Allow me to quote myself. I hijacked (sorry) another thread thinking that you guys would prefer not to see another thread about splitting a certain amount of chips into different denominations.
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Originally Posted by FetishGirl This is my first post, so hello to everyone first of all, and thanx for a brilliant website! 
I might be buying a 1000-set of the Paulson Pharaoh's for my no-limit hold'em ring games and I'm trying to figure out how many chips of the denominations $100, $500 and $1000 I should get. If anyone would like to help me out with this I'd really appreciate it! Basically all of my Poker experience comes from online play so I'm afraid I will mess up when putting my set together. 
I have no clue whether I should buy 600/200/200 of each, 600/300/100 or 700/200/100 or what! I figure all I need, at most, is three different denominations. I think the $100, $500 and $1000 chips would be sweet to play with although the actual amount of money I’ll be playing for will be a mere fraction of those sums.
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Basically, my question is: What is the best way to divide a 1000 chip set into different denominations?
The chips will be used in no-limit hold’em ring games with up to 10 players, about half as many most of the time I reckon. I read somewhere that 100 chips per player is recommended and it sounds fair to me but I’m sure 50 would do as well? It is always nice to throw more than one or two chips in the pot when you bet I guess. The amount of $$$ is less important since it’s very unlikely we’ll be playing with the amounts stated on the chips anyway.
There will be very little tournament or freeze-out action going on since, at least for starters, I will play with my friends only. So although the poker itself will be taken quite seriously the games are supposed to be social events. I would hate to see a player leave the table early, unable to join back in on the fun. Therefore, I suppose, I need to allow re-buys. I’m guessing a good way of solving things would be to allow a re-buy once every hour?
My idea is to buy the $100, $500 and $1000 Paulson Pharaoh’s. I realize the $1000 chip is of little use considering the fact it is only twice the $’s of the mid-value chip but over here our coin values are 1, 5 and 10 and I believe it would feel very natural for people to play with the above denominations. Easy to count, easy to translate into the amounts we’re likely to be playing with (perhaps 1/100 or 1/10 of the stated value, only in SEK instead of USD). I don’t think it would have to be one of those two amounts though. Any amount of money could mean a certain amount of chips!
I’m not sure if I need to limit the number of re-buys allowed but I find it unlikely that the same player would get broke over and over within a matter of hours. With 1000 chips there should be room for re-buys at least if every player starts out with 50 chips. Besides, we’ll probably be about 5-6 players most of the time, not 10.
But let’s say I wouldn’t want to be limited to this type of game since I’m buying a relatively large and expensive set of chips. Let’s say I would want to have a tournament or freeze-out every now and then. I guess that wouldn’t be unlikely. Is there a way to make my set more versatile and still have enough chips for each player plus re-buys? Re-buys would not be allowed in tournaments and freeze-outs of course. I mean how would it look in a heads up situation where each player has 500 chips each? They would have to move huge stacks of chips into the pot with every bet. That certainly wouldn’t work too well. The ability to color-up would be nice but I guess that would require non-denom chips? Unfortunately I can’t buy the non-denom Pharaoh’s at holdempokerchips.com since they do not ship to Europe so I’m stuck with the denom ones unless I can have a friend ship them here for me.
Hope to get some help from people with a lot of experience with these types of things. As I said 99,9% of my poker experience (an understatement) comes from online play so I’m pretty much clue less. Thanks in advance!
/Isobel
