Tourney Big Starting Stack Logistics (1 Viewer)

[emunster18]

How do people distribute large amounts of starting chips in a tournament? I'm running a T5 tournament with starting stacks of 2,500. Last time I ran this, we had to make change often, so I'm trying to combat that with 20/20/9/2 starting stacks. It's a 2 table tournament, and we'll color up the T5 & T25 along the way.

I have enough racks for everyone, would that be odd to have chips cut out in racks ahead of time? I just think that stacks on the table won't work well, because we could have between 12-16 players.

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Not odd at all, I use tubes for this reason. Thats a ton of the small denoms though, going to be cumbersome in a few levels.

 

[Josh Kifer]

You are putting so many chips you gotta chip up into play. I do a T20k breakdown with T100 starting at 10/4/8/2.

One major chip up and the 500s generally can stay in play.

I'd cut the 5s in half and maybe more than half on the 25s. Change isn't hard, just get players used to not saying "I need change" and stopping up the action.

Call, raise, reraise, or fold. Throw out the lowest chip and call out the action "call". Let the players go down the row, dealer cleans up change after the actions are complete.

And precut stacks is the best way to go.... I'll have buyins and most rebuys premade to just get into play when needed.

 

[emunster18]

Most of my players are relatively new, and there's quite a bit of limping if I am not in a pot. I may cut back to 15/13/11/2. However, I don't want to take too many of the small denoms off based on how the game went last time.

 

[emunster18]

Not odd at all, I use tubes for this reason. Thats a ton of the small denoms though, going to be cumbersome in a few levels.View attachment 1377204

How many chips can you fit in tubes?

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

How many chips can you fit in tubes?

Thats 33 43mm chips, probably 36 or so. Look up Uline tubes on here I think their name is, you can cut them to fit whatever size you need. Personally I prefer these since the tops are attached but wont work for 40+ starting stacks.

 

[springbox]

How do people distribute large amounts of starting chips in a tournament? I'm running a T5 tournament with starting stacks of 2,500. Last time I ran this, we had to make change often, so I'm trying to combat that with 20/20/9/2 starting stacks. It's a 2 table tournament, and we'll color up the T5 & T25 along the way.

I have enough racks for everyone, would that be odd to have chips cut out in racks ahead of time? I just think that stacks on the table won't work well, because we could have between 12-16 players.

What was your starting stack last time? 20/20/9/2 is a lot of chips to hand out and means more work when you color up. 15/13/11/2 trims it down and should be fine from a change making perspective.

Anyways yeah, racks or starting stack tubes. But tubes might not fit that many chips.

 

[emunster18]

What was your starting stack last time? 20/20/9/2 is a lot of chips to hand out and means more work when you color up. 15/13/11/2 trims it down and should be fine from a change making perspective.

Anyways yeah, racks or starting stack tubes. But tubes might not fit that many chips.

Last time, I was short on T5s, so I think it was 10/10/12/2. I got moar T5s and T25s to have some flexibility for up to 18 players. May be closer to 12-14 players this week.

 

[BGinGA]

10/10/x stacks will typically slow a game down due to excessive change-making. And 20/20/x stacks will slow it down because too many chips are in play.

The sweet spot is between 12 and 16 chips each of the two lowest denominations. For a T5-base set, 15/13/x works best.

 

[emunster18]

Decided to split the difference because we'll likely be starting 6 or 7 handed at each table. Here's what 15/17/10/2 looks like.