Denominations after 500? (1 Viewer)

[qiu_lijie]

I have run a tourney with 100, 500, 2500, and 10K chips and nobody had any issue with it. The vast majority of my players have never played a tourney at a casino and have no idea that it is 'wrong'. It's your set, do what works for you and your players.

Exactly this, I dont expect anyone to play in any MTT before, thus I can set their expectation for the games

Isn’t this a cash game?

I was referring to a cash game that lead to a ideal of getting higher denomination chips (may current set only have 20x 500s chips, WTB more haha) for a potential custom set. But I do play single single table tournament with the same set (more like sit-and-go with rebuys). So currently it consist of .25 all to 500. Yes, dedicated sets for cash game vs tourny are good, but you got to start somewhere right

Furthermore, getting to know why the things are the way they are is the reason for this post, before just jumping in with some arbitrary denomination

 

[Taghkanic]

Even if your players have no other context for tournament chips, I tend to think a 2,500 chip may lead to confusion/issues. Chips tend to come in simpler numbers because the mind is often, well, simple. It’s bad enough how people ask the denoms of 5s or 100s when it is already written right on the label.

For a tournament set, you are going to need so many more 500s and 1Ks that I’d suggest just starting out fresh for those with a different type of chips. Whereas for cash probably just another barrel of 500s ($10K) and a barrel of 1Ks or non-denoms should be plenty.

It is really only the 100s which you need to have in quantity for each set, unless you want to run a T25.

Even when you know your players well, the risk of tourney chips winding up in a cash game by accident is not worth taking. People are measly surprising and sometimes disappointing, along with simple mistakes occurring. Just not worth it imho.

 

[qiu_lijie]

Even if your players have no other context for tournament chips, I tend to think a 2,500 chip may lead to confusion/issues. Chips tend to come in simpler numbers because the mind is often, well, simple. It’s bad enough how people ask the denoms of 5s or 100s when it is already written right on the label.

For a tournament set, you are going to need so many more 500s and 1Ks that I’d suggest just starting out fresh for those with a different type of chips. Whereas for cash probably just another barrel of 500s ($10K) and a barrel of 1Ks or non-denoms should be plenty.

It is really only the 100s which you need to have in quantity for each set, unless you want to run a T25.

Even when you know your players well, the risk of tourney chips winding up in a cash game by accident is not worth taking. People are measly surprising and sometimes disappointing, along with simple mistakes occurring. Just not worth it imho.

Yes, the set I have right now (Diamond Jacks) only have 40x 100s and 20x 500s. Hoping to score more in the classified section.

In terms of the concern mixing up chips between cash and tourney, I always make sure all my chips are accounted fore after every session, as they cost much more then the stake we are playing usually

 

[JustinInMN]

Title. I'm building a custom set (at the getting designs stage rn), and I always like how from .25 to 500, you always can get the nice 4x or 5x increments. However after 500, the next common denomination is 1000, which is only a 2x increase. Why not 2k or 2.5k? Out of the two, which do you prefer?

Oh use the search function. Plenty of digital ink has been spilled on this idea here.