[Devilboy]

For maximum fun you need to give each player a starting stack of at least 30 chips. Less than that and you'll be making change from other players a lot and it can become a bother.

Another rule of thumb is that you should have about 100 - 200 chips in play when it gets down to the final 2 players. That makes them feel like they've come a long way (cause they'll have nice big stacks in front of them) but the number of chips are still easily countable in the case of a big all-in.

300 chips is perfect for 8 players. My suggestion for T1000:

15 x $5 = 120 chips
13 x $25 = 104 chips and 24 chips more to colour-up the $5s
6 x $100 = 48 chips

That's 34 chips starting stack with room to colour-up with 296 chips. So you need to buy

120 x $5
130 x $25
50 x $100