I realize OP isn’t running a poker room like the Bellagio but just take a look at a typical big stack at the 2/5 game there.
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Yeah, I've seen stacks like these before obviously. And then again different casinos do different things when it comes to this. European casinos are notorious for having smaller stacks in general and more high denom heavy stacks.
In my game people will start to get annoyed when I'm trying to get the third rack of $5s on the table. We play 1/2. When they rebuy they rather just get greens or even just hundreds.
I guess it must have something to so with what people are accustomed to.
From my own experience I feel like having too many low denom chips on the table slows down play. People spend longer counting all ins, or having to put out a bet of 75 with 15x5s instead of just using 3x25s. Or having to slide 2 stacks of 5s in to place a bet of 200, instead of just throwing 2x 100s in there.
I dunno, I enjoy big stacks, but at the same time most of the chips in the picture you posted above is just gonna sit there for hours not moving. It's not really super efficient or needed.
I agree that having too few chips will make for a bad game (with constant change making and people nitting it up with their big chips), but i dont think that will ever happen if you have 300 fives. Or probably even 200, IMO. Maybe if you have a set of 80/80/80/40/20/10 or something, that could happen, but who would do such a thing..
Anyways, I might very well be the wierdo, but just posting my opinion.