Chip Breakdown (NEED HELP!!!)

[Wylecoyo]

Your setup should be fine with 100 purple, as a matter of fact - I just ordered 550 new Paulson's and went with:

200 Green
200 Black
100 Purple
50 Orange

I want to get down to the fewest number of chips possible in the latter hands to keep things managable. It may be fun having 400 chips on the table with 8 or 10 players, but not so much with only 2 or 3

[dimperdoo]

I like the versatility of a nickel, dollar, 5 dollar use for live play with $5 $25 $100 chips, then the chips are face value in tourneys. If you should find yourself playing a 3/6 or 2/10 game at home you might want to break down and include dollars in your denoms although (and for better tourney play) your $100, $500, and $1000 can fill that roll (penny for dollar)

I suppose that's preaching to the choir though

However, if you wouldn't play for less than .25 unit - you don't need $5 chips - I just like so many $5 chips in several different sets!

[dimperdoo]

300 cash/tourney 100-25gr 100-100blk 100-500lav

300 penny ante 80-1blu 80-5red 80-25gr 60-100blk

300 1/4-dollar 200-25gr 100-100blk

300 high roller 100ea blk lav yel

500 cash/tourney 150 gr 200 blk 150 lav

500 penny ante 100 blue 150 red 150 gr 100 blk

500 1/4-dollar 300-25gr 200-100blk

500 high roller 150 blk 150 lav 200 yellow

these are some ideas I ran around for a while

[ky70]

After thinking about it for a while I decided to go with non traditional colors since I have a set of Pharaoh's coming too. I basically went with an all plain color set that wouldl be used as follows for 10 player tourneys:
200 25 denom Greys - 20 per player
200 100 denom Pink - 20 per player
30 500 denom Imperial Blue - 3 per player
10 1000 denom Orange - 1 per player
For a 10 person T5000 tourney I'll have 440 chips in play (44 per player). For colorups I'll have 40 pink's(100), 30 Imperial Blue's (500) and 40 Orange's (1000).

The twist that I added to this all plain set was that I also bought 100 of the Purple/grey spotted combo to be used as a non denom chip. I can change the look of this set by replacing the Imperial Blue (500) or Orange (1000) chip with the Purple/Grey. I could also use it for a 5000 denom chip.

This same set can also do a T10,000 tourney

T10,000 breakdown would be:
200 25 denom Greys - 20 per player
200 $100 Pink - 20 per player
30 $500 Imperial Blue - 3 per player
10 $1000 Orange - 1 per player
10 $5000 Purple/Grey - 1 per player

For a 10 person T10,000 tourney I'll have 450 chips in play (45 per player). For colorups I'll have 40 pink's(100), 30 Imperial Blue's (500), 40 Orange's (1000) and 90 Purple/Grey (5000).

I won't use dollar signs for the denoms (I prefer this cleaner look) so for cash games my 25 denom chip will be 25 cents, 100 = 1 dollar and so on. I can make the no denom Purple/Grey chip be .50 or 2.00 or 2.50..., so this set should be very flexible.

[Phaetos]

Since I'm new to the board and haven't figured out where all relative posts go and this is the first one that I saw that applied to my 1st question, this is where I will post.

We are going to start a once a week cash ring game, much like you would play if you went to a casino. Players buy in for $5 or $10 at a time and get say ... $20 in chips. We were considering the blinds being $.25 SB and $.50 BB, and never changing. People can cash in or out whenever they feel like it. We usually have around 5 or 6 regulars that wil be playing and I can't decided whether we need a 300 or 500 pc set. I'm thinking a 300 may be fine, using denoms as $.25, $.50(is this a good idea), $1, $5, and $10... white, red, green, blue, black. Is this fairly standard ? Any and all help appreciated. I may not ever find this thread again, if ya could, PM your thoughts too.

Phaetos

[Phaetos]

Wow, 1 chip per post. That is gonna take a lot of creative posting or several decades to get to 75k in posts!

[ky70]

Originally Posted by Phaetos

Since I'm new to the board and haven't figured out where all relative posts go and this is the first one that I saw that applied to my 1st question, this is where I will post.

We are going to start a once a week cash ring game, much like you would play if you went to a casino. Players buy in for $5 or $10 at a time and get say ... $20 in chips. We were considering the blinds being $.25 SB and $.50 BB, and never changing. People can cash in or out whenever they feel like it. We usually have around 5 or 6 regulars that wil be playing and I can't decided whether we need a 300 or 500 pc set. I'm thinking a 300 may be fine, using denoms as $.25, $.50(is this a good idea), $1, $5, and $10... white, red, green, blue, black. Is this fairly standard ? Any and all help appreciated. I may not ever find this thread again, if ya could, PM your thoughts too.

Phaetos

If your buy-in are $5 and $10 then a .50 big blind is too much as players would only be starting with 10 and 20 big bets respectively. I have blinds and chip schedules set up for cash games with buy-ins for $10, $20, $25, $30, $40 and $50. I use my $25 chips as my .25 chip and it's my lowest denom, so for a $10 buy-in, I set both the small and big blind at .25. That's still only 40 big bets and some would argue that isn't high enough either but it seems to work for me.

[DEEJAY]

Don`t really understand the reasoning behind a cash game that someone buys into for 10$ and gets 20$ in chips----- This type of play should be limited to tourney play, where it would make more sense. Cash games should be dollar for dollar, not fractions of----everyone buys-in for the same amount @ whatever stakes you`re comfortable with,this makes playing the game on an even keel with no one person having a greater advantage over another at the start of the game, then when someone has a clear chip advantage he is made banker. If someone goes broke he can buy back in with another buy-in or if you prefer a person can re-buy if his chip stack falls below a certain level say under half his original buy-in. I hope this makes sense to those that read this. "sit-n-go"