Tourney How many 500's? (1 Viewer)

[Wils]

Ok so a hopefully simple question.

What's your ratio of 500:1000 chips? I'm toying with

12x 25
12x 100
3x 500
7x 1000

for a T10,000 tourney (starting blinds 25/50). In the past I've always had more 500's than 1000's (or roughly equal amounts) but seeing a whole load of "only half the value of the next chip up" chips winds me up. Is 3 per player too few? It's a small group I host, so there won't be more than 21 of them in play at a time if I go with that amount.

Ok I know I could relabel the 1000's as 2000's and negate the chip redundancy that way, but that's another day.

 

[justsomedude]

I like 12/12/5/6 personally for T10k stacks. But I do think you need more 1ks than 500s, simply to cover colorups in later levels of play.

For a two table (18 player) tourney I like:

220x T25
220x T100
100x T500
200x T1000

With 18 players at 10k each, your 200,000 in T1ks will cover all chips in play, including a couple rebuys.

 

[DoubleEagle]

No more than four $500’s

 

[links_slayer]

3 works fine for us

 

[upNdown]

This was discussed in this thread a bit https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/best-way-to-build-t20-000-stacks.27399/ - the consensus there seems to be as few as 2 or 3 is fine. So, pretty much as many 500's as you want?

 

[dickzapper]

I like 12 12 5 6.

 

[BGinGA]

My rule of thumb is that fewer T500s are needed the larger the field size. So for a single-table event, starting stacks of 12/12/5/6 or 8/8/4/7 seems to work better than 12/12/3/7 or 8/8/2/8, but the latter works just fine for three or more tables. With two tables, either way will work, but I prefer the former. Regardless, I never include more than 5x T500 * (with one exception, see below).



* Our yearly league championship tournament consists of 8 players, and uses starting stacks based on the league's season points standings. The starting stacks are a minimum of 20,000 chips with an average 35K stack in play across all eight players (biggest stack is usually around 50K). I use the following T35K base stack, and add or deduct T1000 chips to bring each player's stack to their actual earned stack sizes.

20 x T25
20 x T100
15 x T500
25 x T1000
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80 chips = T35K

It creates a lots of chips on the table, which seems visually appropriate for a championship event. And although it appears at first glance to be an excessive amount of T25s, T100s, and T500s in play, that is a bit misleading, since those chips do actually get used -- because the event uses antes from start to finish, and those denominations remain in play much longer than in a normal non-ante event. Added bonus is that there is NEVER any change making, and as long as nobody is making nonsense $400 bets using 16x T25s, everything works out fine.