Cash Game Chips needed for .25/.50 cash game. (1 Viewer)

[Chicken Rob]

Also, playing super deep compared to blinds is more fun, and more challenging. This is probably the toughest game most of the players in it get to play with any regularity.

You just missed the New England meetup. Come next year. You'll see that playing deep with skilled players is far more terrifying than playing with the same stack sizes and bigger blinds.

 

[dkersey]

My semi-regular game is .25/.50, $125 max, or half the biggest stack. Rebuys get deep. I have personally had losing nights in the $1500 ballpark, and that is not close to the biggest losing night I have seen in this game.

We have seen over $5k on a single table. We raised the blinds at one point, but it actually slowed down the action. Our group plays super deep, and can build big pots. No bullshit here. Many regs in this game are PCF members. I think our game is not typical of the stakes, but it's our game, and those who play in it often say it's the most fun game they play in.

That is a big game. I believe you. I was going to ask why don't you raise the blinds to 1/2, 2/5, or even 5/10 if its this big. Why do you think raising the blinds slowed down the action?

 

[Chicken Rob]

That is a big game. I believe you. I was going to ask why don't you raise the blinds to 1/2, 2/5, or even 5/10 if its this big. Why do you think raising the blinds slowed down the action?

As the game is now, the players can rebuy a bunch of times in the $100-300 range which is comfortable. Raising the blinds just meant bigger buy ins 'cause we like to play deep, and fewer rebuys, so more careful play, less degen gamble.

This is just my guess. Perhaps others might weigh in on this.

@bergs @guinness @jbutler @gopherblue @snooptodd @iBetOnEverything @JoseRijo @Jimulacrum @onerand

I think I tagged everyone in the 1/2 experiment.

During the annual meet up we play 1/1 uncapped at the end of the week. That game plays bigger, but I don't think many of us could afford that game on a monthly rotation.

 

[Wils]

Excellent, thanks.

I've just seen that I can get a 500pc Milano set for $180 and only $20 shipping. I'll probably have to pay taxes on top but that's not too bad considering...

Tax is 20% of the total cost plus about another £8 for the privilege of Parcel Force handling the bloody thing.

 

[bergs]

Chicken is right, we play smaller blinds to give people that want to play with $100 relatively deep the option of doing so with both initial buyin and rebuys. You can rebuy to half the biggest stack, so it gets deep late. I've walked out up $5K, $2500, and $2K and been down $1500K (multiple times). Typical win/loss is in the 200-600 range.

It plays deep and can be terrifying because we play basically anything but holdem. High variance, bankroll/stack threatening games.

Increasing the blinds increase the standard buyin to play deep, which means everyone tightens up big time and the game gets meh....smaller blinds means more players can buyin for $100 and still play right.

 

[JoseRijo]

Honestly, I don't think anyone knows why the games tightened up when we raised the blinds. But they did, so we moved them back down.

YMMV.

 

[manamongkids]

some guy is selling an awesome CPC set right now, check the classifieds!

 

[Jimulacrum]

I, for one, prefer the $0.25/$0.50 mega-deep structure for exactly the reasons Chicken describes. Playing with nosebleed stacks relative to the blinds allows for a lot more gambling and a lot more strategic thinking. Implied-odds considerations become huge, and there are often large multi-way pots. That, my friend, makes for a very interesting poker game.

You rarely get to play a game where you're legitimately 1,000+ BB deep and covered by multiple other players. Even in a decent $1/$2 casino game, that seldom happens; if you get to 1,000 BB, you run a real risk of breaking the game or wasting your massive stack playing 200 BB effective against a bunch of people with smaller stacks.

 

[bergs]

I, for one, prefer the $0.25/$0.50 mega-deep structure for exactly the reasons Chicken describes. Playing with nosebleed stacks relative to the blinds allows for a lot more gambling and a lot more strategic thinking. Implied-odds considerations become huge, and there are often large multi-way pots. That, my friend, makes for a very interesting poker game.

You rarely get to play a game where you're legitimately 1,000+ BB deep and covered by multiple other players. Even in a decent $1/$2 casino game, that seldom happens; if you get to 1,000 BB, you run a real risk of breaking the game or wasting your massive stack playing 200 BB effective against a bunch of people with smaller stacks.

