Cash Game Chips used to handle rebuys and add ons. (1 Viewer)

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For a nickel NLHE game what chip denominations typically get used?.

Most of the time people buy in for $5 and get 20 nickels and 16 quarters.


For rebuys and add ons I can see doing two things, either giving a barrel of quarters since these are the workhorse chip or giving 5 dollar chips. Alternatively I could give another complete starting stack, but I would think that you would end up with way to many nickels in play after a couple of rebuys hit the table.

Thanks for your input as always.
 
I generally sell chip into the game(s) starting with the lowest and working my way up. I'll keep a tiny reserve of each chip denomination "just in case".

If there is more than one table I might make some decisions to keep a degree of balance between tables for the lower denomination chips.

I always allow some form of rebuy / add-on in every game I run. I do play in a cash game where there are strict limits on rebuys / add-ons which normally means several people go broke - go home early and angry then the game breaks somewhat early due to a lack of players. The host doesn't take advice from anyone but then whines about why people are leaving his game a ten or eleven when they play at your game till after two am. He remains convinced that cutting off the losing players is good for his game.
 
I generally sell chip into the game(s) starting with the lowest and working my way up. I'll keep a tiny reserve of each chip denomination "just in case".

If there is more than one table I might make some decisions to keep a degree of balance between tables for the lower denomination chips.

I always allow some form of rebuy / add-on in every game I run. I do play in a cash game where there are strict limits on rebuys / add-ons which normally means several people go broke - go home early and angry then the game breaks somewhat early due to a lack of players. The host doesn't take advice from anyone but then whines about why people are leaving his game a ten or eleven when they play at your game till after two am. He remains convinced that cutting off the losing players is good for his game.


The problem with using my smallest chips to fund rebuys is that I have 300 nickels ($5 china clays that I bought in a lot here) and generally play either 4 or 6 handed. That's a lot of nickels! Would be cool to have all those chips out though. Then maybe add quarters and dollars from there? I am planing on getting at least a rack of quarters and maybe a rack of dollars eventually.

Unless a host has people playing way above their depth, why does he limit rebuys, that makes not sense.
 
For rebuys and add ons I can see doing two things, either giving a barrel of quarters since these are the workhorse chip

Give ¼'s to your players for the first 5-10 rebuys, then 1's

It is good to accommodate your players likes

Have Fun
 
The problem with using my smallest chips to fund rebuys is that I have 300 nickels ($5 china clays that I bought in a lot here) and generally play either 4 or 6 handed. That's a lot of nickels! Would be cool to have all those chips out though. Then maybe add quarters and dollars from there? I am planing on getting at least a rack of quarters and maybe a rack of dollars eventually.

Unless a host has people playing way above their depth, why does he limit rebuys, that makes not sense.

I'd be giving 3 ones, 6 or 7 quarters, and the rest in nickels, for rebuys. I think big chips do a table good, as long as there's enough change on the table to support them. But if the player prefers smaller chips, and you have them, give them out. No big deal.
 
For a nickel NLHE game what chip denominations typically get used?.
For 0.05/0.10 blinds, chip denoms of $0.05, $0.25, and $1.00 would be common. Although I used to play in a game that used 10 cent chips. In Andrew Neeme's vlogs on YouTube, he shows some action from $5/$10 at the Bellagio, and I think that game uses mainly orange $10 chips, and black $100 chips, so that would work. But if you already have nickel chips, I'd stick to 0.05, 0.25, & 1.00 denoms.

Most of the time people buy in for $5 and get 20 nickels and 16 quarters.
Those are perfect starting stacks for a $5 buy-in. Have you considered upping the buy-in to $10 -- that would be 100 big blinds, and would be more. 50 big blinds to start a NL cash game is a fairly short stack.

I would think that you would end up with way to many nickels in play after a couple of rebuys hit the table.
I agree. Rebuys are always with the higher denom, unless someone has cashed out, and cashed out a lot of nickels. Some people like a lot of the workhorse chips, others

Just for comparison, many (most?) people in some other threads here on PCF think that 1 rack of small denom chips is plenty for 1 table of NLHE. I tend to agree. Although some people say their games/players prefer more small denoms and have 2 racks. 1 or 2 racks of the smallest denom chip in play at any time on 1 table, which should be plenty of the low denom chip. But if you have 3 racks, just experiement and see what people prefer. You can always try to sell 1 or 2 racks of nickels if you don't end up using them.
 
Do the first couple of buy ins with the quarters. Then move to the one dollar chips.
 
Give ¼'s to your players for the first 5-10 rebuys, then 1's

It is good to accommodate your players likes

Have Fun

Do the first couple of buy ins with the quarters. Then move to the one dollar chips.

I think this will be the plan. I'd hate to introduce dollar chips to early and slow the action down because of the big chip psychology. Must ensure that people feel ok about giving me their chips and more quarters should do that.

Thanks!
 
For a nickel NLHE game what chip denominations typically get used?.

Most of the time people buy in for $5 and get 20 nickels and 16 quarters.


For rebuys and add ons I can see doing two things, either giving a barrel of quarters since these are the workhorse chip or giving 5 dollar chips. Alternatively I could give another complete starting stack, but I would think that you would end up with way to many nickels in play after a couple of rebuys hit the table.

Thanks for your input as always.

Sounds like $1 chips would work best for your game.

