[aj1118]

I apologoze in advance for how basic this inquiry is. Thanks for any help though. I am a beginner looking to buy my first set. My friends and i currently play with a set we assign values to of 1, 2, 5, and 10. The sets i have been looking at are mostly denominated 5, 25, 100, and 500. We usually use blinds of 1 and 2...so it works real easily because we have 1 and 2 value chips. how does it work if you dont have a 5 and a 10 (instead the next step up being 25)? Dont you run out of 5's really fast?
Again, sorry for how basic this is.

[wijwij]

Use what you like to use. Some players like to use one chip for small blind and one other chip for big blind, as you do. Other players find it just as easy to use 1 chip/2 chips of their smallest denomination.

Most of the sets that you see with cash or tournament denominations use jumps of 4x or 5x between chips. This is just more efficient for getting value out of a chip set (fewer chips, worth more).

If you are thinking about a set with 4 chip colors, consider that you can assign them denominations in many ways:

.25-1-5-20 (typical cash set mimicking US currency -- note no $10)

1-5-25-100 (generic set -- akin to what you use)

5-25-100-500 (can be used as cents for 5c/10c or 10c/25c games)

25-100-500-1000 (typical tourney set)

25-100-500-2500 (can work as cash or tourney set)

There are other articles and posts about how many chips to buy. Typically, you will find you need more of one kind of chip than another. So it is not usually recommended to buy equal amounts of each chip.

[Jonah 99]

Originally Posted by aj1118

I apologoze in advance for how basic this inquiry is. Thanks for any help though. I am a beginner looking to buy my first set. My friends and i currently play with a set we assign values to of 1, 2, 5, and 10. The sets i have been looking at are mostly denominated 5, 25, 100, and 500. We usually use blinds of 1 and 2...so it works real easily because we have 1 and 2 value chips. how does it work if you dont have a 5 and a 10 (instead the next step up being 25)? Dont you run out of 5's really fast?
Again, sorry for how basic this is.

You will need to make change, having a player exchange a 25 for five 5's.

For a No-Limit cash game of ten players with set blinds of 1/2, I would recommend the following break down:

200 x $1
150 x $5
100 x $25
50 x $100

if it was a limit game:

100 x $1
300 x $2
80 x $20
20 x $100

[jamby]

Are you most interested in a cash or tourney set? If you're currently playing with 1/2 blinds it sounds like a low buy-in cash game. The chipsets that begin with 5/25/100... chips though are typically for either tourneys or larger stakes cash games.

Many of the folks that I play with regularly have tournament denoms like you're referring to in their sets and we modify them for use in our low stakes cash games. 5 chips are worth .50, 25 are .25, 100 is 1 and so on.

[Matthew]

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[cdnmoose]

The answer is, you don't 'run out' of 5s but you find they are quickly useless and come out of play.

Forget the 5s and get a tourney set of
25/100/500

start the blinds at 25/25 or 25/50

[jamby]

Best advice ever.

Originally Posted by Matthew

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