Home game.. started with 8 denominations!!!! (1 Viewer)

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So I played in a home game tourney.
50k start stack.
my tilt meter went through the roof when I saw the stacks and breakdowns.

we had:
25 x4
50 x2
100 x3
500x3
1000 x3
5000 x
10000 x1
25000 x1
seeing a 50 chip was the icing on the cake

I tried to be polite and offer the host a suggestion but I didn’t wanna push the issue. He had racks of chips behind him that we could have used, but he liked this breakdown. (Monte Carlo chips)
Plus we were asking for change every bloody hand

oh and the 5k was in 2 different colours. I guess different Chinese factories knocking off the same chip couldn’t get the colours right.
 
Plus we were asking for change every bloody hand

This is the WORST part of such a starting stack.

oh and the 5k was in 2 different colours.

Okay, maybe not.

A friend hosted a 7-table, $200 buyin tournament. For a field that large, he had similar issues with change every hand, but it was because he didn't have enough chips (custom ceramics), not because he wanted some weird 8-chip starting stack.
 
@WedgeRock have played in a cash game with

.25
.50
1
2.50
5
20
You must be talking about @Azcat set that Nick and Anita now own. I’ve used all those including the “LP” $10 chips. @Boother36 also used $20 and $25 chips simultaneously in a cash game recently, I guess just to say we did it!
 
So I played in a home game tourney.
50k start stack.
my tilt meter went through the roof when I saw the stacks and breakdowns.

we had:
25 x4
50 x2
100 x3
500x3
1000 x3
5000 x
10000 x1
25000 x1
seeing a 50 chip was the icing on the cake

I tried to be polite and offer the host a suggestion but I didn’t wanna push the issue. He had racks of chips behind him that we could have used, but he liked this breakdown. (Monte Carlo chips)
Plus we were asking for change every bloody hand

oh and the 5k was in 2 different colours. I guess different Chinese factories knocking off the same chip couldn’t get the colours right.

What? No T5’s? Unreal.:meh:
 
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one of my regular cash games uses

.25/.50/1/5/10

and yeah, the host really likes his chips (Claysmith Gaming The Mint) and cards (cancelled paper casino decks).


I have a group of guys I play with and they like low stakes so we use a setup like that. They give me $20 (even if they want to buy in for $10 and I give them 25s, 50s and a couple ones and a $10 plaque they usually use for re-buys. $5's almost never hit the table, but later in the game the $10's do and they love it.

Is there something you guys don't like about the 50c?
 
I have a group of guys I play with and they like low stakes so we use a setup like that. They give me $20 (even if they want to buy in for $10 and I give them 25s, 50s and a couple ones and a $10 plaque they usually use for re-buys. $5's almost never hit the table, but later in the game the $10's do and they love it.

Is there something you guys don't like about the 50c?
The 50c are not that efficient, it’s only 2x the 25c. 4x-5x the previous denomination works great. $10 is the same thing, you could go from $5 to either $20 or $25. Probably why you don’t see $10s in a casino poker room.
 
Y'all would love my cash games. I regularly hand out snappers with rebuys just because they're my favorite chip. I even have a house rule called "Pink's play". Basically if you are calling a bet that included a snapper, you must call with a snapper (if you have one). There's one or two players that really hate it. I always make sure to give those guys a few.
 
I have a group of guys I play with and they like low stakes so we use a setup like that. They give me $20 (even if they want to buy in for $10 and I give them 25s, 50s and a couple ones and a $10 plaque they usually use for re-buys. $5's almost never hit the table, but later in the game the $10's do and they love it.

Is there something you guys don't like about the 50c?

I think having 25c, 50c, and 1 that close together is not efficient when counting stacks. The main issue is much easier to count a lot of chips in fewer denoms than a few chips in several denoms.

In your setup I would dump either the 25c or 50c chip.

If your blinds are 25c-25c then you have to have 25c chips and dump the 50c.

If the blinds are 25c-50c either keep the 25c and dump the 50c or change the blinds to 50c-50c and dump the 25c. I don't mind using the 2x chip between 50c and 1 in certain structure, but having the 2x jump between 25c-50c and 50c-1 is just using 3 denoms when two would do.

Fwiw using 10s instead of 5s for the "big chip" is fine. I just wouldn't use both.
 
Used to play in a group that had 5/10/25/50/100 denoms for 1K starting chips. When he raised the stakes he doubled the starting stacks but did denoms of 10/25/50/100/500/1000. I can't remember the exact count of each denom, but I remember fondly that everyone needed to make change ever since the first hand; literally a starting stack would have less than 17 physical chips.

I tried breaking down a better breakdown for his chips to reduce it to 5 denoms that way no one would constantly be making change but he never replied and did the changes I recommended.

I stopped playing since he cared more about what HE wanted to do and not ask or take any input from others. Guy still has those same 16-18 people go to his games, but most are there to socialize than actually care about poker. Started my own a year ago and joined another with a local PCF'er.
 
I get what you guys are saying, I guess with our relatively small buy ins the 3 main chip denoms are never an issue.

This is our setup. Ignore the stack on the bottom right at the head of the table, I had the $5’s in my stack early on because let’s admit it, I wanted to use the chips I bought. I eventually removed them because they look too close to the 25¢, but now I have a better reason thanks to you guys.

Everyone in the game loves our current setup, mostly because the stronger players use the $10 as a power play chip and the weaker players leave it off the table for future buy ins. We have a min $10/Max $20 buy in at a time at our cash games, so the added bonus of the plaques are they save guys bringing $10 bills.

So that said I think we’ll stick with 25¢/50¢/$1/$10 for now as everyone like it and it works well for our 6 person game. I’ll drop the $5 completely.

However, I do appreciate the advice and you guys could have saved me time because I spent ages trying to find a 50¢ only to find now I don’t need them!

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