Tourney Best starting stack for 20k (1 Viewer)

[happymeal]

What is everyone’s opinion on the best starting stack for a 20 K tournament using $25 chips $100 $500 1000 and 5000 some say 88662 others say 1212562!! How does everyone feel about both starting stocks and which one is better to start with

 

[Goronic]

8-8-6-6-2 for 20K would be my recommendation.

 

[Ben8257]

8/8 is a no go for me! Unless you like hearing "hey can you make change" on about the third hand. Over and over the same ole question 8 vs 12....
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My answer is 16/16/12/12 we run this at the Ohio meet up every year and yet to hear a single person say "man this tournament would be better with less chips!" Never an issue making change, and everyone loves the feeling of having a deep stack!

If money and chips are an issue absolutely 8/8 would work. But if you can afford it, and have enough chips, why would you not want to run 12/12

 

[cvanem]

How many players?

Have you seen this yet? https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/basic-tournament-set-breakdowns-for-beginners-updated.49446/

 

[happymeal]

See that’s what I was thinking doing it 12/12/ I always felt like more chips on the table ran a better game and would most likely not cause a problem with needing change, I seem to think people enjoy the game better when they have more chips

 

[cvanem]

Yeah, I just did a 16 person T100 20k with this breakdown:

Chip Denom	Chips Per Player
100	10
500	4
1000	7
5000	2

It worked well and seemed efficient, but I think I would want more chips if I did it again (for the fun aspect)

 

[happymeal]

How many players?

Have you seen this yet? https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/basic-tournament-set-breakdowns-for-beginners-updated.49446/

Any where from 6 to 9 players

 

[Saoliver]

If your players are capable of making change quickly, then 8/8/x is fine. If not, then 12/12/x.

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[Mr Winberg]

Between those two choices, my pick is 12/12.
I use 20/20/5/15 myself

 

[LeLe]

8 12 16 all work there no right or wrong answer here but if you got a Chip hoarder in your game, he still going to end up with most of the lowest denomination chip regardless

Just choose the one you like the most

 

[happymeal]

Thanks everyone for the input I have been to games where you get less chips never seem to have a problem we’re making change needed to be in effect tournaments with more withThanks everyone for the input I have been two games where you get less chips never seem to have a problem we’re making changes needed to be in effect tournaments with more chips, I just feel like more chips is more efficient and leaves less opportunity for change making and also everybody also wants more chips