Cash Game Cash and Tournament set with Au denominations, 10 players (1 Viewer)

[blackllama]

New member here. I did a lot of lurking, searching and reading before posting this. Im trying make a 10 player poker set around dollaridoos (Australia denominations). I want to make a set that can work for both tournament and cash games. Trouble is alot of the material ive found is based around 0.25. dont have quaters here. Theres a company that make chips I like in the following denominations

• $0.50
• $1
• $2
• $5
• $10
• $20
• $50
• $100

TOURNAMENT SEEMS OK
for tournament I think ive got it mostly worked out. It seems most denominations scale x4-x5. I read BGinGA's post and makes alot of sense. So using 12/12/5/6 for tournament, Ive mapped the following to dollaridoos

• $0.50 x 120
• $2 x 120
• $10 x 50
• $20 x 75 (15 extra for colour ups)
• $100 x 35 (5 colour up, 30 for stacks/rebuys/add-ons)

which gives a 400 chip count with each player getting $320 in 35 chips and a total of 400 chips. So far I think this works and scales well. If anyone notices anything please let me know.

CASH IS UNCLEAR
The real issue im haivng is trying to work out Cash versions of the breakdown. For cash games Im finding many different approaches and opinions. but the gist im getting is that you need alot of the 4 denominations in the price range you want to play. For my games that will start at $0.5 that would be $1, $2, $5 . Tired to use the Poker Set Selection Tool but it didnt really help because of the denominations and the answer it gave me also scales x4-x5. The closest I got with the Poker Set Selection Tool (500 chips small stakes) was

• $0.25 x 120
• $1 x 200
• $5 x 160
• $25 x 20

So with the above freedom dollars im guessing 0.50 wouldnt get used as its just more chip clutter (same with $2 and $10)?
mapping this to dollaridos with lowest of $0.50 I get

• $0.50 x 120
• $2 x 200
• $10 x 160
• $50 x 20

HELP WITH FINISHING TOUCHES
ok so with both dollaridos chip totals combined I get a 610 chip count with the breakdown

• $0.50 x 120
• $1 x 0
• $2 x 200
• $5 x 0
• $10 x 160
• $20 x 75
• $50 x 20
• $100 x 35

Does that seem right? I cant really work with a 610 chip count so ill have to go for 700 chips, but next problem is where do I put the extra 90 chips?
in the $1 and $5 that both have 0 amounts (would be nice to have these chips in the set) or add 40 to $10 (which was $5 in the freedom dollars) and 30 to $50 (which was $25 in freedom dollars) which still would leave 20 to put somewhere? Any advice is welcome.

 

[TheRealStephen12]

You’re not supposed to get denominations that are not 4-5x the last one (with occasional exceptions) in cash OR tournaments. You also should have a different set for cash games and tournaments.

For cash: I would suggest using the .50/2/10/50 route so you can leave the more common numbers for a tournament set. For .50/.50 or .50/1, go with:

100x .50
200x $2
200x $10
100x $50
Bank: $7,450

For a tournament, you want to buy exact numbers of chips for your starting stacks and be more intentional about starting stacks (rather than loose numbers of chips). I would suggest 10/10/7/x stacks of 1/5/20/100. For this, I’d go with:

100x T1
100x T5
100x T20 (assuming you use the chips you listed above)
100x T100

You can color up the T1 and T5 chips with 30x T20s, and the T100s are used for deeper starting stacks.

One way to have two different sets of chips is just using different denominations as I listed here. For a 1,000 chip set, you can have the security that tournament chips won’t be slid into your cash game.

 

[JackJack]

For your tournament set you have .50 - 2 - 10 - 20 - 100

Why not .50 - 2 - 10 - 50? Idk how many BB’s deep you start but maybe have some 100’s on standby in case you want buybacks, or deep stacks. If you simply do not want any chips for both sets for security reasons than this clearly wouldn’t be an option.

 

[blackllama]

from my understanding seperate sets are to stop cross contanimation between different tables playing different formats. This set will only be used for a home game between friends where there will only ever be 1 table. I just wanted a master set that would let me pick between what format to play that night. Does that make a difference? or should they still be different sets?

Why not .50 - 2 - 10 - 50?

I got this buy following the advice from this post by BGinGA for a T25 structure. And its a structre ive seen repeated in a few posts. Its also same structure the Poker Set Selection Tool also gave me. When i swapped the T25 for T0.5 and use the same scale I got

• 120 x T25 = $0.5
• 120 x T100 (T25x4) = $0.5x4 = $2
• 50 x T500 (T100x5) = $2x5 = $10
• 75 x T1000 (T500x2) = $10x2 = $20
• 35 x T5000 (T1000x5) = $20x5 = $100