About to push the button - feedback on setup? (7 Viewers)

[Arki2this]

Looking to make first poker specific chip set purchase. I’ve worked with BR Pro Poker on a slight tweak to an existing design.

Plan to play ultra low stakes cash and tournaments with 3-10 players, most often 3-5. We want to play for fun but have a tiny little something at stake.

Buy in will be super cheap, $1-$10 each.

Chip breakout I will be ordering this week, pending your experienced feedback:

1 cent - 240
5 cent - 220
25 cent - 180
1 dollar - 60
5 dollar - 16 (plaques)

700 chips & 16 plaques.

The way I figure, we could do $5 buy in for 10 players, each getting over 50 chips to start all from bottom 3 denominations, leaving room for rebuys. Or we could do any amount from $0 - 10 for 10 players without touching the $5 plaques to start the event, leaving room for coloring up.

I’m still educating myself but thinking blinds can be 1 / 2c, 5 / 10c, 25 / 50c, 1 / $2 etc.

Starting stack on 10 players at $5 buy in
15 - 1c
22 - 5c
15 - 25c

Plenty of room to increase low end starting stack chip quantity if player count is most often 3-5, starting each player with 75+ chips each.

I know ultra low stakes won’t be for everyone, looking for feedback on what I might be overlooking.
-do i have enough chips?
-do i have good denomination chip counts?
-any additional feedback?

Thanks in advance!

 

[BKisback]

Honestly, I wouldn't have a one cent chip. You can accomplish the same thing playing .05-.05 or .05-.10. Pennies are nearly obsolete anyway. A .05-.10 game with a $5-$10 buyin is fine and will encourage growth to build up the game over time. You could also institute a limit structure or a cap if you are worried about it playing too big. I would do:

200-.05
200-.25
300-$1
20-$5 plaques

You would have 15x.05 and 17x.25 to start, adding on however many $1s you needed after that and using $1s for new stacks.

 

[Josh Kifer]

One cent? Wat.

 

[grahamplayscards]

as others have said, removing the 1c chips and making it a 5c/5c game would be way better. You cut out a third of the chips you need while still having basically the same bank.

Wouldn’t do plaques either, if you just do all standard chips you can store them all in normal racks or a case.

 

[Arki2this]

One cent? Wat.

Yea, 1 cent.

We are huge into board games / card games and decided to get a nice ultra low stakes poker / blackjack setup. Something that is harmless but puts a pinch of skin in the game. And we’ll have kids (10 +) from time to time.

 

[BKisback]

I would get fewer then, if you insist on them. A typical game usually has the second and third denoms (in this case, nickels and quarters) as the workhorses. 10-.01, 13-.05, 17-.25 to start. 100-150-200-150 and some plaques if you want.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Yea, 1 cent.

We are huge into board games / card games and decided to get a nice ultra low stakes poker / blackjack setup. Something that is harmless but puts a pinch of skin in the game. And we’ll have kids (10 +) from time to time.

Yeah. One cent is overthinking that. If you did a five cent/five cent (both blinds are the same), it'll play just as low but you'll save yourself the extra chips.

 

[ChipFinderSK]

+1 on skipping pennies. If you insist, no more than 100.

Not a board game player, but how many games would they even be useful in?

 

[Arki2this]

+1 on skipping pennies. If you insist, no more than 100.

Not a board game player, but how many games would they even be useful in?

This post is purely for a set play ultra low stakes poker with. Will definitely be taking feedback into consideration as I work to update the breakout. Appreciate the feedback and extra insight so far!

We currently own a 900 chip +15 plaque “board games bank set”, the chips are light years better than the paper money etc that comes with most games. Highly recommended if you play board games to try chips instead of paper money. (75 each of: .25, .5, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, & 15 plaques of 100000.) A bit overkill but with that you can play any game to any size with level setting the “1” to be $1, $1,000 or whatever the game calls for. If memory serves me 7 years ago when I bought it, was about $120 + shipping using cheap Roman Times chips from discount poker chips.

 

[Beakertwang]

If you get your chips in non-currency values of 1/5/25/100/500/etc, you could use them as dollars or cents, and they would be useful for board games too. Maybe add a .25 chip in case your poker stakes increase.