Tourney Can somebody please explain this to me like I'ma child. (2 Viewers)

[Erich Wise]

Why...

Efficiency in chips is important, thus 4-5X, so why does the structure "start over" at 1,000?

Here is what I mean...

25
100
500
2500
10000

easy peasy...

so why?

What is the history that makes this the "standard?"

 

[BGinGA]

Once upon a time, commonly found casino denomination chips (checks) were $1 $5, $25, $100, and $500, with sometimes $1000 and $5000 for the high rollers, and an occasional frac thrown into the mix.

Many early tournaments started with T1-base. No chips larger than T500 were required.

When the WSOP started up with $10,000 buy-ins for T10000 starting stacks, they used $25 and up existing cash chips (see above). That's the primary reason that both T500 and T1000 chips exist in many tournament sets today.

And fwiw, T2000 is far superior to T2500. Lots of documentation explaining why on the site.

 

[Erich Wise]

Thank you BginGA, I figured it was something like this...Not sure why WSOP wouldn't have just fixed the damn structure...and obviously people getting into the game want to play like what they see and so follow that structure...

Ok, now I need to read up on your point of why T2000 is far superior...

Once again, thank you...

and they all lived happily ever after.

 

[TexRex]

I agree with BG on 2000 being better than 2500!

You can also use 500, 1000, and 5000. That's a debate between the 1000 and 2000. It's really a matter of preference. You won't need as many 500s, and that makes up for the only 2x. I've analyzed these two (1000 vs. 2000) a lot. There are cases where one is better, but the opposite is also true. You could get either. Or, if you found a chip set you really liked, you could get both and only use 1 at a time.

Here's my advice on this. Get what YOU want. No matter what you do, there will be times when the other would be more efficient, but most of them are pretty close.