10c/20c --> 25c/25c advice + port royals (2 Viewers)

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Alright I need some help and advice from the experts. So me and my mates currently play $20 buy in 10/20, so 100 big blinds. I think this structure works great for us and the buy in is a perfect amount but here's my problem. I want to buy a proper set (probably 300-500 pcs) for our game. The trouble is almost every set I like doesn't have a 10c chip but 25c chips.

So I wanted to ask if you guys think we'd be alright to play with 80bb? not only is this upping our big blind but also our small blind. How would this impact the game? Would the game go quicker? Also is there anything I can do to adjust the game to fit our buy in with 25/25?

I want to buy a set with 3 denominations. It'll either be 10c/$1/$5 or 25c/$1/$5. The second is obviously better but I'm not sure how it'd play being 80bb. Also I'd prefer to buy a 300 than a 500 set and that'd obviously be better with the second option. We usually play 8 handed with a few rebuys.

On another point, I was looking at buying the port royals (https://www.jackspoker.com.au/port-royal-full-range) in these denominations. What do you think? How's the quality of port royals, anyone bought them before? Do you think it'd get confusing since they're all white/red/pink (similar)?

Thanks so much for your help in advance.
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So I wanted to ask if you guys think we'd be alright to play with 80bb? not only is this upping our big blind but also our small blind. How would this impact the game? Would the game go quicker? Also is there anything I can do to adjust the game to fit our buy in with 25/25?
Just change the buyin to $25 if you prefer a 100bb buyin stack.

Having the same SB = BB will not change the game much, but having a shorter bb stack size will.

I want to buy a set with 3 denominations. It'll either be 10c/$1/$5 or 25c/$1/$5. The second is obviously better but I'm not sure how it'd play being 80bb. Also I'd prefer to buy a 300 than a 500 set and that'd obviously be better with the second option. We usually play 8 handed with a few rebuys.
If you want to go 300 chips, you have to go with 4 denominations.

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

But 300 chips just make people play too tight and also not very "fun" to play.

If you can afford more budget with 4 denominations, go this

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

If you insist on only 3 denominations, go this

25c x 100
$1 x 200
$5 x 200

I was looking at buying the port royals (https://www.jackspoker.com.au/port-royal-full-range) in these denominations. What do you think? How's the quality of port royals, anyone bought them before? Do you think it'd get confusing since they're all white/red/pink (similar)?
They are way overpriced for the quality, but if you only using them as tools rather than collecting. They will work for any poker game.

I think the colour differences is good enough and also having just 300-500 chips set mean everyone is handling only 20-40 chips on average most of the times which minimize the chances of dirty stack.
 
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How “deep” a game plays is affected more by how much the players are willing to wager than how many big blinds they have in their stack. If you’re playing .10/.20, but you allow straddles, and a typical pre-flop open is $1, or maybe even $2, then upping the blinds won’t change a thing. If there’s tons of limping, and people raise to 30¢, raising the stakes will make a difference.

We have a regular home game, $100 max. We had been playing .25/.50, but just stopped giving out quarters because most opens were $3+, and there’s often a straddle and even straddle on. Raising the blinds to 1/1 had almost no effect on the game, other than making stacks and pots easier to count.
 
We play a 10c-10c game. It works great.

Buy-in of $40. Re-buy's and Top-offs to $40.

Chip denominations:
10c-50c-$2
(A $2.50 chip would probably work just as well as the $2. It's just that's what I made originally)


Cap of one straddle at 30c

Game plays well.

For customized denomination. Check out @justincarothers for a multitude of options.

There are others, @BR Pro Poker that easily will make your chip denominations to your liking.
 
Add $5 to your buyin or purchase a 1/5/25/100 set and start with $200 in chips and divide the values by 10.
 
Gonna second this - $25 is perfect for .25/.25, it’s a barrel of .25s and a barrel of 1s! Super easy to rebuy and count for first buy ins :)
I'm considering this and it'd be so clean but I'd need to buy more chips. How big of a set would u buy for 10 players max? Also how many .25/1/5 and maybe 25s? Maybe just a barrel in case
 
I'm considering this and it'd be so clean but I'd need to buy more chips. How big of a set would u buy for 10 players max? Also how many .25/1/5 and maybe 25s? Maybe just a barrel in case
My .25/.25 game:

200 quarters
300 $1s
200 $5s


More than enough for a $25 buyin. I've got a rack of $20s to back it up. If you want to be efficient you can cut out a rack of the $1s and just do rebuys in 5s, that's fine too but I love more chips on the table.

Edit to add: I'm not big on efficiency. If you really wanted to pare down you could probably get away with just 160 quarters, 200 $1s, 120 $5s and 20 $25s BUT more chips are better lol.
 
Nothing wrong with switching to $0.25/0.25 with a $20 buy-in. (I could see switching to $25 instead, but keeping it at $20 is probably simpler.)

The difference between 100 BB and 80 BB is pretty small in the first place, and it will diminish even further as hands play out and stacks fluctuate. If anything, it very slightly favors lower-skilled players by skewing the structure a tiny bit more in favor of chance. I do mean a tiny bit.

As far as chips go, don't underestimate the value in having a non-denom chip to serve as a flexible frac. That way you can call it $0.10 or $0.25 or whatever you may want in the moment, instead of being locked into only one value.
 
My .25/.25 game:

200 quarters
300 $1s
200 $5s
This is pretty much what I play with! I think this is more than enough, can cover up to $1350 on the table, which is 54 buy ins if you're running a $25 buyin. I realize that is more than the initial amount of chips you were hoping to get, but I'm a firm believer that having more chips is just better quality of life - finding change becomes such a drag as the session goes on. Hope that helps!
 
This is pretty much what I play with! I think this is more than enough, can cover up to $1350 on the table, which is 54 buy ins if you're running a $25 buyin. I realize that is more than the initial amount of chips you were hoping to get, but I'm a firm believer that having more chips is just better quality of life - finding change becomes such a drag as the session goes on. Hope that helps!
Helps a lot thanks so much for ur advice
 
Buy a full dollar set ($1 to $100) and play the denoms as dimes (one tenth).
So, play 1/3 dimes, with a buy-in ranging from $20 to $30 or even $40
Edit: you can still play 1/2 dimes or even 1/1 dimes for educational and recruitment purposes.
 
I'm considering this and it'd be so clean but I'd need to buy more chips. How big of a set would u buy for 10 players max? Also how many .25/1/5 and maybe 25s? Maybe just a barrel in case
My game goes well with:
0.25 x 120
1 x 180
5 x 100
25 (plaques) x 8
100 (plaques) x 4 in case things get crazy (they have not yet lol)

This setup is easy to carry around in an Apache 2800, which also houses 2 decks of cards, buttons, and vapes lol.

Usually it’s 8 ppl, and some can have their quarters in 16 stacks if they’re into that type of thing. But everything ran smooth with 12 each, making change as they bet their dollars for a small raise or calling and getting 3 quarters back. Or changing with each other
 

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