[Big Slick]

This is what I have decided on thus far.
First, I think I want my money games to have chips with demoninations (except for the blue ncv) and my tournament chips to be NCV (that way, we won't have anyone bringing chips from the tournament into the money game!) WHat do you think thus far of using ncv chips for the tournaments?
Here's my breakdown, although I don't have any specific figures, amounts of money to start with, or number of players in mind!

NCV chips (for tournaments):
blue--100 (for cash and possibly for tournaments)
White-0
Red--0
Green--300
Black--250
Purple--125
Orange---75
Ten's egyptian "Plaques" $5000--24

Demonination chips (for money games):
Blue .25--0
White $1--250
Red $5--275
Green $25--150
Black $100--75
Purple $500--25
Orange $1000--25


Total of 1650 chips and 24 "plaques".
I will use the blue ncv chips in my money games (50 cents maybe), but the rest of the ncv chips and plaques in tournaments (I seriously doubt I will have to worry about someone try to sneak a $5,000 plaque into my money game!).
Anyone think I could do better on anything including swaping the ncv chips for money games and the demonination chips for th tournaments?
Thanks in advance for all your help!
BS

[CaptLego]

You might want to reverse your assignemt ---- use NCV for cash, and denoms for tourney. This would be a more efficient use of chips, because:

a) Tourneys can always have the same buyin, so you only need 3 or 4 colors. Supppose you use green, black, purple, and orange for this.
b) Cash games are more likely to have different stakes. You either need a broad range of chip denoms, or you have to play them at 1/10 or 1/100 face value. On the other hand, if you buy NCV chips for the cash games you again only need 3 colors. So buy white, red, blue as NCV and use them for all cash games.

This way, there's a color difference between cash chips and tourney chips, not merely the presence or absence of denoms on otherwise identical chips.

The plaques, being denoms, would go nicely with the tourney chips. If you wanted to feature them in your tourney set, you could bump the colors up a notch, making $100 be your minimum tourney chip and moving the green to be a NCV cashgame chip.


So.... you could leave your tourney set as it is, except use denoms for it.

Then for your cash game, you don't need greens, blacks, purple, or orange. This frees up 275 chips so you could afford more blues, whites, and/or reds. You'd still have 900 chips in your cash set, but only need 3 colors. So you could have, say, 500 of color A, 300 of color B, and 100 of color C. This would be much better, for example, if you ever play limit games.

[Big Slick]

anymore thoughts?

[drake]

I bought all NCVs for my cash game because we play so many different types of games. It seems that this is the best option if you have any thoughts of running different games. Just my 2 cents worth.....Only after talking to about 20 people about it.