[ruffdeezy]

Looking to start a home cash game and wondering what the best amount of chips to get is for - .25/.50 nlhe. $40 buy in with rebuys. What chip distribution would work best for this and how many chips would be neccessary to accomodate. Likely would be 8 players max.
thanks

[noelsarchs]

Originally Posted by ruffdeezy

Looking to start a home cash game and wondering what the best amount of chips to get is for - .25/.50 nlhe. $40 buy in with rebuys. What chip distribution would work best for this and how many chips would be neccessary to accomodate. Likely would be 8 players max.
thanks

http://www.chiptalk.net/x-poker-chips-breakdown.html

[jojobinks]

the calculator recommends:

120 quarters
150 dollars
50 fives
20 tens
340 chips total

i'd recommend more quarters and dollars.

200 X .25
200 X $1
100 X $5

for a total bank of $750

if you think that won't do it, then drop 10 5s for some $25s for a bank of $950

[maharlikan]

[quote=ruffdeezy]Looking to start a home cash game and wondering what the best amount of chips to get is for - .25/.50 nlhe. $40 buy in with rebuys. What chip distribution would work best for this and how many chips would be neccessary to accomodate. Likely would be 8 players max.
thanks[/quote

we play the same game but 50/50cents NL my set is 400

100 - 0.50cents
200 - $1.00
100 - $5.00
with this set we have too much cash on the table , too much action .
9-12 player . i got problem with player grabbing $5chips on the pot then change it with 5 of whites ($1.00). they love to keep the red ($5.00).
Now ,I'm think to buy a new set make it only 2 color.

100 - 0.50 cents
400 - $2.00
or
100 -.50
200 - $2.00
100 - $10.00
not too many player betting $10 , unless if it headsup

[Mr Meaner]

I would buy

100 NVC(These could be used for anything .25, .50, $100)
100 $1 Chips
100 $5 Chips (These could be used as T500)
100 $25 Chips

With this set up you could host cash games and tournaments nicely with 8 people.

[99%evil]

With $40 rebuys...I'd recommend the following

120 - .25 (12 chips =$3 in chips for 10 folks)
160 - $1 (12 chips per person w/ a little extra)
100 -$5 ( 3 chips per person, and a bunch for rebuys or change from $20's)
20 - $20 chips (enough for 10 rebuys..or drop 20 $5's and make it 40 chips for 20 rebuys)

Could add another 40 $1, 20 $5 and 40 $20's if you do 500 chips.

[Zentish]

I just purchased a set of Tikis from littlebu and it sure looks like he put a lot of thought into the breakdown. I play in a $0.25/$0.50 game and this distribution seems pretty ideal, although I don't expect to be using the $5 chips much in my game.

Breakdown is:
.25 - 270
$1 - 220
$5 - 110
Total = 600 chips

The big pile of quarters makes for fun pots and big stacks, although with the $40 buy in you might want to shift things upwards towards the $1 and get a few more $5 chips.

[beekeeper]

Originally Posted by jojobinks

i'd recommend more quarters and dollars.

I agree. People always seem to use their smallest denominations. If you have too many denominations, invariably one person ends up with all the quarters and the rest are making change. Plus, like someone else said, folks prefer big stacks to big denominations.

[plagueboy]

I would do:

200 x $0.25
150 x $1
150 x $5

Give out:

20 x $0.25
15 x $1
4 x $5

On rebuys just give out:
8 x $5 and make them get change

Last cash game I was at, we ran out of chips because we had 7 players and 6 rebuys and there were way more small chips on the table than needed. From now on, I'm just giving rebuys only the larger denom and making them get change. Usually they can get it from the person that just felted them.

Of course I may change my mind again.

[kimdol13]

The cash set I use consists of 300 chips in this breakdown:

100 - $.25
100-$1
50-$5
40-$25
10-$100

$2390 total

We have never run out of chips no matter how long we play, 4 hours or 24 hours.