[Slug]

I'm thinking of this for my first set of real chips...Pharoahs I hope. Looking for something to run some no limit tournament games for 8-10 people:

250 green $25
250 black $100
100 purple $500
50 orange $1000

I figure I can always divide the denoms by 100 for low level, cash limit games.

Does this breakdown seem logical or am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance.

[Coleman]

650 chips is enough for 25 players.
My "efficient" breakdown for 650 tournament chips would be:
200 green $25
225 black $100
100 purple $500
100 orange $1000
25 blue $5000

However, if you won't play anything larger than a single table tourney, why not get some ring game chips as well?
You can do:
100 green
100 black
50 purple
50 orange

And

200 white
150 red

[Dwight87]

Check this review out: http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/cms_vi...cle.php?aid=47

Hope this helps.
Dwight87

[disqman]

This is just an opinion, but when spending that much on a set of chips you would like to last the rest of your life, why constrain the set to one type of game. You might not want to play tournament style four years from now. Perhaps the blackjack bug will bite, or just regular five card. Wouldn't it be more sensible to purchase a flexible high end set with a greater number of smaller denominations for straight cash games, and use a more inexpensive set for larger tournaments that will require high denominations that you might only use for that style of game?

[Slug]

Originally Posted by disqman

This is just an opinion, but when spending that much on a set of chips you would like to last the rest of your life, why constrain the set to one type of game. You might not want to play tournament style four years from now. Perhaps the blackjack bug will bite, or just regular five card. Wouldn't it be more sensible to purchase a flexible high end set with a greater number of smaller denominations for straight cash games, and use a more inexpensive set for larger tournaments that will require high denominations that you might only use for that style of game?

I think I agree with what you're saying (it's too early in the morning for me to be sure). I'm sure I won't be playing tournament rules forever, but it does take a lot of the thought process out when it comes to cashout time. My thoughts are that for ring games I've never played with anything less than $0.25 as a betting unit, no nickels or dimes. This would allow me to use my $25 chip as $0.25, $100 as $1.00, etc. That is why I was loading up on more of the $25 and $100 chips. Maybe I only need 500 chips instead of 650?

I'm starting to think maybe getting some white chips as Coleman suggested since I don't plan on ever having more than one table. If I go with some of the white, I would lean toward non-denoms for that color just for flexibility. Does this seem reasonable seeing as those chips would likely never be used in tournament and would give me the flexibilty to add $0.05 or $0.10 chips to ring games? I would just get a bunch of red $5 denom chips, but I like the look of the white chip better than the red and definitely don't want the $1 denom.

Way too much thought (or lack of it) was put into this post so early. I'm sure I just confused the issue, but am not awake enough to see it yet.

[Wylecoyo]

Your breakdown looks fine, provided it suits your game. I actually bought 550 Paulson chips to start with - 200 $25, 200 $100, 100 $500, and 50 $1000, but have since rounded out to an even 700 by adding an additional 150 chips. Now I have the following setup:

225 $25
225 $100
125 $500
125 $1000

This gives a solid setup of 600 playing chips, which is enough to play a wide variety of tournament setups with up to as many as 25 players, as well as an additional 25 "extra" chips in each denomination to allow for eventual replacement of damaged or lost chips. Although I hope I never need "spare" chips, it is nice to have them - especially when there is no guarantee I will be able to purchase replacements later on.