Cash Game What's a good breakdown for a heads-up set? (1 Viewer)

[crussader]

I would like to put together a heads up set to be used for either tournament or cash play, but I haven't got a clue what I need.

Recommendations?

 

[justsomedude]

Questions first...

For cash: What are the stakes?
For tourney: What is your starting stack and blind structure?

It could be difficult to create a set that does both effectively and efficiently, but not impossible.

 

[BGinGA]

There is a thread on PCF that contains a multitude of options for both. The search function is your friend.

 

[pltrgyst]

For my collection of heads-up sets, first choice is always 40 x $25, 40 x $100, and 20 x $500, which fills one rack and lends itself very well to heads-up .25/.50 cash.

You can tweak to other denoms which suit your chosen cash game by choosing an appropriate lowest-value chip, but it pays to avoid sets which include 2/1 denom sequences, like 500/1000.

 

[crussader]

Questions first...

For cash: What are the stakes?
For tourney: What is your starting stack and blind structure?

Cash stakes could be anywhere from $20 to $200 buy-in, and I am perfectly fine re-denominating chips to fit the stakes. In my main cash set I have used 25s as quarters, and even 5s as nickels.

For tourney I am completely open to suggestions. I'm thinking a structure that started with 5s rather than 25s would be best so that the 5s could play for either cash or tournament.

 

[crussader]

There is a thread on PCF that contains a multitude of options for both. The search function is your friend.

Will look for that thread. Thanks.

 

[crussader]

Well I'm not sure I found the right thread, but I found this:

After four years, we altered the tournament format to use T5 chips, and those heads-up sets also contained 100 chips:

40 x T5
40 x T25
20 x T100

Each heads up stack was 20 x T5, 20 x T25, and 9 x T100 for tournament chips for T1500 stacks each.

With this I could play cash using the 100s as 1s and the 25s as 25s or quarters. (or I could get a barrel of Stardust 1s and use them as 100s in a tournament)

 

[BGinGA]

a structure that started with 5s rather than 25s would be best so that the 5s could play for either cash or tournament.

here are a couple of ways to do a double-duty set:

5 base (can be used as 5c for cash or T5 for tourney:
40 x 5
40 x 25
20 x 100
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100 chips (T1500 stacks for tourney - 20/20/9, with 2 x 100 extras for T5 color-up)

25 base (can be used as 25c for cash or T25 for tourney:
40 x 25
40 x 100
20 x 500
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100 chips (T7500 stacks for tourney - 20/20/10)

Most of my heads-up sets combine both concepts, and are 150 chips:
40 x 5
40 x 25
40 x 100
20 x 500
10 x 1000
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150 chips