Would Tournament starting stacks of different breakdowns but equal totals set you or others on tilt? (1 Viewer)

[philhut]

I have often wondered about this question and have mostly endeavored to avoid the question with mountains of chips. In my games I like to have excess chips so that players never sell chips to each other, I like to settle all accounts as the director (or assistants in multi tables) rather than have players swapping chips around. If a large game were to be proposed would it be off putting to have say 1-3 stacks per table of a slightly different breakdown to start the game? Both stacks would equal 5000 NCV as example however with two different breakdowns.

One set has me wondering if I would be able to play a 4 table game with the set below, currently it meets my criteria for a 3 table game with the possibility of 4 tables but instead of 3x500 and 2x1000 some stacks would have to be 12x t25, 12x t100, 1x t500, 3x t1000 or some combination of that and/or 12x t25, 17x t100, 2x t500, 2x t1000.....So long as all starting stacks add up to 5000 NCV (as example) would this be fine for all (most) players involved? What would you recommend as a solution?

The set breakdown I have which has me bringing up this question is below.

TOURNAMENT
Players	30
Denoms* (populated from Column B)	Chips PP.	Chips in play	Bank left over	Color up
	0	0	0
25	12	360	140
100	12	360	160
500	3	90	20
1,000	2	60	30
5,000	0	0	80	9
	PP	Bank used	Bank left over	# of Rebuy's
Total	$5,000	$150,000	$459,500.00	88
Chips used	29	870

total 25	500
100	520
500	110
1,000	90
5,000	80

*So far I have failed to source more t500/t1000 for my set and would gladly do so if I could (lets not dwell on the set itself or add-ons but the current breakdown only)

The other option I could see was making the tournament a t3000 NCV starting stack game, then I would have chips able to cover up to 60 players but again run into the same problem of a few different stacks. All sets have their limits but do the outer edges come at too much of a starting disruption for players? Should I keep this to a 30 player T5k or 50 player T3k tourney set and not overthink it?

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

I wouldn't care, nor would my players. Its more difficult as a host to ensure everyone starts right, but whatever, use what you've got.

 

[Mr Winberg]

I've done this many, many times. Zero issues.

 

[KHarp1]

The only thing that bothers me about another players stack is that they aren't in my stack.

 

[Mr Winberg]

I've done this many, many times. Zero issues.

With my current DDLM set I have T100 base stacks of 20/6/10/X for 20 players. 24 players is the max at my home. Whenever we are more than 20 the rest get 0/0/0/X (e.g. X=8 if we're doing 40k starting stacks), and they'll just have to make change with someone. 0 issues and much easier than splitting up the stacks.

 

[LinkyBabe]

This is a non issue really. Starting stacks change immediately after the first hand anyway. I do the same thing except I concentrate the different starting stack on 1 seat per table.

 

[ThrowBack]

Tiltled players who do not like their stacks, chairs, the beer selection, my chips or my dog are welcome to fold their stacks to me and purchase another at the start of the tournament. Rules are rules

 

[BGinGA]

In general, more chips result in looser play, especially workhorse chips. For that reason, I do not recommend mixing 8/8/4/7/x and 12/12/5/6/x starting stacks at the same table. Initially altering the higher denoms in starting stacks should not be an issue.