Question for those with 5 row arcylic chip tray |
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Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:37 pm GMT by ky70
On tilt last night the main character had a tray of chips and he just flipped the tray up on the poker table (with it's long side on the felt) and the chips in the tray were standing upright and ready to go...can this also be done with the 5 row acrylic chip trays? I forgot to test it out last night.
If this can be done this would be a nice little bonus as I have arranged the chips in each of my trays to hold the exact buy-in amount (50 chips totalling $1500 in value per player) for 2 tournament buy-ins. I could just flip that puppy on it's side for easy dispursement to 2 players.
Stop reading here to avoid my rant that has barely anything to do with the above.
This is my latest tourney structure.
I give out:
20 $5 chips
10 $10 chips
10 $25 chips
7 $50 chips
2 $100 chips
1 $500 chip
Blinds start at $25/$50 and double every 20 minutes (except for level 6). After level 3 is over, the 5s, 10s and 25s will be raced off and replaced with additional 50s and 100s (level 4 blinds are $200/400). After level 5 is over (if necessary, as each game usually ends around here) the 50s and the 100s will be raced off and replaced with additional 500s (level 6 blinds are $500/1000). Blinds are capped at level 6.
Here is my extra chip coount for color ups for a single 10 plyr tourney:
30 50s
30 100s
20 500s
Total chips that might be used for my maxed out 10 person single table tourney is 570 chips...now I'm considering duplicating the above for another 570 chips so that I will have the ability to host a 2 table tourney for up to 20 persons, or at least be able to start a side game as 4 or more get eliminated from the big game.
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Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:17 pm GMT by TenPercenter
| Quote: | | On tilt last night the main character had a tray of chips and he just flipped the tray up on the poker table (with it's long side on the felt) and the chips in the tray were standing upright and ready to go...can this also be done with the 5 row acrylic chip trays? |
yes
ten
Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:21 pm GMT by PocketRocket
That's the way casino employees usually put the chips on the table at many cardrooms. You can spot the new fish, they're the ones that leave their chips in the rack while they're playing. 
| ky70 wrote: | On tilt last night the main character had a tray of chips and he just flipped the tray up on the poker table (with it's long side on the felt) and the chips in the tray were standing upright and ready to go...can this also be done with the 5 row acrylic chip trays? I forgot to test it out last night.
If this can be done this would be a nice little bonus as I have arranged the chips in each of my trays to hold the exact buy-in amount (50 chips totalling $1500 in value per player) for 2 tournament buy-ins. I could just flip that puppy on it's side for easy dispursement to 2 players.
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Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:50 pm GMT by ky70
Thanks guys!!
Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:09 pm GMT by MeridianFC
This is quite easy actually.
Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:16 pm GMT by CaptLego
I'm wondering why you bother to pass out $5 and $10 chips to start, since you're starting the blinds at $25/$50 ?? It takes 10 $5 chips just to limp in on the first round. Why not just start them with a couple more $50 in the first place?
Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:45 pm GMT by JHile31
| CaptLego wrote: | | I'm wondering why you bother to pass out $5 and $10 chips to start, since you're starting the blinds at $25/$50 ?? It takes 10 $5 chips just to limp in on the first round. Why not just start them with a couple more $50 in the first place? |
i was thinking the same thing...
Posted Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:25 am GMT by ky70
truth be told, I keep the 5s and 10s in play so that they will be used...I can't get myself to accept not using certain denoms so I use them all. And since I have to race off the 25s after level 3, why not include the 5s and 10s for 3 rounds?
Posted Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:21 am GMT by duma
| ky70 wrote: | | truth be told, I keep the 5s and 10s in play so that they will be used...I can't get myself to accept not using certain denoms so I use them all. And since I have to race off the 25s after level 3, why not include the 5s and 10s for 3 rounds? |
because its more hassle to do it that way.
Posted Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:57 am GMT by ky70
| duma wrote: |
because its more hassle to do it that way. |
to each his own but I personally would rather start out with 50 chips as opposed to say 30 or so chips...I like pushing around a lot of chips early and having some pots with lots of chips in the middle. I do understand why some would not enjoy this but I "get off" on "big chips".
Posted Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:04 am GMT by PinataUT
I can sympathize with this last bit.
I don't have any plans to OWN that many lower denom Egyptians, although I think they are really good looking. I don't think they'll be in play.
(Egyptians - tourney set, TR Kings cash set)
Posted Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:51 am GMT by R Deckard
Or, if you want to use $5 & $10 chips and have them really in play, how about a different blinds schedule that starts out smaller?
http://www.homepokertourney.com/blinds.htm
The trade off, of course, is a longer tourney (I estimate yours end around Level 6, which would be around two hours)--the above linked schedule would probably give you a finish around level 12 for your 10 player x $1500 start. But then you could adjust the middle levels to go steeper and make the rounds 15 mins to speed things up a bit towards the end. Starting out smaller in the beginning will also give people more of a chance to wait through a bad run of cards before getting blinded to death.
Posted Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:54 am GMT by ky70
| R Deckard wrote: | Or, if you want to use $5 & $10 chips and have them really in play, how about a different blinds schedule that starts out smaller?
http://www.homepokertourney.com/blinds.htm
The trade off, of course, is a longer tourney (I estimate yours end around Level 6, which would be around two hours)--the above linked schedule would probably give you a finish around level 12 for your 10 player x $1500 start. But then you could adjust the middle levels to go steeper and make the rounds 15 mins to speed things up a bit towards the end. Starting out smaller in the beginning will also give people more of a chance to wait through a bad run of cards before getting blinded to death. |
thanks for the suggestion, but we like to play from 4-6 tourney games per poker night and a blind schedule where the SB starts out no lower than 1/60th of starting chips and doubles every 20 min. works out well for us
Also, we don't do add-ons or rebuys...which makes the play more authentic, IMO
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