Ready to host my first game tonight :) (1 Viewer)

[SparkyPlayer]

After cleaning, oiling, and scheduling, I am finally hosting my first home game tonight

 

[justsomedude]

Ahhh looks fun!! Can't wait to see more pics.

Let us know how it goes!!!!

 

[Eloe2000]

Awesome! Congrats and have fun. Just remember to fold preflop and you will have a great time

 

[justsomedude]

What's the setup? Cash or tourney? Stakes? Starting stacks?

Gives us the scoop!!

 

[Hornet]

Congrats! I remember when I hosted my first game with Milano’s. Will be a blast I’m sure!

 

[jr8719]

Nice touch with individual trays for each set of chips. Enjoy, and run good!

 

[SparkyPlayer]

What's the setup? Cash or tourney? Stakes? Starting stacks?

Gives us the scoop!!

Basic tournament game with $3K chips. We tried $2k starting and $2k re-buy and that usually end up going too long. Last time we tried $3k single buy-in and it worked out well.

Chip breakdown:

5s - 10
25s - 10
50s - 10
100s - 12
500s - 2

I originally had 10 5s with no 1s since the blind starts at $10. But I wanted have more color on the table

We ended up not using the ones since the initial blinds was 10/20.

 

[SparkyPlayer]

The game just finished an hour ago and it was a success. I even won and finished in first place. Pretty lucky to win first time hosting.

My winning hand:

Making the straight on the river (not me):

Action shot with colorful chips:

 

[xdan]

25 AND 50 chips.. NOOOOOOOO

 

[APatHand]

That's awesome! Congrats on the successful home tourney and the win.

 

[Sparty]

Great!!.....now take your winnings and buy a hot dog roller!

 

[Forest@Farmington]

Congrats on the game and the winning hand. Everything looks great

 

[SparkyPlayer]

25 AND 50 chips.. NOOOOOOOO

Combo no good?

 

[RichMahogany]

Combo no good?

The 50 is a waste. Totally unnecessary

 

[FordPickup92]

Congrats hope you had a blast!!!

 

[Frogzilla]

Combo no good?

The 50 is a waste. Totally unnecessary

It’s unusual to do 25 and 50..but who hasn’t played in a tourney with both 500s and 1000s

Also, you wouldn’t use a 25 past 125/250 if you had 50s...just the 50s for 150/300 and 250/500

 

[xdan]

Combo no good?

definitely no good.

25/100/500/1000/5000

 

[SparkyPlayer]

Thanks for the explanation. Is there a thread or a site on how to plan chip distribution?

I think our set up is probably not standard tournament format.

Each player starts with $3,000 and no re-buy, and blind starts at 10/20.

 

[SparkyPlayer]

So I read the other thread on how to map out a cash set and it mentioned that ideally, the denomination should increase about 4X-5X between chips.

So would this set be efficient?

$3,000.00

denomination (number of chips):

5(10)/25(10)/100(12)/500(1)/1000(1)

 

[DLManiac]

So I read the other thread on how to map out a cash set and it mentioned that ideally, the denomination should increase about 4X-5X between chips.

So would this set be efficient?

$3,000.00

denomination (number of chips):

5(10)/25(10)/100(12)/500(1)/1000(1)

I think the advice would in general be that you replaced the 1000 with 2 more 500s.

 

[allforcharity]

I'd go 10/10/7/6 for T5?T25/T100/T500 for a T3K starting stack. You can get T1000s for rebuys if you want.

 

[SparkyPlayer]

I'd go 10/10/7/6 for T5?T25/T100/T500 for a T3K starting stack. You can get T1000s for rebuys if you want.

That is great! Thanks for the advice. It does make the distribution more even.

 

[JRReynolds6181]

When you upgrade your Barrington table there are a lot of great threads on this site for how to refinish the top. It’s super easy and makes the table a lot better, in my opinion. I found the original felt to be cheap feeling and had very very thin padding.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Combo no good?

The 50 is a waste. Totally unnecessary

definitely no good.

25/100/500/1000/5000

I've seen this here a lot, and I do understand the why. But while this advice is great when you are picking out a new set of chips, or if you're playing with unmarked (no denomination) chips, what's the harm if you already have the $50s (or $10s) sitting there in your chip case? If you have them, why not use them?

SparkyPlayer, you're a few months down the road from this post. Has pulling those chips out of your game made the game play any differently? Those pretty blue chips are just sitting there in your case all lonely, just longing to be touched.

 

[xdan]

Nothing worse than playing in a game where the host has some generic set with stupid denoms and feels the need to use them just because.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Nothing worse than playing in a game where the host has some generic set with stupid denoms and feels the need to use them just because.

Nothing? Really? I can think of a lot of things that are much worse!

I'm new here. I'm trying to learn. Enlighten me.

 

[tabletalker7]

Nothing? Really? I can think of a lot of things that are much worse!

I'm new here. I'm trying to learn. Enlighten me.

Too many denoms at one time not only adds confusion to the players, but makes the bank worthless when it is time to color up. As a host you need to not only provide a good time that allows your players to focus on cards and fun and not denoms, but you need to make sure you don't lose your mind coloring up constantly for no other reason than "I like these chips". When everything serves a USEFUL purpose it makes everything go much more smoothly.

 

[allforcharity]

Nothing? Really? I can think of a lot of things that are much worse!

I'm new here. I'm trying to learn. Enlighten me.

Too many denoms can be unwieldy. Maybe less so for cash, but it's bad for tournaments. Why? Because as the blinds increase, the lowest denomination chips become inefficient to use and are replaced by higher denom chips (hence the "colour-up" phase), and the more denoms there are, the more time you have to waste with colouring up.

And it's a lot of extra math to do in your head when you're counting up the stacks either when someone goes all in or you're reconciling the cash at the end of the night.

Chip efficiency = getting the minimum number of chips you need to play comfortably within a set budget, so you can afford better chips!

 

[longflop]

Man, I keep seeing more and more people from Maryland on here. Are we the center of the poker universe? Maybe....

Also, yes, there are worse things than playing poker with less than ideal chip setups. But color up breaks are already a pain in the butt, I would not want to add any more.

 

[SparkyPlayer]

SparkyPlayer, you're a few months down the road from this post. Has pulling those chips out of your game made the game play any differently? Those pretty blue chips are just sitting there in your case all lonely, just longing to be touched.

Unfortunately, I only hosted that one game and rotated to other neighbors hosting, then the pandemic hit.

But I think I made a better selection for the scrub donkey chips that I ordered