Heads up set...

[spikeithard]

Hey, so whats a 'heads up' set all about? I know the obvious, its for you and someone else to duke it out. But why not use chips from your regular cash set? I assume because you want your HU set to be a really sick expensive set because its a small amount so you can spend big $/chip?

any other reasons to have a special heads up set?

also I have 120 chips space left to fill up my birdcage (465 tournament and 415 cash)

so whats a good breakdown for 120 heads up? 40 of X denom and 20 Y denom each???

'tanks

[Glider]

Heads up sets can be made when there aren't enough chips for the desired denoms available to make a bigger set.

That and any excuse for moar chipes, right?

[spikeithard]

ya of course mooerrrrrreeee chips. just sucks having a gap of 120 chips at the top of my cage so figured why not do a heads up set. I might re-label a 120 piece set of terribles. they look like in good shape for primaries. I would think they are in good enough shape to handle labels and lams..

[Ronoh]

Originally Posted by spikeithard

Hey, so whats a 'heads up' set all about? I know the obvious, its for you and someone else to duke it out. But why not use chips from your regular cash set? I assume because you want your HU set to be a really sick expensive set because its a small amount so you can spend big $/chip?

any other reasons to have a special heads up set?

For some it's for security, for some it's "because I can", but for most I would guess it's the same answer given for any unnecessary toy which is "why not?"

Originally Posted by spike

also I have 120 chips space left to fill up my birdcage (465 tournament and 415 cash)

Buy a second birdcage now before you "need it"... empty room is always a valid reason to buy more chips

Originally Posted by spike

so whats a good breakdown for 120 heads up? 40 of X denom and 20 Y denom each???

I prefer a single rack for heads up games.
40 T5
40 T25
20 T100
Each guy starts with a barrel of red, a barrel of green, and nine black (1500 chips, 5/10 blinds). Use the extra two black to color up the red when you're done with them, green and black (60 chips) stay in play until it's over.

A lot of people like games with stacks and stacks of chips but I don't care for it when I play HU... get a tight partner and you're looking at a marathon.

[spikeithard]

nice breakdown.. merci becoup.

I forgot Im going to have about 30 bounty and show em chips to keep in there also.. so I would only need 100 heads up so that breakdown is great. thanks

just need to figure out what chips they will be. deciding between re label paulsons or get some BCC relabeled. maybe even some custom ceramics?

[TheBigTater]

I find it harder to get up a full game now days so I play more heads-up. I really enjoy the heads-up game as it forces you to play almost every hand and makes you change up your play consistently, keeping you from falling into a lot of bad habits.

My breakdown for heads-up set:

45 - $25
45 - $100
25 - $500

with starting stacks of 20-20-5 = $5000. Blinds starting at 25-50 giving you 100BB starting stack.

The extra chips cans be used to color up the 25's if wanted.

Heads-up sets are a good way to have a lot of different kinds of chips without buying a lot of full sets.

[chipshippie]

me: "hey darling, i need more chips!"
she: "sure, more than 5000 chips are really not enough"
me: "ya right but i need a new set to play heads up!"
she: " you have more than 3 sets to play poker!?"
me: "but no set to play heads up!!!"
she: ""
me: ""
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she: "ya totally crazy!
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me: "ty darling... ORDER PLACED!"


Heeeeehaw.... We are Ct'ler!

[KingMedicine]

I have a dedicated heads up set, mainly because i can throw them in a chip box in my car with a deck and are always available for random poker. My set is
40-100's
40 - 500
20 - 1k's
5 - 5k's

I can run up to four people with this set if needed. Its really just a reason to get more chips. Just like having a set for .25/.50 up, .50 1.00, and 1/2NL... Yes, i have three different cash sets for no damn reason.

[BGinGA]

Originally Posted by Ronoh

I prefer a single rack for heads up games.
40 T5
40 T25
20 T100
Each guy starts with a barrel of red, a barrel of green, and nine black (1500 chips, 5/10 blinds). Use the extra two black to color up the red when you're done with them, green and black (60 chips) stay in play until it's over.

I do the same thing ^^, although I also have heads-up tourney sets that consist of chips with larger starting denoms:
40 T25
40 T100
20 T500
where each player starts with a barrel of green, a barrel of black, and ten purple (7500 chips, 25/50 blinds).

Of course, I also tend to combine these sets when possible, so that it could be used for either heads-up configuration (plus I throw in a few T1000 chips to round things out):
40 T5
40 T25
40 T100
20 T500
10 T1000
This also allows starting stacks of 10K when needed/wanted.

So a typical heads-up set (actually two in disguise) for me usually consists of 150 chips. The spare 50 chips live in a rack shared by the extra 50 chips of a different 150-pc heads-up set.

I sometimes hold heads-up tournaments, so my ultimate goal is to fill a birdcage with nothing but heads-up tourney racks (each one from a different casino). Yeah, I could break down one of my larger tournament sets to do it, but where's the fun (or addiction) in that?

[ovo]

Originally Posted by Glider

That and any excuse for moar chipes, right?

that just about sums it up at Chiptalk