Tourney Extra Chips - What Should I Buy? (1 Viewer)

[btbmason]

I've set up a couple options for breakdowns for the custom tournament set I am building. Each allows for the minimum amount of chips I'd like to have to run 2 types of tournaments.

I need to order a minimum of 600 chips, but I can order up to 800.

Breakdown #1 -

T1000 starting - 10 players + room for rebuys, or more starting stacks and no rebuys (at least 20 total entries either way)

The 30 extra T100 chips can be used to color up all T5 and T25 chips and T500s can be used for rebuys, coloring up T100s later in the tourney, or even be added to make T2000 starting stacks if I know I won't have more than 15 total entries.

Breakdown #2 -

T5000 starting - 10 players + room for rebuys, or more starting stacks and no rebuys (at least 20 total entries either way)

The 20 extra T500 chips can be used to color up all T25 and T100 chips and T1000s can be used for rebuys, coloring up T500s later in the tourney, or even be added to make T10000 starting stacks if I know I won't have more than 11 total entries.


Given these 2 tables, plus the rack of T1 chips I am ordering (not designed for poker tournament use, though I can always start at 1/2 and T200 or T400 starting if I want to) this is the minimum that I'm looking at for each denom.

This leaves me 60 extra chips if I order 600 total, and my instinct is to add the following:

T25 - 20 (120 total)
T100 - 20 (120 total)
T1000 - 20 (100 total)

This allows me to use 12 each of T5 and T25 in the T5000 starting stack tournament to get more chips on the table. The other T1000 will be used to complete that rack and maximize the overall bank of the tournament set.

My other 600 chip option is to add the following:

T500 - 40 (100 total)
T1000 - 20 (100 total)

This will leave me at even racks for all denoms and also add more money to the bank, but is less flexible.

Then if I add 200 more chips to make an 800 chip set, I get a little lost. Do I add more of the lower denom workhorse chips to get more chips into play/starting stacks, or add higher denoms to increase the number of starting stacks I can accommodate despite probably never needing more than 20 total entries?

All help and opinions are greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

[btbmason]

I know it's a busy week with an event coming up and I've already made a few threads asking for help on this set, but if anybody has any advice here I'd very much appreciate hearing it (y) :thumbsup:

 

[mipevi]

If you don't want people to be making change all the time, try to have 3x in smaller chips for each denom in the starting stacks. You can get away with 2x for the highest denom though, and the second lowest with the understanding that the first blind jumps will be large. But since you're willing to buy 800 chips...

100x 1
150x 5
200x 25
150x 100
50x 500
100x 1000
50x 5000

I mean, might as well get some 5k's while you're at it.

 

[btbmason]

I mean, might as well get some 5k's while you're at it.

If I do decide to add 5ks, they will be plaques

That'll be a bit later on though, for now they just aren't needed when I can start my tourneys at T1k or T2k. If I can grow a player base or get a demand for bigger tourneys, I'll add those on.

 

[mipevi]

For a set of 600 I'd go with

100x 1
100x 5
120x 25
120x 100
40x 500
120x 1000

Up to T15k (y) :thumbsup:

 

[BGinGA]

T1000 starting - 10 players + room for rebuys, or more starting stacks and no rebuys (at least 20 total entries either way)

T5000 starting - 10 players + room for rebuys, or more starting stacks and no rebuys (at least 20 total entries either way)

If I'm reading the OP correctly, you are wanting 20 starting stacks for each event (T1000 and T5000). In that case, your minimums are:

T1000 set (10/10/7 stacks):

200 x T5
200 x T25
140 x T100
12 x T500
--------------
552 chips (T5/T25 replaced by T500)

T5000 set (8/8/4/2 stacks):

160 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
60 x T1000
--------------
460 chips (T25/T100 replaced by T1000)


Combining the two sets:

200 x T5
200 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
60 x T1000
--------------
700 chips

plus the rack of T1 chips I am ordering (not designed for poker tournament use,

I need to order a minimum of 600 chips, but I can order up to 800.

add the rack of T1 chips and there's your magic 800 number.

 

[btbmason]

200 x T5
200 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
60 x T1000
--------------
700 chips

add the rack of T1 chips and there's your magic 800 number.

Thanks Dave!

Also I tried desperately to talk myself into a 2k chip as you've mentioned before, but I couldn't pull the trigger on it.

You did convince me to take the currency symbols out though, so that's a small victory at least.

 

[AWenger]

T5000 set (8/8/4/2 stacks):

160 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
60 x T1000
--------------
460 chips (T25/T100 replaced by T1000)

^^ This, if you ever think you'll have 2 tables, with up to 20 players. you'll want each starting player to have 8/8/4 for the T25/T100/T500, so 160/160/80 chips.

On the other hand, if you will only ever have room for 1 table, 10 players max (with rebuys), I'd go with more T1000, so you can have a T10,000 (or T15,000) starting stack -- and go with 8/8/4/7 or 12/12/3/8 starting stacks. mipevi's breakdown works great for that.

For a set of 600 I'd go with
100x 1
100x 5
120x 25
120x 100
40x 500
120x 1000
Up to T15k (y) :thumbsup: