CPC closure - final grail set (4 Viewers)

[Fromrussiawithlove]

Hello everyone,

I have long been wanting a custom CPC set of chips for home poker games and now as they are closing I will be placing an order.

Ask: What denominations of custom chips would I need so that I could have one grail set of chips for both cash and tournament poker home games?

Players - 10 maximum
Chip budget - None
Cash / tournament - Both

To add a weird bit of additional complexity, I occasionally enjoy some casual Blackjack and would ideally like to be able to seat 6 players (+1 dealer) and utilise my chips for this too.

Thanks for your help.

 

[SteveEH]

You'll want 2 separate sets

Generally for a 10 player cash game set you want these denominations:

1 rack of blind chips
2 racks of workhorse 1 chips
2 racks of workhorse 2 chips
1 rack of rebuy chips (maybe including 1 barrel of a higher denomination)

Regarding workhorse denomination(s), .25/.50 has two ($1 and $5) where $1/$2 has one ($5).

Since you have no budget, I'd get a shit ton of workhorse chips vs. Higher denoms. Like when you sit down to play 2/5 in a casino with 100bbs, players start with a rack of $5s. More chips = more action and fun.

Your 10 player tourney breakdown is dependent on its starting stacks/rebuys (e.g. T20000, etc.), be more efficient than a cash game breakdown, and won't require as many chips as cash.

Search the forum for cash game and tourney breakdowns and you'll find more details.

I dunno about blackjack.

 

[BSteck]

Here's a good place to start...

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/poker-set-selection-tool.90/

 

[Huskerchipper]

Welcome to PCF! TONS of helpful information is here and easily found. Literally nobody here is going to recommend one set to cover both cash and tournament for a multitude of reasons. Happy reading!

 

[Cratty]

To be clear.. you can absolutely host a tournament with a cash set and wouldn't be too difficult if you also did a T.25 tournament with one. That said, if you ever want to:

• Have a cash game and a tournament game the same night (cash game for those who left the tournament game)
• Run a more "normal" tournament setup (e.g. T25)

You're going to want two sets anyway.

Get a CPC set with the best possible breakdown (and future proofed) solely around your most common game played IMO. But you could theoretically run a T.25 tournament pretty well (I like them) as long as you have a second cash set for those nights that wouldn't create mixing issues.

 

[Huskerchipper]

To be clear.. you can absolutely host a tournament with a cash set and wouldn't be too difficult if you also did a T.25 tournament with one. That said, if you ever want to:

• Have a cash game and a tournament game the same night (cash game for those who left the tournament game)
• Run a more "normal" tournament setup (e.g. T25)

You're going to want two sets anyway.

Get a CPC set with the best possible breakdown (and future proofed) solely around your most common game played IMO. But you could theoretically run a T.25 tournament pretty well (I like them) as long as you have a second cash set for those nights that wouldn't create mixing issues.

Excellent advice Cratty

 

[Machine]

Welcome!
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I have a post in my signature that explains how to calculate a cash breakdown.

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