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I pulled the trigger on a set of Apache Pharaohs. I got a 350 chip micro-stakes set qty 100/100/75/75. That should serve for a variety of blinds, buy-ins, stack depths.
Rather than try to spec out one set to rule them all, I decided to get a small set for this particular purpose. That way I can get another set for another purpose later which is sure to be fun. We will see how it goes.
If I really want to, I can tack on a couple denominations to the micro-stakes cash set and it will work for a tournament quite easily as well. I am OK with the denoms being more closely related in value to the buy-ins for a tournament. T.05 is way more legit than T1000 with a $20 buy-in.
If all that I was going to do was fawn over chips all day, I could have gone on to sample another 20 varieties. I can still do that of course, but the whole point in getting started was to set up a home game with some nice chips. So here we go.
I was at a home game last night. The host had a pretty substantial fleet of chips. We had 50 players. Occasionally he did walk around to tables and color people up right out of their stacks because he needed a different denomination at a different table. I realized that you don't need things to be super perfect. (which was mentioned to me in my travels here) That game went from T100 to 25,000 which is only 5 denominations. Game was drawing to a close at BB=80,000. I doubt they had to get into a 100,000 chip.
Rather than try to spec out one set to rule them all, I decided to get a small set for this particular purpose. That way I can get another set for another purpose later which is sure to be fun. We will see how it goes.
If I really want to, I can tack on a couple denominations to the micro-stakes cash set and it will work for a tournament quite easily as well. I am OK with the denoms being more closely related in value to the buy-ins for a tournament. T.05 is way more legit than T1000 with a $20 buy-in.
If all that I was going to do was fawn over chips all day, I could have gone on to sample another 20 varieties. I can still do that of course, but the whole point in getting started was to set up a home game with some nice chips. So here we go.
I was at a home game last night. The host had a pretty substantial fleet of chips. We had 50 players. Occasionally he did walk around to tables and color people up right out of their stacks because he needed a different denomination at a different table. I realized that you don't need things to be super perfect. (which was mentioned to me in my travels here) That game went from T100 to 25,000 which is only 5 denominations. Game was drawing to a close at BB=80,000. I doubt they had to get into a 100,000 chip.
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