Number of chips for single table .25/.50 game (1 Viewer)

[MrCatPants]

a) run .50/.50 - cuts down the need for fracs. Fracs just get in the way.
b) you can get by with 200 1s and 200 5s, but ideally should have at least 300 5s IMO.

100/200/300/80/20 is the way.

 

[Machine]

For 8 players I’m currently doing 100/160/320/60/20.
I feel most strongly about the 160 - I don’t want and don’t need any more than a barrel of $1s per player for this game.

The 100 fracs is fine. 120 would be fine too.
320 x $5 is luxury. I could get away with 200. I wouldn’t like it, but I could. And a game that plays smaller could probably get away with fewer.

Okay, I tried to let this go, but here we are! again! (For my .25/.5 game 20-80 max, 3 hours goes up to 100)

I don't think you need more than 60 fracs on the table, I am so dedicated to this, I only bought 70 and I had samples out of this, I felt 60 at max.

These last 6ish games I've been putting in 300 5s, and I like it.

Once I have about 400 USD in plaques (20s) on the table, I start coloring them up with 100s.

I'm going to see how I like 160 1s, seem crazy! talk but I'm interested in finding out! Dedicated dealer, so my players tip 1s, this might not work out for me, due to this.

Last 3 or 4 games we've had about 1900 - 2500 on the table, so can't wait to see how the next game goes.

Current:
.25 x 60
1 x 200
5 x 300
20 x 40
100 x 10

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

Do you frac haters realize if you play 1/1 you can have 0 fracs on the table?

+1 for 1 barrel/player

 

[Chipnut]

Going to start everyone with:
20-.25
20-1.00
15-5.00
$100. Starting stacks

I have 200-.25, 300-$1 and 300-$5 along with 80-100 $20 chips.

 

[Highli99]

Just give the first 4 or 5 players a barrel of quarters, and the rest can make change at the table. No need for OCD.

Hell, when I’m spinning up a cash game and I’m still on a tournament I will sell one player a whole rack and let them deal with it.

You get a rack of quarters, you get a rack of ones, the rest of you get 5s. Sort it out.

 

[Machine]

Going to start everyone with:
20-.25

 

[chipinla]

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[upNdown]

I don't think you need more than 60 fracs on the table, I am so dedicated to this, I only bought 70 and I had samples out of this, I felt 60 at max.

I’m pretty sure I played 6-handed with 60 quarters one time and it was fine. But I’m good with getting all hundred out for 7 or 8 handed. There’s a little more limping in my game than there should be and we have one guy who loves to bet $1.75, so the full rack is the sweet spot for me.
But I wonder why you’re coloring up in a cash game? I’m not one of those “moar” whackadoos. But unless you’re raising the stakes or unless a couple of people get felted and leave, I can’t imagine taking chips off the table.

 

[Machine]

But I wonder why you’re coloring up in a cash game? I’m not one of those “moar” whackadoos. But unless you’re raising the stakes or unless a couple of people get felted and leave, I can’t imagine taking chips off the table.

Well, I'm really only coloring up the 20s which are plaques, they only really stack well to 10 and once some has about 10 of the 20s I color up to 100s. Often times people are asking, they love the plaques.

Super late night / early morning, if I have 20+ quarters I'll color up 1 barrel. We are playing PLO and stacks are flying...

 

[Highli99]

Well, I'm really only coloring up the 20s which are plaques, they only really stack well to 10 and once some has about 10 of the 20s I color up to 100s. Often times people are asking, they love the plaques.

Super late night / early morning, if I have 20+ quarters I'll color up 1 barrel. We are playing PLO and stacks are flying...

I’ll be honest I hate fracs in PLO. I straddle just to make it easier to calc pot pre.

 

[Machine]

I’ll be honest I hate fracs in PLO. I straddle just to make it easier to calc pot pre.

we just round up, if the pot is 3.25, its considered 4; and with the dedicated dealer, its easy on the players, we just ask him.

 

[Highli99]

we just round up, if the pot is 3.25, its considered 4; and with the dedicated dealer, its easy on the players, we just ask him.

The rounding is where I get stumped. I’m not good with numbers. I’m more a feel player. I don’t know how I passed the CPA exam honestly.

 

[allforcharity]

Do you frac haters realize if you play 1/1 you can have 0 fracs on the table?

+1 for 1 barrel/player

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Not all of us are high rollers, you know

 

[LeLe]

I loved how most people replied to OP with either 100 or less frac but OP still go with 200

 

[bergs]

We used to do a .25/.50 game that played like a big $1/1 late night, but we capped buyins at half the biggest stack or $125 (so it was $125 for a while each night).

