Pokerset under $100?
 

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I'm looking for a pokerset for under $100, pref. 500-1000 chips, don't care about plastic cards since I'll buy those seperately (unless you can find a set including plastic cards)

After 5 minutes on ebay I found this.
Thoughts, comments?

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excellent site, but i really do not like how generic the chips looks :\

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excellent site, but i really do not like how generic the chips looks :\

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1000 chips at $100 equals .10 a chip. There is not much other than dice chips at that cost. I can't see the ebay chips, but I know shipping is usually quite costly with chips, 1000 chips are pretty heavy. You can find some Nexgens for close to what you want to pay, but you'll get 500 for $100.

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damn your right... 43 bucks shipping... christ

as for the nexgens... free shipping deal?

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Try these guys for some good deals:

http://www.pokernstuff.com

You also get to choose your chip denominations/colors for the set - not just stuck with a standard configuration.

As they say on their site, the coupon codes SAVE10 will give you 10% off. But someone told me that SAVE20 works for 20% off, so try it first.

Here is the set I bought for $99 plus shipping less discount, 1000 chips:

http://www.pokernstuff.com/index.asp...mp;ProdID=3199

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Khan, that's excellent!

What do you think about the following value distribution:
Red $5 - 300
Green $25 - 300
Black $100 - 200
Purple $500 - 125
Yellow $1000 - 75

I haven't planned any tournaments or anything, but would love some input as to what's typically needed...

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Khan, that's excellent!

What do you think about the following value distribution:
Red $5 - 300
Green $25 - 300
Black $100 - 200
Purple $500 - 125
Yellow $1000 - 75

I haven't planned any tournaments or anything, but would love some input as to what's typically needed...

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idk what kind of tourneys u are running... but i dont think 500 and 1000 chips are really needed unless u plan on doing more than 3 tables. i would get

5 - 100
10 - 200
25 - 200
50 - 250
100 - 250

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They're nothing super, but Pokergoods has some halfway decent chips for cheap.

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Khan, that's excellent!

What do you think about the following value distribution:
Red $5 - 300
Green $25 - 300
Black $100 - 200
Purple $500 - 125
Yellow $1000 - 75

I haven't planned any tournaments or anything, but would love some input as to what's typically needed...

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It is good to have some of those higher values for the rare ocassion that they are needed.

Can't say just what you need without seeing your blind structure. We always start out at 25/50, so didn't need any $5 chips. When I first started my home games a couple years ago, I used a blind structure starting with $5/$10 - but having those extra little chips on the table and needing to do an extra chip-up to get rid of them was a pain. So I bumped up the starting level and increase chip stacks accordingly. I now do the following, usually 20 minute levels:

25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300 (chip up to get rid of $25 chips)
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1000
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
all additional levels same, but add $100 in antes each level.

For this structure, I usually do 3000 starting chips, which for each players is:

8 $25
8 $100
4 $500

Just add more $500 or some $1000 chips if you wanted bigger starting stacks.

When you do the chip up to get rid of the $25, you can also take off a bunch of $100 and $500 chips and replace them with $1000 - makes the game go faster as the players don't have to count out big stacks of chips each time they make a big bet or all in.

Here is the breakdown of the set I purchased:

Green $25 - 200
Black $100 - 300
Purple $500 - 200
Yellow $1000 - 150
Blue - 100 (got these to use for cash games)
Pink - 25
Orange - 25

I also utilize the same chips for our cash games - we just move the decimal point:

$25 chip = 25 cents
$100 chip = $1.00
$500 chip = $5.00
etc.