Tourney Fewest chips you can own? (1 Viewer)

[azhardball]

To run a 2 table freezeout...20 player max..no antes. I know folks here like lots of chips in play but I'd rather have a fewer quality chips than a huge number of sluggos.

 

[mipevi]

T15k with 600 chips:

160x 25
200x 100
40x 500
180x 1k
20x 5k

 

[Freeroll]

560 chips (T10,000)

T25- 160 (8)
T100- 160 (8)
T500- 80 (4)
T1000- 140 (7)
T5000- 20 (color ups)

 

[mipevi]

I mean technically you only need a barrel. One chip for each player. GG.

 

[Mr Winberg]

476 (T20k - 200 BB if starting at 100/100)

T100- 200 (10)
T500- 80 (4)
T1000- 140 (7)
T5000- 40 (2) + 12 (color ups) + 4 more T5000 for rounding up during color-ups.

Although unlikely, the theoretical maximum amount of T5k needed for rounding up is 4.

But then your definitely need extra T1000 for on-time bonuses, you need seating chips, bounty chips, show-em chips, zip-it chips, rabbit hunting chips, a highroller set, a cash set, secondary tournament set, secondary cash set, a limit set + secondary limit, a scrub donkey set and of course scrub tigers.

The answer to the OP is 27476.

Plus lammers and dealer buttons.

 

[tabletalker7]

Whatever you end up settling into here for a number, my suggestion is get ceramics. If your game ends up expanding you can always get more made to match. I recently had to expand my cash set from BRPRO. I literally can't tell the difference between the chips they made 3 years ago vs. the chips they made 3 weeks ago.

 

[mipevi]

T20k with 400 chips. No color-ups if 20 players show up LOL

200x 100
120x 500
60x 2k
20x 10k

 

[MichaelBubly]

T20k with 400 chips. No color-ups if 20 players show up LOL

200x 100
120x 500
60x 2k
20x 10k

I would suggest between 560 and 600 for a comfortable MTT set. 10k starting. Add 40x 5ks for rebuys with 10-20 more for color up. Add a few more barrels of 5k to do T20k starting with rebuys. If you are doing Paulson you can adjust based on the availability and prices of certain chips, but if you are ordering ceramics I would probably just spend the little bit more up front and get a nice balanced set that gives you flexibility to run a variety of different formats.

8847 starting

160x 25
160x100
80x 500
140x 1k
60-120x 5k

 

[BGinGA]

Bare minimum for 20-player T25-base set:
160 x T25
160 x T100
40 x T500
80 x T1000 (includes 20x for T25/T100 color-up)
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440 chips
8/8/2/3 = T5000 (200bb with 25/25 blinds)

Recommended minimum:
160 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
140 x T1000
12 x T5000 (T25/T100/T500 color-ups)
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552 chips
8/8/4/7 = T10000 (200bb with 25/50 blinds)

But that second set will be so much more versatile with 60x T5000s, for 600 chips total.

Or for a T100-base set:
200 x T100
80 x T500
140 x T1000
52 x T5000 (12x for T100/T500 color-ups)
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472 chips
10/4/7/2 = T20000 (200bb with 100/100 blinds)

 

[azhardball]

Whatever you end up settling into here for a number, my suggestion is get ceramics. If your game ends up expanding you can always get more made to match. I recently had to expand my cash set from BRPRO. I literally can't tell the difference between the chips they made 3 years ago vs. the chips they made 3 weeks ago.

So if you got china clays and expanded to 3 tables, the chips you add on won't match your older chips?

 

[mipevi]

Usually a thousand chips per table should do it.

 

[Mr Winberg]

Or for a T100-base set:
200 x T100
80 x T500
140 x T1000
52 x T5000 (12x for T100/T500 color-ups)
----------
472 chips

FYM

Also, since players can be moved between tables, roundups can happen even with chip races. So 52 T5k might not be enough (unless you do cross-table chips races).

If rounding:

476 (T20k - 200 BB if starting at 100/100)

T100- 200 (10)
T500- 80 (4)
T1000- 140 (7)
T5000- 40 (2) + 12 (color ups) + 4 more T5000 for rounding up during color-ups.

Although unlikely, the theoretical maximum amount of T5k needed for rounding up is 4.

 

[tabletalker7]

So if you got china clays and expanded to 3 tables, the chips you add on won't match your older chips?

It's not a guarantee. Dyes can change. Chips can also just not be in stock. That is one good thing about ceramics. They are made to order.

 

[BGinGA]

So if you got china clays and expanded to 3 tables, the chips you add on won't match your older chips?

It's pretty much a risk with any chip type or manufacturer, but more so with a) places that have fewer quality control / quality assurance processes in place, or b) places which use more complex manufacturing processes. Both can make repetitive tasks and getting consistent results from different batches/runs challenging if not impossible.

For best results, buy as many chips as you think you will ever need, all at one time.

Aside of production batch differences, there are also potential discontinued product and company dissolution issues to consider -- no future chips at all is worse than marginally different future chips.

 

[KHarp1]

I'm not sure trying to get the minimal chips is the best way to approach this. Are you going to offer any rebuys? If no, what if first hand you have 2 players with pocket AA? You're thinking chop, right? What if the board flushes one of those hands? I'm not a fan of unlimited rebuys, but, a couple for 20 players is reasonable. BTW, the above situation happened to me. When we flipped i thought, "ok, were chopping." Imagine my disgust when the poker gods shat on me!

I'd be more inclined to think along the lines as what's been mentioned, ability to add on. What if this grows to 3 tables? What if a chip or two gets lost, stolen or damaged?

 

[JustinInMN]

Base t500 4/8/8 of T500/1K/5K for a T50K start at 500-500 (100bb)

20 chips per starting stack is a set of 400. Could add 20 * T25k to accommodate color ups and some rebuys.

420 total.

 

[ovo]

Man, where was this thread 17 years ago. This would have been a game changer