[Sonjaaa]

If I want to buy poker chips in such a way that I want enough for a game of 7 players, and assume that we will each commit $5 or $10 for the night. (Winner takes all, $35 or $70) How many should I buy in each denomination? What should the blinds be? etc?

[Vince]

Well, blind levels and the depth of the stack you take doen't depend on the buy-in or money you play for in tournaments.
You can start with 1/2 or 500/1000 depending on the chips you like.

But the relation of the chips should be
4/3/2/1
or 3/4/2/1

I prefer the second one when you do color ups.
and the next denomination to a chip should be 4 or 5 times bigger than the former one. Mean $5 than $25 and so on and not $5 than $10.
Different thing in Limit cash gfames of course.

[mirageII]

If I were buying a 500 chip set for a single table game (up to 10 players)

I would play a T5000 tourney with each player getting the following chips

12 x T25
12 x T100
7 x T500

I would buy

120 x T25 (Green)
160 x T100 (Black)
120 x T500 (Purple or Pink)
100 x T1000 (Yellow or Orange)

The extra black chips can be used to color up the greens when they become redundant. And the extra pinks and yellows can be used to color up the blacks when they become redundant.

I would start the blinds at 25/50 for NL games (pick up a blind schedule at www.homepokertourney.com) raising every 20 mins or so.

This set up can be useful if you are in the US and want to play a 25c/50c cash game instead of a tournament. Just use the values as cents...

25 = 25c, 100 = 100c ($1), 500 = 500c ($5) etc.

Hope this helps...

[Matthew]

Try the 2 articles in my signature and post any other questions you have.

[Sonjaaa]

in a game with $10 buyin, i'm thinking of giving each player:
15 chips of $5
17 chips of $25
5 chips of $100
37 chips total = $1000 total
(dollars are worth pennies, basically)

(Or maybe 6/13/15 instead of 5/17/15... )

Or maybe:
12 chips of $2.5
12 chips of $10
7 chips of $50
5 chips of $100
36 chips total = $1000 total

(Then I just multiply by the max number of players I intend to ever have at my table, say 6. So it would be a 216 or 222 chip set.)

What do you think? Did I do the math right? Is this a good set to buy?

What are the pros and cons of buying a set in 3 different denominations versus one with 4 different denominations?

[links_slayer]

Originally Posted by mirageII

I would buy

120 x T25 (Green)
160 x T100 (Black)
120 x T500 (Purple or Pink)
100 x T1000 (Yellow or Orange)

Seconded.

Personally, I like this starting stack better, but that's just personal preference. The above breakdown should easily accomodate this.

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

HPT is a good resource for blinds, etc. Here's what I use:

25 50
50 100
75 150
100 200
150 300
Break/Color Up T25s
200 400
300 600
400 800
600 1200
800 1600
Break/Color Up T100s
1000 2000 (<---should end around this level, using 4% rule*)
1500 3000
2000 4000
2500 5000
3000 6000
4000 8000
5000 10000

*10 players, T5000 to start, no re-buys/add-ons