Everyone got 20 quarters, 20 $1 and 20 $5s. If they bought in for less than $125 they got fewer $5s. We started stopping with quarters after a rack was out there at some point - they hardly ever played in pots.

Rebuys would be a barrel of $1s and the rest in $5s until it was half the biggest stack and then just $5s and eventually $20s and hundos.

I’m a big believer that chip aficionados want more chips to start with and if they run well they’ll want big stacks - so my set was larger than this but basically when we played we got these on a single table:

1 rack frac
3 rack $1
6 rack $5
2 rack $20

This’ll let you spread virtually any stakes with $1 or $5 as the workforce chip. If you double it you can still comfortably run 3 tables.

 

[merkong]

Don’t overthink it. Just give each of the first 5 players a barrel of quarters. That gets all the fracs you really need on the table from the jump. People can make change after that. This notion that everybody needs matching starting stacks - that’s a fiction and that’s the malfunctional OCD trap. Just play cards.

20/20/x for the first five players, then 0/20/x for the rest. So simple.

You may have just energized me.

I’m looking for HHR’s and am probably pulling the trigger on two lots that I was hesitant on one of them because of quantities.

One two rack lot (will be my $1’s) and a weird lot I’m hoping to deal on with a BEAUTIFUL rack+1, (my fracs), a very PRETTY stack of 50 (my$5’s) and an equally handsome 9 stack (where’d you go #10?) which would be my $20’s

The Godfather Club plays a wicked wild .25/.25 game and we usually get a barrel, maybe a barrel and half of 5’s on the table once each weekend.

I was caught in the equal stack vortex. I was a 16/16 guy (I know, it’s 80 BB’s but we have a liberal add on policy).

As far as fracs go, if I make these deals, “empty the clip on the first 5 arrivals. 20/15. Everyone else $1’s and $5(‘s)

Get those Red Birds out there early.

Dammit upNdown, you’re a rebel and I like it.

HHR’s on a budget are hard to find.

Ken
The Godfather Club, MN

 

[merkong]

Just give the first 4 or 5 players a barrel of quarters, and the rest can make change at the table. No need for OCD.

I sure do associate with some wise individuals. That makes two now that I know of for sure.

 

[merkong]

Just give the first 4 or 5 players a barrel of quarters, and the rest can make change at the table. No need for OCD.

I sure do associate with some wise individuals. That makes two now that I know of for sure

 

[merkong]

I sure do associate with some wise individuals. That makes two now that I know of for sure

Wow. I must really hold you guys in some high esteem…

I had to say it twice.

I meant “run” it twice.

 

[BGinGA]

I was caught in the equal stack vortex.

Pretty common issue.

get all the quarters on the table at the beginning of the game.

Pretty common fix.

 

[ekricket]

I do 100 quarters, 150 singles for starting stacks

FYP

 

[slowplay]

a) run .50/.50 - cuts down the need for fracs. Fracs just get in the way.
b) you can get by with 200 1s and 200 5s, but ideally should have at least 300 5s IMO.

100/200/300/80/20 is the way.

That's exactly what I did, running .50/.50 distributing 20/20/4 (.50/1/5).
Not sure if I agree with 300 5s, for .50/.50 game seems like a lot, even if you pump up the blinds to 1/1, you would really distribute 20/7/1 (?) Unless you do reloads in just 5s, but then what's the use for 25s and 100s

 

[ekricket]

But I wonder why you’re coloring up in a cash game?

Anyone ever start coloring up quarters about 3-4 hours into the game just to see how many you really need?
Start out with a bunch, then Color up until people start complaining about making change.
Some “real world” data

 

[Nine_high]

I do 100 quarters, 150 singles for starting stacks

Yes. And then 12 racks of 5s, just in case it gets wild

 

[philhut]

Reply to @Machine about minimizing low value chips when taking tips etc....sometimes it's best to take them and never let anyone know what is is the drop box till the game is over.

Careful if you are taking tips/tracking with few $1's. If you open your tip jar or cash box to recirculate chips it can irritate some guests who may be less likely to tip or even play later. I suggest planning to have enough 1/5's or whatever goes I the bucket in some abundance to avoid unfortunate situations. I had to reopen my cash box after 3 or 4hrs of my first stag and doe with my pharaoh set st the time 250-1,460-5...... I was running low on 1s after tracking multiple pots where $4 went in the rake (basically all of them were 3-4 in the bucket). So after a few hours I needed chips to give to new players. I opened the drop box and a few saw how much $ was in there....not a single player played poker for the rest of the night. We were playing 1/2, taking min $1, 10% of pot up to maximum $5 per hand. I think my deal was 50/50....I I didn't make much money but had a lot of jello shooters.

 

[warma]

Y’all have some wicked 25¢/50¢ games.