Please evaluate my chip breakdown

[L0QTiS]

I'm ready to take the plunge and upgrade my existing set (mostly 11.5g diamond composit). I'll be taking advantage of the Nevada Jacks deal to get a total of 900 chips. My goal is to have a mixed set for both small tournaments and cash games.

Proposed purchase:
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150 x $5.00
160 x $25.00
100 x $100.00
20 x $500.00

350 x $0.25
120 x $1.00


Here's what I currently run, or plan to

Cash Games:
$.25/$.50 and $.50/$1 - Fixed Limit usually no more than 8 players

Tournaments - Start T1000 or T1500 - Normally around 8 players, could be up to 10

15 x $5.00
13 x $25.00
6 x $100.00 (for T1000)
11 x $100.00 (for T1500)

I think I planned well enough for extras in the tournament set for color up, but this is the best balance I could figure based on what I want to use this for.

Comments?

[Wired Jokers]

You simply do not need more than four colors. More than that is a waste. You want about 70% of your chips in the lowest two denominations. 70% of 900 is ~600-650. My breakdown:

500 white
175 red
125 green
100 black

or

450 white
200 red
150 green
100 black

[L0QTiS]

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500 white
175 red
125 green
100 black

or

450 white
200 red
150 green
100 black

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Basically you're saying to ditch the $1 chip (blue) for my cash games and the $500 chip (purple) for the tournaments. While I can see loosing the T500 , I'm not sure I can run a decent cash game at the limits I stipulated without a $1 chip, but I guess the $5 chips would cover this?

[L0QTiS]

So... with 450 White (.25) and 8 people for .5/1

56 x 0.25 = $14.00
2 x 5.00 = $10.00

$24.00 buy in which I suppose would work, but I still feel like I'm missing out on some flexibility without $1 chips.

[Wired Jokers]

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500 white
175 red
125 green
100 black

or

450 white
200 red
150 green
100 black


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Basically you're saying to ditch the $1 chip (blue) for my cash games and the $500 chip (purple) for the tournaments. While I can see loosing the T500 , I'm not sure I can run a decent cash game at the limits I stipulated without a $1 chip, but I guess the $5 chips would cover this?

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OK, before we get lost in semantics, this is what I have in a 1000 chip set:

650 white - usually $1
200 red - usually $5
100 blue - usually $10
50 green - usually $25

In my cash games, we usually play 4/8, sometimes 6/12. Players like lots of chips in front of them -- that's why I got so many whites. More chips, more in pot = more for me. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I didn't put denominations on my chips. When I play a tourney with T1500 starting chips, the values are:

White: 25
Red: 100
Blue: 500
Green: 1000

Never had a problem. If we do run into a problem, you can always recirculate the whites as 5000 chips (they will have been raced off by then). I realize these are not the "standard" colors for tourneys, but I had to make a sacrifice somewhere. And nobody seems to give a crap anyway that my "reds" are worth 100 instead of being "black".

[Wired Jokers]

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So... with 450 White (.25) and 8 people for .5/1

56 x 0.25 = $14.00
2 x 5.00 = $10.00

$24.00 buy in which I suppose would work, but I still feel like I'm missing out on some flexibility without $1 chips.

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For a .5/1 game, I assume you have a .25/.50 blind structure. IMHO, you only need to play with .25 chips. In fact, even at 1/2, .25 chips are perfect (2 chip SB/4 chip BB structure).

More chips, more action. People like having chips in front of them.

[L0QTiS]

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More chips, more action. People like having chips in front of them.

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I completely agree, but I think I have to strike a balance between sets to some degree since I want to use this for both cash games and tournaments.

I'll likely add more chips as time goes on so I'm looking for a starting point more than anything.

[jojobinks]

i bought the DS, and i bought all cash game denoms. then, if i use them for tournies, we just have a small total chip count to start.

.25 300
1- 375
5- 200
25- 25

i figure to use this from .25-.25 NL, all the way up to 3-6 limit.

i've used it once for a single table tournament, and we each started with 200 or so. not wpt or wsop type stacks, but we did have plenty of chips each.

my thoughts...