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Originally Posted by UsIreland  You dont have to make change that often with 8 25's unless you do silly things like call a 200raise using 8 25's rather than 2 100's. People worry about making change far far too much, seriously how hard is it to just say call and throw out a 100 or a 500 etc. and wait for the end of the betting round to get the change. Your always going to have to make change, i gave a starting stack of 20 x 25chips and people still had to make change, worry more about giving a nice blind structure. The wsop break down for 2006 of 8x25's 8x100's 8x500's and 5x1000's seems to be probably one of the best to play with.
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Ian |
So right. We've found that once in a while a player gets change from his neighbor to post his blinds, but this is minimal. Most players look ahead a few hands and get change when they are low. If they're really slow, they just put out a bigger chip for their blind and make change from the pot. It's really not a big deal unless you have some jerks/table captains who want to interfere.
And we seldom see someone needing change to make/call a raise. This also isn't a general problem.
My rule of thumb is to never have more chips of the lowest denom in your starting stack -- always fewer or the same as your next denom. The middle denoms become your betting workhorses when you have decent players who know how to bet in NL.
The only times you may need more of a lower denom are (1) if you are playing limit, (2) if you have lots of limpers each hand and the custom is never to raise pre-flop (a so-called "friendly game'), or (3) if you are going to have antes.
Button Potato's chip set number are good: most of the middle denoms and a minimal number of the smallest denom. This saves you money in addition to making for a better game. Otherwise you spend good money buying small chips that will sit unused most of the game after you color them up.
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