Hello, and take my money (1 Viewer)

[skinnyD]

Starting to host a weekly night with some buddies. We're all pretty big nerds and play lots of trading card games. One of the best feelings is top-notch brand new card sleeves and their shuffle feel. I have to imagine it's just as satisfying with some awesome chips, so I definitely appreciate y'alls hobby.

I've ordered some samples of Majestics and Pharoah's (I mostly like their look), and am looking into backing a recent kickstarter for some interesting ceramic chips (https://www.kickstarter.com/project...-cards-and-tabletop-counter-chips/description).

I'm fairly new to poker, but I think I have 2 plans:
1. is to play $0.25/$0.50 NLHE with a 100bb buyin, and maybe play a max number of hands a night? 75 or so? I think ideally it lasts 3.5 hours, and we'll probably play slow to start.
2. is to use the same ~$50 buyin, scale 6x to $300 in chips, and play $1/$2 NLHE without buying quarters. (essentially it would be like 150bb buyin at $0.16/$0.32 blinds i guess then). I guess I could also do this and scale 4x to get $200 in chips at $1/$2, and keep it 100bb. Maybe this conversion will just be confusing to my group, and I should just get quarters?

So -- thanks for reading so far. I have some questions for you all:
1. Which plan do you prefer? Is 100bb vs. 150bb a big difference in gameplay?
2. Should we do re-buy's? Does it make the game "unfair" in any way? I kinda want the most anyone needs to bring $50, but if there's strong advantages to re-buy's i'm not sure I want everyone to need $100+.
3. Chips. I know this question gets asked a ton, but if anyone is willing to part with a nice starter cash set lmk. Again, not sure if I'll need quarters or not yet, I guess I'll determine that based on the responses here.


Cheers! And glad to be here.

 

[skinnyD]

Sorry -- ran out of time on the edit.

My chip plan is ~600 for a table of 8 players:
0.25’s - 100 (if i get them)
1’s - 300 (if i get quarters: 200)
5’s - 200 (if i get quarters: 300)
25’s - 80 (if i get quarters: 0)
100’s - 20 (if i get quarters: 0)

This makes my starting stacks either 35/23/6 for $300, or 12/34/2 for $50 if I get quarters. (I think I would love everyone to have large stacks, would be fun).

 

[allforcharity]

Hello and welcome!

Cash games don't need even stacks among everybody. Start them roughly equal, and use higher denom chips for rebuys, and make change amongst yourselves. Let people rebuy as often as they want - it's their money and they should be aware and responsible adults.

There is a nice sale happening on Sunday at The Chip Room with excellent pricing on used Paulson casino chips, and is worth checking out. Quarters almost always have to be semi-customized to match sets because they're just not being made anymore (too low stakes for casinos).