[bsoder52]

OK,

I structured my tourney to use basically all my custom chips, roughly 1000.

20 player tourney.
3K starting chips each

Chip stack breakdowns:
10 - .10cent chips
10 - .25cent chips
11 - .50cent chips
11- 1.00 chips
2 - 5.00 chips

Blinds:
10-20
20-30
20-40
Break-----------------------
25-50
50-100
75-150
Break-----------------------
100-200
150-300
200-400
Break-----------------------
300-600
400-800
500-1000
etc..

I have already sent out the invitations which list the blinds, starting chip stacks, etc. So am not looking for advice on what other formats to use at this point.

What I do need advice for is what to buy for backup chips. I use nex gens so it's not going to bread the bank. Looking for advice on what denoms and how many and why.

Thanks in advance for the help!!!!!
Bsoder52

[smoore]

With that structure you should only need $1 and $5 for color up. You can buy .25 and .5 from people with lots of them.

How many? Just have enough $1's to color all the .10 and half the .25. Use $5 to color the rest.

edit: don't bother to color the $1, you probably won't need to. Of course, get any "odd" $5 chips out on the felt but don't worry about removing all of the $1

[bsoder52]

So there will be a total of 2 racks of .10 chips in play for all 20 players.

So I'll only need to buy 20 $1.00 chips?

Just double-checking.....been a long day
Bsoder52

[smoore]

color the two racks of dimes and one of the racks of quarters with $1. Color the other rack of quarters and all the 0.50 with $5. You'll have to do a little "buying" come color up time but it's the way I do it anyway.

rack of dimes = $10
rack of quarters = $25
rack of fiddies = $50

[bsoder52]

I understand everything you wrote except this:

rack of dimes = $10
rack of quarters = $25
rack of fiddies = $50

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Do you mean I need to buy one rack of dimes, one rack of quarters, and one rack of fiddies?

[smoore]

heh, no. I was just doing some math for your tired mind. You just need enough to color up those racks.

[bsoder52]

ahhh, ic, ok thanks again!