Is this a good cash game set? (1 Viewer)

[Vinyard]

For .25/.50

Each players need 1 barrels of .25 as the starting stack. In my opinion, you need 2 racks of quarter.

 

[Rieguy]

Edit - Oh, uh, 100-200-200-80-20 is great btw as a base, then you can just add fives for the time being.

 

[RocAFella1]

100/200/800/80/20
#db

 

[upNdown]

100/200/800/80/20
#db

I laugh at this only in the context of a .25/.50 game. But if the set is also used for a 1/1, 1/2, 1/3 game, I think 800 fives is fully defensible.

 

[Kam]

I laugh at this only in the context of a .25/.50 game. But if the set is also used for a 1/1, 1/2, 1/3 game, I think 800 fives is fully defensible.

@Tommy can you check @upNdown account, think he’s been hacked. I agree with everything he’s saying and he’s agreeing with other folk. Suspicious.

 

[merkong]

I always chuckle when people get fixated on “total bank” when the poster clearly states they’re playing micro to medium stakes games. If many .25.50 games had half that out of the drawer and in play I’d be shocked.

Moar fracs.

 

[acezag]

"Blue"
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Could just be the camera, but it reads like a really weak green to me. And I know that's just saying "green," but like really weak.

 

[MrCatPants]

Could just be the camera, but it reads like a really weak green to me. And I know that's just saying "green," but like really weak.

But its Indian "Blue"

 

[acezag]

Month over month, I get 4 racks of 5s on the table. Not everyone is playing Boring games that only use 2 cards. Building a robust chip set to cover multiple games means you’re not wasting money and you’re not limited to only inviting nits to your game.

We have a 25c / 25c NLHE cash game with hourly Omaha bomb pots, and we've got over $2k on the table a few times in the last year or so. So totally agree - if it's at all an action game, $5k isn't unreasonable.

If someone has an all day event like we do at meetups, it might not be enough.

 

[caballo993]

This with another rack of fracs. Why? Because I need an even amount of racks ocd. And with only 100 fracs on the table there's constant change making. Guys putting out a $1 or $5 for the blind and his neighbor breaking it for him. Give everyone a barrel of fracs & a barrel of $1's with their buy in and that doesn't happen. Plus....M0aR! M0aR! M0aR!

Same, 600 or 800 to fit an Apache. Or 1000 to fit in a birdcage.

 

[QueenDeuce]

100 × 25¢
250 × $1
175 × $5
75 × $25

This would be my first home set, so if there’s a cleaner or more standard setup for a 25¢/50¢ cash game, would be helpful.

I play a scaled .25/.50 game, we use 1$ 5$ chips and just divide by 4. I have
$1x200
$5x200
$25x75
$100x25
500pcs total
usually people buy in for 20$ or 40BB, some (me) will do 80BB. Typically 8 players for around 400BB on the table, reloads usually gets it to around 500BB.

Once I get 160 of the base denomination on the table, that's all that's needed. functionally its a barrel of 20 for each player. A second barrel of the next denomination for each player is 60BB per person. From there the 25's and 100's easily allow people to double their stacks and the chip count on the table starts to get messy. 400 chips on the table for an 8 person game is plenty in my opinion. I have never needed to use all of my chips. I would recommend:

200 × 25¢
200 × $1
75 × $5
25 × $25
total:500

More or less what I play with, if you want to save on more chips you could also do:

160 × 25¢
160 × $1
60 × $5
20 × $25
total: 400

This is 2000BB, which allows for 200BB per person for 10 people, or you can think of it as 1000$ cash on the table. That's deep, really deep for a 0.25/50c game. I'm usually handling a 200-300$ bank at the end of the night.

Casinos will do 10 fracs per person instead of 20, but they pay someone to make change and I don't. I make the change, so I do 20pp for the smallest denomination.

 

[Cratty]

I play a scaled .25/.50 game, we use 1$ 5$ chips and just divide by 4. I have
$1x200
$5x200
$25x75
$100x25
500pcs total
usually people buy in for 20$ or 40BB, some (me) will do 80BB. Typically 8 players for around 400BB on the table, reloads usually gets it to around 500BB.

Once I get 160 of the base denomination on the table, that's all that's needed. functionally its a barrel of 20 for each player. A second barrel of the next denomination for each player is 60BB per person. From there the 25's and 100's easily allow people to double their stacks and the chip count on the table starts to get messy. 400 chips on the table for an 8 person game is plenty in my opinion. I have never needed to use all of my chips. I would recommend:

200 × 25¢
200 × $1
75 × $5
25 × $25
total:500

More or less what I play with, if you want to save on more chips you could also do:

160 × 25¢
160 × $1
60 × $5
20 × $25
total: 400

This is 2000BB, which allows for 200BB per person for 10 people, or you can think of it as 1000$ cash on the table. That's deep, really deep for a 0.25/50c game. I'm usually handling a 200-300$ bank at the end of the night.

Casinos will do 10 fracs per person instead of 20, but they pay someone to make change and I don't. I make the change, so I do 20pp for the smallest denomination.

40-60BB per player is pretty aggressive for a home game. 100BB is the standard and minimum IMO, but prefer 200BB.