Tourney Best breakdown for cash/tourney - what do you prefer (1 Viewer)

[Lemonzest]

I know there is endless debate about set breakdowns and perhaps more so on the tourney side. Cash games are often just dictated by what we need to make the game run smoothly.

What is YOUR ideal cash and tourney breakdown?

This is not a right or wrong question just curious what people actually use/prefer.

I really only host cash and my preferred breakdown is:
0.25 - 300
$1 - 200
$5 - 100
$20 - 100

 

[Saoliver]

I love a $20 over a $25, so you've got that right. For single table, I prefer moar chips than most...I like a 1000 chip breakdown of:

0.25 - 200
$1 - 300
$5 - 400
$20 - 100

But, my custom cash set sits at 2400 chips with 5 denoms, and I am building another with 1800 chips with 8 denoms. I may not be the best person to answer.

I host different games for different stakes, so I want to be able to spread everything from $0.05/$0.10 mixed games to $2/$4 NLHE.

 

[realcdn]

For my $0.50/$1.00 NLH game I host, $100 buy-in, 6 to 8 players, this seems to be about perfect breakdown:
$0.25 - 100
$1.00 - 200
$5.00 - 300
$20.00 - 100

That amount of $20's is overkill but part of the set.

 

[kmccormick100]

I know there is endless debate about set breakdowns and perhaps more so on the tourney side. Cash games are often just dictated by what we need to make the game run smoothly.

What is YOUR ideal cash and tourney breakdown?

This is not a right or wrong question just curious what people actually use/prefer.

I really only host cash and my preferred breakdown is:
0.25 - 300
$1 - 200
$5 - 100
$20 - 100

What on earth do you use 300 $.25s for? Even playing $.25/25 the $1 is the workhorse chip.

Ideal cash set is something like
100x $.50
200x $1
500x $5
1-200x $20
40-100x $100

Add a rack of fracs and $1s for two tables. This’ll spread anything from $.50/50 to small $2/5

Tournament set for two tables T10k buy ins
240 25
240 100
80 500
100 1k
40 5k

 

[Lemonzest]

What on earth do you use 300 $.25s for? Even playing $.25/25 the $1 is the workhorse chip.

Ideal cash set is something like
100x $.50
200x $1
500x $5
1-200x $20
40-100x $100

Add a rack of fracs and $1s for two tables. This’ll spread anything from $.50/50 to small $2/5

Tournament set for two tables T10k buy ins
240 25
240 100
80 500
100 1k
40 5k

Haha I knew I would catch flack for using so many quarters. I almost changed it to 200 just so no one would mock me.. lol.

I use 20 quarters for each buy in and our game is usually 25c/25c. With 3 racks of quarters that allows for 15 buy ins total. I am sure I could make do with just 2 racks but it is easy to just grab 1 barrel of quarters and go.

 

[Darson]

Cash
I like 20 quarters also. For 25c/25c, a 100BB buy in is 20x25c and 20x$1. Nice and easy for start-up. It's the third rack of quarters that makes no sense - why have so many on the table when there are already 200 there? I'd just add 20x$1 and 1x$5 for subsequent buy-ins. So my minimum 25c/25c cash setup for 10 players would be:
200x 25c
300x $1
100x $5

Total bank of $850 or 34 buy-ins. If playing 25c/50c then I would add another rack of $1s and $5s.

My custom cash set includes 5c so I have:
200x 5c
200x 25c
400x $1
100x $5
100x $20

1000 chips, total bank just under $3k.

Tourney
I like the T10k starting stack and usually do 16/16/4/6. We like lots of rebuys so the chip set ends up looking like this:
160x T25
160x T100
40x T500
100x T1000
40x T5000
500 chips and 20 rebuys.

An alternate is 12/17/4/6 starting stacks which a chipset like:
120x T25
180x T100
40x T500
160x T1000
500 chips and 10 rebuys

 

[BSteck]

1 table, 25¢/25¢ or 25¢/50¢, $20-$40 buy-in

120 x 25¢
200 x $1
200 x $5
20 x $20

I like how the 120 quarters makes for 10 nice even 12/12/x buy-in stacks.

