Chips

[Under Control]

In my home games we usually play NL hold'em ring games. The chips I'm looking at buying come in five colors, so I was wondering how to best distribute them between the colors. Any ideas?

[theWhale]

I can't imagine you would need 5 denominations for a ring game. Any game that needed $1 chips, really shouldn't need $500 chips I think. If you did a tourney you would though.

For 500 chips you would get maybe 4 denoms 200 $1s, 150 $5s, 100 $25s and 50 $100s. Adjust the percentages based on how much of the high denomination chips you would actually use. 100 $25 chips is $2500 (not to mention the 5 big ones in $100s), if you don't really ever have that much on the table then you might get more 5s and 1s or only go with 3 denoms.

[young nut]

I bought chips a few months ago, and I bought a 600 set. I got 4 color denominations. White, red, black, and green. I ordered more of two colors, and less of the other two (i.e. more 10 cent chips than dollar chips) We usually use 10 cent, 25 cent, 50 cent, and 1 dollar as our values. And with 600 chips, we have played with 10 people at the table without a problem.

[JayCo]

This site has some good thoughts on chips needed (for ring games too).

http://www.homepokertourney.com/chips_needed.htm

[kasual]

We play NL hold'em with 0.25/0.50 blinds 25 dollar buy-in, rebuy to 25 anytime below (exactly like partypoker's 25 nl tables), i have 300 chips, 3 colors, 150 in white (25 cent chips) 100 in black (1 dollar chips) and 50 in yellow (5 dollar chips) 6-8 players, and we still dont use all the chips.

but, I think it all depends on the type of game you play, the betting structure, and the type of people that play.

kas

[Yarney]

I do a combination of ring games and tourneys and here is what I have found out works excellently:

I bought a 1000 chip set (11.5 gram dice) from Spinettis which cost me $230 shipped in cases.

I ordered as follows:
250 White
250 red
250 green
200 black
50 yellow

This way we have a ton of chips no matter how we decide to play. Its all nice if you have a ring game where people come and go and rebuy a lot, because I have been known to get 80% of my chips on the table at a time for those high volume nights.

-Yarney

[PokeHer]

I bought a 300 chip set a while ago, and there are like 10 colors, which made it sell for much less on ebay. We usually just make all the chips the same value. If we need to make some chips worth more, it works fine to just make the 50 red chips worth more.

you should make sure to check out the free set that party is giving away to new members- 300 for free or 500 for $40.