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Old 08-14-2007, 04:19 PM
jtr jtr is offline
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

No, it's just a 500 chip set, but I see what you mean. And good guess, we normally have 6--8 players in a game.

There are 75 x $1 chips, 150 x $5 chips, 125 x $25 chips, 100 x $100 chips, 25 x $500 chips and 25 x $1000 chips. (The $500 and $1000 chips were really just because they look cool: Paulson Pharaohs.)

I live in the UK and I don't play in games anywhere near big enough to use them at face value. More like $1 = 1 pence in UK money. Which gives us a range of buyin options (sometimes really low with poor students playing). Set also works well enough for tournaments with a T2000 or T5000 stack. Which helps to justify the two big chips.
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Old 08-14-2007, 06:05 PM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

For 500 chips, I would go for this:

White - $1
Red - $5
Green - $25
Black - $100

A good tourney is t1000 (or t1500) with 5/10 starting blinds. Chip distribution:

$5 - 10
$25 - 10
$100 - 7
optional $500 - (one white chip as a t500)

For a 10 man tourney, you need ten times the amount, so a reasonable set could have the following:

100 White - $1
150 Red - $5
150 Green - $25
100 Black - $100

You can handle most cash games with white, red and green (as a $0.25 chip).

Or, if you have no interest whatsoever in cash games, then add 50 each to red and green and you can use more starting chips which reduces changing and gives people an impressive stack to start with (for t1000):

$5 - 15
$25 - 15
$100 - 6

Or for t1500:

$5 - 15
$25 - 19
$100 - 10
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Old 08-14-2007, 11:23 PM
Lottery Larry Lottery Larry is offline
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

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I would suggest you to check this site before you make your final decision.

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That's what I did, and that's why I was ready to go for a 4/3/2/1 structure.

BTW, Welcome here!

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Sounds more like a cash game ratio for chips...
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Old 08-15-2007, 09:19 AM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

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.
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Old 08-15-2007, 11:28 AM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

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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.

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I am being a nitpick here but for t5000 I would use:

25 - 12
100 - 12
500 - 7

So for a 10 person you could go with:

25 - 150
100 - 200
500 - 100
1000 - 50
bounty chips - 10 nice metal ones
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Old 08-16-2007, 12:10 PM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

Thank you all.

I just ordered my chips. Here is the chip breakdown I have chosen:

150 white
200 red
100 green
50 black

It's 3/4/2/1. Without your help, I was ready to go for 4/3/2/1 and I think it would have been a mistake.
So thank you.

I will post some pics...

It will be the same label for each denom. The PokerStars one. Impossible to get the other labels with the 500 chip set. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
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Old 08-16-2007, 01:02 PM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

get 250 or 300 of your main chip (ie a $5 chip in a 1/2 NL game)

100 smaller chips ($1)

50 or 100 bigger chips ($25, this helps to play tournaments)

50 big chips ($100)
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Old 08-16-2007, 01:11 PM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

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Thank you all.

I just ordered my chips. Here is the chip breakdown I have chosen:

150 white
200 red
100 green
50 black

It's 3/4/2/1. Without your help, I was ready to go for 4/3/2/1 and I think it would have been a mistake.
So thank you.

I will post some pics...

It will be the same label for each denom. The PokerStars one. Impossible to get the other labels with the 500 chip set. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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Unless you employ the white chips (e.g. 1/2 starting blinds) I don't see how you can run a good tourney with only 50 black chips.

With 5/10 starting blinds, you can only give 10 players 800 starting chips each (and 80BB is not a deep starting stack) unless you deploy the white chip as a 500. Also 100 green chips doesn't leave you many to chip up the reds.
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Old 08-16-2007, 01:57 PM
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

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Unless you employ the white chips (e.g. 1/2 starting blinds) I don't see how you can run a good tourney with only 50 black chips.

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Why would you assume that he isn't planning on using the white chips? He ordered them, I'm sure he's using them.

His order sounds good to me for a tourney set.

Also, the chips are labeled, but not denominated. He can still do T1000 tourney if he doesn't follow standrd chip colors (ie. his whites can be 5, red 25, green 100 and black 500).
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Old 08-16-2007, 02:30 PM
Blue Lagoon Blue Lagoon is offline
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Default Re: 500 chip set: how to choose quantity for each color chip?

Tere were only 4 colors available. White, red, green, black.

So I will do T200 tournaments if we are 10 players:

15 white(1)
17 red (5)
4 green (25)

Starting blind 1/2. After two rounds, we can color-up the white chips into red ones.

If we are 5 or less players, we can run a T1000 tournament, with 20 red, 16 green and 5 black.
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