[archcity]

Posted this in another thread but it seems to apply very well for your situation.

I will tell you what I have and why it works great for our game.

I have 500 NJ Desert Sands with...
180 - $1
180 - $5
100 - $25
40 - $100

We can run a 15 person game with stacks of $200 (28 chips). By the time we color up have 3-4 people out and ready to play a cash game.

Then a 0.25/0.25 cash game starts. After color up we have plenty of $1s and $5s, and we use the $25s as quarters. There aren't as many of these, but we can get 32 on the cash game table and that is usually enough, if we need more we put more $100s into the tournament, and pull off $25s for the cash game.

If I could get another 500 chips, I would probably double my current set, and maybe take 100 of the chips and get 50 quarters and 50 $0.50 chips for the cash game.

Hope my experience helps.