Cash Game Adding on to a cash set, what chips should I add? (1 Viewer)

[p5woody]

I have been reading through a bunch of threads on cash set breakdowns and I am confused. I am thinking about adding on to my Boardwalk chips cash set if we have another group buy but I am not sure what chips I should add. My current setup handles my current game but I want it to be as flexible as possible without adding a bunch of chips I will never use.

Currently
I host a monthly game where we play cash for about 2 hours before kicking off a 10K tournament. It is max of 8 players, dealer choice, dealer only ante's $1, and max buyin is $40. It is a friendly self dealt game.

Starting stack: 25¢-16, $1-16, $5-4
Current set 600 total chips
25¢ - 200
$1 - 200
$5 - 125
$20 - 50
$100 - 25

Future?
This is where I am not sure how to make this set flexible to handle future games. I am not sure what the future looks like but I may try a full night of cash and maybe add some limit/pot limit games or just play NLHE .25/.50, .50/1, 1/2. We started as a tournament only group and we have been moving more and more toward cash. Traditionally it has been a very small tight group where a big pot was $10. This is changing as we have added a couple of cash players and the pots are getting bigger.

I was thinking of adding 400 chips, does this make sense?
25¢ - 100
$1 - 200
$5 - 75
$20 - 25

Giving me a set of 1000
25¢ - 300
$1 - 400
$5 - 200
$20 - 75
$100 - 25

What do you think?

 

[Rhodeman77]

You don't need any more 25c chips at all. 100 more $1's is plenty, but not even needed. The chips you really need more of is $5. I would add 400 more of just those.

 

[DrStrange]

For my games:

25¢ - 200
$1 - 300
$5 - 350
$20 - 100
$100 - 50

If I were sure I wasn't running two tables or playing limit with $0.25 chips, then

25¢ - 150
$1 - 300
$5 - 400
$20 - 100
$100 - 50

Bank = $9,000+ depending on the option taken.

In my "quarters" game the one dollar chip is my workhorse, with fives being heavily involved. I doubt the twenty dollar chip is ever needed since the bank using just the fives and lower is ~$2,400 - - -that is 48 buy ins at $50 per buy in.

In my $1/$1 and $1/$2 game, the five dollar chip is my workhorse though the ones are in full use too. The twenty will be used in every $1/$2 game but maybe not in the $1/$1 games. Half your bank is hundred dollar chips which might not be used much at all depending on how your game runs.

Let's not ignore the effects of inflation. Custom chips should have a lifetime worth of use. If I had gotten chips made when I was twenty in the 1970s, I might well have seen the need for nickel chips and scoffed at the notion people in my home game would have ever used a hundred dollar chip. We literally played with jars of coins on some nights - nickel/dime/quarter night.

These days, chips worth less than a dollar are on their way out. Maybe not this decade, but soon enough. Even dollar chips are starting to fade away from casino play. Three percent inflation cuts the value of money in half every generation. You might find more higher value chips will prove to be a good thing in the future.

Of course, if you are already as old as dirt then it might not matter as much -=- DrStrange

 

[mummel]

Steve, I like to use a barrel of each denom per person. I find this works really well during the game with the need to make change occurring very infrequently. Plus I'm a huge fan of MOAR!!! I like big stacks.

You could probably get away with 12 chips per denom (or 100 for the table divided by however many players you have), with the max being 20, with the most efficient probably being somewhere in between.

So yeah, my table seats 10 so I have 200 of each denom. The only thing I would change next time around is get less $5s because we play small stakes ($25 buyins with 25c/25c blinds) and I've never broken into more than 2 barrels. I'm going to get $5 plaques next time.

Something else to consider is getting nickels for family games. I really had fun over the Christmas period playing microstakes with the fam.

$10 buyin (10c/10c) = 20x5c + 20x25c+4x$1
$25 buyin (25c/25c) = 20x25c + 20x$1
$50 buyin (25c/50c) = 20x25c + 20x$1 + 5x$5

 

[Trihonda]

Steve, I like to use a barrel of each denom per person. I find this works really well during the game with the need to make change occurring very infrequently. Plus I'm a huge fan of MOAR!!! I like big stacks.
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Ya, this ^^^

$40 buy in= 20 x $.25, 20 x $1, 3 x $5

When you bump up to $60 ot $100 buy ins, then just increase the numbers of $5's to issue.

If you can spread these starting stacks already, I'd go with more $5's. just fill in with as many $5s as you can. It will make your set way more playable for all sorts of stakes moving forward.

Here's my Benny's set. Notice the amount of $5's in relation to the other chips.

 

[pltrgyst]

I'm going to go a bit against the grain here. After 25+ years of running a weekly home game playing just about anything imaginable, I've come to the conclusion that for a single table of up to 10 players -- unless you're playing limit games and specifically want to have bajillions of chips on the table (which you must realize is going to slow your game down and make self-dealing at times quite difficult):

1. You never need more than 200 of your smallest denomination, and

2. You never need more than 300 of any denomination.

Any time I'm using a set with 400 or more of any given denom, and more cash is needed, in the best interests of keeping the game moving, I always find myself reaching for a rack of higher denom chips rather than grabbing the fourth rack of something already in play.

Ymmv, but that's my experience.

 

[p5woody]

Thanks for the feedback
Okay, now I am thinking adding 400/300 chips
$1 - 100/0
$5 - 275
$20 - 25

Giving me a set of 1000/900
25¢ - 200
$1 - 300/200
$5 - 400
$20 - 75
$100 - 25

The OCD in me kind of likes the 200/300/400/75/25 breakdown

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Thanks for the feedback
Okay, now I am thinking adding 400/300 chips
$1 - 100/0
$5 - 275
$20 - 25

Giving me a set of 1000/900
25¢ - 200
$1 - 300/200
$5 - 400
$20 - 75
$100 - 25

The OCD in me kind of likes the 200/300/400/75/25 breakdown

.25 - 200
$1 - 250
$5 - 400
$20 - 100
$100 - 50

Just in case you do ever decide to play 1/2, this should give you a little more wiggle room if things get crazy. A bank of $9300 ($930 per player) vs. $6350 ($635 per player). Of course, you could always let cash play.

 

[mummel]

#nickellivesmatter!

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

#nickellivesmatter!

I don't mind playing microstakes, especially in mixed games where people may not be as familiar with the strategy. Get them hooked cheap then bump up the stakes