[milesotool]

Hello all,
I need some help in putting together my set. I am having some chips made BR pro's (i'll post pics of mock-up's later) I have a PL cash game 50 dollar buy in and 50cent 1 dollar blinds. we usually have 10 guys playing. What I need to know is how many chips are a good way to go. There are unlimited rebuys of 20 or 50. our last game I determined that we had almost 800 in play during the night. I did allow money to change hands by buying from players it worked out well the guys are pretty cooperative when it comes to integerity. I figure I will need 50cent chips dollar chips and five dollar chips.
I also want to make a tourney set. we usually have 2500 starting chips and the blinds could start at 50 -100 or 50 50. going up in the usual fassion. With a possible rebuy on occasion but we havnt done that as of yet. I used the caculator and didn't fully understand how it worked by setting the blinds thing. Please help me in the endevor.


Miles.

[CaptLego]

miles,
The blinds thing in the Calculator is the way you set the ratio of the buyin to the small blind. That's only used by the Recommend! button to determine what the smallest denom needs to be. If you're manually tweaking the starting chips/player, you can ignore the blinds thing.

So for your cash game, with a $50 buyin and a small blind of $.50, you'd set the blinds ratio to 100xSB ($50/$.50 = 100). Then you'd set the number of players and # of rebuys, and push the Recommend! button to see what it suggests. Then you can over-ride any of the values it suggests, if you don't like them.

For example, for your cash game, you could go with this:



For your tourney, you could go with:


Combining those two games in the Game Variety Window yields:

Note in this case, though, that you'd be using $25 chips both in the tourney and for rebuys in the cash game. So if you had both games going on at the same time, you'd need more $25 chips. Or maybe you're planning two different sets for these games?

Anyhow, hopefully that will give you a starting point and you can tweak away from there.

[milesotool]

interesting breakdown! So to be safe I could put into the caculator for the cash game more players and more chips and this would build in a larg margin of error?

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by milesotool

interesting breakdown! So to be safe I could put into the caculator for the cash game more players and more chips and this would build in a larg margin of error?

Sure --- tweak away.
I wasn't sure what your criteria were, so this is just a starting suggestion.

[MTUCache]

Not too sure about the $0.50 chip thing.... even with a .50/1.00 game, I think I may still go with quarters, just because it's what people are used to. That's not to%2

[Sooner]

In this case you never need to worry about someone needing the a $.50 chip for anything other than the small blind. Since you always double the size on a pot sized bet you will never "need" $.50 pieces. The only time that they would be at all usefull is if someone wanted to get fancy and make a wierd bet, but you can always just make it a rule that all bets are in $1 increments.

Because of this I would suggest 2 $.50 chips per player.

A good breakdown would be 2 x $.50, 14 x $1 and 7 x $5. You could also add some greens for color ups and rebuys.

I would suggest that you use a completely different type of chip for your tournaments as there is no reason to tempt someone (better safe than sorry) to pocket a $25 chip in the tournament to use in the cash game.

For a T2500 tournament I would suggest starting stacks of 8 x $25, 8 x $100 and 3 x $500. Buy either 2 extra $100's per player (or 1 $500 per every 2.5 players) to color up the $25's when they are no longer needed. Some people like to have larger starting stacks, but these will be more than enough chips to keep the tournament running smoothly.

You could also go with 16 x $25, 16 x $100, and 1 X $500 for smaller tournaments and use the smaller starting stacks for when you have a larger turn out.

[milesotool]

I agree with the 50 cent thing. I am ordering a custome cash game set. I n the cash game I will use 50cent 1 dollar 5 dollar chips. For the tourney set i will have them made with markings on the rolling edge. The tourney will use higher denoms that will not be used in the cash game. i figure I will get 350 dollar chips 100 50 cent and 150 fives. this should do it and then some for the cash game.