[ovo]

of a cash set of casino chips ? When I think about it, I think about a full rack vs. a real dollar amount. You figure how many chips you want in front of ?? 10 ?? people and...

[jldecarlo]

It really depends on what games you play and how large you want the set to be.

We play 1/2 NLHE and rarely 2/5. In the casinos, those games are played with a few $1 chips and a BUNCH of $5 chips. So that's what I get, plus enough higher denom chips to cover us if the action gets heavy.

If I was limited to say 300 chips, I would get many fewer $5s and more higher denom chips, but the stacks in front of each player would be smaller.

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[jamby]

Yep, you have got to love buying into a $1/2 NL cash game for $300 and getting all those chips to play with. 56 x $5 and 20 x $1s - almost a full 4 20-chip stacks. Yum.

Originally Posted by jldecarlo

We play 1/2 NLHE ... In the casinos, those games are played with a few $1 chips and a BUNCH of $5 chips.

edit to fix typo in original post.

[ovo]

Originally Posted by jamby

Yep, you have got to love buying into a $1/2 NL cash game for $300 and getting all those chips to play with. 96 x $5 and 20 x $1s - almost a full 6 20-chip stacks. Yum.

WOW, just in the last couple of days, I've been thinking about a 300 dollar buy-in, and I just upped the numbers on my Desert Palms set , for a 300 dollar buy-in for 10 people. 1 x 200 , 2 x 240 , 3 x 240 , 5 x 200 (nice chip) , 10 x 80 , wish there was a 20

[jamby]

Except there's a typo in my original message.

The 96 chips would be for a $500 buy-in and for a $300 buy-in, which is more the norm for $1/2, you'd get 56 x $5 and 20 x $1s for almost 4 full stacks of 20.

I'll fix the original post now.

Originally Posted by ovo

WOW, just in the last couple of days, I've been thinking about a 300 dollar buy-in, and I just upped the numbers on my Desert Palms set , for a 300 dollar buy-in for 10 people.

[ovo]

Originally Posted by jamby

Except there's a typo in my original message.

The 96 chips would be for a $500 buy-in and for a $300 buy-in, which is more the norm for $1/2, you'd get 56 x $5 and 20 x $1s for almost 4 full stacks of 20.

I'll fix the original post now.

how many 5 dollar chips in your cash set Jamby

[jamby]

It depends which set you're referring to.

My custom ASM Roman mold Club 517 cash set breakdown is:
80 x quarters
120 x $1s
40 x $3s
100 x $5s
60 x $10s
120 x $25s (used in my Club 517 tourney set too)

My custom Chipco The DAWg House cash set breakdown is:
120 x quarters
180 x $1s
100 x $2s
100 x $5s
120 x $25s (also used in The DAWg House tourney set)

My custom ASM American mold The Bear Den cash set breakdown is:
100 x nickles
120 x quarters
140 x $1s
120 x $2.50s
100 x $5s
20 x non-denoms
I have Matthew to thank for these awesome breakdowns.

Originally Posted by ovo

how many 5 dollar chips in your cash set Jamby

[BigKyle]

I try to start people off with 30-40 chips. For a .25-.50 nl game, this means 20x.25 and 20x$1, for $1-$2 nl game 20x$1 and 16x$5. Anything more than that ($25 in the small game and $100 in the big game) and I use $5 and $25 chips respectively. So to start, I like 200 quarters, 200 dollars, and 160 fives at least. Throw in some 25's or 20's and you should be set for a full sized cash game.

[SteveA]

I modeled my .25/.50 cash set starting stacks similar to what you'd get in a casino 1/2 NL game (as jldecarlo mentioned above).

We do a $40 buy in and I'll dish out 40x$1 chips to everyone, and I'll give myself a few ones and a bunch of quarters to make change for everyone. The total number of quarters on the table is usually about 12 per player (although 8 per player is sufficient).

My cash set was designed for 8 people and consists of:

100x.25
300x1.00
100x5.00

www.homepokertour.com/graphics/bdc_chips2.jpg

[links_slayer]

Originally Posted by SteveA

100x.25
300x1.00
100x5.00

This is, IMO, a superb breakdown especially for $0.25/$0.50 NL.