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[Legend5555]

@Legend5555 I'm probably gonna sound like a broken record here, but I think you could drop those ones (even in a 10 player game) to about 300 and add more 5's. It just makes your game more flexible.

Believe me I thought about that exact thing, but the game will be primarily .25/.50 NL and 1/2 limit. I just can't see getting more than 2k in play with my group. And I hate making change in limit games. If this was only NLHE, I wouldn't want this many 1's either. If I have to buy more, I will. But I'm not getting anything pricier than China Clays for this. So easy to get more if I need them.

 

[Legend5555]

Thoughts on the multiples?

I asked a similar question elsewhere: I’m planning on denim’s of 1/5/25/100
But when watching WSOP I noticed that coloring up amounted to a rack of X = the new colored up chip. So maybe it should be 1/5/20/100 bc
1x20=20
5x20=100

But I prefer to have classic green ‘quarters’

Maybe the racking up is more important for tourneys?

Idk, but the denomination progression is another aspect worth analyzing - one I’m currently wresting with

Thoughts?

You can do whatever you like, though 20's are typically a cash game chip.

If you are only running tournaments, have you considered having the 100 as your smallest chip? And using the WSOP circuit structure?

 

[pltrgyst]

Over twenty years of weekly hosting, I finally settled on 300 x $1 and 300 x $5 as ideal for one table, no matter how the game played. And it sometimes had over $4K on the table...

So for the ultimate flexibility, my sets became:

.25 - 200
$1 - 300
$5 - 300
$20/25 - 100
$100 - 100

... and that's still my target for every cash set.

 

[shorticus]

Thoughts on the multiples?

I asked a similar question elsewhere: I’m planning on denom’s of 1/5/25/100
But when watching WSOP I noticed that coloring up amounted to a barrel of X = the new colored up chip. So maybe it should be 1/5/20/100 bc
1x20=20
5x20=100

But I prefer to have classic green ‘quarters’

Maybe the racking up is more important for tourneys?

Idk, but the denomination progression is another aspect worth analyzing - one I’m currently wresting with

Thoughts?

I personally prefer 25's myself. I love the green 25's (although recently I've been looking at a semi custom set that might compose of blue quarters, black one's, red fives, and white 20's). I personally think denomination progression is more of a tourney thing simply because in cash games, the blinds don't go up so there's no real need to take a certain chip off of the table. That's just logical reasoning for me, I am by no means an expert on the situation.

 

[shorticus]

Believe me I thought about that exact thing, but the game will be primarily .25/.50 NL and 1/2 limit. I just can't see getting more than 2k in play with my group. And I hate making change in limit games. If this was only NLHE, I wouldn't want this many 1's either. If I have to buy more, I will. But I'm not getting anything pricier than China Clays for this. So easy to get more if I need them.

Sorry, I missed the limit part. Best thing about China Clays is they are cheap to get in bulk. I just got Dunes, and I'll finally get to put them in play tonight. We were supposed to play last week, but that damn Tropical Storm/Hurricane forced us to reschedule.

With my original set (metal insert Monaco Casino chips from Discount Poker shop), I actually built my set without even considering my game. Needless to say, I have wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more chips than I need. $50 Hundos is completely unnecessary for a .25/.25 NLHE game LOL!

 

[Dodger]

... completely unnecessary ...

That may be blasphemy around these parts.

 

[FiveThous]

Need help, this is the set I'm working with this weekend, I ordered chips before I found out about chip forums and didnt want to bring the case of 25s I have as well, don't judge me, for I have been redeemed through PCF. Anyways:

400*100
250*500
100*1000
50*5000

There should be somewhere between 10-18 guys, any advice on a starting stack for that range of players? Thanks in advance!

 

[Beakertwang]

Need help, this is the set I'm working with this weekend, I ordered chips before I found out about chip forums and didnt want to bring the case of 25s I have as well, don't judge me, for I have been redeemed through PCF. Anyways:

400*100
250*500
100*1000
50*5000

There should be somewhere between 10-18 guys, any advice on a starting stack for that range of players? Thanks in advance!

This is for a tourney? And you have 25’s?

 

[shorticus]

That looks like a tourney setup or this guy is really rich!

 

[FiveThous]

Yes for a tournament, I bought 1300 chips a while back and horribly mismanaged the breakdown looking back, but those are the chips I'm bringing.

 

[shorticus]

Need more info for everyone to give thoughts. How many buy ins? Starting stacks? blinds? Etc

 

[FiveThous]

Freezeout, I don't really know about a break down with the weird breakdown but let's say t20000 or t25000, starting at 100/200. Let's say 2.5-3.5 hours

 

[shorticus]

Check out this source for tourney breakdowns:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/single-table-poker-chip-structure.44238/
Lots of people with more tourney knowledge can give you more info.

 

[Beakertwang]

@FiveThous, starting with the T25's will make the higher denominations more useable. Leave some of the 100's at home.

Chips T25/T100/T500/T1000/T5000
T10,000 starting stacks: 12/12//7/5 (most prefer fewer T500's in favor of T1K's, but that won't work with your set.)

Totals 250/250/250/100/50

Color up the T25's and T100's with the T500's.

Or, since it's a freeze out, you could add 2xT5000, for T20,000 starting stacks, and start your blinds at 50/100, eliminating that dastardly 2x jump between levels 1 and 2.

 

[Legend5555]

@FiveThous, starting with the T25's will make the higher denominations more useable. Leave some of the 100's at home.

Chips T25/T100/T500/T1000/T5000
T10,000 starting stacks: 12/12//7/5 (most prefer fewer T500's in favor of T1K's, but that won't work with your set.)

Totals 250/250/250/100/50

Color up the T25's and T100's with the T500's.

Or, since it's a freeze out, you could add 2xT5000, for T20,000 starting stacks, and start your blinds at 50/100, eliminating that dastardly 2x jump between levels 1 and 2.

I personally like the new BB Ante T100 based structures. You can do it with T25 too, but it's all adjustable based on blind levels.

 

[Beakertwang]

I personally like the new BB Ante T100 based structures. You can do it with T25 too, but it's all adjustable based on blind levels.

Only reason I suggested the T25 base, is he doesn't have enough large denoms to really handle a T100 base setup.