If you were to receive a 500 chip tourney set as a gift, what would you prefer? (1 Viewer)

If you were to receive a 500 (5x100) chip set as a gift, what breakdown would you prefer?

  • 100 each of 5, 25, 100, 500, 1000

    Votes: 7 21.2%
  • 100 each of 25, 100, 500, 1000, 5000

    Votes: 17 51.5%
  • 100 each of 500, 1000, 5000, 25000, 100000

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • 100 each of 0.25, 1, 5, 25, 100

    Votes: 3 9.1%
  • 100 each of something different (please post what you'd like)

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Total voters
    33

Darson

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For our "Friday Night Poker" we play single table tourneys and I want to give a couple of guys a chip set. If you were to receive one, what breakdown would you prefer?
 
Just me personally but I'd do something like:
100x 25
100x 100
60x 500
100x 1k
100x 5k
40 x 25k
 
100 chips each of five different denominations makes a horrible single-table tournament set. Just sayin'

I thought it was BG-approved for T500-based sets (well, at least 100 chips each of T500, T1k, T5k, and T25k).
Did I get this wrong?
 
10-50-200-1000 (or simply 1-5-20-100).
4X100 of each=400 chips, good for 10 players at T4000 (200BB).
Starting stacks 10x10, 10x50, 7x200 (plus 3x200 for color up), 2x1000 (plus 8x1000 for 2 full re-buys / add-ons!)
The same can be done with 390 chips if using 25s/250s.
 
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25/100/500/1000/5000
12UP 40,000 Starting Chips
8/8/8/5/6
96x 25
96x 100
96x 500
60x 1000
72x 5000
Well-armed for colour-ups for above, requires 12x 1000 and 10x 5000. 70x 1000 + 82x 5000 at the final colour-up phase.
 
Most efficient use of 500 chips in 100-chip increments would be T5-base (or T5000-base):

up to 10 x T15000 starting stacks (10/10/7/10/9, 500BB with 15/30 opening blinds)
10 x T5
10 x T25
7 x T100 (extras used to color-up T5 and T25 chips)
10 x T500
9 x T1000 (extras used to color-up T100 chips)
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46 chips (extra 40 chips used for color-ups). Use smaller starting stacks if re-buys/add-ons are desired.
 
T25/T100/T500/T1000/ T5000 : 125/125/75/125/50

Yields 10 stacks 12/12/5/6, or 15 stacks of 8/8/4/7 with extra 5k for deep stacks.
 
Thanks for all the responses!

After reading @BGinGA 's advice perhaps the following is a better 500 chip set gift:

100x 5
100x 25
200x 100
100x 500

Works for a T1000 to T5000 STT set and also micro cash with no $ sign. Looks like I need to order some more blacks...
 
For Cash, 5 denoms is too many. I like 100/300/100 spread (example, $1/5/25 for a $1/2 game). Tourney is definitely different, though.
 
I actually think the 5x100 is sub-optimal.

T25 100
T100 200
T500 200 (or T500 100 & T2500 100)
 

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