$.25/50 Cash Game Question (1 Viewer)

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I don’t have quarters and just started playing .25/.50 in the last year or so. When I bought my set I had a 50 .50 cent chips made to pay Blackjack and 30 non denomination chips to use for what ever. I use those for quarters now but need to also use the .50s. No one cares. I think I will get quarters made though.
 
In a 25/25 or 25/50 game i would just use quarters.

Same here.

If you ever decide to up the game to .50/1, then you should probably just make it 1/1 instead, and not use fracs at all. The 50c chip in a .50/1 game is only used for posting the SB, so it seems silly to invest a lot of money in them. Unless if you rake from the pots I guess, then maybe you would need them.

In a 50c / $1 game they might be useful also for instance for 2.5BB preflop raises which those having read Negreanu like to do.

For a .50/1 game, ideally chips shall be fiddy / snapper / $10 (although I think a $10 casino chip shall be pretty rare).

But in such a game at some point, you have no choice than doubling the chip value. Either from 0.50 to 1 or from the snapper to 5 or from 10 to 20/25.
 
Would you guys hate playing with both $.25 and $.50 chips in a $.25/50 usually NLHE cash game?

Yes. It's as annoying as playing in a $1/$2 game with $1 and $2 chips on the tables. They do this at Naples-Ft. Myers and it always tilts me. I had a dealer admit that he probably makes $2,000 more per year in tips from players getting the two chips confused. Don't do it.
 
while i would just stick to one, prob the .25, i would be tempted to keep the .50 on hand just so you can sarcastically throw it down while saying "the price of poker just went up boys"
 
.50 cent and dollar chips coexisting doesn't offend me if there are no quarters in the structure. I play in a .50-1 game regularly with the Scroll chips.

Just don't issue that many if it's really only needed in the small blind. The host only issues 6 with every buy in. Seldom will someone have a barrel.

However .25, .50, and 1 in the same game are awful.
 
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.50 cent and dollar chips coexisting doesn't offend me if there are no quarters in the structure. I play in a .50-1 game regularly with the Scroll chips.

Just don't issue that many if it's really only needed in the small blind. The host only issues 6 with every buy in. Seldom will someone have a barrel.
I've never played .50/1.00, but I have played poker. I once said that you could probably run a table pretty comfortably with a single barrel of 50 cent fracs and that two barrels should be more than enough. I don't think I got any support, but I'm pretty sure it's correct.
 
I'd agree, if it were my set I'd get no more than .50 on the table. I do 100 quarters per table for .25-.50.

I've never played .50/1.00, but I have played poker. I once said that you could probably run a table pretty comfortably with a single barrel of 50 cent fracs and that two barrels should be more than enough. I don't think I got any support, but I'm pretty sure it's correct.
 
Playing 50c/50c with 50c chips is virtually the same as 25/50c. The nice thing about it you don’t need as many 50c chips. 6 per player is plenty and 10 just means that a bunch end up in the back of someone’s stack. 1 rack of 50c chips could easily cover 2 tables while 1 rack of quarters couldn’t do the same thing in a 25/50c game.
 
I host
20 / 40 kr game with 20 - 100 - 500 chips
25 / 50 kr game with 25 - 100 - 500 - 1000 chips
50 / 100 kr game with 50 - 100 - 500 - 1000 chips

So far so good and while I thought is would be bad to have both 50 and 100 in the 50/100 game is creates more variants in betting like 250 - 550 and so on.
 
I can think of two uses for 1100 25c chips. One is a 75c/$1.50 limit game. The other is to announce that you have a psychological predisposition toward hoarding.

Our old crowd use to play a .50/$1 limit game where we had 1100-1200 .25c chips as the workhorse and $5's as the big chip.

Would love to have 1200 of those Blue Chip .25c in play. :cool:
 
I think we poker players can get accustomed to any denomination of chips but sometimes it takes awhile. I play in a tourney where the host uses tournament chips of 5, 25, 50, 100, 500. Its easy to see that the 50 is completely unnecessary and was tough in counting initially. Now it's no big deal. I definitely vote for all 25c chips in your game as an end goal...but for the time being it's no big deal.
 
