Bud Jones Roulette Colors/Denoms (1 Viewer)

[BearMetal]

Wanted to see if anybody could come up with a creative approach to my custom chip lineup. This will be for both a NLHE .25/.50 with $20 rebuys or .50/$1 with up to $40 rebuys (some cheapos might only do $20). The problem is that my artwork is a bit limited and I don't think I can get a fifth denomination. I think I'm stuck with 25c/1/5/20.

Here's what I've actually got:

200 pink
200 blue
100 yellow
100 orange
100 lavender

My original thinking was:
200 pink 25c
200 blue $1
100 yellow $5
100 orange $20

... And I guess the lavender doesn't get used . Maybe the lavender doesn't even work with this lineup, who knows. Just curious for any other opinions out there...

 

[natumes]

Lavender $20 and skip the orange

 

[allforcharity]

I think your blue and pink will have to be your workhorse chips, $1 and $5 respectively, since you have the most of them. Yellow $20 and Orange 0.25, or you can reverse the colours if you want to be less traditional. Keep lavenders as NCV or maybe do nickels for occasional microstakes.

 

[BearMetal]

Lavender $20 and skip the orange

That's interesting!

Quick check of dirty stacks seems clean:

I think your blue and pink will have to be your workhorse chips, $1 and $5 respectively, since you have the most of them. Yellow $20 and Orange 0.25, or you can reverse the colours if you want to be less traditional. Keep lavenders as NCV or maybe do nickels for occasional microstakes.

$1 is definitely a workhorse chip, but $5? Even in the slightly higher stakes game, people don't always rebuy for the max $40.

I was actually toying with the idea of having something like this:
100 25c purple
200 50c red
200 $1 blue
100 $5 yellow
100 $20 orange

I would try to push this set as a $0.50 / $1 set, but in the event that everyone made frowny faces, I could always whip out the $0.25 chips. But if everyone agreed, then I could stick with my 200 red and 200 blue being the workhorse $0.50 and $1..

I guess it's hard for me to move up to a $5 workhorse.

 

[Sprouty]

Wanted to see if anybody could come up with a creative approach to my custom chip lineup. This will be for both a NLHE .25/.50 with $20 rebuys or .50/$1 with up to $40 rebuys (some cheapos might only do $20). The problem is that my artwork is a bit limited and I don't think I can get a fifth denomination. I think I'm stuck with 25c/1/5/20.

Here's what I've actually got:

200 pink
200 blue
100 yellow
100 orange
100 lavender

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My original thinking was:
200 pink 25c
200 blue $1
100 yellow $5
100 orange $20

... And I guess the lavender doesn't get used . Maybe the lavender doesn't even work with this lineup, who knows. Just curious for any other opinions out there...

Orange .25
Blue $1
Pink $5
Yellow $20
Lavender $100

 

[BearMetal]

Orange .25
Blue $1
Pink $5
Yellow $20
Lavender $100

Ok, so another vote here for workhorse $1 and $5. I wouldn't consider a lavender for the $100 chip primarily because the artwork I would need to produce for it doesn't exist yet. That's why I was really trying to stick to four denominations if I could.

But in a .25/.50 game with 10 seats, is 8 25c chips / player enough?

 

[natumes]

Orange .25
Blue $1
Pink $5
Yellow $20
Lavender $100

I like this too. If you want to push the stakes, fewer quarters is the way. I play a 25c/50c game with 100/200/400/80/20, the $5 is the workhorse. If players have a ton of quarters, they will use them more than they should.

 

[BearMetal]

I like this too. If you want to push the stakes, fewer quarters is the way. I play a 25c/50c game with 100/200/400/80/20, the $5 is the workhorse. If players have a ton of quarters, they will use them more than they should.

Quite true. I found that in the online poker games that I've been running, the $0.25 / $0.50 game very rarely gets players just calling the $0.50. There is usually always a raise.

I guess part of my hang up is that I really like that yellow chip. And I'd like to see it in play. So perhaps my solution here is to acquire a second rack of the yellow roulette so I can make a yellow $5 workhorse.

 

[BearMetal]

Orange .25
Blue $1
Pink $5
Yellow $20
Lavender $100

Just for visual reference...

 

[Sprouty]

But in a .25/.50 game with 10 seats, is 8 25c chips / player enough?

Stagger starting stacks with 8 & 12. Get them all into play early on.

 

[allforcharity]

You can do a Cali microstakes set with:

100x 0.05 orange
200x 0.25 pink
200x $1 blue
100x $5 yellow
100x $25 lavender

 

[BearMetal]

You can do a Cali microstakes set with:

...
100x $25 lavender

Nice try, sneaking in the infamous $25! $20 or bust for me.

As far as microstakes go, I can't see ever doing it. Players just have no interest.

... But it seems like I either have to make the $5 chip a workhorse, or open up a fifth denomination.

I really like @Sprouty idea of staggering the $0.25 chips in order to get all of them and play. So maybe I do give up the idea of having two racks of fracs for this set.

... Which leaves the issue of the yellow chip. I really think of and I want to make that a workhorse, but with only a hundred of them I don't know if I can. So maybe my revised set looks like this:

100 orange 25c
200 blue $1
200 yellow $5
100 lavender $20
20 pink $100s (if needed)

... And I ditch the pinks if needed?

 

[natumes]

Just make the yellow the quarter if you want them all in play:

Yellow - 25c
blue - $1
pink - $5
lavender - $20
orange - $100

But buying more chips is never the wrong choice, right?

 

[BearMetal]

Barring new artwork that I somehow come across, still stuck at 4 denoms right now. But, based on some feedback in this thread, these are my lineups:

 

[CrazyEddie]

Nice artwork!