[Black Aces 518]

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Believe me, I have tried to explain this to my friend. My suggestion was to start with exactly what PoWdA said, except using 3 500 chips to make 2500 stacks.

Instead he ignored my suggestion and is using 5, 10, 25, 100 chip denominations and starting stacks of 750. with 5/10 starting blinds.
This is partially due to the number of players and the number of chips available (we only have 400 each of the lower denominations).

I still don't like his structure, but it's his tourney, and if I bust out I can just start the cash games faster.

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UGH. The worst idea is to have chips that don't divide into each other. A tourney I visit has 10 chips and 25 chips and it's always a goddamn fiasco, because invariably the blinds are 20/40 and someone puts out a 25 and two 10s and there aren't 5s to make change and . . .

All your chip values should divide into each other. Either do 5-25-100 or 10-50-100 or 20-100 or whatever but 5-10-25 sucks it bigtime.