Cash Game Starting Regular Home Game - Blinds/Stacks/Chip Bank (3 Viewers)

[CVPokerCave]

Merry Christmas everybody!

New guy starting new home game. Need opinions on set-up:

I’m thinking of a starting blinds at .25/.25 for $20 min buy-in with max $50 buy-in, then moving to .25/.50, .50/1.00, etc.

Starting stack ($25)
.25 - 20
1.00 - 15
5.00 - 2
*Should I buy some .50 chips as well?

With just 1 table and probably 8-10 players a game, breakdown of chip bank that I think may work best:
.25 - 250
***.50 - 150
1.00 - 150
5.00 - 100

Please give this new guy some advice! Trying to head in the right direction, but ultimately I know it’s just going to be fun no matter what! Thanks everyone!

 

[Kentucky]

*Should I buy some .50 chips as well?

No

 

[krafticus]

You don’t need any $.50 chips. Just use quarters, $1, $5, and a $20 or $25 chip

 

[Beakertwang]

Welcome!

You don't need 250 quarters. 100 usually works. The $1 chip will be the workhorse, and possibly the $5, depending on how your game plays. Don't get 50¢ chips.

This is a typical 600-chip breakdown for a .25/.50 game:
25¢ x 100
$1 x 200
$5 x 200
$20 or $25 x 100 (or 80 of these and 20 $100 chips)

The total bank is $3225 - $5225

You could add maybe 60 quarters to this, and reduce the large denoms, if you think your game will play smaller.

 

[Brad1316]

Our group regularly plays .25/.50 pot limit/no limit or $2/$4 limit games with a $100 buy in. We play a lot of split pot games. I can cover this game with
two racks of quarters, six racks of ones and two racks of fives. One thousand chips total. $1,650 total bank. Ones are the work horse and people like to have several stacks in front of them.

 

[Dodger]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...ut-a-cash-game-chip-set-5c-10c-to-5-10.30897/

 

[303Mike]

Use non-denom for fracs. Then you can play them either as quarters in a .25/.50 game, or 50c pieces in a .50/1.00 game.

 

[springbox]

250 quarters is too many. Definitely no half dollars. Number of quarters is going to depend on how people like to play. Do people limp a lot, hate making change, and limit their re-buys? 200 quarters then, and fewer $5s or $25s. On the other hand, if the stakes go up quickly and people are topping off/re-buying a lot, you can get by with only 100 quarters and allocate more chips for higher denominations.

I'd say something like

100~200 25c
200 $1
200 $5
25~100 $25
0~25 $100

 

[PLOdonk]

I just ordered my first cash set with hopes of playing the same range of stakes. After some research, I decided on the following denominations.

.25 x 200
1 x 300
5 x 400
25 x 50
50 x 50

Unless you’ve already decided on the type of chips you want, that’s going to be your next decision. As a noob chipper myself, the Tina Cards Mold chips from the PCF group buys turned out to be perfect for me.

 

[Taxi500]

Merry Christmas everybody!

New guy starting new home game. Need opinions on set-up:

I’m thinking of a starting blinds at .25/.25 for $20 min buy-in with max $50 buy-in, then moving to .25/.50, .50/1.00, etc.

Starting stack ($25)
.25 - 20
1.00 - 15
5.00 - 2
*Should I buy some .50 chips as well?

With just 1 table and probably 8-10 players a game, breakdown of chip bank that I think may work best:
.25 - 250
***.50 - 150
1.00 - 150
5.00 - 100

Please give this new guy some advice! Trying to head in the right direction, but ultimately I know it’s just going to be fun no matter what! Thanks everyone!

biggest starters mistake I ever made was buying 50 cent chips... 25 cents or unmarked chips x100 forever. Then they can be .25 or .5 or whatever value you want!

 

[Marijo]

For me the best way is:
0.25 - 200
1 - 200
5 - 100
20 - 100
100 - 25
I prefer not to have the denominations marked on the chips so I can change them from time to time

 

[Taxi500]

For me the best way is:
0.25 - 200
1 - 200
5 - 100
20 - 100
100 - 25
I prefer not to have the denominations marked on the chips so I can change them from time to time

I used to do the 200 frac but we NEVER use them in game besides blinds. Dropped that down to x100.

I really like the
25c x100
1 x 200
5x200
20/25x100

Never had a game get too big for it. Never had too many chips on table. Feels just right for my grp.

 

[rcamp014]

Change your starting stack to 12/12/2

I do $25 cash games all the time, I have found that to be the perfect starting stack.

Good luck!

 

[Machine]

Change your starting stack to 12/12/2

I do $25 cash games all the time, I have found that to be the perfect starting stack.

Good luck!

Because of the 25 dollar bill?

 

[rcamp014]

Because of the 25 dollar bill?

On my cash games I dont let anyone buy in for more than $25 on initial buy-in, eliminates early big stack bullying.

After they bust they can buy back in to match biggest stack.

 

[merkong]

On my cash games I dont let anyone buy in for more than $25 on initial buy-in, eliminates early big stack bullying.

After they bust they can buy back in to match biggest stack.

A static initial buy-in is common but we reload anytime between hands for up to half big stack.

 

[rcamp014]

A static initial buy-in is common but we reload anytime between hands for up to half big stack.

Yeah, I actually do the same thing. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[BottomPair7]

I run a monthly cash game with 25¢/25¢ blinds. Our buy-in is $20-$40. Most buy-in for $40, but some still do for only $20. My starting stacks are 25¢-20, $1-20, $5-3. It generally plays pretty small with a lot of limping. We are all casual players and my group likes a lot of quarters. That might not be the same for all groups. I would feel out what your players like and go with that.

 

[BirdCage]

Frequent .25/.50 NLHE player with $50 buy-in. I’m the banker more than I’d prefer, so starting stacks are grab and go:

Barrel of .25’s
Barrel of $1’s
Single $5
Single $20

This gets the cards in the air quickly.

Re-buys are mostly $5’s & $20’s.

Sample $50 starting stack is pictured below.

 

[merkong]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I like this.