Tourney 400 pc Rounders Tourney set breakdown help (1 Viewer)

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I am going to order a 400 chip set of Rounders in the GB and am looking for a little help for breakdown on the denoms. I am thinking I will buy a 400 acrylic bird cage for these to show them off, so my first reaction is to order the following:

all original colors
$5 X 100
$25 X 100
$100 X 100
$500 x 100

Four full racks to show off and perfectly balanced to the naked eye in the cage on the shelf.

I will also order oversized:
$1000 X 20
$5000 X 10
I may bump these up to 30 and 20 respectively (these won't be in the cage, I may make a custom wood case down the road for the whole set)

My breakdown thoughts are:
T5k starting stacks (9 person)
T5 X 5
T25 X 11
T100 X 7
T500 X 6
T1000 x1

I believe there should be enough T5 and T25 left to make a tenth starting T5K starting stack as well

I should also have 30 more T100 to color up T5 and T25 and 20 more T500 to color up T100 if ever needed.

Obviously I can do larger starting stacks with the extra T500, T1000, and T5000

My question(s) to you is: does four full racks make sense and are there better starting breakdowns using four full racks, or should I start with a better overall breakdown for my total chips?

Feel free to point out any errors in my thinking. We play a few tourneys but I have a 1000 chip YAK set that we use for 8-10 guys usually so I don't worry about chip efficiency (is that the right way to say that???)

Thanks
Aaron
 
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I'm not the best with breakdowns so I'll leave most of it the xberts. But having 100 of each denom doesn't give you enough 25s for your starting stacks. 9x13=117

so I would go
60x5
140x25
100x100
100x500

400 chips. Enough extra of each denom for a 10th person and color ups.
 
100 chips each and 9 players means a max of 11 chips per player for each denom.

10 - 5s
10 - 25s
7 - 100s
8 - 500s

35 chips for a T5k and enough 100s to color up the 5s and 25s if needed
 
Especially if you are trying to limit the total number of chips, even/full racks wont really work.

Another thought: in the Rounders movie, I don't recall them ever using the $5 chips in play, so you really want to maximize the $25s, $100s and $500s, which were featured in the movie. The below breakdown does that.

Anyway, I don't know if this fits your parameters, but if you are willing to ditch the $5 chips and are willing to increase your set to 600 chips, here's what I went with for a 20 person T10,000 tourney set, with plenty of T5,000 chips for color-ups and rebuys:

160 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
140 x T1000
60 x T5000

TOTAL BANK: T500,000

600 chips. Starting stacks of 8/8/4/7. Do a search on the blue site for "BCC GCR" and "Goph" and you'll see a couple breakdown threads on the ideal T10K breakdown. My breakdown above is super flexible for all tourneys up to 20 players, and allows you to have T10K starting stacks, which I think is the most popular starting stack size. You'll also have more than enough chips for color-ups and rebuys/add-ons.

Other than the fact that the $1000s and $5000s are oversized, 600 chips would fit perfectly in a 600 chip birdcage (or you could store the 400 smaller ones in the 400 chip birdcage and the oversized chips separately).

Also, I suggest buying a few spares of each denom in case of Murphy.
 
I'd get 100/100/100/100
Starting stacks 10/10/7/8 as mentioned above. You have enough T100s to colour up the T5s & T25s. & enough T500s to colour up the T100s (not that you're likely to bother).
The T1000s & T5000s don't add anything to the playability of the set imo. They'd be purely decorative.
 
I'm not the best with breakdowns so I'll leave most of it the xberts. But having 100 of each denom doesn't give you enough 25s for your starting stacks. 9x13=117

so I would go
60x5
140x25
100x100
100x500

400 chips. Enough extra of each denom for a 10th person and color ups.


Whoops! edited first post to reflect change to T25 starting numbers (11 instead of 13)

The tenth person would use the remaining 55 X T5 and the remaining T25 to get to 100 and they would start with 4 T100 and an extra T500 to get to the first 1K

Full racks may not work very soundly though. We usually have seven to nine regulars depending on work schedules

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Especially if you are trying to limit the total number of chips, even/full racks wont really work.

Another thought: in the Rounders movie, I don't recall them ever using the $5 chips in play, so you really want to maximize the $25s, $100s and $500s, which were featured in the movie. The below breakdown does that.

Anyway, I don't know if this fits your parameters, but if you are willing to ditch the $5 chips and are willing to increase your set to 600 chips, here's what I went with for a 20 person T10,000 tourney set, with plenty of T5,000 chips for color-ups and rebuys:

160 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
140 x T1000
60 x T5000

TOTAL BANK: T500,000

600 chips. Starting stacks of 8/8/4/7. Do a search on the blue site for "BCC GCR" and "Goph" and you'll see a couple breakdown threads on the ideal T10K breakdown. My breakdown above is super flexible for all tourneys up to 20 players, and allows you to have T10K starting stacks, which I think is the most popular starting stack size. You'll also have more than enough chips for color-ups and rebuys/add-ons.

Other than the fact that the $1000s and $5000s are oversized, 600 chips would fit perfectly in a 600 chip birdcage (or you could store the 400 smaller ones in the 400 chip birdcage and the oversized chips separately).

Also, I suggest buying a few spares of each denom in case of Murphy.


Thanks

Currently I really can only afford 400 with a custom set(s) on the horizon. Definitely planned on gettin extras my OCD wouldn't be able to take the thought if a barrel being short

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I'd get 100/100/100/100
Starting stacks 10/10/7/8 as mentioned above. You have enough T100s to colour up the T5s & T25s. & enough T500s to colour up the T100s (not that you're likely to bother).
The T1000s & T5000s don't add anything to the playability of the set imo. They'd be purely decorative.


Hmmm, I like that breakdown.
 
A perfect-efficiency set of 400 chips (5/25/100/500) for a 10 player T5000 tournament would use the following starting stacks and have the following breakdown:

T5000 starting stack:
10 x T5
10 x T25
12 x T100
7 x T500
-------
39 chips = T5000 (plus bounty chip = two full barrels)

Chip set:
100 x T5
100 x T25
125 x T100
75 x T500
------
400 total chips

The extra 5 x T100 chips are needed to color-up the T5 chips, and the extra 5 x T500 chips are needed to color up the T25 chips. With 10 players, all chips in the set will see play (doesn't get more efficient than that).
 
A perfect-efficiency set of 400 chips (5/25/100/500) for a 10 player T5000 tournament would use the following starting stacks and have the following breakdown:

T5000 starting stack:
10 x T5
10 x T25
12 x T100
7 x T500
-------
39 chips = T5000 (plus bounty chip = two full barrels)

Chip set:
100 x T5
100 x T25
125 x T100
75 x T500
------
400 total chips

The extra 5 x T100 chips are needed to color-up the T5 chips, and the extra 5 x T500 chips are needed to color up the T25 chips. With 10 players, all chips in the set will see play (doesn't get more efficient than that).

Beautiful!

BGinGA I was hoping you would chime in. I think this is what I will do, for display purposes I can hide the extra 25 hundo's on the inside of the rack on the 500's on the bottom of the carrier.

Thanks to everybody that chimed in here.
 

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