500 Chip Set Thoughts (1 Viewer)

[TenEightOffSuit]

Hello All -

I wanted to get your thoughts on a 500 chip set. I usually host 6 or 7 people. Never really run into huge games. Here is what I was thinking. Sometimes there will be 10ish people. Will it work?

$25 x 125
$100 x 125
$500 x 100
$1000 x 100
$5000 x 50

$5000 starting stack:

8 x $25 - $200
8 x $100 - $800
6 x $500 - $3000
1 x $1000 - $1000
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23 chips - $5000.

Thank you all!

 

[WedgeRock]

First thing is establish your starting stacks. Yours will work, if it were me, I'd go with 8/8/8 or even 8/13/7. I just hate that one lone T1k chip. Your blind schedule will dictate whether these starting stacks are enough. Its a fine balance between unwieldy stacks and having to make too much change. I like usually around 30-40 chips in starting stacks, but either starting stack should work with a decent blind schedule.

For 10 people without rebuys using 8/8/8, that will be

T25 x 80
T100 x 80
T500 x 100 (color up all your T25 and T100 into 500's)
T1000 x 20

Note, I have my Excel spreadsheet set up to automatically round up to even barrels.

That's 280 chips. I'd round the T100 up to a full rack so that you are at three even racks. You will only have T50,000 on the table, so you won't need T5000 chips, but I like adding them because you can use them for easy rebuys, if you go that direction. In that case, I'd lean towards adding T100 x 10 and T5000 x 10 for three even racks. Alternatively, you could add T25 x 2, T100 x 2, T500 x 3, T1000 x 3 and T5000 x 10 to fill up the third rack, givign yourself some extras in case you lose/damage/break any of the chips.

For 10 people without rebuys using 8/13/7, that will be

T25 x 80
T100 x 140
T500 x 100 (color up all your T25 and T100 into 500's)
T1000 x 20

That's 340 chips. If you want four even racks, you could add 10 x each of the first four denoms, and T5000 x 20.

The second breakdown will give you a little more flexibility to handle larger groups. But candidly, both are set up to handle 10 players and if you are usually playing 7-8 players, you should have no issues.

Good luck!

 

[BGinGA]

I recommend the following 400-chip set for 10-player tournaments using up to T25000 starting stacks:


T10,000 starting stacks (200bb)

12 x T25
12 x T100
5 x T500
6 x T1000
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35 chips = T10000 stack. Just add T5000s for larger stacks.

If really wanting to use smaller T5000 starting stacks, go with this:

12 x T25
12 x T100
5 x T500
1 x T1000
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30 chips = T5000 stack.


400 chip set:

120 x T25
120 x T100
50 x T500
75 x T1000 (includes 15x for T25/T100 color-ups)
35 x T5000 (includes 5x for T500 color-ups plus 30 spares for re-buys and/or larger starting stacks)
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400 total chips


If really wanting 500 chips (overkill for 10 players), go with this - which will also handle up to 20 x T10K stacks:

160 x T25
160 x T100
80 x T500
80 x T1000
20 x T5000
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500 total chips

 

[Ronoh]

It is my opinion with small tournament sets that many people are way too focused on perfect starting stacks when designing breakdowns. For your game go with exactly one rack of T25, no need for the extra barrel. When you get your standard 6 or 7 players everyone gets 12 of them. On the rare occasion you get 10 players start five of them with 12 and the other five with 8 plus one extra T100.