View Full Version : Preferred way to arrange one's chips
Jack Bando
10-15-2005, 10:17 PM
Just wondering what is a good way to stack chips in both cash games and tourneys. By that I mean if I have 1000T chips, what is a good way of organizing them? 5 equal stacks, 10BB a stack, 10 chips a stack, etc...
I always end up having weird stacks of 5-10 chips a stack, so I never know my exact amount, which is not a good thing. (In a limit cash game, that wouldn't be too bad. But in a tourney, that's could cost me.)
daryn
10-15-2005, 10:21 PM
stacks of 20 if you can
big denoms on top or in front
massive [censored] pile, and i use a custom chip picturing me dancing on your grave as a card protector.
Chipr777
10-15-2005, 11:11 PM
Exactly.
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stacks of 20 if you can
big denoms on top or in front
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It also speeds the game up a little bit because your opponent can get a good idea as to what your chip stack is. If you have them in stacks of 18 or something, it justs means you have to keep counting them everytime they want a count.
Photoc
10-16-2005, 01:32 AM
No higher than 20 in a stack. Tournament stacks are required to be in a max of 20's, non mixed, and highest denominations visible in the front of side by side or even on top of the smaller denoms.
PokerBob
10-16-2005, 01:50 AM
i prefer to put my chips in stacks of 25, mostly because it bugs BK.
lighterjobs
10-16-2005, 02:46 AM
stacks of 75, pyramid, of course.
Stacks of 20.
Pyramid. (Or whatever doesn't get in my way)
Any extra chips used to cover cards/shuffle/or stacked on top.
otter
10-16-2005, 07:13 AM
whatever I feel like at the time...pyramid look is getting old. If you can cut the cheques easily then stack 'em however you want in live games.
surfinillini
10-16-2005, 09:13 AM
equal stacks of 40 with a linear layout.
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massive [censored] pile, and i use a custom chip picturing me dancing on your grave as a card protector.
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Are you the guy that had the big pile of chips that I made recount every single had he played - just to be a jerk - and take him off his game?
It was pretty funny actually - he refused to stack his chips at a NL ring game so no one could get a count on what he had... after being asked to stack them a few times, he limped in to me on the BB. I asked for a chip count. Then checked. I checked, the button minbet and I made him count again... before folding my J3o. Half the table was chuckling when I made him count again from the SB. He finally stacked them up.
I don't know why it bugs me but I have a major pet peave with the (typically new) players that are "10 high stackers". Especially on a rush in a red chip game where they end up with two dozen of these little 10 high chip stacks. Only worse than that are the people who keep chips in a horizontal row (chips on end) against the rail.
When playing 20/40(with $5 chips ala AC) and winning, I end up with the pyramid of 15 stacks of 20 chips each then build an obnoxious tower on top of that. People love watching you make fancy designs with their money.
sirpupnyc
10-17-2005, 03:44 PM
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10 high stackers
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Get over it. I'm usually one of these, because I'm a klutz and I don't want to knock my stacks of 20 either across the table or into my lap. Also, I've played mostly at the Taj lately, and on some of their tables the felt slopes off under the rail so your stacks at the rail aren't level. Not a good thing if they're also taller than the rail.
All that said, though, I don't do the endless forest of $50 stacks. If there are that many I'll do 20s or start a pyramid. Stability is the key for me.
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and on some of their tables the felt slopes off under the rail so your stacks at the rail aren't level. Not a good thing if they're also taller than the rail.
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Almost all tables do this to some extent. If you leave an inch or so between the rail and your stacks it's never a problem. Taj chips shouldn't ever fall over anyway as the mystery black gunk on them keeps them stuck together in a solid mass.
sirpupnyc
10-17-2005, 03:54 PM
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Taj chips shouldn't ever fall over anyway as the mystery black gunk on them keeps them stuck together in a solid mass.
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OK, good point on the gunk. But I've had some seats there where it was a couple inches out from the rail to get away from the steep slope.
Kyo Souma II
10-17-2005, 05:17 PM
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Just wondering what is a good way to stack chips in both cash games and tourneys. By that I mean if I have 1000T chips, what is a good way of organizing them? 5 equal stacks, 10BB a stack, 10 chips a stack, etc...
I always end up having weird stacks of 5-10 chips a stack, so I never know my exact amount, which is not a good thing. (In a limit cash game, that wouldn't be too bad. But in a tourney, that's could cost me.)
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Cash games: a tower of rotating triangles of 2 of one color, one of another. Red and white gives that barbershop pole effect.
-kyo
IndyGuy
10-17-2005, 05:46 PM
Why such the pet peeve? I'm a 10-high stacker, mostly because I'm short and can't see over a 20-high stack.
Ok, I'm exaggerating. But I do tend to catch my arms on the 20-highs and knock them all over the table. So I stick to 10-high.
Al_Capone_Junior
10-17-2005, 07:40 PM
Just do it the right way and stack them all in stacks of 20. There's a reason casino racks fit 20 chips per row, because they are easiest to keep track of that way. It makes things much easier and far less confusing for all involved, particularly during amateur hour in a no limit game.
al
Building giant pyramids in stacks of 20. Build out, then up, then out again. Win enough chips so that you can rest your weary head on them while you wait to win more chips so you can add to your monument of poker genius. Or at least that's the plan....
Here are some of the better methods:
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Al_Capone_Junior
10-18-2005, 02:02 AM
Excellent advice. 20 stacks build very stable and structurally sound pyramids, it's a known fact of engineering. /images/graemlins/grin.gif And don't start your pyramid with no wimpy ass little rack, go for broke! Buy-in for a grand at the Super-Magoo Fest 2-4 games! /images/graemlins/grin.gif
al
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