Posted Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:30 pm GMT by WaltDisney
I'm thinking of purchasing a set of chips for home games/tourneys. The most people I'll ever have is 8 people, due to space limitations in my home.
Would the following chip distribution for a set of 400 work well?
180 X Red (5)
145 X Green (25)
45 X Black (100)
30 X Purple (500)
Thanks.
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Posted Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:44 pm GMT by Nate PT
Might want to say what your starting stack is but that looks pretty good. I have a 500 set and do 7-15 player tournies with it and for the bigger tournies you need more $25 chips tehn $5 chips but if youre having a max of 8 players that breakdown looks pretty good.
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:58 pm GMT by WaltDisney
I've heard 20 reds, 16 greens, and 5 blacks as a good starting stack. I think I'll probably go with that.
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:54 pm GMT by Nugzy
Ive found the easiest way to host tournaments, especially with new players, is just use 25 and 100 chips. I start everyone with a stack of each, or 20 green 25 chips, and 20 black 100 chips. Thats 2500 chips to start. I start the blinds at 25/50, which is 50 big blinds. When the blinds get up there, I color up the chips and get some 500 chips in play. For me, this works best because it keeps things simple. We use to use four different colors/denoms, but found this way works better for us. Plus it makes people feel like they have alot of chips to start with, having 40 chips in front of them.
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:22 am GMT by DaBear
| WaltDisney wrote: | | I've heard 20 reds, 16 greens, and 5 blacks as a good starting stack. I think I'll probably go with that. |
If you use this as your starting stack , you may want to consider having enough greens to color up the reds.
Maybe as follows
160 X Red
160 X Green
50 X Black
30X Purple
You never mentioned re-buys. That's a whole new ballgame.
Bear
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:56 am GMT by MasterShake
I wouldn't bother with reds at all. Most tourneys start the blings at 25/25 or 25/50 because it's just easier to keep track of the chips that way. For a 400 chip set I would probably go with 160 green, 160 black and 40 purple.
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:26 am GMT by WaltDisney
thanks for all the great replies!
Okay, I've decided to get a 500 set instead of 400. However, I would like to get 4 colors in my set. I'm thinking of these denoms:
Green(25), Black(100), Purple(500), Yellow(1000)
Starting stack would be 20 greens, 20 blacks and 1 purple to total 3000. Yellow would be for color ups.
In this case, how many of each color should I choose in my set of 500? 200-200-50-50?
thanks again.
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:45 am GMT by MasterShake
You really aren't going to need any yellow chips. Or at least not very many. i wouldn't get more than 8-16 yellow. How many chips do you want people to start with? 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000, 10,000?
I would probably go with 200 green, 200 black and either 100 purple or maybe 90 purple and 10 yellow. Then you have enough to give everyone
$625 green
$2500 black
$5500 purple
$1000 yellow
for a total of
$9625 each to start. Unless you want to start with $10,000 this would be more than enough chips for 10 or more people to use.
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:38 am GMT by e42294
I used the following site to determine what chip colors to buy. I took his advice and modified it to my tastes. There is a ton of other good information on this site also.
http://www.homepokertourney.com/chips_needed.htm
Posted Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:12 pm GMT by PinataUT
T2500 with 40 chips - nice and simple. I like it.
Posted Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:38 am GMT by WaltDisney
Okay, I've narrowed my potential purchase down to two options.
OPTION 1
200 X Red(5)
200 X Green(25)
75 X Black(100)
25 X Purple(500)
20R-20G-4B = 1000 to start / big blind at 20 / full case 26,000 units
OR
OPTION 2
200 X Green(25)
200 X Black(100)
50 X Purple(500)
50 X Yellow(1000)
20G-20B-5P = 5000 to start / big blind at 50 / full case 100,000 units
I know I may not need the highest denomination chips, but I would like to have at least 4 different colors of chips. I play mostly home tourneys with 6-7 people and occasionally low cash games.
Which option would you choose? Thanks again.
Posted Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:04 am GMT by DaBear
Either should work fine.
Don't know the limits of your cash games. you could use reds as nickels in cash games and 5 dollars in tournaments.
If you play cash games .25-.50 the option starting with greens would work better.
Don't know if you are getting denominations on your chips. If not either will work fine, just assign any value you want to any color.
Posted Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:31 am GMT by MasterShake
I personally like your Option 2 the best.
Posted Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:15 pm GMT by twintowers
Im way more in favor of option 1. The chip-value increases from chip to chip ideally.
5 red to 1 green
4 green to 1 black
5 black to 1 purple
option 2 flattens out at the higher denoms...
5 black to 1 purple (good)
2 purple to 1 yellow (not so good)
-almost makes the yellow chips redundant, when you could just have 2 purples
Now with that being said, I actually have an even worse set makeup then I would imagine. I ended up with a bunch of extra purples, so I made them the 50 and also have 500(orange) and 1000(yellow) chips. Never have I used the T1000 chip.
If your going to go with a 500 set, make every color chip a useful one.
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