[Prettey Toney]

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Okay, let's talk chip breakdown. If one wanted to be able to spread a wide range of cash games and tournaments, how would you break it down for 500 chips? 1000 chips? Thanks for the help.

DJ

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Phillip,

I'd like to say great news on the $1 spots. Sorry for being a whiner. I am just selective about this stuff.

Doc:

If you are getting 1000 chips, then deciding a chip breakdown for a cash/2-3 table tournament should be no problem. I haven't figured it out for 1000 chips, but I would assume that you would get many more $25's and $100's

Although everyone does things differently:
I am getting 750 chips.

(chip case has rows of 75)
75 - 25C
300 - $1
150 - $5
75 - $25
100 - $100
25 - $500
25 - $1000

We play 1-2 NL and 2-5 limit so we don't have much use for 25C chips. I got them only for antes in Stud, or your occasional lower stakes friendly game.
This could serve as a smaller stakes (or large stakes) cash game set with the 25C, $1, $5 and $25 These are plenty of chips to run two cash game tables.

For tournament play:

This set will handle a two table tourney.
Although unorthodox, I will treat my $1 chips as $10 chips and the $5 chips as $50 dollar chips.

20 players:
Each player will get:
15 - "$10" - $150
7 - "$50" - $350
5 - "$100" - $500
1 - "$500" - $500
for a total of $1500 chips (just like online)
We have
10-20, 20-40, 50-100, 100-200 (color off "$10" chips)
150-300, 200-400, 200-400 +50, 300-600+50 (color off "$50")
400-800 +100, 500-1000+100, etc etc.

In order to avoid using the $1, and $5 chips, I would get more "$25" chips, but we don't always do 20 person tournaments, so I'd rather have more $1 chips and $5 chips for typical cash games.

Most of our bigger (20 people) games start as a tourney, and transfers to a cash game as people drop out.
There is usually enough players for a side game at the first break. This is when we cash off the "$10" chips (actually $1 chips) At this time, they can use the $1 chips, which will probably get them started along with the $25's that I am not using in the tourney. People would say that this is a bad idea because people can play cash game with the tourney chips. My response is to account for your chips before you put them in side play. At any rate, most of my home game patrons are pretty trustworthy and wouldn't pocket a chip because they need it in play in the tourney.
Our cash games don't use $100 chips, so nobody will be able to sneak one in from the tourney. It would be too obvious.

So sorry to ramble on, but this is what I am doing.
Thanks.