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Originally Posted by Dimes In theory you are very right. But I guess the $2500 is found too difficult to work with. When you are in the thousands, the basic unit is $1000, and I think many people find it easier to start the 1-5-25 sequence from the beginning when they reach 1000. So instead of continuing 1-5-25-100-500-2500-10000, you reset and get two parallel systems
1-5-25-100-500
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If someone can handle calculations with a $25 chip they should be able to handle the same calculations with a $2500 chip. If not, you defanitly want them in your game
As to the 1-5-25-100-500-1000-5000-25000 theory, most tournaments that I'm familiar with start at 5 or higher, not at 1. So you either get:
5-25-100-500-1000-5000-25000
or with a 2500:
5-25-100-500-2500-10000
The second setup seems to have the symmetry you were talking about. I think you're onto something that the 1k chip has a definite place in a high $$$ cash game. In a big tourney that encompasses low to high denoms, I think the $1k is out of place.
Maybe a better way to look at this problem is that a 1k chip is more of a cash game chip than a tourney chip.
