[Slagar]

I am going to be starting a $25 buy-in micro NL cash game with blinds at $.10/$.25. My question is this, would it be better to have a $.05 chip or a $.10 to use for the small blind.

There are arguments that can be made for both but I have never played in a live cash game so I do not know which arguments should out-weigh the others.

The chip set that I will be using for this has the following breakdown:
80 purple (either $.05 or $.10)
200 pink ($.25)
320 yellow ($1)

[Sniper2075]

Originally Posted by Slagar

I am going to be starting a $25 buy-in micro NL cash game with blinds at .10/.25. My question is this, would it be better to have a .05 chip or a .10 to use for the small blind.

There are arguments that can be made for both but I have never played in a live cash game so I do not know which arguments should out-weigh the others.

well for pure versatility I would go with a 5 cent chips, others don't like the small blind to be more than one chip, I personally don't care, I've been playing 4/8 limit and the small blind is 2 x $1 chips, not a big deal. Plus you can't break down one 25 cent chip into 10 cent chips, so I would go with the 5 cent, because then you can also use it as an ante chip in a stud game if you ever wanted to.

[Sniper2075]

Now, another question is, are these going to be labelled with a denom or not, if not then for this game you could use them as .10 chips and then change them to 5 cent if you ever needed to. Just an idea.

[_GUN_]

if I was you, I would use .10/.20 blinds, because the dimes are only used for posting blinds. you put your dime out there, then everyone limps and it becomes useless. you remove it and replace it with a quarter chip.

I would not recommend a .5 chip for .10/.25, it will slow the game down, while people count them to make their calls.

ditch the idea of .5 chip.

[Slagar]

Originally Posted by Sniper2075

Now, another question is, are these going to be labelled with a denom or not, if not then for this game you could use them as .10 chips and then change them to 5 cent if you ever needed to. Just an idea.

It is a set of Engdahl chips with a HS design on each side. They have no denomination on them so I will be able to play various games/limits with them by changing the denoms.

[MacGrad]

I agree with _GUN_: I suggest you change the blinds to $0.10/$0.20, and order a few more of the $0.10s

80 of the smallest chips doesnt work, unless you only have 8 players at your game, because you're stuck with odd amounts in starting stacks. For example, if you have a full (10 player) table, you can only give each player 8 chips, meaning they'll either have $.40 or $.80 in small chips -- and I don't think you want your buy-ins to be $19.80 or $24.40 or something odd like that...

[TheHawk]

I think GUN got it right, .10/.20 blinds and the .05 chip will slow it way down. TheHawk

[Slagar]

Originally Posted by MacGrad

I agree with _GUN_: I suggest you change the blinds to $0.10/$0.20, and order a few more of the $0.10s

80 of the smallest chips doesnt work, unless you only have 8 players at your game, because you're stuck with odd amounts in starting stacks. For example, if you have a full (10 player) table, you can only give each player 8 chips, meaning they'll either have $.40 or $.80 in small chips -- and I don't think you want your buy-ins to be $19.80 or $24.40 or something odd like that...

It will be 8 players at most. I took that into consideration when determining my purchase.

The reason I was thinking .10/.25 blinds was because that is what they are at PP.
Having them be .10/.20 does make more sense. Then should I not have .25 chips, or does it still make sense to go with .10/.25/1 chips.

[smoore]

The obvious answer is to make them 12.5¢ chips and get 20 of 'em

[_GUN_]

Originally Posted by smoore

The obvious answer is to make them 12.5¢ chips and get 20 of 'em

yeah, you can buy some of those for only $500

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MakeTrack=true

seriously, ditch the .10/.25, keep the quarter chips in play, though.