[Spaceman Spiff]

OK, so I'm pretty sure in the near future I'm going to be going the route of custom ceramic. I'm hoping this will be my be all, end all set, but then again, I thought that about the Pharaohs, and the PNYs, and the Egyptians, and you get the idea. But with something custom and truly mine, I think I'll be pretty happy.

So here's what I've got in mind. I want a cash and tourney set and I want them to be separate, no intermingling of the sets except in a few special cases that I'll describe. I'd also like an economy of chips, at least for now, as the cash flow isn't exactly at its peak right now. Hopefully it's a situation where I'll be able to do future reorders to fill things out, but that's down the road.

Here's my stab at it, a 1,200 chip set:

NCV: 80
$1: 200
$5: 80
$20: 40
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$25: 300
$100: 300
$500: 100
$1000: 100

I have 10 $5,000 and 2 $25,000 plaques already to fill out my top end. Our typical tournies are T5,000 rebuys with an occasional T10,000 game with no rebuy. Typical cash game is $0.25/$0.50 NL, $1/$2 or $2/$4 limit.

I think I could probably trim another 100 or so, especially from the tourney set, but I'm used to starting with big stacks. Currently we do 20x$25, 20x$100, and 5x$500 to start. Going to 16x$25, 16x$100, and 6x$500 wouldn't be a huge deal though and if I really pushed my numbers to the max (18 for my games), I could always get some $1000's into the starting stacks.

If we had a full field of 18 for the T10,000 game, with this breakdown or with cutting the 25's and 100's back to 250, I would still have $200,000 in 500's, 1000's, and 5000's. Add the 25,000's to the mix and we're up to $250,000. That seems like that would be good enough to me.

As far as the cash game, the NCVs would act as $0.25's or $0.50's depending on the game and I could also have them intermingle and be bounty chips, or rebuy chips, or anything else we might need a specialty chip for in a tourney. The only other special case would be when I do a 7 stud tourney, I would need to bring the 5's over for antes and I could supplement them with the NCVs to get enough on the table if I really needed to.

OK, I've rambled enough, what are some thoughts?

[i run 8s]

Sounds like a great plan. That way you can sell me all your pharaohs for $0.20 each.