To be fair I purposely cut down my ES set to 2 racks of $1s and 2 racks of $5s to force more use of colorful higher denoms. Also I hate the $5s.
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Controversial Chip & Poker Opinions (11 Viewers)
- Thread starter Rieguy
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Big stacks are fine, I just like the win mine, not buy them. Don’t worry, after I take all your fives I’ll sell them back to you for some 25s so you can feel good again
Not controversial. I would have loved an ES cash set, but the $5 is an absolute dog relative to the rest of the lineup.
RichMahogany
Straight Flush
Big stacks are fine, I just like the win mine, not buy them. Don’t worry, after I take all your fives I’ll sell them back to you for some 25s So you can feel good again
Q: How are you going to have big stacks with only 200 $5s?
A: you’re not
A: 800 $1s?
Are we playing poker in a California casino?
Nothing better than cashing out 5+ racks!
Yes.
Maybe I just like stacking high quality THC chips because they don’t fall over.
Also all 3 of these games were 1/1...
Pinball
Full House
You don't need odds and out to call, a solid read on the dealer is all you need
Couldn’t agree more. I actually sold all 4 of my racks but they got sent back
annnd that’s why I started buying CDI98 $5s- initially to replace those ES $5s. 6.5 racks and a full CDI set later...
Wait, on the dealer? I’ve been doing it wrong..
So that's what the "Suckah Dealah" mantra from @Anthony Martino is about!
OP
OP
"Better to have and not need, than need and not have."
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The gist is basically not having their cash/trade offers fielded for anything short of their new chip acquisitions if someone else has been holding that person's grail chips waiting to use their leverage. It's likely not a frequent thing, but it does happen. Sometimes sharing what you are after can work directly against you, something I personally experienced very early on here. Despite that, I'm transparent about chipping; we have a great community with more people willing to help each other out than not.
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That makes me a user not a hoarder. I get my babies in play!"Better to have and not need, than need and not have."
-Hoarders"Future-Proofers"
The gist is basically not having their cash/trade offers fielded for anything short of their new chip acquisitions if someone else has been holding that person's grail chips waiting to use their leverage. It's likely not a frequent thing, but it does happen. Sometimes sharing what you are after can work directly against you, something I personally experienced very early on here. Despite that, I'm transparent about chipping; we have a great community with more people willing to help each other out than not.
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ChipEnvy
Full House
The vast majority of BCC chips are still shit.
I’ve actually kind of started to come around to this. I really only have one cash set at the moment, for my .25/.50 game. And in building it, the goal was just to amass as many $5s as possible. I’m up to about 350 or 360. But I’m actually thinking of selling off a few and capping it at 300.OMG this. It's like people are allergic to using their $20 or $25 chips. No more than 200 chips of ANY denomination are needed for any single cash table at any stakes.
I know MOAR CHIPS is better, but I prefer a more colorful table with more denoms in play. If you want big stacks, go play limit. Sorry I'm not sorry
The thinking has always been, well if I play 1/1 or 1/2, I’ll want more $5s. But I’m probably never gonna play 1/1 or 1/2, and isn’t that just really an excuse to buy into the PCF mentality that you can never have enough $5s?
Yeah, I agree but am sorta torn. I like the big stacks but for efficiency (which is always a big thing around here, at least for tourney breakdowns), I pretty much never make any bet using more than 4 chips of the same denom.OMG this. It's like people are allergic to using their $20 or $25 chips. No more than 200 chips of ANY denomination are needed for any single cash table at any stakes.
I know MOAR CHIPS is better, but I prefer a more colorful table with more denoms in play. If you want big stacks, go play limit. Sorry I'm not sorry
Several of my 1/1 - 5/5 sets only have 200 fives. Really, what is this obsession with the fives that we have?
I love 600 chip sets for efficiency, even though I love stacks of chips as much as the next chipper.
Last weekend I picked a 600 chip set for the post tournament cash game that started as one table and became 2. I regretted my choice because I had other sets I could have chosen with more fives, but guess what? It was fine. Had about 12/13 people with 100 fracs / 200 $1s / 200 $5s and then high denoms.
Yes, I had to do some maneuvering to get enough change on each table but it worked out and play was not impeded. Neither was action as about 2 hours in one person stacked have his table in one hand and killed that table, so they consolidated anyway.
TLDR: More fives is better but less is 100% fine and getting big chips in play is fun.
Last weekend I picked a 600 chip set for the post tournament cash game that started as one table and became 2. I regretted my choice because I had other sets I could have chosen with more fives, but guess what? It was fine. Had about 12/13 people with 100 fracs / 200 $1s / 200 $5s and then high denoms.
Yes, I had to do some maneuvering to get enough change on each table but it worked out and play was not impeded. Neither was action as about 2 hours in one person stacked have his table in one hand and killed that table, so they consolidated anyway.
TLDR: More fives is better but less is 100% fine and getting big chips in play is fun.
Yeah better off just having Tina copy them onto ceramics
That’s perfect. It really drives home the point of how completely unnecessary and unneeded that many fives are. Just looks silly
I mean it looks cool but I’d rather have a barrel of hundos and some more 25s. Still room for a rack of fives
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