Do you actually play $1/2 with this breakdown? (2 Viewers)

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Not trying to create the 1000th thread on "ideal breakdown", but posing a specific question.

Many of us position this 600 chip set breakdown as "future proof" if you are currently playing .25/.25 or /.50 and would like to be prepared for sustainable growth in your game up to $1/2.

100 x .25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 or $25
20 x $100

So the question is, do any of you run a consistent game with this breakdown, and does it play well?

Thanks!
JB
 
I agree, 1 or 2 more racks of 5s would be ideal for 1/2. This of course depends on how much action your players bring and how many you host...?
 
From experience, 1/2 stake for 9 ppl table on average tend to end cash around high 6k to 7k + and might be even more on certain crazy nights

You might want to get another barrel of $100 to further proof your total Bank.

1 rack of $1 is enough, 2 rack of $1 is good to have
2 rack of $5 is enough
1 rack of $25 is enough, 60 or a second rack will be good to have
At least 2 barrel of $100, more if you can afford it

I do have various sets suitable for $1/$1 and $1/$2 stake with some variation in breakdown but they all work well to a certain degree
 
Not trying to create the 1000th thread on "ideal breakdown", but posing a specific question.

Many of us position this 600 chip set breakdown as "future proof" if you are currently playing .25/.25 or /.50 and would like to be prepared for sustainable growth in your game up to $1/2.

100 x .25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 or $25
20 x $100

So the question is, do any of you run a consistent game with this breakdown, and does it play well?

Thanks!
JB
Id say if your game is slowly growing from .25/.25 up to 1/2, a full 8x bigger, itll play small at the bigger stakes and youll have time to add racks if necessary, this set is fine. You dont just snap your fingers and grow that much, feel it out. Your buyin at 200bb goes from 50 to 400, thatll be felt by most players.
 
not exactly what you asked but may help.
I run weekly 1/2 and now turned 1/3 game with 500 breakdown:

100 x $1
300 x $5
80 x $25
20 x $100

and it runs fine for us.
since the jump from 1/2 to 1/3 another 100 X 5 is ideal but it is not a deal breaker for my crew at least

Edit: many initial buy ins around 300 but a few still do 200.
 
Not trying to create the 1000th thread on "ideal breakdown", but posing a specific question.

Many of us position this 600 chip set breakdown as "future proof" if you are currently playing .25/.25 or /.50 and would like to be prepared for sustainable growth in your game up to $1/2.

100 x .25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 or $25
20 x $100

So the question is, do any of you run a consistent game with this breakdown, and does it play well?

Thanks!
JB
That seems to work fine. However, my personal preference for a 5c/10c, .25/.50 and 1/2 single-table multi-stakes set is 1000 chips:

100 x 5c
140 x 25c
260 x $1
400 x $5
100 x $20

Never more than 3 denoms in play, with minimal change-making. $100 bills can always play in 1/2 (or 1/3) if needed.
 
Not trying to create the 1000th thread on "ideal breakdown", but posing a specific question.

Many of us position this 600 chip set breakdown as "future proof" if you are currently playing .25/.25 or /.50 and would like to be prepared for sustainable growth in your game up to $1/2.

100 x .25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 or $25
20 x $100

So the question is, do any of you run a consistent game with this breakdown, and does it play well?

Thanks!
JB
I would probably only use the top 400 chips from this breakdown for 1-2. 100*1, 200*5, 80*25, 20*100. This is still 5100 in play, or enough for 25 buy-ins of 200. That should be good for a single table. Each of 10 players can at least have a barrel of fives, on average, which is the workhorse chip in this game. More would be better of course, which is why the 1000-chip version of the future proof breakdown is usually something like 100/300/500/80/20 when discussed here, but this should work.
 
Many of us position this 600 chip set breakdown as "future proof" if you are currently playing .25/.25 or /.50 and would like to be prepared for sustainable growth in your game up to $1/2.

100 x .25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 or $25
20 x $100

The above breakdown is light on fives and $25's.

120 quarters is tight for a full ring .25/.50 game of 9 players, but manageable.
160 ones is plenty for a .25/.50 game and a $1/$2 game.
400 fives is best for a set that covers .25/.50 to $1/$2, although 300 will work. (I prefer to have five racks when playing $1/$2)
100 twenty-fives minimum for $1/$2.
20 hundreds is the bare minimum for $1/$2.

