[Hairball]

When I bought my set I started with by defining my starting chip stacks. I like to start with T5000, and break that down into 8x25 8x100 8x500. If find that 24 chips in each players starting stack is enough for them to feel they have a substantial number of chips (its a psychological thing for some) while at the same time limiting the number of chips on the table to a manageable figure so that all-in bets don't take several minutes to count down.

For a 10-person setup, I needed 80 green, 80 black, and 80 purple.

Next I figured out how many extra black chips I would need to color up the greens, which came out to 20. Then I considered rebuys and decided that they should take the form of 10xT500. Allowing for one rebuy per seat, that left me needing another 100 purple chips.

Current tally: 80x25 100x100 180x500 for 360 chips total.

For the remaining 140 chips I went with 50 orange (T1000), 20 white (to use as a bounty chip), and padded out greens (20) and blacks (50) to give me some flexibility in allowing a couple of more players and/or distributing rebuy stacks.

So far this mix has worked out quite well.