[PokerKhan]

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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.