Tourney Help needed for 6-max denominations (1 Viewer)

[Artj1]

About a year ago, I was looking to buy a first small ceramic set to play 6-max low stakes home cash games. I went for 300 Nevada Jack Skulls, in the following denominations:

100 X 0.25$
100 X 1$
50 X 5$
50 X 25$



I am now looking to buy another 300 chips in order to have an hybrid set that would work both for 6-max cash games (20 to 50$ buy-in) AND 6-max tournaments.

I'm guessing I could get 50 more of the 5$ chips, 50 more 25$, 100 X 100$, 80 X 500$ and 20 X 1000$ or something like that, but I feel like this is not the best setup and I find a lot of contradictory info online for tournament denominations...

What would be the best 600 chip set that would work for both uses, including the chips I already own? Should I go even more granular and use up to 5000$ chips?

Thanks.

 

[JJJGabriel]

Most people here will argue that the ideal would be having different sets for cash and tourneys.

Supposing you've already considered this option and ruled it out, why don't you lower the stacks for the tourneys? You could make T200 or T300 initial stacks and use a lot of the preexisting chips.

For the tourney initial stack, I would go:
T1 x 20
T5 x 16
T25 x 4/8/12... whatever initial stack you'd like

Then, you would need only 120 x T1, 96 x T5 and 48 x T25 (considering T300 initial) for the tourney, meaning 2 more barrels of $5s and 1 more barrel of $1s. Plus, these chips would be a lot more useful on future cash games, since you'll probably use a single set, anyway.

 

[TexRex]

I'm one of those who would advise two completely different sets! You might consider the Nevada Jacks Saloon series for the tournaments. You could do almost anything for 6 players and 300 chips for tournaments, but we'd need a lot more info about the tournaments to give you ideas about chips.

• How long do you want the tournament to last?
• Will there be re-buys? If so, how many? The more re-buys, the more higher value chips you will need?
• How many big blinds (BB) will players start with?
• What type of blind schedule? By that, I mean do you want gentle increases or more aggressive increases? Either will work, but some groups prefer one over the other, and it's a scale.
• Any chance the tournament will ever grow? If not, you are slowly waiting for it to die from a player or two leaving. But if you try to grow it, you will likely need more chips, or at least the ability to get more chips in the future. If you like ceramics and NJs, I suspect the Saloon series will be around a long time, so you could get more in the future when the game grows.
• If you insist on staying with the same chip series, you could start the tournaments with T100. I think the NJ skulls goes up 5,000 so you could get 100s, 500s, 1000s, and 5000s. The Saloon series come in pink or gray 25 cent, blue $1, red $5, green $25, black $100, purple $500, yellow $1000, tan $5000, and orange $25000. You'd have a lot more options using the Saloon series simply because you have 9 options available instead of 4. That's a lot more room for future growth or increasing your starting stacks later. Always buy a chip set with the idea that your starting BB will go up.

If you can provide more info, we could give you better advice.

 

[Artj1]

Thank you both for your answers!

Yeah, I guess a completely different set would be a wiser choice... My ideal tournament set would be at least 300 Atlantic Amold chips from CPC, but I don't think I can justify that expense right now, although the hot-stamped ones are kind of a more reasonable buy... As for other popular ceramic or china clay sets, I can't seem to find a good balance between design and quality.

TexRex, thank you for those questions. I will certainly have to think about this before making a choice. I will probably post regarding my chip set choice on another sub, and eventually come back to this.

Thanks again!

 

[JustinInMN]

Six max tournament?

Okay here's my thought.

T25 - 80
T100 - 80
T500 - 40
T1000 - 80
T5000 - 20

Do 12/12/5/6 to start for T10K stacks. Plenty of chips to fudge extra stacks, even 10 handed doing 8/8/4/7.

Keep your Jacks for cash. (Or use your tourney set with some division.). Add some fives to your cash set down the line. (personally I would just add 50 more fives and if you only want to carry 300 chips, leave 40 quarters and 10 twenty-fives behind, total bank 1615 . )

 

[Artj1]

Six max tournament?

Okay here's my thought.

T25 - 80
T100 - 80
T500 - 40
T1000 - 80
T5000 - 20

Do 12/12/5/6 to start for T10K stacks. Plenty of chips to fudge extra stacks, even 10 handed doing 8/8/4/7.

Keep your Jacks for cash. (Or use your tourney set with some division.). Add some fives to your cash set down the line. (personally I would just add 50 more fives and if you only want to carry 300 chips, leave 40 quarters and 10 twenty-fives behind, total bank 1615 . )

That's also a good option... Let's say I want to keep only 1 set with maximum 600 chips, this would then be the total breakdown:

0.25$ - 100
1$ - 100
5$ - 100
25$ - 80
100$ - 80
500$ - 40
1000$ - 80
5000$ - 20

It's kind of weird, but I guess it works.

Thanks

 

[JustinInMN]

That could work, but someone will be along shortly to warn you about using the same 25 chips for cash and tournament. But if you are drawing the line between the 5s and 25s, won't be an issue.