Mental Nomad
Full House
Looking at the recent "post your preferred breakdown" thread posts raised questions in my head which I'd like to see discussed. (25c/50c thread and $1/$2 thread)
Ostensibly, a 25c/50c game and a $1/$2 game are both, in blinds terms, "1/2" games.
This might imply that the number of 25c chips required for the one is the same as the number of $1 chips required for the other.
But no, mostly people say they need more dollar chips than quarter chips.
It might imply that, since the next chip up from the 25c is 4x at $1, and the jump from the $1 to the next chip up is 5x at $5, perhaps the right number of $1s in a $1/$2 game is 1.25 times as many quarters in the 25c/50c game.
But no, most people seem to need even more than that.
So... I accept that this is what people want. I'd just like to know why.
Is it something about the stakes that changes the kinds of people likely to play?
Is it something about the chip ratios that makes the $1 more of a work chip in $1/$2 than the 25c is in the 25c/50c?
Is it something inherent about quarter chips that make them less desirable? (Mismatched chip because the set has no native frac, or the sole hotstamped chip in an inlaid set, the sole solid in the set, etc.)
Or do you think it's something else, entirely?
Or is it just ineffable?
Ostensibly, a 25c/50c game and a $1/$2 game are both, in blinds terms, "1/2" games.
This might imply that the number of 25c chips required for the one is the same as the number of $1 chips required for the other.
But no, mostly people say they need more dollar chips than quarter chips.
It might imply that, since the next chip up from the 25c is 4x at $1, and the jump from the $1 to the next chip up is 5x at $5, perhaps the right number of $1s in a $1/$2 game is 1.25 times as many quarters in the 25c/50c game.
But no, most people seem to need even more than that.
So... I accept that this is what people want. I'd just like to know why.
Is it something about the stakes that changes the kinds of people likely to play?
Is it something about the chip ratios that makes the $1 more of a work chip in $1/$2 than the 25c is in the 25c/50c?
Is it something inherent about quarter chips that make them less desirable? (Mismatched chip because the set has no native frac, or the sole hotstamped chip in an inlaid set, the sole solid in the set, etc.)
Or do you think it's something else, entirely?
Or is it just ineffable?