Thank you for your $25 workhouse denom. For me, I would probably cut either the $500 or $1000 and get a rack of whichever best fits our bank.
I'm not the host or the gamerunner - I'm only responsible for purchasing the chips. Super annoyed by so many of the IMO poor decisions, and how my input is landing on deaf ears re: no rake, chip and game security, game planning, and "home game" rules.
Small rant, I planned our $10 workhorse set with starting stacks of $5 x 20 | $10 x 40 | $100 x 10. Dedicated dealer keeps organizing them as she wishes, last night being $5 x 10 | $10 x 25 | $100 x 12. Mind you, game runner decided to move to a rake + tip structure vs fixed hourly (settled at the end of game). Me says we are severely lacking in our small denoms and workhorses given the rake + tip. Slightly petty, but I made a point to only tip when I had sufficient $5s in my stack --- AITA?