Small Cash game chip denomination question

[degenaholic]

I have a small $5.00 buyin cash game. Max 8 people.

You can buy-in for $5.00 - $10.00 at a time.

I had my first game last night. I have 5 different colors of chips, and thousands of chips.

I decided to make the blinds .05 for both SB and BB (as opposed to .05/.10).

For chip values:

.05, 10
.10, 10
.25, 10
.50 02

Thoughts?

[degenaholic]

I thinking maybe it would be easier to just have:

.05 - 20 chips
.10 - 20 chips
.25 - 8 chips

[Bluegrass Poker]

I like your second idea much better. The fewer chip denominations on the table the better, IMO.

[Khabbi]

I don't think the .10 denom chip is very useful.

I'd go with the following stacks for a $10 buy-in (remove blacks for a $5 buy-in):

Red .05 x 20
Green .25 x 16
Black 1.00 x 5

[eighty6]

if people are rebuying a lot then you can always take a quick break to color up into some 1 dollar chips later on in the game if you don't want them at the table in the beginning

[Small Fry]

I assume this is NL. I'd eliminate the .10 chip. Nickels, quarters and dollars, even if you decide on .05/.10 blinds

[PPlay]

[ QUOTE ]
I don't think the .10 denom chip is very useful.

I'd go with the following stacks for a $10 buy-in (remove blacks for a $5 buy-in):

Red .05 x 20
Green .25 x 16
Black 1.00 x 5

[/ QUOTE ]

And you may want to increase the number of $1 chips to start for both $5 and $10 buy-ins. If you have a full table you need quite a few chips and there are plenty of low value chips to make change with during the game between players. I personally hate a ton of lowest value chips in play.

[pfapfap]

As a general rule of thumb, you want no more than three primary, and perhaps an oversize chip for the huge stacks. You also don't want to have a chip be merely double another value, 4 or 5x is preferred.

I break this rule in tourneys, as we have a 500 and 1k chip, but for the blind structures, this makes sense. For cash game, it's quarters, dollars, fives, and twenties. No hunnies, cuz damn, I don't want to misplace one of those.

[PantsOnFire]

I'm close to Khabbi:

Red .05 x 15
Green .25 x 13
White 1.00 x 6

[degenaholic]

Didn't think I would receive so many insightful replies so quickly.

Thanks for all the ideas. I definetly agree with what the majority of you are saying. Having so many smaller chips that are really close in value is rather pointless.

Pfapfap, definetly agree 4x-5x in difference between chip denominations makes a lot more sense.

I am leaning towards khabbi and pantsonfire's ideas. I will check with the guys to see what they find preferable.

Thanks again