Chips for .50/1.00 limit?

[bolgenmod]

I hate to post the boring old questions, but I'm talking about a ring-game, not a tournament, so I hope the helpful people on Home Games will indulge me.

I'm trying to start a new .50/1.00 limit game, and I need new chips. (Wish I could afford the Egyptians/Pharaoh's Club!, but for now I'm going with the 4Star fake clays...). I plan on getting 600 chips for an 8 player game which should be more than enough.

I figured I need three colors for .25/.50/1.00, and I thought I'd try to have some relationship between my chips and casino chips. So I was thinking that to keep the hierarchy straight, I'd get red for .25, green for .50 and black for 1.00. Or should I try to keep the multiples closer to the "real" thing and thus have green as .25, black as 1.00, and something else for .50?

Once I figure out the colors, I think the distribution is relatively easy: although the common wisdom is to get more than half of the lowest denomination, I've found that people love the middle chip. The last chip set I bought had four colors and frankly we never use the white chips (lowest denomination) anymore. So I'd get 300 of the middle (.50), 200 of the low (.25), 100 of the high (1). Or should I get 100 low (SB) and 200 high (big bet)?

What do you think? What colors? What distribution?

[WackityWhiz]

I think you should go 50 white (.25) 300 red (.50) and 250 for the 1.00 ... not sure about the color for the 1.00... I think i'd go with blue or black. Blue would be more correct I think, but black would be cooler.

[tubalkain]

I'd go with a more versatile and expandable breakdown in case you get a bigger game going in the future. This is what I'd dp (and what I have tentatively planned for my own set)
0.25 (white) 100
0.50 (yellow?) 200
1.00 (blue) 250
5.00 (red) 50

[jojobinks]

if you want to be casino-esque, just do two colors. grey for your .25 chip, and blue or white for the $1. you don't need a quarter and a .50.

if you want to add a third color, do reds for $5s (for rebuys and stuff.)

.25: 250
$1: 300
$5: 50

[MeridianFC]

I agree with jojobinks above, spot on. It's the most versitile set up. At those limits a .50 chip doesn't really do anything for you.

The quantity break down seems perfect too.

[The Armchair]

Get 2,000 of the green 9.5g chips from 5stardeal.com. It'll run you about $125. Make each chip worth a quarter and use only them.

You'll have $500 worth in chips which is a huge amount relative to the big bet.

[jojobinks]

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Get 2,000 of the green 9.5g chips from 5stardeal.com. It'll run you about $125. Make each chip worth a quarter and use only them.

You'll have $500 worth in chips which is a huge amount relative to the big bet.

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getting the faux clay from 5star is good advice. getting 2k of the same color is very very bad advice. if you're going to go cheap, definitely go faux clay, but then take some time to figure out a breakdown that's flex and makes sense.

[KenProspero]

I also recomment the faux clay. I'd recommend 750, in these denominations

.25 100
.50 400
1.00 200
5.00 50

This should cover you for most games easily.

[KenProspero]

Besides, if you get several different colors, you can always go back and say "all chips are 0.25" regardless of the color, which gets you to the same place.

Why you'd want to do this I don't know, but since it doesn't cost extra to have different colors, I can't see a reason not to.

[jerseypoker2]

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I also recomment the faux clay. I'd recommend 750, in these denominations

.25 100
.50 400
1.00 200
5.00 50

This should cover you for most games easily.

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I agree with everything, except the $.50 chip, not needed, just get more $.25 chips