Tourney Advice sought for my interesting chip set situation (1 Viewer)

[Jamaquack27]

Hi everyone, so I run a monthly tournament that has between 14-20 people attend.
I bought a set of 1000 second hand chips recently with the following
200 x T5
200 x T25
200 x T50 (urgh)
200 x T100
100 x T500
100 x T1000

Obviously the T50's are annoying, but considering I have so many of them I feel like I need to use them...

I've been contemplating making a T25 base set and doing 8k starting stacks. I've also toyed with the idea of doing 10k stacks and making the T5 into T5000 with a little "imagination"

Some suggestions would be great. Also a blind structure that would finish between 5-6 hours.

Thanks!

Or should I buy non matching T5000 chips? I'm leaning towards that.

Here's the chip set I have.

The grandfinal event at the end of the season will have stacks ranging from $5,000 - $60,000.

So I will need to future proof for that event also, hence why I'm leaning towards the $5,000 chips

 

[Legend5555]

You have plenty of chips without the 50's.

Starting stack:
2000
T5 x10
T25 x10
T100 x7
T500 x2

Levels
5-10
10-20 (do a double level possibly)
15-30
20-40
30-60
40-80
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
200-400
300-600
400-800
600-1200
800-1600
1k-2k

I'm not usually a fan of the 40-80 to 50-100 jump, but it works well for chip up purposes. This is a 5-6 hour structure.

 

[BGinGA]

Re-label the T50 chips as $5000 and run a T25-base blind structure. Can even re-label some of the T5 chips as T25k (or vice-versus). This would play much better into your bigger stack plans for the Final.

 

[Jamaquack27]

Re-label the T50 chips as $5000 and run a T25-base blind structure. Can even re-label some of the T5 chips as T25k (or vice-versus). This would play much better into your bigger stack plans for the Final.

Oh man. I never thought of that! That's a great idea. Otherwise they're useless chips. Where do you suggest buying labels from?

 

[BGinGA]

Send a PM to @Gear.

 

[Darson]

Relabel is the obvious choice however I would be hesitant to do so since these chips are in the 15c to 25c/chip price range and the label cost will be similar to the chip cost (10c per label and you need 2 per chip).

I would see if you can find a seller of these chips and just buy the extras that you need. All you really need are an additional 100x T1000 and 200x T5000
http://www.pokerstore.com/500-las-vegas-4color-14g-casino-clay-poker-chip-set-w-case-p-274.html

 

[Jamaquack27]

Relabel is the obvious choice however I would be hesitant to do so since these chips are in the 15c to 25c/chip price range and the label cost will be similar to the chip cost (10c per label and you need 2 per chip).

I would see if you can find a seller of these chips and just buy the extras that you need. All you really need are an additional 100x T1000 and 200x T5000
http://www.pokerstore.com/500-las-vegas-4color-14g-casino-clay-poker-chip-set-w-case-p-274.html

Yeah that's an idea, I've emailed them but I'm thinking there's got to be a cheap way to label the chips. They don't have to be exactly the same as the ones I have.

 

[Mr Winberg]

If it fits well with your buy-in amount, the $5 could be used as face value bounty chips.

Otherwise, regardless if you buy extra $5000 or relabel existing chips, I'm a fan of bounty/seating combo chips that say BOUNTY in one side and the table and seat number on the other. The players draw a chip to get their seat and keep the chip as there bounty chip. I'd relabel a unused denom for this purpose if I were you. If you have rebuys, make a bunch of pure bounty chips as well (BOUNTY on both sides) of the same color.

Rebuy chips are also cool. Show-em chips... Rabbit hunt chips... You've got lots to choose from if you have idle denoms!