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Hey hive mind,

I'm looking to host a tournament for my local curling club. I'm curious how many people you think my tourny set can handle. I'm not married to any chip break down. I'm hoping to get to 20 starting stacks of whatever it needs to be to get me there.

My set:
150 - $25
150 - $100
100 - $500
100 - $1K
100 - $5K

I can't buy more chips just for this one tournament. I have no idea how it will be received and won't be investing into it unless the potential is there.

What are people's thoughts on using mixed sets? I have a set of prestige ABS but I'm positive I could scrounge together some dice chips to make more starting stacks. Is this acceptable behavior? Lol
 
You can comfortably run 12 with starting stacks of 12/12/7/5 for T10,000. Or add 2 T5000 for stacks of T20,000.

Conceivably, you could do up to 16, but it might get awkward without many T1000 chips.
 
I also have
300 - $1
175 - $5
From a cash set. The chips are similar cheapness and denominated. if I change the base could I get to 20 players?
 
It may be possible to both reduce the starting stack and the blind sizes in the structure to allow more players. For context, I have in the past run two table tourny with a 500 piece set with similar breakdown as you.
 
Oryx said:
I'm hoping to get to 20 starting stacks of whatever it needs to be to get me there.

My set:
150 - $25
150 - $100
100 - $500
100 - $1K
100 - $5K
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For 20 players, the best you can do is T7500 starting stacks:

16 stacks of 8/8/5/4
4 stacks of 4/4/4/5

Ugly, but it will work (barely). Use 14x T5000 chips for color-ups.

Or just start 18 stacks of 8/8/5/4 (and a little easier for the color-ups).
 
Oryx said:
Hey hive mind,

I'm looking to host a tournament for my local curling club. I'm curious how many people you think my tourny set can handle. I'm not married to any chip break down. I'm hoping to get to 20 starting stacks of whatever it needs to be to get me there.

My set:
150 - $25
150 - $100
100 - $500
100 - $1K
100 - $5K

I can't buy more chips just for this one tournament. I have no idea how it will be received and won't be investing into it unless the potential is there.

What are people's thoughts on using mixed sets? I have a set of prestige ABS but I'm positive I could scrounge together some dice chips to make more starting stacks. Is this acceptable behavior? Lol
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Your best bet is to do 18 stacks of 8/8/4/4 for a T8000 starting stack. There just aren't enough T25's or T100's to do any more than 18 stacks, and there just aren't enough T1000 chips to do a 10K starting stack. I don't see getting 20 stacks out of this without shortchanging the small chips, sadly. And I hesitate to put an average of fewer than 8 T25s per player on the table or you will run into situations where it becomes difficult to break down larger chips.

If you HAVE to get to 20 stacks and can scare up some from a different set that are at least the same colors as the T25's and T100's in your main set, that might be the way to go while introducing the least confusion. You would have enough leftover T500 and 1000s from your main set to use in these stacks which would also reduce confusion. You could probably remove the "rogue T100s" along with all T25s at the first color up as well, further minimizing the confusion to the first few levels. So that might be workable as a last resort option if it has to be 20 and 18 isn't close enough.

But I think you are on a fine course for a first time tournament to see if it's viable. What you have seems workable.

If you do decide to expand your tourney set to cover 20 and do T10,000 starting stacks, all you really need is 10 more each of T25 and T100 and 40 more T1000 and you would be in really good shape with 8/8/4/7 starting stacks.
 
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Oryx said:
I also have
300 - $1
175 - $5
From a cash set. The chips are similar cheapness and denominated. if I change the base could I get to 20 players?
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So just saw this....

I think the answer is sadly no for base 5. In base 5 you really need 10 T5 chips per player and 175 isn't quite there.

Base 1 with a T200 starting stack might work with a 10/8/6 breakdown. Could do a T400 starting stack (200 BB starting blinds at 1-2) doing 10/8/6/2 of T1/5/25/100. You would feel light on T25s in the mid game, so I would suggest issuing re-entries with the remaining T25s and T100s first and then the remaining T100s after that, saving a couple T100s for the first color up. You will probably need to introduce some T500s as well later, but you would not get your T1000 or T5000 chips in play with this approach.
 
BGinGA said:
For 20 players, the best you can do is T7500 starting stacks:

16 stacks of 8/8/5/4
4 stacks of 4/4/4/5

Ugly, but it will work (barely). Use 14x T5000 chips for color-ups.

Or just start 18 stacks of 8/8/5/4 (and a little easier for the color-ups).
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With these starting stacks, I would strongly recommend blinds of
50/100
100/200
150/300

This minimizes the amount of T25s used as blinds. BGinGA might throw in a 100/150 level, but I would only use that if I felt the game needed to be a little longer by adding a level. Levels like 75/150, with 8xT25s leads to a lot of change making, which can really slow down a game with novice players.
 

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