Adding to the set... what do I need???

AlbinoDragon · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 07:00 AM

To all the chip breakdown guru's out there, I've got one for you.

I'm taking advantage of the ASM sale as well as the half-pie option and adding to my existing, and quite new, set (The Lounge). The set was designed to be usable for both tournaments as well as cash games. Right now, I have the following:

350 - 1
500 - 5
200 -25
100- 100
70 - 500
30 - 1000

The numbers of the higher denom chips for the tourneys are just fine. I ran and re-ran the numbers before I even placed the order. I will wind up getting a few extra of the 500s and 1000s to make color-ups easier for tourneys, but that isn't the main part of the question.

I realized that I'm pretty short on quarters if I want to do .25/.50 or .50/1.00 limit, so I am going to get 200 additional 25s but have those done in the half-pie. The colors will be the same, as well as the inlay, so I don't see any problem in having the two different chips in play at the same time (the old 25 has 414 spots). The mock-up of the new chip as well as the existing ones are in the custom mock-ups forum.

The question is, does anyone see a need for additional 1s or 5s? Is there a need for a different value chip in the set? (Of course, there is always a need... this is Chiptalk, but speaking from a breakdown standpoint).

FYI, historically, we've been playing $5 buy-in, penny ante, .10 max bet/raise for all but the last round of betting where it's .25. We've just started .05/.10 limit (again $5), and may very well progress to .10/.20 limit before too long (I'm guessing $10 buy-in). I want the extra quarters for possible 0.25/0.50 or 0.50/1.00 limit in the future. Going through the archives and reading through past breakdown requests, I figure I'm just fine for any future NL games of reasonable stakes (blinds up to $1).

We usually have 4 or 5 players for the twice monthly cash game. On occasion, there will be six. That should give an idea of what I'm looking for. When I calculated out the tournament stuff, I figured it for 27 players with T2000 starting stacks and no rebuys. I'm happy with the tourney setup, so you only need to think about the cash set.

Ideas or thoughts? The design work is already done, I just need to know how much of what to order. I'm only looking for about a 400 total chip order (200 of that already being occupied by the pies) if that helps out with figuring this out.

Thanks a ton!

dad604 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 06:49 PM

I think your breakdown looks good, especially with the additonal of the 25's. You might not need it but personally I would add 150 more 1's to make the 1's a total of 500. I like having lots of $1's in my game.

dom · #3 (**permalink**) 09-04-2007, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by AlbinoDragon

The question is, does anyone see a need for additional 1s or 5s? Is there a need for a different value chip in the set? (Of course, there is always a need... this is Chiptalk, but speaking from a breakdown standpoint).

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We usually have 4 or 5 players for the twice monthly cash game. On occasion, there will be six. That should give an idea of what I'm looking for.

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I'm only looking for about a 400 total chip order (200 of that already being occupied by the pies) if that helps out with figuring this out.

For a 4-6 player cash game, I don't see where you'd need more 1s or 5s. You already have enough 5s for 80-100 chips each for limit play (20 big bets even at 10c-20c). I'd probably get 300 extra 25c chips so you can have similar stacks all the way up to 50c-$1. I'd probably throw the rest into 500 and 1000 chips for tourney play and NL games in the future.

Seems like you have a pretty solid breakdown.