One thing about PCF is the amazing members, another is the great advice you’ll get. There’s a lot of knowledge to make you an amazing host.. if you’re willing to listen.
It’s awesome that you’re starting out on the poker adventure. Things I’d consider, as much as chips and cards, is having a good set of solid rules. Often times people just want to dabble with friends and not get too serious about poker, thus they ignore rules and major etiquette that is designed to make poker fun and fair.
It’s akin to playing D&D and when your buddy rolls a D20 to determine dmg to an orc he’s fighting, and you let him roll several times until he gets the roll he wanted. Poker rules are no different. Allowing people to play “friendly” and ignore poker etiquette is allowing them to gain unfair advantages (and with money on the line, it’s Prety much cheating). So, get a set of basic rules and etiquette and put them into place from the start.
Next piece of advice is to never use the same chip set for both cash AND tourneys. It allows for chips migrating from one game to the other, and often not intentionally. This is a cardinal rule on creating or purchasing poker chip sets.
Next rule of thumb is to get samples of any chips you might be interested in. There are many varieties of chips, from cheapie plastic dice chips, to China Clays, Ceramics, to clay chips like Paulson,
TRK, and
CPC (customs). People often think they’ll really love a set of chips, and when they get them in hand, discovered they didn’t like them (after purchasing a huge set). Or worse, you get a set, think they’re “ok”, and use them for a few years, then get exposed to another set of similarly priced chips that you absolutely love, and regret not getting those from the start...
Lastly, we love photos on this site. It’s easy to upload files to share. Make sure you take lots of pictures of your chip and poker journey and post them for us.
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