[SleepOnIce]

I'm ordering a set of 400 chips for my homegame. We always play tournaments, but max out at 8 players (usually around 6). Would this be a good breakdown for tournaments that would have between T7500 and T10,000 starting stacks?

160 x T25
120 x T100
80 x T500
40 x T1000

My main question really is, what other breakdowns would be reasonable, so I could compare them and bring them up at the next game and discuss it with everyone.

[99%evil]

I think you've got too many 25's.

12 - 25's per person to start should be plenty, for 8 peeps 100 should cover it.

I'd jack up the 100's and the rest accordingly
T25- 100
T100 - 150
T500 - 100
T1000 - 50

Starting stacks as follows

T -10000
12 - T25
12 - T100
7 - T500
5 - T1000

T -7500
12 - T25
12 - T100
6 - T500
2 - T1000

You'll probably be using 500 and 1000's at the end of the tourney.

If you are going ot do rebuys, you could drop the T500's to 75 and raise the T1000's to 75(you'll have to use a combo of T500 and T1000 to color up the T100's...but it should be simple).

[hod]

I'd maybe swap the numbers of T25 and T100 around so that you have more T100 - they're more than likely going to be the most used chip in the game by my experience.

Just my 2p.

[Aeneis]

If you use following set, you could accomodate 9 players in a tournament (you never know !)

120 x 25$
135 x 100$
100 x 500$
45 x 1000$

and use following starting configuration for T10'000:
12 x 25$
12 x 100$
7 x 500$
5x 1000$

This will leave you enough chips for the colouring up. Only the 500$ and 1000$ chips would keep in play. However, you would not have enough chips left to offer rebuy using this setup. Depends on your play!

Aeneis

[tomb1]

Buy fewer $25s. Take those same dollars and buy more of the larger denoms. This gives you more "bank" for your buck. I wouldn't buy more than 80-100 of the $25s for an 8-10 player game.

For tourneys without antes and starting stacks of T5K-10K, we've found that starting with 8 or 12 of the $25 chips is enough. With more $25s you just have extra wasted chips sitting on the table, then when you color-up you have extra wasted expensive chips sitting on the side. Buy more $100s and give out more $100s in your starting stack.

Good luck!

[mizuchaud]

If you. really want to be efficient with per chip costs, try building a set with T5, T25, T100 and T500. That T1000 chip doesn't really buy you much at the top end as it's only two times the T500....

It may look nice to have a T10000 tourney, but for a 400 chip set, it seems like you want more in the middle (T25's and T100's)

just my opinion.

[CK15c]

When I went to purchase my set of WSOP replicas, I was limited to 400 chips for financial reasons and I went with this breakdown:

80 x T25
100 x T100
100 x T500
100 x T1000
20 x T5000

This allows for up to ten players with a T10000 starting stack of 8/8/8/5 with all the T25's being coloured up with T100's, all T100's coloured up with T500's, all T500's being coloured up with T1000's, and if you ever wanted to get a larger chip in play, all the T1000's could conceivably be coloured up with T5000's. You could also use the T5000's to play a T20000 if you were ever feeling like that and colour-up to all T1000's and T5000's. I think this is the perfect setup as the colour-ups work very smoothly, and re-buys could be easily accomodated with a T5000 or less starting stack (or one re-buy with T10000). There's up to 200,000 in play with only T1000's and T5000's. Just what I have. I think it works great and I'd recommend it to anyone!

[SleepOnIce]

Thanks everyone for your help, I talked it over with the other players at lunch today and we decided on this set-up.

Originally Posted by 99%evil

I think you've got too many 25's.

12 - 25's per person to start should be plenty, for 8 peeps 100 should cover it.

I'd jack up the 100's and the rest accordingly
T25- 100
T100 - 150
T500 - 100
T1000 - 50

Starting stacks as follows

T -10000
12 - T25
12 - T100
7 - T500
5 - T1000

T -7500
12 - T25
12 - T100
6 - T500
2 - T1000

You'll probably be using 500 and 1000's at the end of the tourney.

If you are going ot do rebuys, you could drop the T500's to 75 and raise the T1000's to 75(you'll have to use a combo of T500 and T1000 to color up the T100's...but it should be simple).

Again, thanks for the fast and helpfull responses.

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by SleepOnIce

Thanks everyone for your help, I talked it over with the other players at lunch today and we decided on this set-up.



Again, thanks for the fast and helpfull responses.

Good choice! That's what I'd go with. We play T10,000 with 12-12-7-5 starting stacks. 36-chips per player feels like just the right amount to me.

[avsfan91]

All you need to do is give your players alot of play and they will be happy.