Cash Game Help with cash breakdown (1 Viewer)

[Heavyball]

Im putting together a 500 PCA cash chip set.
Probably playing .$50/$1.

What's a good breakdown using .50/1/5/25? I was thinking 150/250/75/25. Relatively small buyins, $60 or so, prob 10 players max.

Thanks!

 

[GoStumpy]

I would think half a barrel for each player should be plenty of the .50 chips? I've never personally played with them

I would think
100 - $0.50
200 - $1
160 - $5
40 - $25

It's nice to keep to even barrels of 20 if you're using chip racks.

I host a .25/.50 game that almost plays like a .50/1, and I can think of ONE game where I dipped into the second rack of $5's... and only when all the $5's are in play should you dip into the $25's... so definitely the $5 is an important chip and need more than 75 of them

Plus you want people betting $13 with 2 5's and 3 1's, not 13 1's

 

[manamongkids]

Does anyone fold for .50c? If not? I'd consider ditching the .50c and go just $1s. Typically speaking the game shouldn't play any different

If so,
I'd go 300 $1s
160 $5s
40 $25s
$2100 bank

 

[chipjoker]

I play a .25/.25 game that plays a little like 1/2

I used to have this:

100 - .25
100 - 1
100 - 5
40 - 25
10 - 100

Small set but very effective...$40 - $100 Buy-ins up to 10 players.

 

[upNdown]

and only when all the $5's are in play should you dip into the $25's

Disagree! Get some color on the table! Toss some big chips around! Have some fun!

 

[GoStumpy]

Disagree! Get some color on the table! Toss some big chips around! Have some fun!

Gotta have a barrel per player in play though!!

 

[Heavyball]

Thanks for all the help! I think manamongkids has the winner. Besides, the $.50 is my least favorite of the set anyway

 

[Mental Nomad]

I think that if people are playing a dollar game no-limit and the average buy-in is $60, then people are playing short stacked a bit too much for good poker (or for my taste.)

Would you consider playing the chips at half value? I mean buying in for $60 and getting $120 (double) in chips, and then cashing out for half.

If you do that, on a $60 buy-in, you can play dollar-dollar blinds and be starting with 120 big blinds, but actually be betting 50c-50c.

On breakdown - I used to host a regular dollar game with a say that had 160/160/160/20. (1-5-25-100). We played the hundos as 50c.

When we had 10 players, we'd find we could have definitely used more singles singles. Wouldn't have minded more reds, either. The extra green were unnecessary, and the 20 small blinds were always plenty,and we could easily have skipped them to pla $1-$1, instead.

 

[churlbut18]

Couple of comments...

$60 buy in for a $1/$1 (or even a $0.50/$1) game feels very light... players will be shortstacked... opening raise of 5BB ($5) is almost 10% of your stack... we do $100 buy in for a $0.25/$0.50 game to give 200BB to start... more room to play...

Also, may want to also consider a breakdown of 200/200/100... give each player a barrel of $1's and rest in $5's to start, then use any remaining $5's and $25's for rebuys. Gives you bank of $3700.