[SeattleSooner]

I have a 400 piece set that I would like to bump up to 500.

Right now my breakdown is like this:
150 - $5
150 - $25
50 - $100
50 - $500

I generally only use them for single table tournaments with between 6 and 10 players and no rebuys. Usually each player starts with $1000 broken down like this:

15 - $5
9 - $25
2 - $100
1 - $500

I'm not a huge fan of this breakdown. I'd much prefer to start with no $500 and more of the $100's. So no matter what I'll be getting more $100 chips. As much as I'd like to get 50 $1000 chips, 5 denoms is probably just to many for a 500 piece set. So here are my choices: 100 more of the $100 for 150 total, or 50 of the $100 and 50 of one of the other denoms (probably the $25).

Any opinions?

[FL70]

You definitely need 50 more $100s. After that you could add 25 $25s (or $100s) and splurge on 25 $1000s to have another color splashed around.

[mac40k]

Well if you go with HPT’s suggested starting chips of:

15x$5
13x$25
6x$100

Then you need 150, 130, & 60 for 10 players with no rebuy. You’ve got the $5 covered, and the $25, but you are 10 short on $100. You’ll have 4000 in $5 & $25 chips in play. Assuming you want to be able to color up all the $5 & $25 you’ll need 40 more $100. That’s an even 50 more to your existing set. As for what denom the other 50 chips should be, I’d vote for $25. You’ll have $750 of $5 chips in play and when it comes time to color them up you’ll need 30 $25 chips to do so. Your current set only has 20 left over after handing out starting chips, so without more $25 chips, you’d have to buy them from the chip leaders to color up others. Not a big deal, but I like being able to color up with just the “bank”.


Wouldn’t waste your time on a $1000 chip. Not sure what blind schedule you use, but your games probably never get to the point where coloring up to just $500 & $1000 chips is necessary, especially without rebuys. You’d only need 10 to represent all the chips in play anyway, so 50 of them is way overkill. Even if you starting allowing rebuys, you’d be better off with more $100 & $500 chips before adding a $1000 chip.

[Brewster]

After playing around with hachkc's chip breakdown spreadsheet (killer tool BTW) I've found a good four colour T5000 setup to be:

150 green (25's)
200 black (100's)
100 purple (500's)
50 yellow (1000's)

This gives you plenty of chips to start with and allows you to use the 1000's for rebuys and late tourny colour-ups.

Starting stacks (12 players):
12 green = 300
12 black = 1200
7 purple = 3500
Total = 5000
You will have more than enough of the first three denoms to handle the colour-ups and have enough 1000's for 10 rebuys (should be ample with 12 players).

[Jambine]

Originally Posted by SeattleSooner

I have a 400 piece set that I would like to bump up to 500. Right now my breakdown is like this:
150 - $5
150 - $25
50 - $100
50 - $500

I would add 50-$5, and 50-$100. Then your stack would be:
200-$5.……x 20 ea.
150-$25.…..x 8 ea.
100-$100.…x 7 ea.
50-$500

That gives you plenty for a T-1000 and cover 10 people with color-ups

[CaptLego]

Here's another option:

so you could add 50 x $25, 50 x $100.
Each player starts with 37 chips (15x5, 17x25, 5x100). You have the perfect amount to colorup all the way. The 50x500 chips you already have would still support 15 rebuys plus colorup (if you want to colorup that far).