Cash Game $25 buy in home game (1 Viewer)

[rs_smoove]

So I have a tournament set but I'm looking for a cash game setup. My home games are typically $20 to buy-in. Looking through this forum, I'm thinking about upping the buy-in to $25 and doing 25c/25c blinds. At $20, I typically have a nice amount of rebuys so what would the ideal chip count look like for me? I have a 10 person table and usually get close to that most of the time so I want to cover for 10 with a decent amount of rebuys. I currently have the following:

25c chips - 183
$1 chips - 222

How many more do I need of thise chips and any other chip denoms?

Thanks

 

[LeLe]

For a 25/25c game, I like to cover at least 5x rebuy per person so at least 50x rebuy which is about $1200

Minimum Chips I will get is
100 x 25c
200 x $1
200 x $5
20 x $25

 

[Colquhoun]

Or get $20 chips instead of $25s. That way when all the chips are on the table, a $20 rebuy gets one $20 chip to make change with the other players.

 

[JustinInMN]

You are more than good on 0.25 chips right now. I would just be looking to bring the singles up to 300 or 400 and get around 100 fives for good measure.

 

[SlowPokeTony]

I always just do 16/16/x for my .25/.25 game. You have enough quarters and 1s for that already. Just need a bunch of 5s and optional 20s/25s.

 

[BigCountryHateU]

200 quarters 200 ones makes it so you can have 1 barrel of quarters and 1 barrel of ones for 10 buy ins. You can definitely get away with less quarters though. Then I'd get at least 100-200 fives. You can use these for rebuys, add ons, and anything over the minimum buy in. If your game plays deep maybe get some 20s or 25s but they never see the felt in my little .25/.50 game

 

[PARADOX]

200 quarters 200 ones makes it so you can have 1 barrel of quarters and 1 barrel of ones for 10 buy ins. You can definitely get away with less quarters though. Then I'd get at least 100-200 fives. You can use these for rebuys, add ons, and anything over the minimum buy in. If your game plays deep maybe get some 20s or 25s but they never see the felt in my little .25/.50 game

I used to give everyone a barrel of quarters. Way too many and a pain when cashing out. 8 to 12 quarters is plenty.

100x25c
200x$1
200x$5
20x$25 ($20)

 

[BigCountryHateU]

I used to give everyone a barrel of quarters. Way too many and a pain when cashing out. 8 to 12 quarters is plenty.

100x25c
200x$1
200x$5
20x$25 ($20)

See the opposite was true for me. I tried to only do 10ea at first and spent the whole night constantly making change for people. I also have people rack up when they cash out. Its pretty easy for me to count it like that. My game plays pretty small though and i think my guys just like the extra chips on the table.

Edit: also I'll tend to color up a barrel or so of quarters with $5s after 2 or 3 people bust out.

 

[megabit]

My home game we play for dimes with my cash game set from when I played for real stakes at home. So the white $1 chip is worth a dime. Red $5 is worth 5 dimes or $0.50. Etc..

We play 0.10 / 0.20. This way you can use the same chip set for micro or normal stakes.

 

[4SUMERZ]

My cash game with 8 players has a $20.00 buy in and chips worth 200. This way, it's easy to tally the cash ins.
amount of chips divided by 10.
The tip for those that do cash games, have lot's of change in all denominations for the cash outs.
We play for 4 hours, then once around the table, then cash in
Depending on the quality of players at the table, for the occasional players, we do 1-2 blinds. $.10-.$20 10-1 denomination white chips are added and 5 -2 denomination chips are removed.
For a table with more seasoned players, the blinds are 2-4. $.20 - $.40 (shown in pic)
The chips are as follows
15 -2 = 30
14 - 5 = 70
4 -25 =100
I have 7 extra sets of chips to take care of the buy ins.
Either way, we typically have 2-5 buys ins.
No one gets rich, or loses their shirts.
I offer the drinks and snacks on the house. Most will toss in a few $$ at the end to compensate for the drinks that they had
I don't have professional chip, but they do the trick.

We have fun.

 

[rcamp014]

For a 25/25c game, I like to cover at least 5x rebuy per person so at least 50x rebuy which is about $1200

Minimum Chips I will get is
100 x 25c
200 x $1
200 x $5
20 x $25

Would this amount of chips safely cover 10 people with 1-2 rebuy per person?

 

[LeLe]

Would this amount of chips safely cover 10 people with 1-2 rebuy per person?

Yes, it more than enough to cover for 25/25c

If you think the stake may grow to 25/50c or even 50c/$1 in the future, I will get 80 x $25/$20 and 20 x $100 to make it 600 chips set

 

[allforcharity]

Would this amount of chips safely cover 10 people with 1-2 rebuy per person?

Yes

 

[Mortalpawn]

I like a lot of chips out so I use 20 each of the 0.25 and $1 chips per player for the initial buy-in of $25. This puts plenty of chips on the table. For a 10 player max table this would be 200 of each chip.

Then for rebuys I usually use just $5 chips until I run out of those and then bring out $20 or $25 if needed. If you had 100 of the $5 chips this would cover 2 rebuys per person which in my experience is quite a bit.

In practice most of my cash sets are oversized to accommodate two tables, and I don't get a massive number of rebuys so its actually rare that I run out of $5.

However on my newer sets I've been adding more $5 and $25 chips to cover inflation. For example about 15 years ago it was not uncommon to play 5 cent/10 cent with a $10 buy-in. But now we mostly play 0.25/0.25 or 0.25/0.50 with a $25 or $50 buyin. At the current rate of inflation I would expect 0.50/$1 and $1/2 is not that far off so I include the extra chips when sizing a set now.

 

[NotDunric]

We play .25/.25 as well and start with $25 max buy ins (then match the stack as the night goes on).

My current target for a live casino set is only needing 400 chips (to keep it affordable for me):

.25 x 100
1.00 x 200
5.00 x 80
25.00 x 20

That's $1,125 total bank, enough for 10 players to buy-in 4+ times at initial max. The most we've ever had in total was an even $1k bought in over the course of the night, but with some people leaving early and others showing up late, so we never even had that much on the table at one time.

From those counts you can easily round some numbers up, go up to a full rack of $5s, even a full rack of $25s (or 20s if preferred) and have MORE THAN ENOUGH for a 10-person .25/.25 game. And if you go the route of china clays or ceramics, that extra bit to get to 500 (or even 600) chips isn't that costly.

 

[rcamp014]

Yes, it more than enough to cover for 25/25c

If you think the stake may grow to 25/50c or even 50c/$1 in the future, I will get 80 x $25/$20 and 20 x $100 to make it 600 chips set

Thanks!