Cash Game Friendly Cash Game - $50 buy in chip breakdown suggestions (2 Viewers)

[justinreber]

Currently we play a friendly cash game with a $50 buy in. Blinds are 25¢ small blind and 50¢ big blind. We usually have between 8-10 guys playing.

We have been using the following chip breakdown:
25¢ - 8 chips for total of $2
50¢ - 22 chips for a total of $11
$1 - 12 chips for a total of $12
$2 - 5 chips for a total of $10
$5 - 3 chips for a total of $15

Breakdown seems to work fine when we play, usually down have to make change at the table unless someone is running low on chips.
Any suggestions on other ways to breakdown.

 

[sergiophil]

What are the breakdowns for your chips? How many you have total? That will help us determine the different types of breakdowns that will work for your game.

 

[churlbut18]

The majority of the folks here will say to get rid of the $0.50 and $2. They’re simply not needed and are a waste.

And go with this PCF approved breakdown.

100 x $0.25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 (or $25)
20 x $100

Starting stacks below for $50 buy in

12 x $0.25
17 x $1
6 x $5

 

[fish72s]

Unless you are short on 25c or $1 chips, I'd dump the 50c and $2 chips and just go with 3 denoms:
16 25c chips
16 $1 chips
6 $5 chips

 

[ChipFinderSK]

The majority of the folks here will say to get rid of the $0.50 and $2. They’re simply not needed and are a waste.

And go with this PCF approved breakdown.

100 x $0.25
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 (or $25)
20 x $100

Starting stacks below for $50 buy in

12 x $0.25
17 x $1
6 x $5

I’ll second this post

 

[CantSpellPoker]

Same as others... use 0.25, $1, and $5.

Last week I hosted a $50 buy in and everyone got the following to begin:

Barrel of 0.25’s ($5)
Barrel of $1’s ($20)
5 $5’s ($25)

Admittedly more chips on the table than one needs, but it’s easy to just grab barrels and go.

 

[fish72s]

If you really do want to use a 50c chip, then you probably only need a handful of 25c's (like 2 or 4 / player). Most people will make bets with the 50c chips and the
quarters are basically just for the SB.
Of course if you do that, you may as well just make it a 50c/50c game

 

[JustinInMN]

Yeah I would dump the 2s all together. Just .25/1/5 or .50/1/5 and play .50-.50 as @fish72s said.

The problem with too many denominations is how long it takes to count stacks, which comes up frequently in NL.

So I would suggest doing the @abby99 method for .25/1/5

5 stacks of 20/20/5
Everyone else gets 0/20/6 until the singles are gone.

So total set of 100/200/200 yields 1225 bank or add some 20s and do 100/200/160/40 to boost the bank to 1825.

 

[Jeevansluck]

Gotta dump that .50c chip.

Never have found a use for a $2.

I like to employ a .25c , $1 , $5 , and a $10.

I've never hosted a game that requires bigger but I'm just a small time player. I have a matching massive set of chips and if I had to, I could pull out my $25 chip for a cash game. (I only ever use it for tourney)

 

[jcooper911]

Of course if you do that, you may as well just make it a 50c/50c game

This is exactly what I decided to do - it makes posting the blinds much easier and the 50c chips can actually be used on later streets if required, but the 25c was just never going to work for me...

 

[Billy Baroo]

I host 3 different games a month and each have different blind structures. We do a .25/.50, a .50/1.00 and a 1.00/2.00. Rather than having .25 and .50 chips, I simply bought 200 of the blue 8V China clays and kept them unlabeled so that they could be used as quarters or fifty cent pieces depending on the game. The rest of my cash set is denominated 1/5/25/100 so there’s never any confusion regarding values and they’re your traditional white, red, green and black. The blue 8v is always equal to the small blind. This seems to work well for my crowd.

 

[justinreber]

Thanks for the advice...very helpful

 

[jcooper911]

Thanks for the advice...very helpful

Be sure to let us know what you do, you know we are all super results oriented here!

 

[justinreber]

Played last Friday with 10 guys/single table/self dealt.

