.25/.50 NL, with 10 players? Seems pretty common.
I assume you'll have buy-ins of $20-$40?
And each person buying in several times during a long session?
And that you don't want any cash on the table (all chips)?
If so, you'll need probably 20 buy-ins to cover the night. At $20-$40 each, you're looking at $500-600 bucks in chip values.
Each player will need probably 10-20 of the blind-denominations (.25). Obviously the $1 chip will be your workhorse, covering almost all post-flop play. The $5 chip will make up the rest of your buyins.
So:
100x.25 (10 each) would be a minimum.
200x1.00 (20 each) would be a minimum, I'd think.
100x5.00 (10 each) would cover the rest of the buy-ins.
If you're buying a 500 chip set, I'd go with 200/200/100, so you're not making so much change with the .25 chips.
Figuring all of the .25s and 1.00s will be in play from the start, and all the re-buys will be with $5 chips, each person will have between 40-50 chips in front of them, which is enough to play with and feel like you have a "stack", but few enough that you don't spend all night counting-out the all-in bets and wearing your arms out raking tons of chips.
Total set value would be in the neighborhood of $750, which truth-be-told is probably more than you'd feel comfortable banking anyway. I'd think most nights, if the play is slow and you don't have a full table, you won't have to cash more than $300 for the whole session.
Not sure what you'd do with the NCVs, unless you're planning on having some
really big spenders in there, and you need a $25 chip... at which point I'd start thinking about some serious security for the game and getting
very serious about custom chips and count-outs.
Hopefully that helps.
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