[Novikan]

I recently got in on the ASM HH Group buy and bought 725 chips... and i am planning on picking up 275 more... my current amounts are:
200- Plain Grey
200-Mandarin Red/DG Yellow
150-Blue/White
100-Green/DG Peach
50-Black/Pink
25-Purple/Grey
is there any way i can fix this breakdown so it is traditional... and i need a solution to the Blue/White chips because a $50 chip is useless if i have $25 chips.... keep in mind that i am planning on getting 275 more... so involve them.... thanks in advance.

also note that i plan this to be a tourney set... and would like the follow traditional colors as much as i can.

[gpc]

I assume that the grey are 25 cent or 50 cent
Blues are $1
That would be your cash set

Red = 5s
Green = 25s
Blacks = 100s and Purples equal 500

Add 50 green, 50 black and 25 purple and you have a pretty good tourney set. With the 150 left over you can get more blue if needed and get 25 more of each color.

The set does not look bad. If you are partial to having full racks you may consider evening all the colors to 100 increments.

[Novikan]

well i planned on using all chips as my tourney set... because we do not play cash games that often... i had planned to make the Greys $1s and if i do that i have no clue what to do with the blues....

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by Novikan

well i planned on using all chips as my tourney set... because we do not play cash games that often... i had planned to make the Greys $1s and if i do that i have no clue what to do with the blues....

You have too many colors. For a tourney set, there's really no use for more than 4 colors, unless you plan huge tournies.

With your set, using the Greys as $1, then you're looking at a T200 setup, using grey, red, and green, with blacks for colorup, if necessary. You don't need the blues or purples.

How may people do you want to support with your tourney?

[Novikan]

i think i may just use the blues as $50s because that's what we have used in the past because we have used cheap 11.5 grams... but i guess that is the only solution that i have... planned on using a T2000 set up with
Quantity i will have/Quantity for tourneys -Amount in each color ($)

300/20 whites -$20
250/16 reds -$80
200/10 greens -$250
150/9 blues -$450
75/7 blacks -$700
25/1 pruple -$500

Good?? Work?

[Dwight87]

Did you get a quote from PC.com yet? I hear they increased their prices. Don't forget to mention the GB so you can get them faster.

[Novikan]

the site says they are $.55 a chip... and i did contact Cathy about the GB and she said that i can get 10% off my order for the remainer of the month with would come to a total of $136.13 for the chips only... not including shipping or tax or w/e other charges... which isnt a bad price for the clay chips i think...

[Stevo]

I don't think that 50's are useless since I use them because my tourney set is also my cash set and we play $.25/$.50. Anyway, a nice 1000 chip breakdown that works is the following:

360 Green chips @ 25 value x 12 chips per man = 300 value
360 Grey chips @ 50 value x 12 chips per man = 600 value
196 Black chips @ 100 value x 6 chips per man = 600 value
84 Purple chips @ 500 value x 1 chip per man = 500 value

With the above numbers you can accommodate a 30 man tourney with each player getting $2000 in chips and getting 31 chips each - which I believe are really good numbers all around. You will also have, 54 - purple, 500 chips left over for coloring up later on. I would try to approximate those numbers.

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by Novikan

i think i may just use the blues as $50s because that's what we have used in the past because we have used cheap 11.5 grams... but i guess that is the only solution that i have... planned on using a T2000 set up with
Quantity i will have/Quantity for tourneys -Amount in each color ($)

300/20 whites -$20
250/16 reds -$80
200/10 greens -$250
150/9 blues -$450
75/7 blacks -$700
25/1 pruple -$500

Good?? Work?

You have $1 chips in a T2000. What blind structure are you planning? If you start the blinds out at $1/ $2, then each person is starting with 1000x the big blind. The blinds wouldn't be worth playing for.
Generally, folks start with about 100x the big blind. So for T2000, you'd start the blinds at $10/$20, in which case the $1 chips are of no use.

I realize you've got all those cool chips, but there's just no use for more than 4 colors in any single game.

As gpc suggested, you set splits nicely into two sets -- a cash game set, and a tourney set.

Or, you could use different colored chips on different nights. But trying to get all those colors into a single game will just screw up the game. Even if you make two colors have the same chip value, it will just confuse the players, and you have plenty of chips for a 10 person game, using just half of the chips.

[Novikan]

our game must be different than others games because other people only start with like 3 colors... as we have always started with 5 colors... no matter where i go in our ring to play we always start out with 5 different colors of chips... that's just how it's always been... here at least.