of spare money on top of it, I might consider getting high quality custom clay chips – but that's far in the future and even then, those are so expensive for me (add int'l shipping and +19% from customs) that I likely won't buy remotely as many of them that I can fully replace this chip set here.
So I am planning to buy two 1000ct birdcages in total, each of which shall be optimized to cover 2 full tables / 20 players for a given set of blinds by itself.
In addition to those, there will be another 600ct pack which will cover swap chips and also some replacement chips for each denom. (Since I live in Germany and can only get Nile Clubs by purchasing internationally with quite expensive shipping and a MOQ of 100, I need to have some "buffer" chips ready for when one breaks.)
The limits I am planning to play are 25¢/25¢, 25¢/50¢ and 50¢/$1 (birdcage one), and $1/$2 and $2/$4 (birdcage two).
The poker variants played will be no-limit and fixed-limit Hold'em, and also pot-limit (hi) and fixed-limit (hi/lo, maybe also hi) Omaha.
For all non-fixed-limit games, the minimum and maximum buyins are going to be 40 BB – 100 BB. For those there will also be a maximum number of three rebuys per player and per session, however I am not by far planning with handling the possible max for every single player. Maybe I also reduce the max rebuys to two.
I've been going through many iterations of pondering and calculating, and currently my breakdowns are as follows:
Low blinds birdcage
You might be curious about why I included $10 chips. I want to keep those because for one I really like the design of them (also want the game to be a little more colorful than just 4 denoms), and for the other they are a little bit more efficient for some buy-in/rebuy amounts. If I didn't include $10's, I'd probably just bump the count of $5's to 250.
For the times when I do 25c/25c games with players favoring low-ish bets and raises, I will likely swap 50x$25 (remain 50), 75x$1 (remain 325) and 25x$5 (remain 175) out of the case for 150 more 25¢'s (bringing their total count up to 400), which would be just enough to give every single player a full barrel of them.
Sample chip stacks per person:
25¢/25¢ – $10-$25 buy-in
$10 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1 (19 chips) — rebuy: 1x$10
$25 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1, 3x$5 (22 Chips) — rebuy: 1x$25
(possibly upping to 20x25¢)
25¢/50¢ – $20-$50 buy-in
$20 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1, 2x$5 (21 Chips) — rebuy: 2x$10
$50 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1, 4x$5, 2x$10 (25 Chips) — rebuy: 2x$25
(switching to $5's after I run out of $10's)
50¢/$1 – $40-$100 buy-in
$40 buy-in: 8x25¢, 13x$1, 5x$5 (26 Chips) — rebuy: 1x$25, 1x$10, 1x$5 or 4x$10
$100 buy-in: 8x25¢, 8x$1, 4x$5, 2x$10, 2x$25 (25 Chips) — rebuy: 4x$25
High blinds birdcage
You might argue that I won't need $1000's, or even if not, by far not as many. Thing is, I can only buy chips of one denom in increments of 25, and I do want to have at least a few $1000's ready just in case. I will however get some extra $500's in the 600ct pack, so I will be able to swap some $1000's in the set out for more $500's, either going for a 40/10 split, or with a 20/5 split and adding 25 more $100's.
Sample chip stacks per person:
$1/$2 – $80-$200 buy-in
$80 buy-in: 10x$1, 14x$5 (24 Chips) — rebuy: 3x$25, 1x$5
$200 buy-in: 10x$1, 13x$5, 5x$25 (28 Chips) — rebuy: 2x$100
$2/$4 – $160-$400 buy-in
$160 buy-in: 10x$1, 10x$5, 4x$25 (24 Chips) — rebuy: 1x$100, 2x$25, 2x$5
$400 buy-in: 10x$1, 13x$5, 5x$25, 2x$100 (30 Chips) — rebuy: 4x$100
(by the time I run out of $100's for re-buys, people will be able to give change for a $500 chip from the bank)
They're going to be Nile Club ceramics, which are available in 25¢/50¢/$1/$2/$2.50/$3/$5/$10/$25/$100/$500/$1000:
The decision on the chips is final, so please don't propose that I get a different type of chips. One day, when I got my poker bankroll fully set and a good amount of spare money on top of it, I might consider getting high quality custom clay chips – but that's far in the future and even then, those are so expensive for me (add int'l shipping and +19% from customs) that I likely won't buy remotely as many of them that I can fully replace this chip set here.
