How craze would these denoms drive you? (1 Viewer)

I've been trying hard to devise an optimum early betting strategy that will ensure most (if not all) of the fracs end up in my stack. Then I can bet odd amounts with impunity and sell change to frac-less players at 7 for a dollar. Profit.
 
I've been trying hard to devise an optimum early betting strategy that will ensure most (if not all) of the fracs end up in my stack. Then I can bet odd amounts with impunity and sell change to frac-less players at 7 for a dollar. Profit.

My response is to buy more and more fracs.
 
Just read the OP.
Don't do it. Its a pain in the ass.
First home game I every played in had a structure like this. He had 5 colors of no-denom dice chips and he set them at 10, 20, 40, 80, and 160.
I am supposed to understand binary and arithmetics since I have degrees in C.S. and Mathematics.
After the game I went home and ripped up my diplomas.
 
First home game I every played in had a structure like this. He had 5 colors of no-denom dice chips and he set them at 10, 20, 40, 80, and 160.

FWIW, that structure is nothing at all like this (and nothing at all like a reasonable structure).

I'm proposing 1/8, 1, 8, 64, 512, all denominated. That's five levels where the biggest is four thousand times the smallest.
His fifth level was only 16 times the smallest.
Even my fourth level (64) was 512 times the smallest.
Even a normal set of 1, 5, 25, 100, 500 has a 500 to 1 spread... His 16 to 1 spread is goofy.

The value overlap in his "doubling" progression makes most of the chip value largely redundant, but ensures a mix of them in play all the time. It's silly and has nothing to do with binary - although someone might contrive to think of them as the different places in the bits of an integer, it's a bad analogy, because an integer can't have more than one bit in a give position.
 
Well since you explained it that way, it can't help but be an instant success. Casinos will probably adopt it for their structures soon. Will this be a 50-player CPC cash/tourney set? [emoji12]
 
Well since you explained it that way, it can't help but be an instant success.

No, the time for "instant success" is clearly long past. But I have now become a huge fan of the 1/8 chip for a frac. Am looking forward to trying it in a micro game to see how the players respond.

Casinos will probably adopt it for their structures soon.

Ha. But I'm actually curious whether this kind of structure would lead to needing less chips in play, or more... bigger step-ups imply fewer chips for the same bank, but if there's a lot of action in bigger stacks of small denoms, maybe they'd actually need more chips...
 
A 1/8c chip actually makes a lot of sense if one normally plays 10c/25c blinds -- changing it to 1-bit/2-bits or 12.5c/25c...... but the next chip up in line after $1 needs to be $5, not $8. And a bit/50c/$2/$10 progression would probably work best of all.
 
All the "bit" talk makes me think of a Bitcoin tourney structure:

1-2
1-2
1-2
1-2
1-2
1-2
2-4
10-20
15-30
1000-2000
750-1500
100-200
100-200

Anybody in?
 
A 1/8c chip actually makes a lot of sense if one normally plays 10c/25c blinds -- changing it to 1-bit/2-bits or 12.5c/25c...... but the next chip up in line after $1 needs to be $5, not $8. And a bit/50c/$2/$10 progression would probably work best of all.

Right, I'm talking about playing with bits in a micro game, not about replacing the other denoms.

I have fifty orange 50¢ fracs to use as blinds in my $1 game, and I have two hundred 25¢ I've been using in a 50¢ game. I'm thinking of putting the 50¢ chips in service as bits and offering a bit/quarter blind game... My micro players seem to habitually play short-stacked, so maybe this will help them learn better poker.
 

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