Need help, how many/what demonation chips to buy?

[jojobinks]

i'm sure this has been done already, but can't find it using search.

i'm all hyped about putting an egyptian set together, and am trying to figure out quantity/demoninations.

the home game is usually 1 table, sometimes cash and sometimes. tournament. 6-10 players.

cash game is 1/2, with a $40 buyin.
tournament, obviously, is a tournament. there are times when we've had as many as 14 players in these.

what do you guys do when you put together home sets? how would you figure it out?

[smoore]

Here's an "off the cuff" for 500:

200 - $1
150 - $5
100 - $25
50 - $100

Add 200 more split between $1 and $5 if you want to go to 700. 500 would be very tight with 14 people in a tournament, 700 should be a better fit. You might not even need the $100 chips in reality but I like to color up. check out homepokertourney.com for some ideas.

My friends and I are obviously much poorer than you. We play games ranging from .05/.10 NLHE to .50/1.00 NLHE (when the rich cousin's come to the ranch! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Limit poker up to 3/6 and then dealer's choice of any casino game with a .25/.50 or .50/1 limit structure. This means I need a .05 chip for blinds/antes and the bulk of my chips need to be in the .25 and $1. (You would need some 0.25 chips if you want to play ante games correctly)

I bought 700 nexgens and tailored the amounts to fit in a gamelandsports.com "elite" case:

150 Red - 5c
225 Green - 25c
225 Black - $1
75 Purple - $5
25 Yellow - $20
(5 extra of each for loss/damage)

With this set, I'm restructuring my tournaments to use the actual money value of the buyin... most of our "bigger" tournaments are $20 so that's my top chip. Insta-rebuy, just hand them one chip. "Normal" tournaments are either $10 or $20. I'll use the same blind structure for a $20 as I will for a $5 game, even keeping the initial .05/.10 level when we do $20's. We do like the bigger buyin events to be deeeeeep stacked and long lasting (I rock you all night long, baby!) while making the "little potatoes" go quick so we can do another.

My original example may not be much help to you but you'll probably pick up some help thinking about why I put my set together as I have.

[CaptLego]

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i'm sure this has been done already, but can't find it using search.

i'm all hyped about putting an egyptian set together, and am trying to figure out quantity/demoninations.

the home game is usually 1 table, sometimes cash and sometimes. tournament. 6-10 players.

cash game is 1/2, with a $40 buyin.
tournament, obviously, is a tournament. there are times when we've had as many as 14 players in these.

what do you guys do when you put together home sets? how would you figure it out?

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This really should be put into a FAQ...
jojo, it really is worth searching a bit more, and there's a gazillion threads that deal with this.
For example, here's a recent one, with pointers to others:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...;o=14&vc=1

For your cash games, apparently, you need $1 chips. Ideally, you'd have at least 400 of those.
For tournaments, just look at any of the other threads.
You might consolidate your cash and tournament sets if you use the $1 chips as your lowest denom for tournaments. That means starting the blinds at 1/2. So you'd like to start each player with T100 to maybe T200. For this, you could just add maybe 200 red, 100 green.

[jtr]

I agree with Capt. Lego -- there really are a lot of threads on this, and the search function can't be so broken that it won't find a few of them.

Having said that -- is your cash game 1/2 limit or an NL game with 1/2 blinds? If the former, you want a whole bunch of those white chips, obviously. Plus a stack of 50c chips for the small blind.

But if you play 1/2 NL, here's my suggestion (not saying it's the best way to do things, just that it's worked out well for me; very versatile as it gets about 23K worth of chips into 500):

150 x white (1)
150 x red (5)
100 x green (25)
75 x black (100)
25 x purple (500).

Enjoy,
--JTR.