 

[1A25R]

I still not have the ideals set, but this is what i have so far.
What I wanted to achieve is have max flexibility. Ideally I would add more $1 and $5 in CG and 25 and 100 for tournaments to have a large field. But for the time begin there is no hurry as I still not found the ideal spot to open my card room.

Cash Game. Usual game is .25/.50 but flexible up to 1/3
25¢ x125
$1 x300
$5 x400
$25 x125
$100 x50

Tourney:
to be able to organize T10'000 up to T30'000 for 30 players and have the flexibility to choose re-buy and add on options.

25 x250
100 x335
500 x190
1000 x385
5000 x155
10000 x50

 

[BGinGA]

600 chips for a single-table NL/PL set, and 1000 chips for a single-table Limit set (nine racks/one rack of small/big denominations).

5c/10c cash set:
160 x 5c
240 x 25c
200 x $1
80 x $5
20 x $20

25c/50c cash set:
160 x 25c
240 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20
20 x $100

$1/$2 cash set:
160 x $1
340 x $5
60 x $20
40 x $100

1000-chip tournament set (2 tables of 8 players, T25- up to T500-base for single-table):
200 x T25
200 x T100
100 x T500
200 x T1000
200 x T5000
100 x T25000

Of course, very few of my sets are actually that small. Moar chipes, etc......

 

[Darson]

1000-chip tournament set (2 tables of 8 players, T25- up to T500-base for single-table):
200 x T25
200 x T100
100 x T500
200 x T1000
200 x T5000
100 x T25000

This I'm writing down.

 

[SeanGecko]

MOAR CHIPS!!!!
HPC
300 white 5c
400 green 25c
600 blue $1
600 red
28 plaques Orange $20
8 black plaques $100

Spirit mold
300 white 10c
440 Pink 25c
660 Dark Blue $1
440 Red $5
40 Orange $20
15 Lt Blue plaques $50
10 Black plaques $100

Weller Hardy ABC 8V
Still in progress for final break down.
but umm way too many and it might end up being three sets.....

 

[Shaggy]

Bare minimum for a 25c/50c NLHE cash game:
100x 25c
120x $1
130x $5
40x $25
10x $100

My ideal 25c/50c NLHE cash game:
100x 25c
200x $1
200x $5
40x $25
10x $100

 

[Han Trinh]

My ideal cash set. 1500 pc set. Supports 25c/50c and up with future proofing for higher stakes and future inflation (planning to hand down chips to my son)
25c x 200
$1 x 300
$5 x 500
$25 x 200
$100 x 200
$500 x 100

 

[Holonomic]

I'm interested in trying a micro cash game with a small group (10max, but normally 6-8)
I'd like to limit it to 400 chips though if possible. (this way I could carry them around in a bird cage with my 600 tourney set - also keeps the cost down)

100 x 5c
140 x 25c
120 x $1
30 x $5
10 x $20

.5/.10 binds

Starting hands 10/10/7/2/0 £20 starting, this gives us just over £500 in chips (might even drop the starting hands down to £10 or £15 to allow more rebuys, But to be honest I wouldn't want my current group (or myself) to play with more $$$, mainly intended for casual/fun game.

We have not played cash games before but after reading lots of comments on this forum about it being people prefered game I am interested in giving it a go!
I also have no idea on how to set one up or if 400 would be enough or not?

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

I'm interested in trying a micro cash game with a small group (10max, but normally 6-8)
I'd like to limit it to 400 chips though if possible. (this way I could carry them around in a bird cage with my 600 tourney set - also keeps the cost down)

100 x 5c
140 x 25c
120 x $1
30 x $5
10 x $20

.5/.10 binds

Starting hands 10/10/7/2/0 £20 starting, this gives us just over £500 in chips (might even drop the starting hands down to £10 or £15 to allow more rebuys, But to be honest I wouldn't want my current group (or myself) to play with more $$$, mainly intended for casual/fun game.