I play a lot of nickle dime with the kids, but the typical buy in is $10 to $20, so I use $5 chips to re-buy
Initial buy in is 20 nickles, 40 quarters and 9 dollars
 
I wasn't imagining that many nickels . . . . I'd try to keep the tiny chips to 20/player when playing with three+ levels of chips. Even so it, err on the side of too many chips rather than too few.

That's kinda what I was thinking. I have that many because they were sold together. Might trade 100 of them off though.

We generally only play with two levels of chips, but as people are getting more into the games, they are starting to rebuy more, so will probably add the dollar shortly.
 
For 0.05/0.10 blinds, chip denoms of $0.05, $0.25, and $1.00 would be common. Although I used to play in a game that used 10 cent chips. In Andrew Neeme's vlogs on YouTube, he shows some action from $5/$10 at the Bellagio, and I think that game uses mainly orange $10 chips, and black $100 chips, so that would work. But if you already have nickel chips, I'd stick to 0.05, 0.25, & 1.00 denoms.


Those are perfect starting stacks for a $5 buy-in. Have you considered upping the buy-in to $10 -- that would be 100 big blinds, and would be more. 50 big blinds to start a NL cash game is a fairly short stack.


I agree. Rebuys are always with the higher denom, unless someone has cashed out, and cashed out a lot of nickels. Some people like a lot of the workhorse chips, others

Just for comparison, many (most?) people in some other threads here on PCF think that 1 rack of small denom chips is plenty for 1 table of NLHE. I tend to agree. Although some people say their games/players prefer more small denoms and have 2 racks. 1 or 2 racks of the smallest denom chip in play at any time on 1 table, which should be plenty of the low denom chip. But if you have 3 racks, just experiement and see what people prefer. You can always try to sell 1 or 2 racks of nickels if you don't end up using them.


We are playing .05/.05 blinds, so $5 is a 100 bb, that being said we may consider increasing it to .05/.10 soon. Or keep it at .05/.05 and let people rebuy and play aggressively.

I differently have more nickels than I need! It was a great deal on some china clay $5 that I may relable at some point. Probably gonna trade some.
 
First, why would you ever limit rebuys? The more money on the table the better. Players determine what they are comfortable losing.

Second, get all the blind chips and workhorse chips on the table at the beginning. Don't save them for rebuys. If you decide that 100 nickels is optimal for your game, for example, give them out now. Don't give out 50 and then add more with rebuys, or don't give out 100 and give more out later, like up to 200. When a player rebuys, you aren't increasing the number of players, just the bank, so why would you want to introduce more small chips?

You mentioned giving out $5 chips for rebuys. Where's your $1 chip? For your game nickels, quarters, dollars would be fine. If you decide 100 nickels is enough give out 20 nickels and rest quarters to the first 5 players and everyone else quarters only. Once you get desired quarters on table give rebuys in dollars.
 
When a player rebuys, you aren't increasing the number of players, just the bank, so why would you want to introduce more small chips?
Personally, I think it's polite to give a guy a few blind chips and betting chips with his rebuy. Forcing a guy to ask for change right when he rebuys (and probably from the big stack who just took all his chips) never seemed very neighborly to me.
And, when I was a noob, I always wanted to be able to bet with exact change, so I didn't have to announce my betting amount. I was so afraid that I might give up a tell with the tone of my voice, that I preferred to always silently push chips in.
Granted, these aren't the best of reasons, but they're reasons.
 
Personally, I think it's polite to give a guy a few blind chips and betting chips with his rebuy. Forcing a guy to ask for change right when he rebuys (and probably from the big stack who just took all his chips) never seemed very neighborly to me.
And, when I was a noob, I always wanted to be able to bet with exact change, so I didn't have to announce my betting amount. I was so afraid that I might give up a tell with the tone of my voice, that I preferred to always silently push chips in.
Granted, these aren't the best of reasons, but they're reasons.

I'm assuming this is friendly home game, not casino environment, so why the discomfort with making change? It happens dozens of times in the game anyway. We always do this. Tell the big stack to make change with banker before banker hands out the rebuy to the guy who busted.
 
I'm assuming this is friendly home game, not casino environment, so why the discomfort with making change? It happens dozens of times in the game anyway. We always do this. Tell the big stack to make change with banker before banker hands out the rebuy to the guy who busted.
Sure, that's easy enough. And it's also easy enough to hand out some change with the rebuy. I'm not saying there's a right or wrong way to go about it - do what you like.

Funny story about making change in a casino environment. I played in a tournament in a card room a couple of months back and there was an old guy at my table who spent the whole day telling us how much he knew about poker. He called out every minor infraction, he told us the nicknames of every hand multiple times, he had all kinds of poker jokes - it was nonstop. But he also was constantly asking other players for change. Any time one of his denomination got low, he's ask somebody to change one of his larger chips. It was very noticeable because A) people don't do that very often outside of home games; they just bet with their larger chips, and B) because it was so constant, it got annoying. Only thing I can think is that he figured he was doing the dealer a favor by not forcing the dealer to make change from big-chip bets.
 
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This is a friendly game.

I had considered getting some $5, but not seriously. There would need to be a lot of money on the table before that would make any sense.

I do like the idea of people being able to play with the rebuy without instantly needing to make change with the person who just felted them. That or make change with the bigger stacks on the table. Would be sort the better/luckier celebrating a victory rather then the rebuyer further acknowledging a defeat.
 

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