Using multipliers in microcash games (1 Viewer)

[slisk250]

The game that is the most fun in Saudi here is low stakes. We use the Riyal (3.75=1USD) but also change the chip value to get more denoms in the game. We are never going to be putting hundos and 500s into play but when I brought those Terrible's 500s, they needed to get into play. Here is what we do.

100 riyal = 500 chips starting stacks and play 5/10. Then we use the 500s for rebuys. I just looked at the amount of money that gets into play at Club Courage

Anybody else change chip value just to get the high denoms into play?...we have plenty of chips of all denoms so its not done to make the sets work.

 

[12thMan]

When I first joined CT I read a post where someone said a solution to a chip set that is built for a higher limit game than you normally play is to double buy ins (or triple, whatever) and then divide the ending chip stack for each person by that same amount at the end of the night. It worked great for my group of players, a few of them never wanted to play higher than .50/.50 (and I had to fight for that extra quarter in the blind) but my cash set I acquired didn't have many quarters to start off with, so I doubled there buy in and we played $1/$1 and it worked awesome. Eventually the usual thing with this group ended up being buying in for $60-100, getting double the chips, then we would play $1/$2, then divide by 2 at cash out.

 

[atomiktoaster]

We play $10 buy in T1000 tournament's. Some of the players have like to refer to the $100 chips as "a dollar", and it's not worth it to me to explain how that's slightly inaccurate.

My micro cash set just divides by 100 on $5s and $25s, but plays the $1, $10 and (eventually) Matsui $100s at face. Fracs are expensive...

 

[Mental Nomad]

Back in 1990, in college, we played spread-limit seven stud ($1-$5.) I had a set of Paulson Starbursts. We didn't have the cash to play those stakes.

We played $5 gets you $100 in chips.

Every now and then, a big-time gambler would show up - someone with two $20 bills to lose - and just ruin the game play for everyone by capping every round.

So we went to $10 buys you $100. Everyone tightened up and played better, and even when a bad player showed up, people didn't mind so much since we were getting more from them.

(After that group graduated, that game went to $20 buys $100.)

 

[pltrgyst]

When I first joined CT I read a post where someone said a solution to a chip set that is built for a higher limit game than you normally play is to double buy ins (or triple, whatever) and then divide the ending chip stack for each person by that same amount at the end of the night....

That was probably me -- I've been advocating this for years. It's easy to play .25/.50 as $1/$2, starting with $1s as the smallest chip, or start with $25s, or even $100s as $1s if you have a huge set of high-denoms.

It's really just the opposite of using your cash set for a tournament -- instead, you're using a tournament set for a cash game, essentially. Probably the only way most of us will ever get to play in a high-roller room!
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[Psypher1000]

I allow - and frequently practice - altering the unit of a chip, but never the number value. A chip that says 100 is always 100 somethings...could be pennies, could be dollars, could be chips, could be buttons...but it's always worth 100 of them.

That unit also applies to all chips at the table. A $100 chip and a $1 chip at the same table can't be worth the same dollar amount (a friend of mine suggested that the $100 be worth 100 pennies, and the $1 be worth $1...no bueno).

 

[atomiktoaster]

I allow - and frequently practice - altering the unit of a chip, but never the number value. A chip that says 100 is always 100 somethings...could be pennies, could be dollars, could be chips, could be buttons...but it's always worth 100 of them.

That unit also applies to all chips at the table. A $100 chip and a $1 chip at the same table can't be worth the same dollar amount (a friend of mine suggested that the $100 be worth 100 pennies, and the $1 be worth $1...no bueno).

No $25s as quarters with $1s and $5s?

 

[Psypher1000]

No $25s as quarters with $1s and $5s?

That's correct.

 

[MD Mike]

If you really want you money to stretch reeeeaaaallll far, pretend you are playing in the currency of another country that has a very high exchange rate for their standard currency. Like Japanese yen ($1 = 119 yen) or Columbian pesos ($1 = 2900 pesos) or if you want to be a real high roller and have the chips you could go Iranian ($1 = 30,000 Iranian rials)

Here are some exchange rates:
http://www.x-rates.com/table/?from=USD&amount=1