Can a 600 set work well for 0.25/0.25 and 0.25/50 stakes? (2 Viewers)

[JustinInMN]

Curious why that is?

Probably no rational reason. I am just so accustom to red fives and black hundos, that the first time I figured out it's yellow fives, my brain snapped.

late edit: Obviously I've never played in california.

 

[RichMahogany]

You can't tell what any of those chips are unless you are a pcfer or at the table

Asking about Cali colors, not necessarily LATB chips. I don’t see any dirty stacks issues, possibly because I’m a PCF member haha

 

[Jambine]

It's just a question of how to divide them up. For the two specific games he mentioned.

I also have 2 games with the same structure that play very differently.

Small ball game buy in $50
20 $0.25 and 45 $1.00
Typical pot about $20. typical rebuy 20 $1.00

Hair on fire mostly poker dealers game. Buy in $100
12 $0.25, 22 $1.00 and 15 $5.00
Typical pot about $100+. typical rebuy 20 $5.00

 

[JRReynolds6181]

Live at the bike is a broadcasting stream made for casual players who have no clue the value of any of those chips. Those are professional players who can count them in seconds and not hold up a home game. There is no right answer obviously, I'm just trying to prove a point tons of chips slows games down. If you want to make mountains win more don't buy more

I agree with you, except I generally suck at poker and am cheap. It’s not a winning combination.

 

[Coyote]

To the OP @Cole Lomas
You' ve seen people here arguing in 4 thread pages about something rather elementary.
You can draw your conclusions, the most important of which is: RUN!

 

[Venturalvn]

At the risk of disclosing strategy, this is a subtle tell to identify which players are being the most aggressive in small pots.

It also signals any time someone gets stacked by Player X, they just hand over their full stack including a barrel of quarters, and they never find a reason to swap back down to quarters through their rebuy chips, they just make change from the pots. Another reason why quarter-loading the game is annoying.

Reason #3 too many fracs are annoying - people who can toss in 3 $1 chips for a call, but instead choose to count out $3 in quarters, and then end up making change to post the blinds 2 hands later, slowing the game down infinitely.

 

[toynoob]

I agree with you, except I generally suck at poker and am cheap. It’s not a winning combination.

To the OP @Cole Lomas
You' ve seen people here arguing in 4 thread pages about something rather elementary.
You can draw your conclusions, the most important of which is: RUN!

It also signals any time someone gets stacked by Player X, they just hand over their full stack including a barrel of quarters, and they never find a reason to swap back down to quarters through their rebuy chips, they just make change from the pots. Another reason why quarter-loading the game is annoying.

Reason #3 too many fracs are annoying - people who can toss in 3 $1 chips for a call, but instead choose to count out $3 in quarters, and then end up making change to post the blinds 2 hands later, slowing the game down infinitely.

 

[David O]

Simple answer is YES!!!

 

[abby99]

This wasn't my idea but somebody on here had mentioned it and I forget who to give credit to. But I give my first five buy-in players a barrel each of quarters ($5) just to make it real easy and then the players that buy in after that can make change on their own

For whatever reason. I have associated @abby99 with the first time I read this idea, but I can't say with certainty she was first to post it here.

And as a rule, the PCF search hates me.

I think I got the idea from @Payback back in the day. In any event, once I stopped trying to use identical starting stacks for cash games, I never even considered any other way to distribute chips.

 

[BGinGA]

too many fracs are annoying - people who can toss in 3 $1 chips for a call, but instead choose to count out $3 in quarters, and then end up making change to post the blinds 2 hands later, slowing the game down infinitely.

It's not the chips that are annoying -- it's those players that use them improperly. And they'll do it with more than just fracs if you let them.

When I first started hosting 15 years ago, one if my mainstream repeating mantras was "Use your big chips". Players actually caught on (and why), and pretty soon everybody was saying it whenever a newbie at the table started to count out more than five chips of ~any~ denomination to make a bet.

Hate the player, not the game.

 

[Beakertwang]

One of my players is OCD about his stacks. All very tidy stacks of 10, two-deep along the rail. He'll even make bets or raises to even out his stacks, even if the amount doesn't make sense. If 70¢ will level out his quarters and nickels, that's what he'll bet, even if the pot is $6, and he has the nuts. Still better than messy nonsensical stacks, I suppose.

 

[MatB]

The worst (ok, not THE worst) pet peeve is people making change before the betting action is finished.

LEAVE YOUR CHIP/CHIPS THERE state your action and dont touch anything.

Just another reason to try and make sure people have enough low denoms (but not too many !)

Also a good habit is if people scoop another player that went all in and the losing player has a LOT of quarters and $1s, tell them (if they are buying back in ) to keep back $20 in low chips and then the bank can give the winning player a $20 when loser buys back in.

 

[MatB]

The worst (ok, not THE worst) pet peeve is people making change before the betting action is finished.

LEAVE YOUR CHIP/CHIPS THERE state your action and dont touch anything.

Just another reason to try and make sure people have enough low denoms (but not too many !)

Also a good habit is if people Matt scoops another @CraigT78 at SQM player that went all in and the losing player Craig has a LOT of quarters and $1s, tell them (if they are buying back in ) to keep back $20 in low chips and then the bank can give the winning player Matt a $20 when loser buys back in.

Had to fix my post sorry....

 

[Venturalvn]

The worst (ok, not THE worst) pet peeve is people making change before the betting action is finished.

LEAVE YOUR CHIP/CHIPS THERE state your action and dont touch anything.

Just another reason to try and make sure people have enough low denoms (but not too many !)

Also a good habit is if people scoop another player that went all in and the losing player has a LOT of quarters and $1s, tell them (if they are buying back in ) to keep back $20 in low chips and then the bank can give the winning player a $20 when loser buys back in.

Omg this 100%. So many countless wasted hours with this $h1t. I try to run my game with casino rules and some people think it's too stickler - it's to help the game run smoother!

 

[Venturalvn]

It's not the chips that are annoying -- it's those players that use them improperly. And they'll do it with more than just fracs if you let them.

When I first started hosting 15 years ago, one if my mainstream repeating mantras was "Use your big chips". Players actually caught on (and why), and pretty soon everybody was saying it whenever a newbie at the table started to count out more than five chips of ~any~ denomination to make a bet.

Hate the player, not the game.

True true...it's the same players who can't remember to use the cut card after 15 years...it's definitely the player not the game.

 

[sleepyBama]

In my game I prefer more quarters than has been suggested and use this breakdown per player for a 100 buy-in:

16x 0.25
16x 1
16x 5

i'm going to have to remember this one..... we too like using alot of .25's .... although we will use the 1's for most of the bets .... i guess its just a good feeling to have more chips... i don't know.

 

[Cole Lomas]

Thanks for all the replies everyone! This has given me a lot to think about!

 

[JustinInMN]

Thanks for all the replies everyone! This has given me a lot to think about!

Surely you got more than you bargained for , but welcome to PCF. The digital ink is free, but beautiful chips are not.