I have seen casino poker where someone had 1000bb maybe 5 times in many, many trips. They were never covered by anyone else at the table. This would be $5K at 2/5 and $2K at 1/2 (both of which are massive stacks).

It is fun playing deep. Challenging as hell and causes you to really think about what you're doing and why.

It's only 3 weeks since March Madness but I feel the urge to host a game again....

 

[Jimulacrum]

I have seen casino poker where someone had 1000bb maybe 5 times in many, many trips. They were never covered by anyone else at the table. This would be $5K at 2/5 and $2K at 1/2 (both of which are massive stacks).

It is fun playing deep. Challenging as hell and causes you to really think about what you're doing and why.

It's only 3 weeks since March Madness but I feel the urge to host a game again....

DOOOOOOOOO ITTTTTTTTTT! I'm sure I can squeeze in a couple bank robberies to re-roll myself after my disastrous showing at BBOTB.

 

[SleepInPC]

I have a 125/125/50 set of .25/1/5 for my $20 buy-in games. People start off with 12/12/1 for a total of 25 chips, and I'm able to have up to 10 buy-ins. I only play with 6 buy-ins though, so 20/15 works for me. I was budgeting only a 300 pc set while I save up money for a custom ceramic set.

 

[mummel]

25c X 200
$1 X 200
$5 X 150
$25 X 50
Total = 600 chips

Allows for many different combinations of players and buy-ins.

Rock n Roll.

 

[mummel]

I have a 125/125/50 set of .25/1/5 for my $20 buy-in games. People start off with 12/12/1 for a total of 25 chips, and I'm able to have up to 10 buy-ins. I only play with 6 buy-ins though, so 20/15 works for me. I was budgeting only a 300 pc set while I save up money for a custom ceramic set.

Dont you find if people start with fewer chips they play more tightly?

 

[SleepInPC]

Dont you find if people start with fewer chips they play more tightly?

Possibly, but I didn't want to buy a large set right away. I will get a larger set for when I do my custom ceramics, but for right now the 300 piece set is fine. My friends only want to do $20 buy ins, but Apache didn't offer denominations less than quarters and I didn't want to do blanks or custom labels.

 

[mummel]

I'm in the same boat with the buyin size. I'm curious what others think. I've always felt 40 chips feels good to start with. In tourneys, you get like 20 chips, feels too tight. 4 X 10 stacks feels like you're a high roller, even if it's only a $25 buy in (20 X $1 + 20 X 25c)

 

[mummel]

Oh and $25 at 25c/50c is 50 BBs. Not great, but better IMO bs getting 10c chips. You could even go 25c/25c if need be.

 

[Chicken Rob]

I'm in the same boat with the buyin size. I'm curious what others think. I've always felt 40 chips feels good to start with. In tourneys, you get like 20 chips, feels too tight. 4 X 10 stacks feels like you're a high roller, even if it's only a $25 buy in (20 X $1 + 20 X 25c)

The locals call 10 chip stacks "fish stacks" as most experienced players stack in stacks of 20.

 

[mummel]

The locals call 10 chip stacks "fish stacks" as most experienced players stack in stacks of 20.

Assuming you have quality chips to reach 20 haha. Not sure my previous dice set cut it.

 

[ruby tues.]

When playing 25c/50c NL I use the "stack of quarters for the first 5 guys" rule, too. It works very well - but it seems like all the quarters somehow find their way to one stack. Hmmm.

So to get this correct, the first 5 guys that draw seats/ buy-in, get the quarters and the rest get $1's and $5's, then make change. I like this idea!

 

[DEEJAY]

I'm new here so bare with me, for my small cash game I bought 100 .25¢ 100 .50¢ 100 $1.00 100 $2.00 & 50 $5.00 Cost--$71.82 + S&H $25.07 for a total of $96.89 ! One barrel is set up for a $20.00 buy-in as follows 2 $5.00 chips, 5 $1.00 chips, 6 .50¢ chips & 8 .25¢ chips All in one barrel, using the silver eagle square coin tubes with the top inside ring removed with an exacto knife! 21 chips per barrel!

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

100 x 25c
160 x $1
160 x $5
40 x $25

NL50 (.25 - .50) - players --> 4 buyins per players.

First buyin as 12/17/6

You can also play NL25 (.25 - .25)