Tourney Tournament Chip Breakdown Help (1 Viewer)

[chubbyone]

Hello all, I am trying to see if a particular chipset could work for me for a bit until I bite the bullet on a real set.

The set is as follows:

150- $1
150- $5
100- $10
50- $25
50- $100

I expect 8 players max, but sure maybe sometimes it'll be 9-10? They would have to squeeze in to the table so if the chips work much better for 8 max I can cap it at that.

This is my first stab at home games, I do have about 700 dice chips, but would prefer to use the smaller set with denoms if I can, as they are a lot cleaner and nicer chips. The dice ones are from my college days.

I'd like to have a $20 buy-in with 1 rebuy allowed per player, I have no knowledge on how I would best structure this.

So, you guys are the experts, given the 500 count set, and those denoms, and the 1 rebuy criteria, how would you run the tournament? Thanks so much in advance!



Edit: added the suggested stack size picture

 

[BGinGA]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/chip-identification-needed.22751/#post-419275

 

[chubbyone]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/chip-identification-needed.22751/#post-419275

Thanks! I derailed my original thread there, just read your response and it is exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you so much!

 

[chubbyone]

If I go with T400:

15 - $1
12 - $5
5 - $25
2 - $100

How do I best handle rebuys? Chips are maxed out at 10 players starting. Is it common practice to just color up the chip leader and issue a standard starting stack again regardless of blind level? Is the blind timer paused during the banking?

Short of relabeling the $10 chips, is there any use for them?

Thanks as always!

 

[BGinGA]

If you have 10 x T400 starting stacks (15/12/5/2), that uses a total of 20 x T100 chips plus you'll need 8x more for the T1 and T5 color-ups (total = 28). That leaves 22 extras, so you can handle up to five re-buys (using 4 x T100 for each, or a total of 20 chips). Let the re-buy players get change for their T100s from the other players as needed. The average re-buy rate for most well-structured tournaments is 25%-30% of field size, so having enough for five players (50%) should be plenty.

10-denomination chips are pretty useless, except in a 10/20 limit cash game. Best bet is to re-label them as either 25c chips (cash set) and/or T500 chips (tourney set). Doing both (80 x 25c and 20 x T500) would allow the set to be used both ways.

 

[ChaosRock]

10-denomination chips are pretty useless, except in a 10/20 limit cash game.

Or in a 50¢ / $2 / $10 / $50 progression,