Mixing 39 mm and 43 mm chips (1 Viewer)

Mix 39 mm and 43 mm chips in a cash set

  • No

  • Yes

  • Fine either way


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I prefer all the chips to be the same size.

The only set I have with a bigger high value chips is my Crystal Park set and I’m not a fan of the big hundo.
 
I say 50mm high denoms for the win!!
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The excitement when those monsters hit the pot especially in a micro set, everybody notices those beauties!! The $25 chip in the FOC chips sucks, ugly off white... you can see them in the bottom of the stack but breakout those 50mm big boys and you feel like Mr. Craig in casino royale throwing Million dollar plaques. Inlays not matching is a bit tilting but absolutely love the monster chips against the 39mm. As far as storage issues... pick foam cases take care of that easily!
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Not sure if sunfly offers larger chips, I do know that @BR Pro Poker offers 47mm. I realize this is slightly off topic but those giant chips make it fun!

@FordPickup92 has $20 plaques in her PCA sec. set... everytime we try to put $25 chips on the board people want to trade them out and actually request the plaques. Go large, give your players that awesome casino feeling in home game stakes games!
 
My apologies buddy, I thought for some reason that's who made your parks and rec. Are those BR pros? That semi gloss finish doesn't seem like something they produce... maybe I'm on drugs today. Haha
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Lol. @detroitdad voted 'No' to mixing 39mm and 43mm.

One other thing. Most people are okay with the big denoms being oversized. Personally, I'm not a fan... We don't get many $25's or $100's in play.

The last time we played on the Aurora Star set, I had 6 barrels of 25¢, $1 and $5, but I had like four oversized $20 chips... It felt awkward to stack them on top of a barrel of $5s because they weren't the same size and I didn't want to start a separate barrel for just 4 chips... so I just kinda stacked them on top across multiple barrels.

Compare that to having the smallest denom be undersized... There are plenty of the small denom on the table, so you have the chance to make a full barrel of that chip, if not multiple barrels.

It feels less awkward to me to have an undersized lowest denom than it does to have a oversized highest denom.

Ideally, all the same size. But if you're going to mix sizes -- at our stakes -- I'd prefer the lowest denom to be undersized.

JMHO.

I agree
This is probably the biggest reason I don't like mixing, because this is usually how they are mixed.
 
The problem with an all oversize set is that in a matter of less than an orbit, you forget that any chips are oversized. I discovered the phenomenon at Minnemania, playing on an all oversized set.

All 43mm doesn't hurt the game, but you lose the "thrill" of the big chips.

For what it's worth, I have both mixed size sets and an all oversized set. The tactile difference is only a thing in the mixed set, and non-chippers won't even know the all 43mm set is any different from the previous week's 39mm set.

^^ This. All of it. Love oversized for the highest denom (or two), but more then that takes away from the specialness of it.

Storage is a bitch with mixed sets!

Unless you have 50 Apache cases like @Ben8257 it definitely poses a problem. A couple tall stacks of 39mm racks with one lonely 43mm rack tilts me to no end.
 
Voted no, mainly as I have OCD for stuff like this and would tilt me a little each time winning a pot.
But if everyone liked the same thing this would be a boring place, you do you :tup:

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For what it’s worth, I am a huge fan of 43 mm hi denomination chips. That’s the way the casinos do it so u get that authentic casino feel in the home game. Also, when I hosted, for rebuy purposes I only gave out 1k chips (after the initial bags) so I could always tell how many rebuys went out. The only issue is storage - it’s hard to find a case that can house 39mm and 43mm together.
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Here's what I think. I may be wrong but screw it.

Two different denominations work when you have specialty chips, like Bounties or Rebuys or whatever. (36/39, 39/43, 43/47) or when a larger denomination is produced (I know several Paulson sets have used 43mm IHC's for higher denominations). The other time is if you want to separate the two sets, for example, it's been recommended when I do a tournament set for Dia De Los Muertos which I may do eventually if I feel like it, I make the tourney's 39's to separate from my 43's with cash. (bdaysenpai actually suggested that and I was like "okay, duh, that's so obvious!")

in your case, I'd do one of two things.

1 -- buy the 5's and above and use the 43's for that, or

2 -- buy a limited number of 1's and use them separate, a no-limit versus a limit set.

If it's THAT much of a problem and if you have 1,050 of the 1's, chances are you're going to want to use them for a limit set, just let your friends know the 1's from your 43 P&R set are part of the no-limit set. That's all. Easy.

I don't have a problem with mixed sizes so I would say do 1.
 

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