[ericmalone]

Hello everyone,
I'm planning on giving some of my friends a case of 300 chips, I have 1200 total and right now they all have the same distributions 75Red-75Blue-75Green-75Orange, but I was thinking about swapping the distributions so that everyone has a very playable set (for a 10-12 player tournament w/rebuys)

Any idea's?

Thanks!
Eric

[wijwij]

I think this can be done for 10 players, but I'd say 300 chips is not enough for a rebuy tourney for 12 players. You will also have to be ready for each set to assign denominations to colors differently.

One way is to have each friend get a set that uses THREE COLORS. Each set could consist of 80 x T25, 150 x T100, 70 x T500. The denomination applied to each color depends on the set.

Distribution: 80-150-70
Friend A: 80 red, 150 orange, 70 green
Friend B: 80 blue, 150 red, 70 orange
Friend C: 80 green, 150 blue, 70 red
Friend D: 80 orange, 150 green, 70 blue

That exactly uses up the 300 chips of each color that you have.

With ten players, any of those sets could do the following:

T2500 tournament with 1 rebuy
Blinds: Start at 25/25 or 25/50
Starting stack: 8 x T25 + 13 x T100 + 2 x T500 = 23 chips
Use the 20 leftover T100 to color up all the T25s in play. Then play using the T100 and T500 chips. Use the 50 leftover T500 to create 10 rebuys (5 x T500 = T2500), one per player.

T5000 tournament freeze-out (no rebuys)
Blinds: Start at 25/50
Starting stack: 8 x T25 + 13 x T100 + 7 x T500 = 28 chips
Use the 20 leftover T100 to color up all the T25s. Then play using the T100 and T500 chips. No rebuys.

Another option is to have each friend get a set that uses FOUR COLORS. For example, a breakdown of 100, 100, 80, 20 might work.

Distribution: 100-100-80-20
Friend A: 100 red, 100 blue, 80 green, 20 orange
Friend B: 100 orange, 100 red, 80 blue, 20 green
Friend C: 100 green, 100 orange, 80 red, 20 blue
Friend D: 100 blue, 100 green, 80 orange, 20 red

One way to assign these denominations would be as T1, T5, T25, and T100, respectively. In that case, I would suggest a T200 tournament with blinds starting at T1/T2.

T200 tournament with 1 rebuy
Blinds: Starting at 1/2
Starting stack: 10 x T1 + 8 x T5 + 6 x T25
You have enough T5s to color up the T1s and you have enough T25s to color up the T5s during the tournament. One rebuy per player using 2 of the T100 chips each.

T400 freezeout
Blinds: Starting at 1/2 or 2/4
Starting stack: 10 x T1 + 8 x T5 + 6 x T25 + 2 x T100
You have enough T5s to color up the T1s and you have enough T25s to color up the T5s. No rebuys.

Other breakdowns could work too. Basically, if you can think of a breakdown of 300 chips into 4 colors that works for a tournament that your group likes to play, then you can fashion the 4 sets you want. It's just that the color/denomination pattern will be different for each set.


Another chip distribution option: Each set could have 80 x T5, 120 x T25, 75 x T100, 25 x T500.

Distribution: 80-120-75-25
Friend A: 80 red, 120 blue, 75 green, 25 orange
Friend B: 80 orange, 120 red, 75 blue, 25 green
Friend C: 80 green, 120 orange, 75 red, 25 blue
Friend D: 80 blue, 120 green, 75 orange, 25 red

With that set you could use denominations of T5, T25, T100, and T500 and do a T1000 tournament with one rebuy.

T1000 tourney with 1 rebuy
Blinds: Starting at 5/10
Starting stacks:
6 players with 10 x T5 + 10 x T25 + 7 x T100
4 players with 5 x T5 + 11 x T25 + 7 x T100

Use the 16 remaining T25s to color up all the T5s. Later on, you can use the 5 unused T100 and 5 of the 25 T500 chips to color off all the T25s if you want to get them out of play, leaving only the T100 and T500 in play. That leaves you with 20 T500 chips that you could use entirely for rebuys (1 rebuy = 2 x T500), one per player.

Others may have other ideas. But if there is a way to make up a chip set of 300 chips using 3 or 4 colors that gives you a sufficient number of chips for your players in a tourney format that you like, you should be able to divvy them up into 4 gift cases.

[wijwij]

One more idea is simple:

Distribution: 80-80-80-60

Set those as T25, T100, T500, and T1000.

T5000 tourney with 1 rebuy for 10 players

Each player gets 8/8/8, i.e. 8 x T25 + 8 x T100 + 8 x T500.

To color up the T25 and T100, you need to hand out one T1000 chip per player, so that uses up 10 of the 60 T1000 chips. Color up will have to trickle down, i.e. exchange T1000 for T500s or T100s and use them to buy up the T25s. That leaves 50 T1000 chips, which is enough for 1 rebuy (5 x T1000) per player.

For that idea:

Friend A: 80 red, 80 blue, 80 green, 60 orange
Friend B: 80 blue, 80 green, 80 orange, 60 red
Friend C: 80 green, 80 orange, 80 red, 60 blue
Friend D: 80 orange, 80 red, 80 blue, 60 green

With those sets, you could also host a T10,000 tournament that would be a freeze-out (no rebuys). Just give everyone 8/8/8/5 in chips. That would leave 10 of the T1000 chips left over to be used to color up all the T25s and T100s.

That idea works well if you know the sets will only be used for tournaments. If the chips might also be used for cash games, then some of the other distributions I mentioned earlier, such as 80-150-70 and 80-100-100-20 might work better. Might be best to ask the recipients.

Lastly, I hate to suggest this, but it might be more useful to just divide these chips up into THREE sets of 400 and give them to just three of your friends. Such sets would be both tourney and cash game friendly.

Friend A: 100 orange, 150 red, 100 blue, 50 green
Friend B: 100 orange, 150 green, 100 red, 50 blue
Friend C: 100 orange, 150 blue, 100 green, 50 red

Friend D: Take him to a restaurant for dinner!

But that would involve tossing out the 300-chip cases and buying some 400-chip cases. So maybe not the best idea.

[ericmalone]

Perfect!!! Thanks guys!