We played $50 buy-in cash game/each player had $50 in chips (each player also had 50 count of chips) with the following breakdown:
25¢ - 8 chips for total of $2
50¢ - 22 chips for a total of $11
$1 - 12 chips for a total of $12
$2 - 5 chips for a total of $10
$5 - 3 chips for a total of $15

As folks guessed above 25¢ cent chips mostly used for small blind as we started with 25¢/50¢ blinds. Later in game we moved to 50¢/$1 blinds when a couple of guys left. At that point we colored up and remove the 25¢ chips from the table, seemed to work out ok. Next time we play we will make some tweaks.

 

[JustinInMN]

I mean your get and everything, but I am telling you, if you cut out two denominations somewhere you will find the all in and cash out counts will go faster.

 

[Jeevansluck]

Played last Friday with 10 guys/single table/self dealt.

We played $50 buy-in cash game/each player had $50 in chips

This is just awesome man! Wish I had a circle of players large enough to do 10 man cash game. Sounds like good fun! Sounds like you are having fun and that's the best part. The most important part. I also can see the use of a .50c chip for the bigger stakes.

 

[Chippy365]

Currently we play a friendly cash game with a $50 buy in. Blinds are 25¢ small blind and 50¢ big blind. We usually have between 8-10 guys playing.

We have been using the following chip breakdown:
25¢ - 8 chips for total of $2
50¢ - 22 chips for a total of $11
$1 - 12 chips for a total of $12
$2 - 5 chips for a total of $10
$5 - 3 chips for a total of $15

Breakdown seems to work fine when we play, usually down have to make change at the table unless someone is running low on chips.
Any suggestions on other ways to breakdown.

8x.25c 12x$1.00 and the rest in $5.00 keep it simple.

 

[dkersey]

Same as others... use 0.25, $1, and $5.

Last week I hosted a $50 buy in and everyone got the following to begin:

Barrel of 0.25’s ($5)
Barrel of $1’s ($20)
5 $5’s ($25)

Admittedly more chips on the table than one needs, but it’s easy to just grab barrels and go.

I do exactly this, and all rebuys/add-ons are with $5s.

 

[OKYJJ]

I am glad someone else necro'd this thread a couple months ago so I don't feel bad doing it now.

I agree with not having all of those in-between denominations on the same table at the same time. However, I am building a cash set that *has* all of those denominations, in order to basically be ready for anything, cause I like variety.

I haven't had much luck yet getting my friends to enjoy playing Limit, but I'm working on it. I would like to eventually be a regular host of 2-table cash games, where one table is playing Pot Limit or No Limit and the other table is playing Limit.

Table 1 breakdown for PL/NL games

20 x $.05 = 1
20 x $.25 = 5
19 x $1 = 19
5 x $5 = 25
makes $50

OR
20 x $.25 = 5
20 x $1 = 20
11 x $5 = 55
1 x $20 = 20
makes $100

Lowest denom can be colored up at some point during the night, moving up stakes.

Meanwhile, Table 2 breakdown for Limit games:

40 x $.10 = 4
32 x $.50 = 16
10 x $2 = 20
2 x $10 = 20
makes $60

OR
40 x $.50 = 20
30 x $2 = 60
7 X $10 = 70
makes $150

I'm following the preference I've seem from most Limit players here for "moar chips," but not the preference for absolutely minimal denominations. (Some people like to have just $1s and $20s for example.) Any of the breakdowns above can be used for dealer's choice in some way, with several different blinds / limits options available. Also, I like to play 7-max at a table when not in a tournament, for the sake of certain games that use a lot of cards, and that allows giving out more chips with a given set. I will have basically 300 of everything. Already got the NL stuff, working on the alternate denominations for limit. Certainly not necessary, just something I want to do

 

[Fink2020]

My game is a 25/25c game with $60 buy in. We use .25/1/5/25. The fives are used for rebuys. I average probably 500+ $1's in play. We usually get $1200 or so on the table so plenty of room for lots of $5's and even some $25's. If players don't want a big stack they can always color up. I have a huge set that the game can grow into.
200 x .25
700 x 1
800 x 5
125 x 25
20 x 100

 

[Venturalvn]

If you often get to the point where the .25 come off the table then I suggest just moving your game to a .50/.50 game. We did that to our game last year and it runs just as smooth, and it allows us to swap chip sets that may only have 50 cent frac as the lowest denom.