Advice on the Quantity for Custom Set (3 Viewers)

[justincarothers]

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[Nine_high]

I am in the process of designing a custom set of poker chips. A couple of things that I am struggling with is, which denominations, and the quantity of each denomination. I have hosted my own home game for years, and I have a huge generic set of "Monte Carlo Tournament" chips. Erring on the side of caution, my set is quite massive, around 2300 chips. I host a variety of games from micro-stakes 0.25/0.50 up to 5/10 - so I like to be prepared. On average, my game is only about 8 people, my largest game ever was a 5/10 with 12 different people joining throughout the night, so 12 initial buy-ins and a total of 18 rebuys (not including the initial buy-in).

With my custom set, and have added some buffer. This what I am proposing - is it overkill? What would you change?

.25 (500)
1 (500)
5 (600)
25 (350)
100 (150)
500 (100)

Do you ever use a rake, or a tipped dealer? If so you should beef up on the 1s and 5s as they will be needed for that. Otherwise you really don't need more than 200 of any given chip for a single table though it'd be nice to have more 5s, 25s, and 100s in such a large set. I can't picture any scenario where you'd want more than 200 quarters on a single table.

200x .25
500x 1
500x 5
500x 25
200x 100
100x 500 (or 40x 500 and 60x 1000)

Something like this looks good to me. If there's never going to be tips or rake, I might even reduce the ones and add some 5s, 25s and/or 100s for the higher stakes games.

 

[chippitydoodah]

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[xdukeluvax]

iv ran a million .25/.50 cash games and i never use as many .25 chips as i think i will because no one really uses them outside of blinds so 10 per person is the most you would ever need. also same kinda applys for the $1's because the most anyone could bet at a time is 4 chips because any more and they will use a $5 chip so 20 per person is the most youd ever need on those as well. id suggest keep the set as small as you can and use the extra savings to get more sets. having multiple sets is a lot of fun for everyone