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FishHooks
05-26-2005, 10:30 PM
I'm doing the group buy on ASM chips and I'm trying to decide how many chips and how many of each denomination I should get, I'm getting these chips for cash games of holdem. I want my chip set to be very diverse so I can play many different limits from 1/2 up to 5/10. I currently play 2/4 online but i'm going to college and i want to be able to accomidate the type of game I can get together. You would be suprised at how many people in college play stakes like 5/10. I'm looking to buy chips in the 500-700 chip range. My current thoughs of chips breakdown go as follows:

200 white ($1)
150 red ($5)
100 green ($25)
75 black ($100)
By the way I am getting labels made for this set.
Maybe I need more red chips so I would have enough for a 5/10 game in the future? Also many people are buying plain gray chips as quarters but the only game that would be used for is 1/2 holdem where the SB is .50 right? Or would you buy them so that way during the 3/6 and 5/10 you can have a SB that is exactly half of the BB or should you just leave it and use the traditional blinds. For 3/6 blinds would be $3 and $1 and for 5/10 they would be $5 and $2. Any thoughts..... Thanks

Coleman
05-26-2005, 11:28 PM
Assuming a table of 10, I'd want 200 white, 200 red, 160 green, 40 black.
This gives you enough chips for 1/2 through 5/10 ring games.
If your 5/10 games tend to exceed $9000, better get another 50 blacks. (For those kind of stakes, though, I'd probably have custom inlays made.)
You may want to spring for 200 25 cent chips as well. Small stakes games are great recruiting events, especially when combined with a tourney.

FishHooks
05-27-2005, 12:51 AM
I have a guy that is going to create custom labels/inlays for me, we are doing a group buy on the sheets to print the labels on and getting a good deal. Only going to cost me $100 for the material, printing and designing for 1400 labels (2 on each chip).
Do you think 200 quarters is too much, seems like a lot of quarters.