Everyone waaaay prefers cash games, and the reason we up the blinds is to accelerate the game so that there are only 3 players are left standing (so someone wins a decent amount), vs the pot being distributed among 7-8 players.

Tournaments have been less popular because winner takes all, for a half the evening half the players are out of the game and cant participate, and there is too much pressure towards the end when the blinds get raised and its less fun for some folks.

I guess we play a hybrid.

Are you saying that in traditional cash games that blinds never get raised?

Also, if we do a 25c/50c cash game with $20 buy-in, is a 40BB starting stack too little?
I would buy in at a minimum of $40... probably $100 tho. Depends on the people
 
I would skip .25 and .50 dominations and start with $1. We play .25/.50 nl game all the time. We use 1,5,25,100 chips instead. In case you want to increase your game to 1/2 nl in the future, these would be just right.
 
I would skip .25 and .50 dominations and start with $1. We play .25/.50 nl game all the time. We use 1,5,25,100 chips instead. In case you want to increase your game to 1/2 nl in the future, these would be just right.

What do you use as fractionals then? But why not have a set that can handle .25/.50 through 1/2?;)
 
What do you use as fractionals then? But why not have a set that can handle .25/.50 through 1/2?;)

I assume he is saying just multiply the buy-in amount x4 and divide the cash out amount by 4 so that you don’t need to use a fractional chip at all.

So a $50 buy in for a 25/50c game would get you $200 in chips and now you can play as if it is a $1/2 game.
 
For a 25c/50c game, 25c is only ever used for the small blind and since every subsequent bet needs to be 50c or higher. I can see the appeal of the 50c, especially with new players where they try and limp with the small blind chip and you have to remind them that minimum is BB.

I have a set that came with 50x 25c and 50x 50c. I've not yet put it into play but may experiment. I appreciate it's annoying to track but I can see some potential benefits.
 
since every subsequent bet needs to be 50c or higher.

Correct, 50c or higher, but that doesn't imply clean multiples of 50c.
$1.25 would be a valid preflop raise in a 25c/50c game for example. Online, where you don't mess around with chips, they even allow any value higher or equal to the minraise. I see a lot of wannabe funnies who do really weird cent raises.
 
It is still the question of how many denominations you want to count when you have to count a stack. So given singles are going to exist in any set, it makes sense to me to pick either .25 or .50 as the fraction chip, but not both.

If someone has 35.50 in their stack, it's easier to count 14 quarters, 12 singles, and 4 fives than 6 quarters, 4 halves, 12 singles, and 4 fives. Even if the latter is fewer chips. It's easier to mentally add 3.5+12+20 instead of 1.5+2+12+20.

Also, I don't see how using two chips to limp is that difficult. Puts MOAR CHIPS in the pot.
 
So given singles are going to exist in any set, it makes sense to me to pick either .25 or .50 as the fraction chip, but not both.
Agree completely. And I think it makes the most sense for anyone who may be hosting a $0.25/0.50 game to just have $0.25 chips. That gives you the flexibility to play $0.25/0.50, $0.50/1.00, or even $0.75/1.50 or whatever if you really want to go do down that road. There's really no need to have $0.50 chips (although hey, this is a chip site, buy them if you like them, I have them), but especially no need for them in a $0.25/0.50 game.

(Side note, I know it runs somewhat counter to the whole spirit of this site, but you can always run to the bank and get a few rolls of actual quarters for the blinds. And spend your chip budget on 1s and 5s.)
 
Agree completely. And I think it makes the most sense for anyone who may be hosting a $0.25/0.50 game to just have $0.25 chips.

Exactly, the alternative would be to use .50 chips and play with the sb and bb at .50. (actually a good idea if you play pot limit, makes calculating the pot so much easier.)

(Side note, I know it runs somewhat counter to the whole spirit of this site, but you can always run to the bank and get a few rolls of actual quarters for the blinds. And spend your chip budget on 1s and 5s.)

My favorite home game in college we played 0.25 ante with basically 0.25-15.00 spread limit, with cash and coin.

It's amazing what your hands smell like after handling quarters for hours and hours. :)
 

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