Hi everyone!
I'm new here and this is my first post. I've been playing poker for the past year and heard about PCF but was always a little too timid to register, but after reading so many threads I figured what the heck, let's just send it. I don't really know how I've become so obsessed with poker and poker chips but I guess I can only blame myself. I've been on YouTube looking at chip reviews and watching Jonathan Little tell me things I don't understand for several hours a day. For some background, I'm from Canada and made the classic mistake of ordering chips/case from Amazon that I now hate to look at. I bought those awful MRC ace casino chips... bleh. I really would like to buy a cash game set of the Dias Los Muertos chips from BRpoker. God, those chips are so pretty I look at them every single day even though I haven't even ordered a full set (but I did order a sample set! Hasn't arrived yet). The shipping costs and taxes from US to CAN are pretty crazy but I'm going to assume that that's just part of the game? Secondly, I can't buy more than 500 chips since I can't afford to spend more than $700, I host home games, usually small 6 player tournament games but I want to play cash games since that what I've been studying and what I see online for the most part. I want to play micro-stakes cash games for $20 buy ins (80bb) with a max of 3 buy backs but would also love to raise the stakes occasionally, maybe a $50 buy in (100bb) with 1 or 2 buy backs or whatever I can make do with the amount of chips I have. With that in mind I'd love your advice, my current idea for denominations would be:
150ct - 25c
100ct - $1
100ct - $5
50ct - $20
With these quantities I would play 25c-25c or 25c-50c games for 6-8 players. Do I have the right idea? Am I able to save more money by editing the counts in some way?
Thanks very much and I'm happy to be here (finally).
I'm new here and this is my first post. I've been playing poker for the past year and heard about PCF but was always a little too timid to register, but after reading so many threads I figured what the heck, let's just send it. I don't really know how I've become so obsessed with poker and poker chips but I guess I can only blame myself. I've been on YouTube looking at chip reviews and watching Jonathan Little tell me things I don't understand for several hours a day. For some background, I'm from Canada and made the classic mistake of ordering chips/case from Amazon that I now hate to look at. I bought those awful MRC ace casino chips... bleh. I really would like to buy a cash game set of the Dias Los Muertos chips from BRpoker. God, those chips are so pretty I look at them every single day even though I haven't even ordered a full set (but I did order a sample set! Hasn't arrived yet). The shipping costs and taxes from US to CAN are pretty crazy but I'm going to assume that that's just part of the game? Secondly, I can't buy more than 500 chips since I can't afford to spend more than $700, I host home games, usually small 6 player tournament games but I want to play cash games since that what I've been studying and what I see online for the most part. I want to play micro-stakes cash games for $20 buy ins (80bb) with a max of 3 buy backs but would also love to raise the stakes occasionally, maybe a $50 buy in (100bb) with 1 or 2 buy backs or whatever I can make do with the amount of chips I have. With that in mind I'd love your advice, my current idea for denominations would be:
150ct - 25c
100ct - $1
100ct - $5
50ct - $20
With these quantities I would play 25c-25c or 25c-50c games for 6-8 players. Do I have the right idea? Am I able to save more money by editing the counts in some way?
Thanks very much and I'm happy to be here (finally).