Color breakdown of home chips for tourney AND cash games

[Slimm]

Before I buy a custom set of chips, I want to make sure they'll work for both tourneys and cash games, and have the following denominations in mind:

250 Green (T25 or $0.25)
300 Black (T100 or $1.00)
200 Purple (T500 or $5.00)
100 Orange (T1000 or $10.00)
50 Gray (T5000 or $50.00)
?? ???? (T10k or $100.00)
What color is a 10k chip?

Keep this question in mind throughout:
0) I have 100 more chips to add to this, where do they go?
Are 5 colors enough?

For the following games:

10 player cash LIMIT: $1/2, $5/10
10 player cash NL/PL: $0.50/1, 1/2, 5/5
20 player T2500 1 rebuy, 1 add-on (start 25/50)
20 player T3500 - T5000 freezouts (start 25/50)
20 player T10,000 (World series)

1) for 5/10 Limit, is giving each of 10 players on a typcial $250 buy-in 1* $50 (gray) + 10*$10 (orange) + 20*$5 (purple) reasonable, or will there be too much change-making? I have a feeling I should put my extra 100 chips into $5 purples.

2) For 1/2 Limit, is 30 black + 20 purple OK?

3) For 5/5 PL, What denominations do I need? Probably too high for my home games, but what's a good spread for 10 * $500 max? Would N * $100 chips suffice?

4) 10k freezeout format, there'll be 200k chips in play, so 100 * T1000 and 50 * T5000 will handle this fine, I believe. Any recommendations from those who have run big tournies like this?

Thanks for all feedback.

[ericslagle]

I run a 10,000 nl tournament and we also play 2/4 and 4/8 stud, hold em, etc. cash games.
Here's what you need per person to do 10,000 and it seems to work well:
12 $25 green
7 $100 black
4 $500 purple
2 $1000 gray
1 $5000 brown
You don't really need anything higher than 5,000 unless you have more than 40 people. The most we color up to is $500 and it works well.
Then for the cash games I use
white for $1
and red for $5
If we need the greens we use them too.
So for the tournament you could get:
240 green $25
140 black $100
80 purple $500
40 gray $1000
20 brown $5000
which would be 520 chips.
so get like 450 chips in white for dollars. and 30 chips in blue or something as quarters. For $5 chips use something from the tournament.
Let me know if you have more questions.

[young nut]

If you can add 100 more....add them to the green. Usually the smallest denomination is used for blinds. And in a ring game, it is important to have plenty of the small denominations handy.

5 colors is absolutely enough. Unless you have 50+ person tournament, 5 colors should be fine. Just add the extra 100 to the green. Or maybe 50 more on green and 50 more on gray.

[Slimm]

I got my solution for 1/2 - I took home a crapload of $1 Foxwoods chips.

[Lottery Larry]

Be careful about using the same chips for tourneys and ring games. You don't want chips bought for pennies on the dollar cashed in for face value.

As long as you have a group you can trust, and who you know personally, you SHOULD be okay... just be careful

[Slimm]

I trust the players, I'm not too worried about them bringing tourney chips into the ring. However, a good counter-measure is never running both at the same time. The side table will use $1/2 foxwoods chips for value (I can never get screwed this way). I'll have to count down the tourney chips after each session.

I decided on the following breakdown:

280 Green 25 / $0.25
300 Black 100 / $1.00
240 Purple 500 / $5.00
120 Orange 1000 / $10.00
60 Gray 5000 / $50.00

(I think these are standard AC colors)

This will let me run 24 x $10k tournies as well as a 10 x $50k marathon, and I can always mix the colors if I need to for ring games.

Now I just have to decide ceramic or clay!