Waarwaar
Sitting Out
Hello everybody,
Since a few months i am a member of this forum and this is my first post. I'm from Europe and started playing poker when i was a teenager like 8-10 years ago (during the pokerboom with tv-programs like poker after dark and with players like Tom Durrr, Phil Laak and Tony G). I always played mirco-stakes at homegames. At that time we played every weekend and we always used dice chips... I know, but we didn't know any better. After some years our games stopped (many universal reasons like girlfriends, study and work)
After a long break i decided i would love to reintroduce our poker nights. Luckily i found some friends to have a table with around 6-8 people. I always liked pokerchips (even the dice chips back then) and for our future games i wanted some new pokerchips.
So what did i buy? Monte Carlo chips.... But i didnt know what denominations i needed so i ended up with 1.800 chips total and with the denominations 0.25, 0.50, 1, 5, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000 :s.
As a proud owner of a big Monte Carlo poker chipcollection i started to surf around the internet. And then.......... I saw a picture of the custom pokerset The Colony Club, to be honest my world changed... It was the most beautiful pokerset i had ever seen. I also realised that my Monte Carlo pokerset wasn't the set i was looking for.
I discovered this forum and CP and i was amazed how great some sets look and i am even more impressed about how you help each other on this forum. I also discovered the company CPC and played with the designtool.
But before i start thinking about my own custom set i first needed to feel the chips. So i purchased a month ago a sample set of the Key West chips. And after some shuffling i was sold, they feel amazing! Also the H-mold and colors/design are beautiful.
So now my question: is this a good starting stack?
At this point i am thinking of a tourney set with the Key West chips (maybe in the future my custom cash set). I really like the high demons. Because i don't like to have a 500 and a 1k chip, i am thinking about a three denomination set: 1k, 5k and 25k. I think a T200.000 tournament with 100bb will do fine. For the structure:
Small blind / Big blind
1000/2000
1000/3000
2000/4000
3000/6000
4000/8000
......
For the starting stack:
15x 1k (15.000)
12x 5k (60.000)
5x 25k (125.000)
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32 chips and 200.000 total
The post is longer then i expected, but i really hope someone reads this and can give me some advice. I dont want to end up again with 11 different denominations .Thank you very much!
And because the first post needs a picture i added a random picture of the Key West chips!
Best regards,
Rob
Since a few months i am a member of this forum and this is my first post. I'm from Europe and started playing poker when i was a teenager like 8-10 years ago (during the pokerboom with tv-programs like poker after dark and with players like Tom Durrr, Phil Laak and Tony G). I always played mirco-stakes at homegames. At that time we played every weekend and we always used dice chips... I know, but we didn't know any better. After some years our games stopped (many universal reasons like girlfriends, study and work)
After a long break i decided i would love to reintroduce our poker nights. Luckily i found some friends to have a table with around 6-8 people. I always liked pokerchips (even the dice chips back then) and for our future games i wanted some new pokerchips.
So what did i buy? Monte Carlo chips.... But i didnt know what denominations i needed so i ended up with 1.800 chips total and with the denominations 0.25, 0.50, 1, 5, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000 :s.
As a proud owner of a big Monte Carlo poker chipcollection i started to surf around the internet. And then.......... I saw a picture of the custom pokerset The Colony Club, to be honest my world changed... It was the most beautiful pokerset i had ever seen. I also realised that my Monte Carlo pokerset wasn't the set i was looking for.
I discovered this forum and CP and i was amazed how great some sets look and i am even more impressed about how you help each other on this forum. I also discovered the company CPC and played with the designtool.
But before i start thinking about my own custom set i first needed to feel the chips. So i purchased a month ago a sample set of the Key West chips. And after some shuffling i was sold, they feel amazing! Also the H-mold and colors/design are beautiful.
So now my question: is this a good starting stack?
At this point i am thinking of a tourney set with the Key West chips (maybe in the future my custom cash set). I really like the high demons. Because i don't like to have a 500 and a 1k chip, i am thinking about a three denomination set: 1k, 5k and 25k. I think a T200.000 tournament with 100bb will do fine. For the structure:
Small blind / Big blind
1000/2000
1000/3000
2000/4000
3000/6000
4000/8000
......
For the starting stack:
15x 1k (15.000)
12x 5k (60.000)
5x 25k (125.000)
--------------------------------------
32 chips and 200.000 total
The post is longer then i expected, but i really hope someone reads this and can give me some advice. I dont want to end up again with 11 different denominations .Thank you very much!
And because the first post needs a picture i added a random picture of the Key West chips!
Best regards,
Rob