300 chip tourney set breakdown

[Josh7975]

I'm trying to build a tourney set with some limitations:
- 300 chips
- flexible and easy to use
- possible to host up to a 10-player tourney.
In addition, the specific chips I chose for the set are a bit limited due to price and availability.

I mainly have experience with way oversized cash sets, so I was hoping to get some input on this project.

I settled on the following breakdown. Not ideal, but I think it will work:
(100) T5
(175) T25
(20) T100
(5) T500

For up to ten players, starting stacks are T600:
(10) T5
(14) T25
(2) T100
Blinds start at 5-5. Enough left over to color up T5s and have 4-5 rebuys.

For up to six players, starting stacks are T1400:
(15) T5
(21) T25
(3) T100
(1) T500
Sixth player gets (12) extra T25 and (2) extra T100 instead of the T500. Enough left over to color up T5s, blinds start at 5-5 or 5-10.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

[rtmunro]

Originally Posted by Josh7975

I'm trying to build a tourney set with some limitations:
- 300 chips
- flexible and easy to use
- possible to host up to a 10-player tourney.
In addition, the specific chips I chose for the set are a bit limited due to price and availability.

I mainly have experience with way oversized cash sets, so I was hoping to get some input on this project.

I settled on the following breakdown. Not ideal, but I think it will work:
(100) T5
(175) T25
(20) T100
(5) T500

For up to ten players, starting stacks are T600:
(10) T5
(14) T25
(2) T100
Blinds start at 5-5. Enough left over to color up T5s and have 4-5 rebuys.

For up to six players, starting stacks are T1400:
(15) T5
(21) T25
(3) T100
(1) T500
Sixth player gets (12) extra T25 and (2) extra T100 instead of the T500. Enough left over to color up T5s, blinds start at 5-5 or 5-10.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

I wouldn't suggest a rebuy tourney with 10 players and 300 chips. I hate running a tourney thinking I "should" be ok. Strange things can happen and it's just one more distraction.

With that said I would suggest the following:

100 x t5
140 x t25
70 x t100
10 x t500

Starting stack t1000 x 10 players, no rebuys:

10 x t5
14 x t25
6 x t100

This gives each player a decent starting stack. I find players get paralyzed, especially in the beginning, by small starting stacks including large denoms.

It also leaves you with 10 x t100 in the bank, enough to chip up all the t5s and some t25s. plus you know you are more than covered at the high end.

That said, if you could bump it up to 400 chips you could open up a lot more flexibility.

[toonexile]

I have just ordered a 300 chip set as follows:
T25 x 100
T100 x 100
T500 x 60
T1000 x 40

10 players could be, say, a T8000 with 8/8/6/4 but leaves no room for colour-ups or rebuys. You could make this T5000 and leave chips for colour-ups. It is difficult to include rebuys in a 300 chip set for 10 players (but I am sure someone will contradict me below)

It doesn't really scale down to your breakdown starting with a T5 though. Unless you go:
T5 x 100
T25 x 140
T100 x 60
giving a 10 player T1000 with 10/14/6 but all chips play....edit.....rtmunro used something similar above but added more than 300 chips.

Your breakdown for a T600 tourney for 10 players gives a 60BB starting stack which may be OK for shortish sit n go's with plenty of action early, probably becoming a shovefest at later levels. I prefer 100BB starting stacks with enough low value chips to allow action in early levels. I would only go down to a starting stack of 8/8/x if playing with a full table of 10 otherwise I would increase the smaller chips to 12/12/x or 16/16/x if playing with 8 players. If only 6 players, I like 16/16/x or 20/20/x = bigger starting stacks and moar chipes.

[shaboo]

Another option: T5000 with ten 100BB-starting stacks of 8/13/7 = 280 chips.
You may add 30 T500's (or 15 T1000's if available) to color-up all T25's and T100's, although with only 140 chips per player in heads-up, coloring up the T25's may suffice, leaving you with 284 chips total and 102 chips per player in heads-up. Add ten T5000's for one re-buy per player, if available. Otherwise, if you absolutely must have re-buys and at least T1000's are available, use 8/8/8 starting stacks plus 10 T1000's for coloring up all T25's and T100's plus 50 T1000's for re-buys, summing up to exactly 300 chips.

[Josh7975]

Good stuff, thanks guys!

[spikeithard]

anyone have ideas for a 400 piece turbo chip set?.. I want to play a quick 20-30 minutes turbo game of 8-9 players before I start the main cash game.

I have 600 cash chips and I need to fill the other 400 spots of my birdcage with tournament chips. No rebuys obviously. 5 min blinds, maybe starting 10-20 then 20-40 then 50-100???

anyone recommend a great chip break down for me please?

[BPTDirector]

A good alternative to a 20 to 30 minute turbo all-in fest is a 50/50 tournament where if you have 6 players you play until 3 are left and those 3 double their money.

I've done this a bunch of times and it's gone over much better than the hurry up all-in because the turbo went crazy too fast.

BPT

Originally Posted by spikeithard

anyone have ideas for a 400 piece turbo chip set?.. I want to play a quick 20-30 minutes turbo game of 8-9 players before I start the main cash game.

I have 600 cash chips and I need to fill the other 400 spots of my birdcage with tournament chips. No rebuys obviously. 5 min blinds, maybe starting 10-20 then 20-40 then 50-100???

anyone recommend a great chip break down for me please?

[spikeithard]

ya good idea.. Just looking for a good warm up game.

so lets say I want to do the 500 cash game chips and 500 50/50 tournament, what breakdown would be good to get and what blind levels? thx

[johnsj12]

For my tournaments I do T2000 with 10 total buyins (includes rebuys) and use the following breakdown of chips

100 x $5
120 x $25
100 x $100
40 x $500

Blind structures are 10-20, 15-30, 25-50, 30-60, color up 5s, 50-100, 75-150, 125-250, 150-300, color up 25s, 200-400, 300-600, 500-1000, 600-1200, color up 100s, 1000-2000, etc.

Each player starts with 10-10-7-2. You have 20 extra $25 chips to color up the 100 $5s. Then you have 30 extra $100 chips to color up the 120 $25 chips. With only T20000 in play, most times we never have to color up $100s, but I have 20 extra 500s just in case. You could probably get away with less 500s and be fine. That would put you at 330 chips. If you didn't care about coloring up 25s you would be at 300.

[Craig D]

I would not use T5s the gap to T25 is to big 1-5 T25 to T100 1-4 small differance but saves a lot of chips

300 chips T 5000

80 x 25
130 x 25
70 x 500
20 x 1000

8/13/7

400 chips T5000

120 x 25
160 x 100
80 x 500
40 x 1000

12/17/6



400 Chips T10 000

120 x 25
120 x 100
80 x 500
60 x 1000
20 x 5000

12/12/7/5/0
but whatever works