What color breakdown should I get?

[Wired Jokers]

I also have a 1000 chip set. The typical games run at my home are either $3-$6, $4-$8 or $6-$12. We usually have around 8 players on average. Also, after about 2 hours of play, folks want to play no-limit, so we usually have a tourney that lasts about 3 hours. So, I had to balance my set for both uses. This setup has worked well for me:

Greys = 650
Reds = 200
Blues = 100
Greens = 50

For cash games, grey = $1, red = $5, blue = $10, green = $25.

For tourneys ($1500 starting chips, w/rebuys and addons), grey = $25, red = $100, blue = $500, green = $1000, grey = $5000. By the time the greys are $5,000, they have already been removed as the $25 denomination.

Typically in cash games I hand out 75 grays and 5 reds to start. For tourneys, starting chips consist of 44 grey = $900 and 6 red = $600. Blinds start out at $25-$50. What I've discovered is that folks like to have chips in front of them, in both cash games and tourneys. It really does promote action. As the blinds go up, the "chip master" will remove various greys as the pot gets heavy with them, and start tossing in reds and blues, where applicable.

As an aside, I bought light greys instead of white, because the greys show less wear and dirt. Also wanted to be a little different.

[FyrFytr998]

Are you locked into those colors only? It's my experience that, at most, you would only need three or four colors max. Not five.

So dropping the blacks of which there are only 50, and basing your breakdown for 20 players (Rounding up from 18).
Making your greens $500 dollar chips. Your highest chip ($500) bankroll would be $50,000. Which means that with 20 players you could have a tournament with a starting chip count of about $2500. Since $2500 is an odd number we'll round down to $2000.

Now all you gotta do is break down the remaining three colors to equal the majority of the $2,000. So if 20 players start with one $500 dollar chip, the rest of the $1500 will be divided amongst the other three colors. Which would break down to the following.

Whites ($25)- 14 chips each for a total of $350
Reds ($50)- 9 chips each for a total of $450
Blues ($100)- 7 each for a total of $700
Greens ($500)- 1 chip each for a total of $500
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Grand Total = 31 Chips for a total of $2000

Granted this dosen't take rebuys into account, but you could always use the black chips for that. Make them $1,000 dollar chips and have the players make change at the table.

And be sure to use the $2,000 dollar blind schedule from homepokertourney.com.

Just an Idea. Hope it helps.

[LetsRock]

I got 1000 chip set in the followinf quanitites:
300 red
300 green
200 black
200 white

Our group always plays NL with a 1000 chip buy-in. With this setup we always use the red($5) greens($25) and blacks($100). With those 800 chips we have enough for 26 buy-ins. On the rare occasion we need more than that, we use the whites as $500 chips - now we can go on forever since we have another 100 buy-ins just in whites.

On the rare occasions we play limit, all the chips are the same value, regardless of color.

I'd recommend this combination to anyone.