While trying to configure the lightest, simplest, and most efficient tournament chipset (using 10g faux clays) to fly cross-country with, I discovered that the annoyingly-oversized 26-chip rows of the
5StarDeal boxes could actually be put to good use! Using a 26-chip T2500 starting stack of $25 x 12, $100 x12, $500 x 2 allows me to completely fill one row with a starting stack. Dorking around with the math, I came up with this final breakdown, which uses only 5 boxes for 13 buy-ins, rebuys, and add-ons plus room for rebuy chips and bounty chips:
- $25 x 156
$100 x 195
$500 x 78
$1000 x 65
TOTAL: 494 (19 rows of 26 chips)
T2500 rebuys are $500 x1, $1000 x 2. T3000 add-ons are $1000 x 3.
The red chips are rebuy chips, the edge-striped chips are bounty chips (could only fit 12 of those, darn). Oh yeah, I'm using my whites for $1000s.
