How do you get them from the casino? What games do you play?Those are real.
In a 25/25 or 25/50 game i would just use quarters.
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.
Would you guys hate playing with both $.25 and $.50 chips in a $.25/50 usually NLHE cash game?
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..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 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.
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.
I have a sample set of broken bell cash and agree with everything said here.Sorry Tommy, but I will probably steal those colors as well for my .25c when I get a CPC set, they are fantastic.
Sorry Tommy, but I will probably steal those colors as well for my .25c when I get a CPC set, they are fantastic.
I would buy in at a minimum of $40... probably $100 tho. Depends on the peopleEveryone 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 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?
since every subsequent bet needs to be 50c or higher.
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.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.
(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.)