cant for the life of me come up with a decent chip structure |
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Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:54 am GMT by Rayburn
First of all, gotta say, I love this forum, more or less, hard earned Canadian tax dollars pay for me to browse this forum.
Alright, back to chip structure.
I have 1000 chips.
white, blue, red, green, black
For someone that has regular succesful homegames, what kind of chip values and how many chip should I be using.
We change things around every once in a while to see if the game is any more enjoyable, and me and my buds are yet to come up with a comfortable chip structure.
Any thoughts?
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Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:34 am GMT by MasterShake
The one I like that we use is to start everyone with 1500 in chips. Use denominations of 25 and 100 with 500's if you need to. The blinds start at 25/50 and go up every half hour
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
The guys have decided to change the structure slightly to see if the games are better or not with an ante. The new structure is this.
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
100/200/25
150/300/50
200/400/75
300/600/100
400/800/125
500/1000/150
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:57 pm GMT by galderon
For my home games, we use $200 in chips per player ($1 whites, $5 reds, $25 blues -- we use blues instead of greens because that's what the guy with the chips has).
Blinds go up every 20 minutes:
1/2
2/4
3/6
remove whites
5/10
10/20
15/30
remove reds
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
200/400
With five or six guys, the game should last about 3 hours.
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:41 pm GMT by Rayburn
what we are presently using is...try not to laugh..
red=$2
blue=$5
green=$10
black=$20
15 red=$30
10 blue=$50
5 green=$50
5 black=$100
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=$230
now does $230 sound like an odd number to start with?
I have white chips as well that are not being used....it would be nice if I could incorporate them in the game some way, i know they may be more useful in a multi table tourney rather than a single table tourney.
wow, blinds go up every 20 minutes!
I like this concept...we have been playing
starting blings
2/4
go up 2x every time someone goes out
4/8
8/16
etc.
I find when playing with a bunch of checkers that games take forever,
last night we had a 7 player game that lasted 2.5 hours...ouch!
I love the raising blind idea every 20 minutes.
now...the question is how do I get my buddies to go along with this...we play for cash..some nights we play for a reasonable amount of money, so i dont want to introduce a new structure and get bitched at when people lose their money.
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:01 pm GMT by ballbp
If you explain the blind raising by time instead of times people get knocked out they should realize it's a much better idea. Point out to them that most tourneys go a while before anyone gets knocked out, in most cases, and when it gets late into a game, usually because the blinds are high, people get knocked out more frequently so you don't have equal amount of time in each blind level. I played in a friends game the other night and when I was getting all the rules at the start I noticed he raised the blinds as people got knocked out. I explained to him about raising them by time so he gave it a shot. After that game he said he was never going back to the old way.
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:23 pm GMT by Rayburn
really!...huh
well I have a big game tonight so i will try every 20 minutes for sure.
I think were trying to get 3 games in so try that out on the first, hopefully it will stick.
Ok, another question...we usually play $10 buy in, sometimes $20..
At your home games, do you have a first AND second prize
we play winner takes all.
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:26 pm GMT by MasterShake
| Rayburn wrote: | really!...huh
well I have a big game tonight so i will try every 20 minutes for sure.
I think were trying to get 3 games in so try that out on the first, hopefully it will stick.
Ok, another question...we usually play $10 buy in, sometimes $20..there are some crazy times where we have played $100.
At your home games, do you have a first AND second prize
we play winner takes all. |
Depends on the number of people. We almost always play that second gets at least their money back and sometimes we have a third prize if there are like 9 or more people.
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:42 pm GMT by ballbp
| Rayburn wrote: | | At your home games, do you have a first AND second prize |
I pay as follows:
5 people or less = winner takes all
6-8 = 2nd gets their buy-in back and winner takes rest
9 and up = 3rd gets buy-in back, 2nd a little bit more, and winner gets the bulk
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:05 pm GMT by Rayburn
I really like this idea as well, in most games we have I think 2nd place deserves buy in back.
I am the one with the chips, so it is pretty much up to me when we play.
So I guess i can be the one who sets the structure anyways.
We have played so many different ways in the past 3 months that it would seem kinda awkward to set a standard structure now.
Most of the guys I play with dont even have internet hookup so pointing them to this post is almost worthless.
The problem is getting them to play the "right" way, when i tell them what i read online they look at me as if I am trying to take them for a ride...I want to improve my play, and if there is a "better" way of doing things I want to do it.
I guess I have to set standard rules and play only to those standard rules.
Tell me if i am wrong, but would changing amount of chips, who gets a prize and different blind structure change the dynamics of the game, not drastically but still?
Posted Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:16 pm GMT by MasterShake
I would come up with a way to do it, print it out and have everyone read it and understand it. Then its up to you whether you want to set it in stone or take a vote on it.
Posted Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:59 pm GMT by Butch
What I do is take some chips and divide them by the amount of players. I'll take like 20 white per player, 10 red, 5 blue. White = 5 red = 10 blue = 20 Later on I introduce the the greens as 50 and the blacks as 100.
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