I have played in a weekly $1/$2 NLHE full ring game for over a year. On a really slow night we will have $6500 on the table and $9000 to $9500 on a big night
The average is north of $8000. You can see the problem of trying to cover a spread of blinds with 600 chips.

800 chip breakdown for flop games with .25/.50 to $1/$2 blinds

120 x .25
160 x $1
350 x $5
120 x $25
50 x $100

$9910 bank for $1/$2
 
Id say if your game is slowly growing from .25/.25 up to 1/2, a full 8x bigger, itll play small at the bigger stakes and youll have time to add racks if necessary, this set is fine. You dont just snap your fingers and grow that much, feel it out. Your buyin at 200bb goes from 50 to 400, thatll be felt by most players.

This is my thought as well. It should play just fine, but the bank is light. 10 buy ins of 200 bb and you've already put 80% of your total bank in play. Not a lot of headroom for rebuys.

That said it should work well as a transition set with a group used to quarters games since you probably won't fill the table and people probably won't be firing multiple 200bb bullets. And pretty easy to add bank with $100 bills or eventually adding a couple racks down the road.

full disclosure I have not actually done this.
 
Not trying to create the 1000th thread on "ideal breakdown", but posing a specific question.

Many of us position this 600 chip set breakdown as "future proof" if you are currently playing .25/.25 or /.50 and would like to be prepared for sustainable growth in your game up to $1/2.

100 x .25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 or $25
20 x $100

So the question is, do any of you run a consistent game with this breakdown, and does it play well?

Thanks!
JB

To me this breakdown is great for .25 - .25 or .25 - .50 but not for 1 - 2.

For 1 - 2, I'd rather see something like this :
100 x 1
200 x 5
200 x 20 or 25
80 x 100
20 x 500
I'll get you covered for 1-1, 1-2 and 2-5.
 
I like your breakdown. I'd say you are a bit light on the higher denoms. I also think 200 $5s is plenty for any stake. Sure 300 is also fine, but I'd rather add a couple barrels of 25s and 100s, or even a handful of $500s just to cover the bank for the potentially insane night of 1/2.

I play in a 1/2 game, which admittedly plays huge, but where we've even had about half a barrel of $1000 chips in play on the most crazy night. I don't like the idea of not being able to cover the stakes if the night gets crazy. Better to have that extra barrel of high denoms just in case, although it almost never will see play.

That said, I did like the point made by @NotRealNameNoSir, and think that if your game plays small at the moment it will likely play small ish for a 1/2 game as well.
Id say if your game is slowly growing from .25/.25 up to 1/2, a full 8x bigger, itll play small at the bigger stakes and youll have time to add racks if necessary, this set is fine. You dont just snap your fingers and grow that much, feel it out. Your buyin at 200bb goes from 50 to 400, thatll be felt by most players.
 
Are rebuys capped at $200? If you allow a match the big stack or something similar you will need more big chips for sure. I’ve had a couple sets with a $10k bank and have run out of chips because the set had too few $100’s.
Your game is, shall we say, special :p.

All that said, trying to accommodate low and high stakes game in a single 600 chip obviously comes with compromises. Once compromise that is too far is leaving players with less than a full barrel of fives on average, so I don't think you can cut that back any less than 200.

Back to terms with the original poster, a part of me thinks it's penny-foolish to limit to 600 chips in a set if you can afford to play in games with banks over $10K.

Suffice it to say, the more chips you can put in a set, the less you have to compromise ;).
 
If you allow a match the big stack or something similar you will need more big chips for sure.
I agree with this. I allow matching stacks at my 1/2 game, which tends to play like 2/5 because virtually all my regs straddle and damn near everyone starts matching the big stack as game progresses. Games can play rather juicy, as some of the local KC PCFers can attest to. It's not uncommon for the $500 chip to enter the fray at my game.

To the OP, if your game tends to play big, definitely consider at least two more racks of $5s and more of the bigger denom chips.
 
Agree with the above comments. With that breakdown, you have less than 2.5 buy-ins per person at a full table (assuming 100 BB buy-ins). Tight for a smallish game, not enough for a larger game (ie. match the stack or lots of straddles or just multiple Bullets being fired).

My multi-purpose sets have about 1,000 chips in them for this reason.
 
Your set would do fine for the 1/2 games I play in. You can always have $100 bills on the table that play if you get into a bind. Once that happens time for another rack or at least a barrel of 100's.
 

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