Cash Game What stakes can I run? (1 Viewer)

[BlueHorseshoe]

Hi! New to the forum so forgive me for everything. I've been playing in other home cash games running from $0.25/$0.50 ($100 max), $1/$1 uncapped, and $1/2 ($300 max) and I've started accumulating chips to start hosting my own home game. I have an 8 person table and the dream would be to run both NLHE and FL mixed games. I think for NLHE I'd like to run either $0.25/$0.50 or $1/1 with a 200bb max. Not sure on what stakes to offer for FL mixed games. The player pool are avid poker players who typically bring 2 to 3 max buy-ins in a night.

Based on my following chip count, am I able to comfortably run anything right now? What else would I need to have a comfortable set to run both NLHE or FL mixed?
$1 - 200
$5 - 700
$25 - 60

Maybe I need another rack of $1s, a full rack of $25s and 100 $100s?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[Darson]

I think you'd max out 1/1 with 8 players each bringing 3x$200 bullets with your current chips. Your total bank is $5200.

Naturally for .25/.50 you'll need a rack of 25c chips. More $1s would be nice but not essential.

If you can get to 200x $25 I think you'll be fine for the 1/2 game.

 

[JMC9389]

Definitely need more $25's for the 1/2 nights. I would have a couple of barrels of $100's just to supplement your bank a bit, a full rack would be overkill. For a single 8 player table for stakes ranging from 0.25/0.50 to 1/2, the following should be more than enough:

100 quarters
200 $1's
200 $5's
100 $25's
40 $100's

Starting stacks of 20 $1's, 16 $5's, and 8 $25's for $300 starting stacks for 1/2. If you like nice, even starting stacks for 0.25/0.50, get an extra rack of quarters and run 20 quarters, 20 $1's, 15 $5's, and add $25's as needed depending on stakes.

For fixed limit, if your players are comfortable blowing through $500 to $1Kish or so a night, 5/10 fixed limit may actually end up seeming very cheap relative to their typical 1/1 or 1/2 NLHE night. Starting stacks of 25 big bets for fixed limit is pretty standard, which would be $250 in this case. I would advise to have $2.50 chips for 5/10 limit, but if you're looking to use your set for both NLHE and limit games with $5's as your workhorse chip, I'd recommend playing 10/20 fixed limit, which would be a rack of $5's to start ($500). For this, you'd need at least one more rack of $5's to cover an 8 player table. $100's are your value chips for stack top offs.

Though around these parts, lots have dedicated NLHE sets and dedicated limit sets, because more chips are better.

Welcome!

 

[BlueHorseshoe]

Thank you @JMC9389 and @Darson ! Much appreciated. Looks like I'm not that far off, which is good news for my checking account.

 

[detroitdad]

I think you'd max out 1/1 with 8 players each bringing 3x$200 bullets with your current chips. Your total bank is $5200.

Naturally for .25/.50 you'll need a rack of 25c chips. More $1s would be nice but not essential.

If you can get to 200x $25 I think you'll be fine for the 1/2 game.

We've also experimented with only using 1 x $1.00 blind. We play pot limit games. This plays close to our .25/.50 stakes.

 

[Superglide08]

I run a .25/.50 with about 500 chips. Buy ins $65-$150 buys. We try to encourage some extra chips if people want without getting wild. We usually kick off with 4 people max out at 9 (rare). Set breakdown is as follows:

100-.25
200-$1
150-$5
50-$25
25-$100

First to arrive get a barrel of quarters and then people make change from the pot after. Seems to work well but if the usuals ever want to up antes to .50/$1 the set would still cover it.

 

[Easylife]

There is an interesting thread on stakes here. Please forgive my poor spelling!
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/hi-steaks-the-official-pcf-steak-thread.80927/post-1656886

 

[BlueHorseshoe]

There is an interesting thread on stakes here. Please forgive my poor spelling!
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/hi-steaks-the-official-pcf-steak-thread.80927/post-1656886

any threads on high steaks? that I may be more interested in.