robomac91
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What’s everyone’s thoughts on the best breakdown of chips for a .25/.50 game. Seems to be what me and my friends want to play regularly so want to get a set built around that.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on the best breakdown of chips for a .25/.50 game. Seems to be what me and my friends want to play regularly so want to get a set built around that.
600 Chip set break down for 25/50c stake
25c x 100
$1 x 200
$5 x 200
$25 x 100 OR $25 x 80 + $100 x 20
True, big stacks…but all those .25 will be hardly used. Even if everyone limps, that’s only 20 on the table. I can’t see needing 400 quarters.We play relatively small, but like big stacks:
- 25¢ x 400
- $1 x 400
True, big stacks…but all those .25 will be hardly used. Even if everyone limps, that’s only 20 on the table. I can’t see needing 400 quarters.
True, big stacks…but all those .25 will be hardly used. Even if everyone limps, that’s only 20 on the table. I can’t see needing 400 quarters.
Another vote for 100, 200, 200, 100.
The bank is £3,725. Total buy-ins have ranged from £1,200 to £2,200 so far.
...you can definitely build nice stacks with this breakdown.
Plus it means non chippers who stack chips in 4s and 7s don't have too many 25p chips taking up 12 inches of space along the rail. The perfect mix between efficiency and nice stacks.
Ty but nope, blues are 25p.Nice looking chips. What are the blues? 25 Quid?
Play a standard .25/.50 hand with me:@Colquhoun. What do you use to help gauge how many chips of a certain denomination are going to be used in a given night? The guy only has two denoms on the table.
Is it just human nature that says “I’m done betting small. I bet a $1?” And that’s what gets used from then on?
Or is it again human nature and we usually wind up doing what is easiest - using 1 chip verses 4 chips for the same $value?
Your comment makes it sound like your opinion is numbers based. If so, what are you calculating to help gauge?
Bring my mom to your game, listen to her complain about why her $20 buy in has less than 50 chips, and then you'll learn how. She used to watch a lot of the WSOP episodes in the ESPN days, and really likes how it looks when everyone has over 100 chips. It's just her preference, and I do it cause she's my mom.Play a standard .25/.50 hand with me:
Early open to min-raise $1, a min 3-bet to $2, two additional callers. So we’re assuming ~40 quarters in the pot and we’ve not even seen a flop? Then what? 80 more quarters on the next round of betting?
Mathematically, a “standard” .25/.50 is going to outgrow quarters extremely fast. Play out a few hands and one quickly realizes the same goes for $1s.
I’m not a $5-maxi by any stretch but I just don’t see how a .25/.50 game gets played with 400 quarters.
40 bigs deep.Bring my mom to your game, listen to her complain about why her $20 buy in has less than 50 chips, and then you'll learn how. She used to watch a lot of the WSOP episodes in the ESPN days, and really likes how it looks when everyone has over 100 chips. It's just her preference, and I do it cause she's my mom.
Play a standard .25/.50 hand with me:
Early open to min-raise $1, a min 3-bet to $2, two additional callers. So we’re assuming ~40 quarters in the pot and we’ve not even seen a flop? Then what? 80 more quarters on the next round of betting?
Mathematically, a “standard” .25/.50 is going to outgrow quarters extremely fast. Play out a few hands and one quickly realizes the same goes for $1s.
I’m not a $5-maxi by any stretch but I just don’t see how a .25/.50 game gets played with 400 quarters.
Mathematically, a “standard” .25/.50 is going to outgrow quarters extremely fast. Play out a few hands and one quickly realizes the same goes for $1s.
I’m not a $5-maxi by any stretch but I just don’t see how a .25/.50 game gets played with 400 quarters.
Beautiful set and great breakdown.
@Colquhoun. What do you use to help gauge how many chips of a certain denomination are going to be used in a given night? The guy only has two denoms on the table.
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To be fair, it’s much easier (and faster) to count out $10 in $5s than it is quarters.I also think its funny that there seems to be a hate for using more than 1 rack of fracs but using 6+ racks of $5s is totally acceptable...
I'm not advocating for a ton of any denom... the same issues that arise with a mountain of fracs arise with a mountain of $5s (or any denomination), right? I find it curious that it's OK to have an extremely large amount of one particular denomination but not another...To be fair, it’s much easier (and faster) to count out $10 in $5s than it is quarters.
I think this is the perfect starting stack and exactly what I use in my games. First bunch of rebuys are all in $5, and maybe towards the end of the night after we’ve lost a few players I’ll chip up some of the quarters and dollars for a $25 or 2I appreciate the efficiency brigade here, but count me in the camp that likes to let everyone have some stacks. Even if they are not being used every hand it’s nice to have some piles of quarters around to shuffle and move around and generally feel like a big shot. I realize it depends on the game, but the following his work well for me:
Start stack (Minimum $50 buy in)
.25 x 20
$1 x 20
$5 x 5 (x10 if buying in for $100 max)
Rebuys are with $5s and $25s
Minimum practical working set:
.25 x 200
$1 x 200
$5 x 200
$25 x 50
My actual set is 200/300/300/160/40 which completely covers any stakes that I would feel comfortable with my house.