Preferred way to arrange one's chips

Jack Bando · #1 10-15-2005, 10:17 PM

Just wondering what is a good way to stack chips in both cash games and tourneys. By that I mean if I have 1000T chips, what is a good way of organizing them? 5 equal stacks, 10BB a stack, 10 chips a stack, etc...

I always end up having weird stacks of 5-10 chips a stack, so I never know my exact amount, which is not a good thing. (In a limit cash game, that wouldn't be too bad. But in a tourney, that's could cost me.)

daryn · #2 10-15-2005, 10:21 PM

stacks of 20 if you can

big denoms on top or in front

#3 10-15-2005, 10:59 PM

massive [censored] pile, and i use a custom chip picturing me dancing on your grave as a card protector.

Chipr777 · #4 10-15-2005, 11:11 PM

Exactly.

#5 10-16-2005, 12:41 AM

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stacks of 20 if you can

big denoms on top or in front

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It also speeds the game up a little bit because your opponent can get a good idea as to what your chip stack is. If you have them in stacks of 18 or something, it justs means you have to keep counting them everytime they want a count.

Photoc · #6 10-16-2005, 01:32 AM

No higher than 20 in a stack. Tournament stacks are required to be in a max of 20's, non mixed, and highest denominations visible in the front of side by side or even on top of the smaller denoms.

PokerBob · #7 10-16-2005, 01:50 AM

i prefer to put my chips in stacks of 25, mostly because it bugs BK.

lighterjobs · #8 10-16-2005, 02:46 AM

stacks of 75, pyramid, of course.

#9 10-16-2005, 05:21 AM

Stacks of 20.
Pyramid. (Or whatever doesn't get in my way)
Any extra chips used to cover cards/shuffle/or stacked on top.

otter · #10 10-16-2005, 07:13 AM

whatever I feel like at the time...pyramid look is getting old. If you can cut the cheques easily then stack 'em however you want in live games.