We have not played cash games before but after reading lots of comments on this forum about it being people prefered game I am interested in giving it a go!
I also have no idea on how to set one up or if 400 would be enough or not?

Good overall breakdown! I'm by no means an expert (calling @BGinGA ) but I'd say you want to keep your 25c chips in multiples of 4s since that's what it'll take to get $1 and what you'll want in your starting stacks. That frees up 20 chips right there.

The number of $20s you'll have for a .5/.10 with a starting $20 stack gives you 17 rebuys which is IMO more than you'll need based on your description of the type of game you want. Here's what I think would go best for you and still fit all of the parameters while still using 100% of the chips.

If you think you'll have more rebuys or want a more flexible set (incase your game grows) I'd decrease the $5s to 40 and increase the $20s to 20. Note - even with the inclusion of 20x $20s the current breakdown would be short stacked if you end up changing your game to a .25/.50.

Hope it helps!

 

[detroitdad]

1 table , 100 max buy in

100 x .25
200 x 1
200 x 5
80 x 25
20 x 100

 

[MacMac]

What about a 1 table, 9 or 10 person Sit n Go using:
25/100/500/1000/5000

What would you recommend starting chips and overall chips needed for each.

 

[Darson]

I'm interested in trying a micro cash game with a small group (10max, but normally 6-8)
I'd like to limit it to 400 chips though if possible. (this way I could carry them around in a bird cage with my 600 tourney set - also keeps the cost down)

100 x 5c
140 x 25c
120 x $1
30 x $5
10 x $20

.5/.10 binds

Starting hands 10/10/7/2/0 £20 starting, this gives us just over £500 in chips (might even drop the starting hands down to £10 or £15 to allow more rebuys, But to be honest I wouldn't want my current group (or myself) to play with more $$$, mainly intended for casual/fun game.

We have not played cash games before but after reading lots of comments on this forum about it being people prefered game I am interested in giving it a go!
I also have no idea on how to set one up or if 400 would be enough or not?

Personally, I like to have lots of smaller denominated chips on the table to encourage more action from the get-go; especially with relatively inexperienced players. So I would do a set like 100/180/80/40 (5c/25c/$1/$5) for a bank of $330 (~10 players, 3 buy-ins per player). Starting stack of 10/18/5 with all the fracs on the table at the start. Most of the betting will be in 25c with the $1 coming out in big pots only. The next 3 rebuys will be 10x$1 and subsequent 2x$5 with change made at the table. The $5 are value stores so will rarely see play unless it's big stack vs big stack or all in situations. If you run out of chips, then notes can play.

The downside to the above is that if your game gets bigger (larger blinds) you'll need to buy more chips. I'm or the opinion that if I'm carrying chips, I'd like to see them used. I don't like carrying a huge chipset (just in case) and then only half the chips usually see the felt.

 

[ChaosRock]

Cash set per table:

100 x Blind chips
200 x Second denom chips
400+ x Workhorse chips
And add as many Value Reserve chips as your game demands given number of re-buys, typically 80 and 20, but it could be more.

Tourney set per 2 tables:

200 x 25
200 x 100
100 x 500
200 x 1000
100 x 5000

or

200 x 25
200 x 100
200 x 500
160 x 2000
40 x 10000

 

[BGinGA]

I'm interested in trying a micro cash game with a small group (10max, but normally 6-8)
I'd like to limit it to 400 chips though if possible. (this way I could carry them around in a bird cage with my 600 tourney set - also keeps the cost down)

100 x 5c
140 x 25c
120 x $1
30 x $5
10 x $20

.5/.10 binds

Starting hands 10/10/7/2/0 £20 starting, this gives us just over £500 in chips (might even drop the starting hands down to £10 or £15 to allow more rebuys

I also have no idea on how to set one up or if 400 would be enough or not?

If trying to limit your single-table 5c/10c set to just 400 chips, I'd go with this:

100 x 5c
160 x 25c
140 x $1

and let larger $ bills play if needed. But 500-600 chips minimum are needed in most cases to cover a single cash table, imo.