Trying to figure out how many chips I need...

[Benoit]

I looked around for an idea, but still I'm not sure. How many chips should be needed to get a good home game going for one table of 9 players max? It would be for a range of hold em games, including NL (maybe 50x or 100x BB for buy in), limit, and NL tourney (25x or 50x starting BB). I'm probably surer about doing NL tourneys, but the dynamics of cash games makes me unsure.

So is 1000 chips a good number? I wanted to make it as easy as possible too keep the game running fast without everyone needing change, etc. For NL/limit, 9 players could then have say 100 chips each of the lower denomination, and about 10 each of a higher denomination? Maybe I should order an extra 200 lower denomination and 100 higher denominations incase there is a rebuy needed before anyone has enough to color up?

Any help is appreciated. Suggestions for how many and of the ratio of lower to higher denomination chips would be great.