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Well, 1,000 chips is way more than you need for 10 people. But since when has this board been about NEED?!?

If you're going to label your chips then I suggest 2 overlapping sets for cash and tournament use. Even the blondest player can keep that straight....

One decision for your cash/NL set would be if you want 5¢ and 10¢ chips. Normally you'd just get 5¢ and 25¢ chips for a small cash game, but if you play 10¢/20¢ NL you might want to get dimes in addition to nickels. Otherwise you can get a bunch of nickels and use them for all the blinds up to 20¢.

For a tourney set you need to decide what starting stack you want to use. If you start with amounts like you'd see online -- T$1,000 or T$1,500 chips -- then you should get $5, $25, $100 and probably $500 denominations. If you want a big starting stack like T$10,000, you should bump up one denomination and get something like $25/100/500/1000s.

So here's what I might suggest as a generous set if you want to buy 1,000:

100 x 5¢
100 x 10¢
150 x 25¢
200 x $1
100 x $5 (used for both cash and tourney)
150 x $25
150 x $100
50 x $500

Tourney set assumes T$1,500 starting stack using $5/25/100s.