The Color of Money - Chip Decision

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I've pretty much decided on getting a set of 500 Desert Sands chips. Now the decision is which denominations. If figured out an optimum breakdown with an excel spreadsheet. But the decision is between $1, $5, $25, $100 or $25, $100, $500, $1000.

The chips our home game plays with now are close to dice chips, but stamped with the $25, $50, $100, $500, $1000. We've been playing with these for a couple of years.

I like the Desert Sands chip color combination at the lower denominations (Blue, Red, Green, Black), and am leaning that way (BTW, the higher denominations are green, black, purple and yellow). But the other guys may be less than enthused about playing with lower denominations. It seems to throw everyone off a little even though blinds compared to starting stacks would basically be the same. For example raising to $6 just isn't as "cool" as raising to $150.

I wanted to get your thoughts.