Buying Chips ----Need Help

[ofcrtville]

I am buying chips with the demoninations already on them. it is going to be a 1000 chip set and i get to pick my how many of each i need. Now normally i run a home game with .25 and .50 blinds but i also run tournaments from time to time. So i would like some opinions on how many of each i should get i can go as low as 25 of each and as many of 1000 of one but the total must equal 1000, i can get them in i put what i was thinking about buying next .25 (125) .50(125) 1.00(100) 5.00(100) 10.00(100) 25.00(100) 50.00(100) 100.00(100) 500.00(50) 1000.00(50) 5000.00(50). keeping in mind the game is .25 and .50, with the occasional tournament would you break these 11 demonination down differntly.

[MediaPA]

Can you give some more information about the tournaments. Number of players, blind sizes that you'd like to start with, chip stacks to start. Because there is overkill in some on these. I really wouldn't bother with the 10s or 50s at all. Even 0.50 is pushing it (but could be somewhat useful w/ 0.25/0.5 blinds. There's some discussion about an 800 chip set i'm working on putting together

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[ofcrtville]

i normally have about 20 to 30 players for tourneys and around 6 to 12 for cash games so if i got rid of .50 that would open up a few more chips at higher levels for the tourneys.

[archcity]

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.

[Annorax]

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Can you give some more information about the tournaments. Number of players, blind sizes that you'd like to start with, chip stacks to start. Because there is overkill in some on these. I really wouldn't bother with the 10s or 50s at all. Even 0.50 is pushing it (but could be somewhat useful w/ 0.25/0.5 blinds. There's some discussion about an 800 chip set i'm working on putting together

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200 0.25, 150 1, 100 5 for the 0.25/0.5 NL cash game, some combination of 25, 100, 500, 1000, possibly 50 5000 for tournaments depending on your structure.

[VBCurtis]

For cash games, you want few denominations. 50 cent chips are useless when you already have 25s and $1 chips. $10 chips are also pretty useless- is it really that important to have 5 $10 chips instead of 10 $5 chips in front of you?

Cashgame chip values should escalate by a factor of 4 or 5 every time. Get 200 quarters, 150 or 200 $1s, and enough $5s to cover the likely money in play during your cash games. Note that in emergency (a rebuying fish in a NL cash game), using a handful of $25 chips from the tourney set to hold value in the big stacks is fine.

For the tourney side, get only as many big-$ chips as are likely to be used in your size of tourney. Having 50 $5000 chips looks cool, but how often are you going to use $5000 chips, let alone need them? Compare this to how often you'd prefer to start with 12 25s instead of 8 so people don't have to make change often. Add up the number of chips in the entire tourney, and make your highest denomination one which would be useful when the game is headsup. If you have 20 players at T2500, you only have 50K in chips in the tourney, and 10 $5000 chips would be silly, even headsup. In fact, a mix of 25 $1000 and 75 $500 would be plenty for a tourney that size, or even a little bigger (that's 62K in chips, enough for 25 players' stacks for the final table).
That leaves 400 chips or so for the main tourney stacks of 25, 50, 100. I think 50s for this are unnecessary, but others disagree, so fill these values to suit your personal taste.