Ratio of value chips in a limit set (1 Viewer)

[MattyA]

Assuming you use a value chip that is 20x, is there a rule of thumb for how many value chips to have in a limit set. It would seem that a single rack could probably cover a set that was 2000-3000 chips but maybe I'm thinking about it wrong. Perhaps it depends on how many chips you have for each player relative to the stakes.

TBH I'd also be interested in how you put them in play. Last time I played limit it was $3/6 in a casino and everyone just had racks of $1 chips...there were no value chips.

 

[springbox]

Value chips are needed for additional buy-ins once you're out of workhorse chips. Players can re-buy for value chips and then make change with other players. Since a value chip is (typically) 20x a workhorse chip, one rack of value chips matches 20 racks of workhorse chips. So yes, a single rack should cover a home limit game very well. Casinos have so many racks of chips that they don't even need to use value chips for limit games, at home you can realistically run out.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

Casinos have so many racks of chips that they don't even need to use value chips for limit games,

^^^ this.

However, I did run into a case at my local brick and mortar many years ago where one player at the 3/6 limit table I was at ran like God for a few orbits and had the power-pyramid of chips way out beyond the betting line. I personally managed to avoid her reign of terror at the table, but distinctly remember the floor coming out to color her up with barrels of $25s (biggest chip available in the room at the time) to bring in the sprawl a bit.

 

[harrysallout]

Can't remember who posted this but this is mad crazy stacks.

 

[Natskule]

Can't remember who posted this but this is mad crazy stacks.

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proof that value chips aren't needed if you have 32 racks of workhorse chips.

 

[DZPoker]

proof that value chips aren't needed if you have 32 racks of workhorse chips.

So……no one else has chips??

 

[allforcharity]

So……no one else has chips??

Just what's in the pot, I guess.

Almost like an allegory of @Windwalker and the rest of us.

 

[bergs]

Mmmmmmmmmm bring me the 5 rack stacks.

 

[allforcharity]

But seriously, 1 rack of value chips can easily be paired with 19 or more racks of workhorse chips.
1:9 for 1000 chips
1:19 for 2000 chips
It's all good.