So I am planning to buy two 1000ct birdcages in total, each of which shall be optimized to cover 2 full tables / 20 players for a given set of blinds by itself.
In addition to those, there will be another 600ct pack which will cover swap chips and also some replacement chips for each denom. (Since I live in Germany and can only get Nile Clubs by purchasing internationally with quite expensive shipping and a MOQ of 100, I need to have some "buffer" chips ready for when one breaks.)
The limits I am planning to play are 25¢/25¢, 25¢/50¢ and 50¢/$1 (birdcage one), and $1/$2 and $2/$4 (birdcage two).
The poker variants played will be no-limit and fixed-limit Hold'em, and also pot-limit (hi) and fixed-limit (hi/lo, maybe also hi) Omaha.
For all non-fixed-limit games, the minimum and maximum buyins are going to be 40 BB – 100 BB. For those there will also be a maximum number of three rebuys per player and per session, however I am not by far planning with handling the possible max for every single player. Maybe I also reduce the max rebuys to two.
I've been going through many iterations of pondering and calculating, and currently my breakdowns are as follows:
Low blinds birdcage
- 25¢ x 250 (400)
- $1 x 400 (325)
- $5 x 200 (175)
- $10 x 50
- $25 x 100 (50)
You might be curious about why I included $10 chips. I want to keep those because for one I really like the design of them (also want the game to be a little more colorful than just 4 denoms), and for the other they are a little bit more efficient for some buy-in/rebuy amounts. If I didn't include $10's, I'd probably just bump the count of $5's to 250.
For the times when I do 25c/25c games with players favoring low-ish bets and raises, I will likely swap 50x$25 (remain 50), 75x$1 (remain 325) and 25x$5 (remain 175) out of the case for 150 more 25¢'s (bringing their total count up to 400), which would be just enough to give every single player a full barrel of them.
Sample chip stacks per person:
25¢/25¢ – $10-$25 buy-in
$10 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1 (19 chips) — rebuy: 1x$10
$25 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1, 3x$5 (22 Chips) — rebuy: 1x$25
(possibly upping to 20x25¢)
25¢/50¢ – $20-$50 buy-in
$20 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1, 2x$5 (21 Chips) — rebuy: 2x$10
$50 buy-in: 12x25¢, 7x$1, 4x$5, 2x$10 (25 Chips) — rebuy: 2x$25
(switching to $5's after I run out of $10's)
50¢/$1 – $40-$100 buy-in
$40 buy-in: 8x25¢, 13x$1, 5x$5 (26 Chips) — rebuy: 1x$25, 1x$10, 1x$5 or 4x$10
$100 buy-in: 8x25¢, 8x$1, 4x$5, 2x$10, 2x$25 (25 Chips) — rebuy: 4x$25
High blinds birdcage
- $1 x 200
- $5 x 400
- $25 x 200
- $100 x 150 (175)
- $500 x 25 (20)
- $1000 x 25 (5)
You might argue that I won't need $1000's, or even if not, by far not as many. Thing is, I can only buy chips of one denom in increments of 25, and I do want to have at least a few $1000's ready just in case. I will however get some extra $500's in the 600ct pack, so I will be able to swap some $1000's in the set out for more $500's, either going for a 40/10 split, or with a 20/5 split and adding 25 more $100's.
Sample chip stacks per person:
$1/$2 – $80-$200 buy-in
$80 buy-in: 10x$1, 14x$5 (24 Chips) — rebuy: 3x$25, 1x$5
$200 buy-in: 10x$1, 13x$5, 5x$25 (28 Chips) — rebuy: 2x$100
$2/$4 – $160-$400 buy-in
$160 buy-in: 10x$1, 10x$5, 4x$25 (24 Chips) — rebuy: 1x$100, 2x$25, 2x$5
$400 buy-in: 10x$1, 13x$5, 5x$25, 2x$100 (30 Chips) — rebuy: 4x$100
(by the time I run out of $100's for re-buys, people will be able to give change for a $500 chip from the bank)