Cash Set Breakdown

[cuddytime]

I'm looking to get 500 milano chips for a cash set. trying to figure out a good breakdown. I can go up to 1,000 chips, but i'd prefer to keep it as close to 500 as possible.

games we usually play: omaha hi/lo, texas hold'em

usual buy in: $100 (with unlimited buy-in; people usually don't buy in more than once or twice; usually people don't re-buy in with the max $100)
maximum: 10 (usually about 7-


Denominations:
0.5
1
5
10
25
100 (like 5 of these so that we can do player exchanges)

i'd like to start off with a decent stack (~40?)

[jldecarlo]

Rule 1: Get enough High denoms to cover twice the biggest game you expect
Rule 2: If you fail at rule 1, let high denoms bills play ($100s or $20s depending)
Rule 3: Get lots of your "workhorse" chip. Usually $1 or $5 in home games.

My suggestion assuming you play 50¢/$1:
50¢ x 100
$1 x 100
$5 x 200
$25 x 60
$100 x 40

All could be adjusted depending on what you like.

That would give 50¢x8, $1x8, $5x18 starting stacks.

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[eM etiB]

In your game, considering a $100 avg buy-in I'm guessing your workhorse chip will be the $1 chips. If you don't really have any solid plans to increase your blinds I'd go with:

100 - $.50
300 - $1
180 - $5's
20 - $100's

That would give you $3,250 total bank witch should be plenty and you could always let 100's play if needed. You'll notice I didn't include any $25's. In your sized game I really don't see the need to have them unless just love the design and can't resist getting some.

Starting stack of $100 could be:

10 -$.50, 30 $1's, and 13 - $5's. That would leave you with $250 in red for rebuys if you wanted to put more chips in play and if not, you'd have plenty of $100's and the biggest stack one the table could make change.

If you wanted to increase to 600 I would probably add another $100 in $1's if you think your game with stay at $.50/$1. If you start playing $1/$2 I would add the 100 as $5's due to the fact the workhouse chip will shift more toward the $5 than the $1 in that sized game.

[lanyi]

I try and avoid having any 2 denoms which are a 2x jump in value (like 0.50 and 1.00) since it's not an efficient way to get the most "bank" with what you have. That's why I pushed to transition the game I play in to 1/1 blinds to avoid needing 0.50 chips. By doing this you can easily accomodate your needs with 500 chips.

200 $1
200 $5
100 $25

Total bank is $3,700 which should be plenty

Starting stacks are 20*$1 + 16*$5
First 2 rebuys you use the 2 barrels of $5's left and after that $25's
If you are willing to go beyond 500 chips get another rack of $5's to get more comfortable.

[albie]

When you say hold'em & omaha8, Do you mean NL & limit respectively? If you want a set for exckusively fixed limit games, it will be quite different from a NL/PL set or a set for any type of cash game.

[eM etiB]

Originally Posted by lanyi

I try and avoid having any 2 denoms which are a 2x jump in value (like 0.50 and 1.00) since it's not an efficient way to get the most "bank" with what you have. That's why I pushed to transition the game I play in to 1/1 blinds to avoid needing 0.50 chips. By doing this you can easily accomodate your needs with 500 chips.

200 $1
200 $5
100 $25

Total bank is $3,700 which should be plenty

Starting stacks are 20*$1 + 16*$5
First 2 rebuys you use the 2 barrels of $5's left and after that $25's
If you are willing to go beyond 500 chips get another rack of $5's to get more comfortable.

Totally agree with this. If you stick to the .50/$1 I would go with the 600 chips broken down in whatever breakdown of either $25 or $100's that would allow you to cover the buy ins.

[ovo]

on a side note, i just saw the beginning of the show unforgettable last night , where she goes into an illegal poker game, and they were using milano chips

[lanyi]

Originally Posted by eM etiB

Totally agree with this. If you stick to the .50/$1 I would go with the 600 chips broken down in whatever breakdown of either $25 or $100's that would allow you to cover the buy ins.

If I was sticking with 0.50/1.00 blinds then ideally I would want to have chips with $0.50, $2.00/$2.50, $10.00 and $50.00 denoms to maintain the 4x to 5x jump between chips but finding chips in these denoms is way more difficult and impossible if you are confining yourself to non custom off the shelf chips. You can work it for a budget if you are willing to work with non denominated chips.

[cuddytime]

i'm a bit hesitant to go past 2x other than the jump from $1 --> $5. since that would require going from $5 --> $25 (a huge psychological jump for most people that play with me).

mainly due to the fact that our games aren't about winning huge amount of money... it's more about just having fun (we typically return 50% - 60% of the biggest loser's loss)

a little more detail:
typically we cap max bets per round to half of the current pot size (for both games)

[lanyi]

If you want to control the amount of money on the table you do that by limiting the buy-ins and the blinds not by the chips denoms you use. Using 2x for NL/PL games is simply not efficient and adds more chips then necessary on the table with no real purpose.