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Hey all. I'm looking to buy my first sets of poker chips. For my tourney set, I'd like to be capable of hosting a 20-person tournament but the majority of the time it'd be more like 10-15 players. I'm not sure I'd ever host 20, but just want it to be possible without having to buy new chips. Since I'm buying both cash and tourney sets I want to buy as few for each set as possible to accommodate my needs... going to go with CCs from Apache (Dunes & Pharaohs), so I'm going to be spending a lot more than I ever imagined on chips. I know many might laugh at the idea of $0.45 chips being expensive, but a month ago I had dice chips in mind.
Browsing the threads on this website I see people recommending about 800 chips for 20 person tournaments. But when I do the math it seems 600 can be enough, as long as I limit the group to 10 rebuys. Can you please review my logic here and let me know if there's something I'm missing? I'm going with a T25 tournament set with T10k starting stacks.
Total to Purchase: 600
T25 - 175
T100 - 175
T500 - 75
T1000 - 150
T5000 - 25
Starting Chips:
17 players - 8/8/4/7
2 players - 12/12/3/7
1 player - 12/12/1/8
Rebuys:
9 players - 2 T5000s
1 player - 1 T5000 + 1 T1000
That leaves three chips leftover for each of the T25 and T100. These will obviously not get used.
Then there are four T1000s left and six T5000s left. This has a total value of T34,000 and can be used for coloring up the T50 + T100, which total only T21,500 in value.
What potential issues do you see? Some things I could guess:
Browsing the threads on this website I see people recommending about 800 chips for 20 person tournaments. But when I do the math it seems 600 can be enough, as long as I limit the group to 10 rebuys. Can you please review my logic here and let me know if there's something I'm missing? I'm going with a T25 tournament set with T10k starting stacks.
Total to Purchase: 600
T25 - 175
T100 - 175
T500 - 75
T1000 - 150
T5000 - 25
Starting Chips:
17 players - 8/8/4/7
2 players - 12/12/3/7
1 player - 12/12/1/8
Rebuys:
9 players - 2 T5000s
1 player - 1 T5000 + 1 T1000
That leaves three chips leftover for each of the T25 and T100. These will obviously not get used.
Then there are four T1000s left and six T5000s left. This has a total value of T34,000 and can be used for coloring up the T50 + T100, which total only T21,500 in value.
What potential issues do you see? Some things I could guess:
- Are 10 rebuys not enough? Seems to me if I limit rebuys to the first hour or two that half the field should still be alive. And if not, I can just say too bad, rebuys are first come first serve up to 10.
- Is the ratio of large denomination to small denomination too high? Maybe my setup will require an annoying amount of change-making at the table because there aren't a sufficient number of small chips?
- Is there something wrong with providing different distributions of starting chips to a few players? Seems like it shouldn't matter as chips will quickly get shifted around.