QuadFlopper
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Hey everyone, I’m new here and I saw a few posts similar to mine but I really wanted to hear what you guys thought about my specific situation. Me and my group of friends just started playing recently but have been playing pretty much every weekend so I’ve been looking to get us a decent set of chips. We have a very cheap set of chips right now that has 100/100/100 each white, red, and blue chips that we count as 1,5, and 10.
We play 1/2 because that’s the smallest chip we have but people do not buy in for much (usual buy ins are only between 25-80 dollars and we usually play with about 4-6 people regularly but I could see our games maybe getting up to 10 people occasionally at some point in the future). Playing with 6 people we usually run out of whites very quickly and are often making change. It seems like 5s are really supposed to be the workhorse chip for 1/2 from what I’m hearing but we have never even opened 50 of our red chips (or the other 50 blue).
Our main workhorse chip is the 1 and when we use 5s (or 10s) it’s a pretty strong bet. I want to get a chip set that can support growth in the future where hopefully we do use more $5 chips and I would probably replace the 10s with 25s to promote players having more 5s on the table. It seems like for the stakes we do a lot of you will recommend fractional chips but I don’t really understand the purpose of that. Seems silly to have chips out there that are worth so little, no one has ever had an issue with $1 being our minimum bet or with the blinds being priced the way they are. I’m thinking a 600 chip set broken down 250 $1s, 250 $5s, 100 $25s but I would really like to hear everyone’s opinion on this and also if you have any opinions on the way that we play in general or any improvements you can think of for our game would be appreciated, thanks guys.
We play 1/2 because that’s the smallest chip we have but people do not buy in for much (usual buy ins are only between 25-80 dollars and we usually play with about 4-6 people regularly but I could see our games maybe getting up to 10 people occasionally at some point in the future). Playing with 6 people we usually run out of whites very quickly and are often making change. It seems like 5s are really supposed to be the workhorse chip for 1/2 from what I’m hearing but we have never even opened 50 of our red chips (or the other 50 blue).
Our main workhorse chip is the 1 and when we use 5s (or 10s) it’s a pretty strong bet. I want to get a chip set that can support growth in the future where hopefully we do use more $5 chips and I would probably replace the 10s with 25s to promote players having more 5s on the table. It seems like for the stakes we do a lot of you will recommend fractional chips but I don’t really understand the purpose of that. Seems silly to have chips out there that are worth so little, no one has ever had an issue with $1 being our minimum bet or with the blinds being priced the way they are. I’m thinking a 600 chip set broken down 250 $1s, 250 $5s, 100 $25s but I would really like to hear everyone’s opinion on this and also if you have any opinions on the way that we play in general or any improvements you can think of for our game would be appreciated, thanks guys.