10$ Cash Game at Home (2 Viewers)

[BeastlyBarlow]

I just purchased 1000 casino royale chips from
https://www.thepokerstore.com

I realized I probably should've done some more research on here before making the purchase but here we are... I'm just curious about some of the opinions on here; regarding my choice of poker chip denominations. Can you elaborate as to why this isn't an ideal setup?

400x 5c
300x 10c
200x 25c
100x 1$

I also picked up some nice plaques:

20x 5$
20x 10$
10x 100$
10x Bounty

My thoughts behind the distribution were:
10x players at 10$ or double the chips for 20$
20x 5c
15x 10c
10x 25c
5x 1$

I'll be sure to post some pics on future games and experiences with this setup.

 

[JustinInMN]

Welcome to PCF, I'll be gentle

Dimes and quarters don't play nice, I would have skipped the dimes entirely. You are probably way overbought on nickels as well. Nickels at 5¢-10¢ blinds tend to only be of use in the first betting round, one rack per table would have been plenty. For a 1000 chip set I would have suggested 200/400/300/100 of 5¢/25¢/1/5 and that would cover a 2-table cash game pretty comfortably. And still fairly decent breakdowns if you get up to 25¢-25¢ games.

For starting stack breakdowns, I probably would have just suggested 10 stacks of 10/18/5 to make $10 buy ins.

 

[allforcharity]

Yup, you blew it.
All 300 dimes - not useful. Way too many nickels, 100 usually enough, maybe 200 in a limp-heavy game.
Your quarters and your $1 are your workhorses. A rack of $5 (non plaque) would have helped future-proof a bit. At your stakes the $10 and $100 plaques are pure curiosities.

 

[DrStrange]

OK - the dimes are useless. As noted, dimes and quarters don't play well together. I made this very mistake my first set and still have the almost unused dimes in boxes somewhere at the bottom of the junk pile. Didn't even attach he labels. (same thing for $5 and $10 plaques. don't need the tens.)

Not knowing your crew, it is hard to make broad judgements. What's a good guess for the normal opening raise? $0.25, $1.00, $2.50??? Does a raise to $0.25 thin the field any more than limping?

Should you even have nickels? Perhaps you can just have a single quarter blind. Or play $0.25/$0.25. Only you can answer this based on your game. Nickels have no real-world value to me. Not to many people, perhaps most.

Note that paying one $0.25 blind per orbit isn't that different than paying a dime plus a nickel every orbit. If people are betting in $0.25 increments anyway why not go with the flow.

I'd go with 8 x $0.25 plus 8 x $1.00 = $10.00 if you really don't need the nickels.

Welcome to PCF. Remember, the goal is to have fun. -=- DrStrange

 

[JustinInMN]

I just purchased 1000 casino royale chips from
https://www.thepokerstore.com

So question, is it these chips that are not denominated?

https://www.thepokerstore.com/collections/casino-royale-crown-smooth-14-gram-poker-chips

If so maybe we can salvage the set to improve playability by rearranging your intended colors for denominations.

Do 200/300/400/100 of 5¢/25¢/1/5 would give you a pretty good two table breakdown for 5¢-5¢ and up to 25¢-25¢

 

[BeastlyBarlow]

My thanks to all of you for your opinions and questions. I managed to luck out and make the change to my order just before it got shipped.

200/200/200/200/100/100
5/10/25/50/1/2

I realized that I needed to "future proof" my set. I'm sure all of you have better ideas for a set but hopefully this one serves me well.

Also I should've mentioned in the first post we're usually not playing with 10players but 7 or 8. We're all pretty amateur players with a few of us being a bit more serious then the others. So the stakes are never going to be very high.

 

[allforcharity]

You blew it again. Nobody has recommended 0.10, 0.50, or 2.

 

[SteveEH]

You blew it again. Nobody has recommended 0.10, 0.50, or 2.

200 x .05 is too much for a single table too.

 

[LeLe]