[Vince]

I gonna order my ASM soon and I need a breakdown, sorry, but I'm a total breakdown donkey.
I gonna get T25, T100, T500, T1.000 and T5.000 and I need a nice breakdown for 6-8 players.
I hope you guys help me!

[hod]

25 : 100
100: 150
500: 100
1,000 : 100
5,000 : 50

Stacks of (T5k):

12 x 25
12 x 100
7 x 500

Depends if you play T5k or 10k or more (obviously just add 5k more to the starting stacks) if you play rebuy tournaments etc, if you like to have chips by the 100, if you like lots of chips on the table, if the player numbers will increase from 8 max at any point - but that's a good starting point for rebuy tournies, just alter to what your preference is.

[noelsarchs]

Originally Posted by Vince

I gonna order my ASM soon and I need a breakdown, sorry, but I'm a total breakdown donkey.
I gonna get T25, T100, T500, T1.000 and T5.000 and I need a nice breakdown for 6-8 players.
I hope you guys help me!

$25 x 150
$100 x 200
$500 x 100
$1000 x 25
$5000 x 25

that's my guess for now....

[JoseRijo]

Mike is close, but I think you need more 1000s.

For 10 player T10,000:

Starting stacks: 8/13/7/5
Total needed: 80 25s, 150 100s, 100 500s, 50 1000s = 390 chips.

Add 10 5000s and you get 400 chips. The last 100 is gravy. Maybe
100 25s
200 100s
100 500s
75 1000s
25 5000s

[Vince]

Originally Posted by JoseRijo

Mike is close, but I think you need more 1000s.

For 10 player T10,000:

Starting stacks: 8/13/7/5
Total needed: 80 25s, 150 100s, 100 500s, 50 1000s = 390 chips.

Add 10 5000s and you get 400 chips. The last 100 is gravy. Maybe
100 25s
200 100s
100 500s
75 1000s
25 5000s

Yeah, that's more like it. thanks a lot!
I will order 25 extras, so I got some more space.
I'd like to get a few more 5k chips, so I'm thinking about

100
175
100
75
50

because we usually have some more rebuys than normal.
(Also also for the collector in me)
would that work too?

[hod]

Originally Posted by Vince

Yeah, that's more like it. thanks a lot!
I will order 25 extras, so I got some more space.
I'd like to get a few more 5k chips, so I'm thinking about

100
175
100
75
50

because we usually have some more rebuys than normal.
(Also also for the collector in me)
would that work too?

I think that would work fine - you know how your game runs and how many rebuys etc you'd need.

[Wedge Rock]

http://www.wedgerock.com/files/chipcalc.xls

Just threw it together...lemme know if you find errors/problems...

All you need to do is set your number of players, your starting stacks (based on your blind schedule), and whether you want colorups (and if so, how you want them done). Add traders if you want. Auto rounds up to even racks of 20 for you...

[Wedge Rock]

I used your starting players (6-8 ), Jose Rijo's starting stack (8/13/7/5), and assumed a 40% rebuy (that's 4 players rebuying) -- and used full rebuys of T10000, as opposed to some lower amount. I also used a 40%-60% color-up ratio (I don't like 100% colorups...it puts extra chips on the table that are likely going to be removed later anyway). I also assumed your final stacks would be comprised of 15% T500's, 50% T1000's and 35% T5000's.

Using those assumptions, you could get by with 360 chips (I don't think ASM has any "minimum per denom" rule):

T25 x 80
T100 x 120
T500 x 80
T1000 x 60
T5000 x 20

IIRC, though, you have to order at leat 500 chips to get 5 colors. The above is the a pretty efficient breakdown to run a 8 person tournament (a nice way of saying you don't have a lot of flexibility)... you might want to figure a 10-player set so you are ready for expansion. That'll take you to 420 chips "efficiently":

T25 x 80
T100 x 140
T500 x 100
T1000 x 80
T5000 x 20