Cash Game 0.25/0.50 & 0.50/1 NLH Home Cash game (1 Viewer)

[LeLe]

Background : My friend and I usually have regular Cash Game of 0.25/0.50 or 0.50/1 with buyin of 200BB and rebuy in at 400 BB after that.

We usually have group of 6-7 once in awhile 8/9 player playing when one friend bring another to join us.

So we planned to get a 600 chip that allow us for the both cash game. The horse chip for NL50 tend to be $1 chip and NL100 is $5 chip.

Reading through the forum seem like the common chip breakdown for NL50 will be

100 25c
200 $1
200 $5
80 $20
20 $100

This breakdown is sufficient for NL50 with $4800 at bank but seem a bit short for NL100 especially if we have 8/9 ppl playing.

Will like to have Any suggestions to the chip breakdown while maintaining the 600 chip limit so it more flexible for both NL50 and NL100 game.

Thanks in advance

 

[Coyote]

Get 20 more $20s and 20 more $100s. No room for manoeuvre in lower denominations.
If the number 640 triggers your OCD, bear in mind that's the number a good Versa Deluxe case can carry exactly (for Paulson, ceramic or china-clay width chips). For CPCs it should be 620-624.

 

[shorticus]

You could drop 20 $1’s and add 20 $20’s or Hundo’s if you want it deeper. 180 1’s is still a full barrel of 1’s per player.

 

[jazzV3]

Get 20 more $20s and 20 more $100s. No room for manoeuvre in lower denominations.
If the number 640 triggers your OCD, bear in mind that's the number a good Versa Deluxe case can carry exactly (for Paulson, ceramic or china-clay width chips). For CPCs it should be 620-624.

Which Versa Deluxe Case holds 640?
@Coyote
This one?: https://www.discountpokershop.com/versa-games-600pc-deluxe-poker-chip-carrier-gray-p-729.html

 

[Coyote]

This one:
https://www.discountpokershop.com/versa-games-500pc-deluxe-poker-chip-case-gray-p-655.html

You just take out the central card deck dividers (bear hands will suffice) and make room for 4 soft tubes holding 27 chips each.
Each of the 10 columns holds 53 chips of Paulson thickness (probably more ceramics). Total, theoretically, 638
-but I fit 640 in mine. @RocAFella1 @WedgeRock
@raynmanas fit 640 in his too

 

[raynmanas]

@raynmanas fit 640 in his too

confirmed

and i would do it again!

 

[AnteAndy]

You could drop 20 $1’s and add 20 $20’s or Hundo’s if you want it deeper. 180 1’s is still a full barrel of 1’s per player.

This is what I have for my set with 180x $1s, but still have more $1s as extras and if I ever lose some.

Also, just make the $20s be $25s instead. A barrel of either is a $100 difference. For your initial breakdown, with a barrel of $20s it's a bank of $4800, with $25s it's $5200. Then swap 20 $1s for 20 more $25s and that's a bank of $5680. Divided by 200 should give you 28x $200 buy-ins, which is 3 buy-ins per player for a 9-seated table.

 

[Chip1525]

In addition to Coyote's suggestion, 80 $25s instead of $20s will give you another $400 bank without increasing chip count.

You could also let cash play after a certain point.

 

[LeLe]

Thanks all for the advise, decided to go with 175 $5 and 100 $25 25 $100 as the chip we buying only come in stack of 25. This way I will be able to squeeze 6-7 more Buy in

 

[Sal Bandini]

It looks like you already made up your mind but I think the worst mistake people make is to have a round, hard limit to the number of chips. This means you have to compromise, when you really don't. What's the big deal with keeping 40 or so chips in a separate box and using them when needed?

 

[Chip1525]

OCD.

 

[Chip1525]

Maybe those 40 extra chips can go in the square hole.

 

[AH77]

A bigger bank doesn’t make a set more playable is the problem. For example, you can add $500 chips to drastically expand your bank buy they aren’t very useful in a .50/1 game. More 25s will expand your bank but makes the set a little clunky for your stakes.

More workhorse chips is really the only answer in this scenario. You can probably get away with playing .50/1 with your breakdown but with another rack of 5s you would be pretty be full proof.

 

[LeLe]

After considering so it is better to go 25c/$1/$5/$25/$100 100/200/200/75/25 ?

with an additional of 25 $100 just to cover crazy night.

That will give the bank a total of $5600 + $2500 more than enough to cover.

 

[Coyote]

After considering so it is better to go 25c/$1/$5/$25/$100 100/200/200/75/25 ?

with an additional of 25 $100 just to cover crazy night.

That will give the bank a total of $5600 + $2500 more than enough to cover.

I 'd say 100 total $25s and just 25x $100s as extras.
At $3,275 it's normally perfectly OK for .50/1. Plus the $2,500 and you're (just) OK for 1/2.