Breakdown for $20-25 cash game? (1 Viewer)

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Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase my first nice set of poker chips. I want to run a cash game for friends and family at my house and want to make the buy in $20-25. What would you recommend my chip breakdown be? I'm planning to get around 300 chips (but will get more if necessary) and want to be able to have enough for at least 6 players. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
 
Assuming your blinds are 5¢/10¢ you could go with what I use for my group when we play with $20 buy ins:

20 x 5¢
32 x 25¢
11 x $1

For 6 people that’d be around:

120 x 5¢
200 x 25¢
80 x $1

That’s an even 400; however, I’d have more $1’s available in the set for reloads and maybe a barrel of $5’s.
 
Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase my first nice set of poker chips. I want to run a cash game for friends and family at my house and want to make the buy in $20-25. What would you recommend my chip breakdown be? I'm planning to get around 300 chips (but will get more if necessary) and want to be able to have enough for at least 6 players. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Future-proof your set. You may have 6 players now, but I would buy a set that can support 10 players. I recently put together a micro stakes set.

200 x 5¢
300 x 25¢
300 x $1
200 x $5

You could certainly play with less. The minimum that I would do is:

100 x 5¢
200 x 25¢
200 x $1
100 x $5
 
My group plays 5¢/10¢ games. Our buy-ins are $5 to $20. Most buy in for $15 or $20. I've found that nickels are used for blinds, and occasionally for raises of 40¢, 60¢, etc. When we first started playing, there would be more limping and min raises pre flop, but now that almost never happens. Post flop, practically all bets are made in quarters and ones. I could probably get by with 60 nickels for a table of 9, maybe even fewer. I'm even considering just trying .25/.25, to see how much the game would change.

I guess what I'm saying is how your game plays should determine your chip breakdown. Since everyone is OK buying in for $20-25, and I assume willing to rebuy, I'd skip the nickels and play .25/.25. If you're locked in to just 300 chips, I'd do a barrel of quarters per player (120), 120 $1's, and 60 5's, for a bank of $450. However, I definitely believe you should "future-proof" your set, and do 25¢ x 200, $1 x 200, and $5 x 200, and maybe a barrel of $20's or $25's, just in case.
 
I think the two best suggestions have been made.

Doing 5c-25c-1
Pro: Downward flexibility for .05-.05 or .05-.10, deeper games for $20 buy in.
Con: need to dedicate a portion of your set to .05 chips, limiting upward flexibility. also stock nickels are very rare, so may not be possible unless we are talking customs.

Suggestion for 300 chips
100*.05, 100*0.25, 80*1, 20*5, bank 210

Doing 25c-1-5
Pro: Much better upward flexibility, bigger bank
Con: no downward flexibility, 80-100 BB is average to below average depth for cash game.

Suggestion for 300 chips
100*0.25, 140*1, 60*5 bank 465

Hope this helps.
 
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If your buddys are already fine with buyins between $20-25 id just take the 0.25/0.25 route.

If you start with something lower it's always difficult to raise it and takes time.

With $25 buyin you get 100 BB which is perfectly fine for a normal cash game.

I like the suggestion of

100*0.25, 140*1, 60*5

most. You can always add on more $5 later if your game will grow. For the $25 buyin the bank is big enough even for 9players.
 
I'd go for 0.25 / 0.25.

Gives people who buy in for $25 100 bigs and, having made the jump from 0.05 / 0.10 myself, the pots get much more interesting + better standard of poker.

I have a 300-chip set using these stakes, and it can accommodate 8 players comfortably with our £30 to £50 buy-ins (we rarely get rebuys, however).

Based on what works for me, therefore, I'd recommend:

100 x 0.25
140 x 1
60 x 5

Starting stacks would then be:

12 / 12 / 2 ($25)

Personally, I like having starting stacks comprising the highest denom chip as it encourages bigger bets in my game.
 
EVERYONE here is wrong. ALL NICKELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY NICKELS!!!! GET 3000 NICKELS!!!!
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR CHIPS!!!!
8V 5 cents 02.JPG
 
Wow, this thread went sideways in a hurry!

For sure the stakes dictate the chips... as well as your family’s tendency to gamble & to re-buy... which you may not know until you’ve played a bit. :(
 
Wow, this thread went sideways in a hurry!

For sure the stakes dictate the chips... as well as your family’s tendency to gamble & to re-buy... which you may not know until you’ve played a bit. :(
How so this seems like a completely logical and well thought out arrangement.

No one likes a party pooper.
 
25¢/25¢ camp for me. Most my players buy in for $20. I offer $20-$50 buy ins. I have this breakdown:
25¢-100
$1-200
$5-100
$20-100 (never seen play )-;

For 300 chip set I'd suggest
25¢-100
$1-140
$5-60

Everyone loves it. Slowly will convert them to 25-50¢
 
Just FYI, that's about the stakes we play. And we did one game at .05/.10, and people just felt done saying, "I raise you by a dime."

We switched to .25/.25 and not only did the game play better, but it makes for easier denomination splitting (like many people have noted) and it just felt better when playing.

Highly recommend going .25/.25 and doing a breakdown of just quarters, dollars and fives.
 
Frequently there are threads asking for home game chip set breakdowns on r/poker and they get sooo much garbage advice, saying they'll need a tonne of the smallest denoms (non sarcastically). Just nonsense. I'm sure to point them to PCFs direction. :)
Are you saying!!!!! Are you saying?????
That 5000 nickels is a tonne???
Sir! I say SIR! You take that back right now. I take umbrage with such an odious remark.
 
For 8 players, I’d go with :
100 x 25c
160 x $1
100 x $5

—> NL25 game and blinds 25c - 25c with total bank = $685 (a little bit more than 3 full buyins per player)

With first buyin : 12x25c / 17x$1 / 1x$5
 
I’m in the .25/.25 camp. I’m thinking about making a small travel set (300 chips) that would probably work well for what you’re looking for:

80 - quarters/non-denom
100 - $1
100 - $5
20 - $20/25

This should work fine for a 6-handed game. If you anticipate having more than 6 people in the future though, you’ll probably want to get more than 300 chips.
 
To me this depends a lot more on if $20-25 is a max or not. I would consider 0.25/0.25 a $50 game. Sure, you could buy in for $20... I mean you could buy in for $1 technically. But if you are wanting a casual game with people risking at most $20-25 that night I would stick to 0.05/0.10. A good rule of thumb is to multiply big blind x 100 for a minimum buy and x 200 for a deep stack.

Or even better, do 0.10/0.10 and just do the same distribution for 0.05/0.10 with dimes instead. (Don’t hat me nickel mafia!)
 

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