A lot of people start the blinds at 25/50, so $25 chips are very necessary. 5000 chips would only be needed if the blinds got to be in the 5000-10000+ range
You're right, it's really the same thing. But most sets did/do not have $5K chips, so the typical available tourney denoms were 25 to 1,000.
Personal preference as far as I'm concerned. My first tourney set was 25-100-500-1000 cause that's what I could get. My latest set is 100-500-1000-5000, plus a bunch of 25s and even some 5s just because I like the chips!
Thats kinda what I was thinking. It just seemed that the breakdown would be easier if you could eliminate the 25's , then you wouldn't need a million of them.
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Nope. But $2000 or $2500 are really the most logical denoms here. I deal tourneys all the time where we have $500s and $1000s and it's really just a pain because the players get confused a little about what they're betting.
Now that I think of it... most tournaments in casinos use non-denom chips anyway, so they could still designate a chip to be $2000 or $2500.
Thats kinda what I was thinking. It just seemed that the breakdown would be easier if you could eliminate the 25's , then you wouldn't need a million of them.
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You don't need a million quarters. Eight per player is plenty. The $100 chips are your workhorses.
The best thing to do would actually be lose the $1000 and add a $2000. There's not enough difference between 500 and 1000 to justify having both.
Very true on the gap between 500 and 1000. Which is why it makes sense to run your tourneys in low end of the spectrum: 1-5-25-100-500, where each step up in chips is 4x or 5x the last. With starting blinds of 1/2, 2/4 or 3/6, there'd be no call for a chip higher than T500.
But people like their bets to be in larger numbers, even if it's irrelevant for tourneys. More sexy, I guess.
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