Doing a $10 but-in home game tonight. How should I set up the blinds and whatnot? (1 Viewer)

[FWS_AQ]

Need help on how to set up the blinds and the chip distribution for my $10 buy-in home game tonight. Thanks!

 

[allforcharity]

We don't even know how many players you have and what chip denoms and quantities, dude.

 

[SteveEH]

For a one table cash game, .05/.10 blinds with these denominations:

.05 - 1 rack distributed to players - first 5 get a barrel each and make change for others

.25 - workhorse chip #1, 1 barrel per player minimum (I prefer 2 barrels/player)

$1 - top each player up to $10 with these, your second workhorse, and use them for rebuys if you have lots, if not use $5s for rebuys

 

[FWS_AQ]

We don't even know how many players you have and what chip denoms and quantities, dude.

Sorry bout that - 4 players and two sets of standard Amazon chips - red, blue, green, white and black. Nothing fancy.

 

[springbox]

Both responses here are right, 5c/10c with 5c/25c/$1 chips makes the most sense for a $10 BI game (unless you want to play a tournament), but without knowing what chips you have and how many people you expect we can't give you the right answer. Do you expect people to re-buy much also?

 

[TankingRowlet]

Cash game?

10 5c
14 25c
6 $1

Re-buys all $1 chips and then move up to $5 if the stacks gets deep.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

For my $10 game, I use 10c-10c blinds.
My denoms (covering $10 to $100 games) are :
10c x 160
50c x 160
$1 x 320
$5 x 240
$25 x 120
$100 x 20

Since I limit my cash game to 8 players, I can have as starting stack :
10c x 20
50c x 16

Then gradually issue the remaining 50c, then the $1 and eventually the $5.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Sorry bout that - 4 players and two sets of standard Amazon chips - red, blue, green, white and black. Nothing fancy.

Can you also let us know the quantity of each color you have ?

Since usually, in these breakdown, you have lots of white and red, I would use the standard color convention (which is a good idea if you have non-denominated chips) :
White = $1
Red = $5
Green = $25
Blue = $50
Black = $100

You give each player $100 worth of chips and use blinds $1-$1.

You just buy 100 worth of chips for $10 and apply the same conversion for cash outs.

You can also simply use :
White = 10c
Red = 50c
Green = $2.5
Blue = $5
Black = $10
But using non-standard color-value on non-denominated chips is not something I'd do.

 

[LeCoq]

For my $10 game I use these:
$.05 x 10
$.10 x 10
$.25 x 8
$.50 x 5
$1 x 4