NexGen Custom Label Set - Denomination Advice (1 Viewer)

[MrADoubleH]

Hi All,

I'm new the forum and in need of some advice.

I have had this set of Nexgens for some years now and am looking to re-label them to create a custom set. Please see the designs below, somewhat inspired by the Athenian Owl Club chips, I have some sample inlays arriving soon.

Unfortunately, I am stuck with the chips I have as they seem to be incredibly difficult to get hold off in these colours, especially in the UK. I bought these when I was at uni in 2009, as they were discontinued I got a little carried away and bought too many colours, but not enough of each.

I currently have the following:

White: 125
Red: 100
Purple: 150
Yellow: 150
Green: 150
Bright Red: 100
Black: 75
Maroon: 75
Pink: 25

After having a long break from poker, we have started playing home games every couple of weeks with between 6 & 8 players. My thoughts on denominations are to cater for both cash games and tournaments. I.e 1, 5, & 20 for Cash games, 25, 100, 500, 1K & 5K for tournaments and the value can equate to 'pennies' for micro stakes. (100 would equate to £1)

I'm kind of lost with the '50s & 20s' as I know they are not really needed but worried I may run out of the other chips and need these to bulk up. Would be great to get some thoughts, both on the chip design and the denominations.

I have finally found some on eBay, do you think they are worth picking up to improve the numbers?

Green: 75
Black: 125
Maroon: 25
White: 25

Any comments will be much appreciated.

 

[Jake14mw]

Interesting! I consider myself a Nexgen aficionado, and have NEVER seen those colors!

 

[Pinkdan]

Wow those colors and labels looks slick!

 

[mtl mile end]

Hi, and welcome to PCF.

My advice would be to not spend money on labels to make a set that isn't playable due to breakdown. Trade some of your short colours for a playable amount of the series that everyone has (8000? 8200?). The colours are different, but the mold and spot patterns are the same.
This is an 8000 series chip:

 

[wolfpack]

I have not seen many of those colors either,

you seem to have lots of colors, I would consider trying to seperate the cash and tourney set, even doing a slightly different label for the tournment set. that way you don;t have to worrya bout a chip form the tournament play getting dropped in during a cash game

I am assuming this is all for single table up to 10 players

you can do a tournament set with 300 chips.
a t25 base of 80/80/40/80/20 (25/100/500/1000/5000) or t5 base of 100/100/75/25 (5/25/100/500)

what are the stakes of your cash games, how many players, what are the buy ins, how many rebuys normally

 

[wolfpack]

assuming this is all for a single table up to 10 players

You could make a t5 base tournament set with t2000 starting stack)
Red: 100 (5)
Green: 150 (25)
Black: 75 (100)
Pink: 25 (500)

you could then do (and without knowing your buy in I will assume a .25/.25 cash game)
Bright Red: 100 (.25)
Purple: 150 ($1)
Yellow: 150 ($5)
White: 125 ($20)

for a cash game the actual breakdown I would want is 100/200/200/100 to make sure yoou have plenty but you area little short and should be able to cover it with the breakdown above

 

[MrADoubleH]

I have not seen many of those colors either,

you seem to have lots of colors, I would consider trying to seperate the cash and tourney set, even doing a slightly different label for the tournment set. that way you don;t have to worrya bout a chip form the tournament play getting dropped in during a cash game

I am assuming this is all for single table up to 10 players

you can do a tournament set with 300 chips.
a t25 base of 80/80/40/80/20 (25/100/500/1000/5000) or t5 base of 100/100/75/25 (5/25/100/500)

what are the stakes of your cash games, how many players, what are the buy ins, how many rebuys normally

Thanks for the response gives me a lot to think about.

Currently... and I know I am going to get slated for this. People buy in between £5 - £15. Mainly because people like a lot of chips we equate that to 500 & 1500 retrospectively and start with blinds at 10/20, then raise this up if people want a quicker game. We would only ever get 2 or 3 rebuys at £5 in a game.

My thoughts were if a player buys in for £10 they could have:

10 x (5)
14 x (25)
7 x (100)

Any rebuys would be in 100s and 500s

If we have more players, then 4 of the 25s could be swapped out for either 2x (50) or 10 x (10)

We have also talked about doing bigger buy ins now and then, my thoughts here would be to run them as a 20k tourny with:

8 x 25
8 x 100
6 x 500
6 x 1K
2 x 5K

If we ever play a higher-stakes cash game you would just use 1s, 5s and possibly 10s.

In my mind this makes my existing set workable. I'm not a massive fan of the later 8000 series NexGen chips, the colours don't seem to pop in the same way. The purple chips I have are the 8000 Edge spot series. The moulding isn't as good, ie there are more ridges etc. If anyone has any of the matching colours I may be interested, but so far I cant find them anywhere besides the ones mentioned in my original post.

 

[wolfpack]

I assume you are talking about tournament play? In a cash game the chips should equal what is paid in the buy in.

for a tournament the buy in doesn't matter, it is all about the chip count and the blinds. you want your tournament chips to be at least 200x the big blind so for a t25 tournament 10,000 starting stack with 25/50 starting blinds for a t5 tournament 2,000 in starting chips and 5/10 blinds.

you don't want to use tweener chips they are ineffectient. If you have .05 and .25 chips you don;t want a .10. or if you use $5 and $25/$20 you don't want a $10 if you have 25 and 100 you don't want a 50.

 

[MrADoubleH]

Thanks for the help,

I assume you are talking about tournament play? In a cash game the chips should equal what is paid in the buy in.

for a tournament the buy in doesn't matter, it is all about the chip count and the blinds. you want your tournament chips to be at least 200x the big blind so for a t25 tournament 10,000 starting stack with 25/50 starting blinds for a t5 tournament 2,000 in starting chips and 5/10 blinds.

you don't want to use tweener chips they are ineffectient. If you have .05 and .25 chips you don;t want a .10. or if you use $5 and $25/$20 you don't want a $10 if you have 25 and 100 you don't want a 50.

Thanks for the help, I think I am just going to keep things simple and opt for a solid tournament set made up of 25s, 100s, 500s, 1ks, and 5ks. I will revisit a cash set at a later date depending on how the tournaments go down... may never be needed!