Tourney Tournament Set Build help (1 Viewer)

[porc0002]

Hello everyone,

Looking for some advice on chip quantities for a CPC tournament set that I am looking to build. I've never played in tournaments or host any but still looking to put together and epic playable set for the future. I also like the look of a high stakes set with denominations from 1k to 100k in four chip colors. I was wondering what chip distribution I should be looking at. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The total number of chips I was looking to get is 600.

$1,000 chips- Quantity???
$5,000 chips - Quantity???
$25,000 chips - Quantity???
$100,000 chips - Quantity???

thanks,
clem

 

[ElyGoulding]

From my recently discovery of this forum, people will probably want to know the tourney size and re-buy structure. Once you know that you could try searching through the forum for them.

 

[Wyldfyre]

You may want to give some more information:
- Number of players
- Starting amount (total and blinds)
- Rebuys?
- Starting 1K/2K blinds? Time per rounds?

I see a lot of tourney sets here with
8/8/4/7 - 8000 / 40000 / 100000 / 700000
8/8/4/2 - 8000 / 40000 / 100000 / 200000
12/12/5/6 - 12000 / 60000 / 125000 / 600000

That doesn't take into account color ups.

Check https://www.pokerchipforum.com/forums/tournaments-and-cash-games.15/
and filter by Prefix "Tourney" to limit your searches.

Good luck.

 

[Beakertwang]

Starting stacks are usually 100 to 200 big blinds. Let's assume 200 in this case, so that would be 400,000.

A couple options are as follows.

More chips:
1K x 15 = 15,000
5k x 15 = 60,000
25k x 9 = 225,000
100k x 1 = 100,000

For a 10-player tourney, this would require 150/150/90/10 to start, plus extras to color up. You'd need at least 450 chips.

Fewer chips:
1K x 10 = 10,000
5k x 8 = 40,000
25k x 6 = 150,000
100k x 2 = 200,000

For a 10-player tourney, this would require 100/80/60/20, plus extras to color up, so you could probably make this work with 300 chips.

 

[porc0002]

Thanks everybody for the info. Much appreciated!

 

[Trihonda]

High denom events might be fun, but if I’m buying one very epic tourney set, I’d seriously consider sticking to more traditional amounts.

Most people that are into poker tourneys or are willing to play one at your house, have probably had SOME exposure to them, or consider that they might at some point like to work towards playing in a casino. Most every casino or home tourney I know of (with some few exceptions) use a blind structure that starts at 25/50. That is why most normal sets use these denominations to start. It’s standard for a reason. But that’s not to say it’s impossible to come up with better alternatives... but since these are the standard, it’s a bit of a disservice to your players to use unorthodox denoms.

Just my two sense. It’s what I’d recommend given Your circumstances. Had you said, “my group is experienced with tourneys, we play all the time, but there has been some discussion about mixing it up with a super high roller style set...” THEN I’d vote you get the high denoms set. But for a first set, for poker newbies, go standard imho.

You asked for advice, that’s what came to mind.