Tourney chip breakdown

smitty007 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:22 PM

I was thinking of running a 20 person T10,000 tournament with a starting blind of 25/50. How many total chips of each color do you recommend I should have on hand if I want to play with a large starting chip stack?! Thanks for any advice!

jojobinks · #2 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:26 PM

# color denom
320 green 25
400 black 100
280 purp 500
200 orange 1000

20 man starting stacks
16 x 25
16 x 100
10 x 500
3 x 1000

45 chips to start, and enough chips to color up.

Brent · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smitty007

20 person T10,000 tournament with a starting blind of 25/50. How many total chips of each color do you recommend I should have on hand if I want to play with a large starting chip stack?!

160 x T25
300 x T100
200 x T500
100 x T1000
(and possibly some 5k chips if you want to have rebuys)

Starting stacks for 20-person T10,000:

8 x T25
13 x T100
7 x T500
5 x T1000

33 chips to start, and enough extra chips to color up all T25 and T100 chips...if you want more you could do 18 T100 chips and 6 T500s instead...but you would need to buy 100 more T100 chips.

EDIT-fixed # of T500 chips.

Brewster · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:34 PM

You can't go wrong with jojo's recommendations here.

smitty007 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:44 PM

Thanks! What if I was to move it to 25 players, would the total number of chips required change at all?

Brent · #6 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Brewster

You can't go wrong with jojo's recommendations here.

Other than that he has to buy a lot more chips compared to the setup I recommend...

760 chips vs 1200 chips........

Flyin J · #7 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:53 PM

Both of the above breakdowns are good. I didn't care about a big stack so I went with this breakdown for the Bellagio chips I just ordered.
160 25
180 100
140 500
140 1000
40 5000
20 10000
20 NCV used as bounty chips
700 total

Starting stacks would be
8/8/6/6 for a 20 man tourney and
12/12/7/5 for a 10 man tourney

There is enough chips to color up 25 and 100 and one rebuy in the 20 player using the 5000s.

Brent · #8 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brent

160 x T25
300 x T100
120 x T500
100 x T1000
(and possibly some 5k chips if you want to have rebuys)

Starting stacks for 20-person T10,000:

8 x T25
13 x T100
7 x T500
5 x T1000.

Blah, I screwed up...you will need 200 T500 chips for that starting stack (and to color up all the T100s). Sorry.

Brent · #9 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brent

160 x T25
300 x T100
200 x T500
100 x T1000
(and possibly some 5k chips if you want to have rebuys)

Ooh, and you could add 40 T5000 chips for rebuys and have an even 800 chips. Holla.

KYBill · #10 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 02:58 PM

I have been running a 30 man poker league for 2 years and we use the following breakdown of chips.

everyone starts with 19 chips:
8 25's
8 100's
3 500's

Color ups -
40 100 chips.
40 500 chips.
20 1,000 chips.

Blinds start @ 25/25 for the first hour then move up every half hour.

25/25
25/50
50/100
100/200
300/400
400/800
500/1000
1000/2000
1500/3000 (cap)

My tourneys start at 8 and end around 1:30 2:00 .We run 2 decks of cards at each table to get a maximum amount of hands/hour. Once people bust out there is a cash table started.

18*30= 570 + 100 (colorups) = 670 total chips for 30 players.

I believe anything over 25 in starting chips slows a home game down.