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Bearbocmc

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Morning Fellas happy super bowl hangover Monday! I have a few questions for you guys. Me and my buddies were thinking about doing cash games every other week. We do tourneys 2 times per month and we thought about doing cash games in between those tourney weeks. So my questions are #1 I need to order smaller chip denoms and what should they be and how many of each? #2 usually most of the guys will cap at $60 but a few guys will pay more so what should be min and max buy in? What should be the starting chip stacks and blinds to make it solid starting stacks?
#3 Are add ons ok in this format?
 
What are you blinds? 25c/50c?

Assuming those stakes, if this is no limit I'd suggest capping buy-ins at $100. I set my minimum and maximum at $20 and $100, respectively, for these stakes. Like your game, most buy in for $60.

Starting stacks can be made out of whatever you want. For example, in my game the first 5 guys to buy in get 20 x 25c, 20 x $1 and the rest in $5s. The remainder of the guys get 20 x $1 and the rest in $5s (they just buy quarters as needed from the guys that have them).

A good starting point would be:

100 x 25c
400 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $20 (or $25)
20 x $100

Many will tell you to get more $5s to accommodate a bigger game in the future. An extra 200 $5s would round that set into 100 chips.
 
Bearbocmc said:
Morning Fellas happy super bowl hangover Monday! I have a few questions for you guys. Me and my buddies were thinking about doing cash games every other week. We do tourneys 2 times per month and we thought about doing cash games in between those tourney weeks. So my questions are #1 I need to order smaller chip denoms and what should they be and how many of each? #2 usually most of the guys will cap at $60 but a few guys will pay more so what should be min and max buy in? What should be the starting chip stacks and blinds to make it solid starting stacks?
#3 Are add ons ok in this format?
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Depends on how your players play, and your blinds structure. Agree with links that the need for quarters is minimal. I went with 160 quarters for my set and I don't need all of 'em.

If your guys played like my guys, I'd go

100 x 25c
300 $1
300 $5
100 x $25s (or $20s)

For initial stacks, $2 or $3 worth of quarters for everyone's starting stacks (not for rebuys), 23-33 1s, and the rest in 5s.
 
At our 25/25c cash game, the buyin is uncapped because it plays small early then as the biggest stack grows people want to be closer big stack.

We have had people rebuy for $200 near the end of the night. That's 800bb. Lol. Just a quarter game.
 
Bearbocmc said:
So what blind structure would you recommend?
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If this is a cash game there's no "structure" - just small blind (25c) and big blind (50c) every hand all night.

edit: you could always increase the stakes as the night progresses but I prefer to not do this.
 
Bearbocmc said:
Morning Fellas happy super bowl hangover Monday! I have a few questions for you guys. Me and my buddies were thinking about doing cash games every other week. We do tourneys 2 times per month and we thought about doing cash games in between those tourney weeks. So my questions are #1 I need to order smaller chip denoms and what should they be and how many of each? #2 usually most of the guys will cap at $60 but a few guys will pay more so what should be min and max buy in? What should be the starting chip stacks and blinds to make it solid starting stacks?
#3 Are add ons ok in this format?
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#1:
Depends on your blinds. If everyone is comfortable with a $60 buy-in, I would probably set blinds at .25/.50

I would go with something like:

100 x 25c
200 x $1
200 x $5
80 x $25 (or $20)
20 x $100

That's a nice rounded 600 chip set with $5225 bank which allows for ~8 rebuys per player at up to 10 players @ $60 buy in, and ~5 rebuys if everyone were to buy in deeper with $100. I think that a barrel (20) of $1's is plenty for each person, and would do starting stacks of 20/20/X.

#2:
I like the $20 to $100 buy in range as suggested by @links_slayer. I would probably warn my players that anything less than $50 is going to make them a bit short stacked and they should adjust their play accordingly.

#3:
In a cash game you can buy in up to the maximum table limit at any point in between hands. Technically someone could buy in for $100, loose $5 on the first hand and immediately re-buy up to $100. That's very unlikely, but it's within the rules. In a cash game, you can also cash out at any time.
 
v1pe said:
In a cash game you can buy in up to the maximum table limit at any point in between hands. Technically someone could buy in for $100, loose $5 on the first hand and immediately re-buy up to $100. That's very unlikely, but it's within the rules. In a cash game, you can also cash out at any time.
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Right. And in a lot of home games, people are allowed to rebuy/add-on to an amount more that the maximum initial buy-in. Often it’s up to half of the biggest stack on the table or up to the biggest stack.
If you have a max buy- in of $100, and after a couple of hours you get felted, and somebody’s sitting on a stack of $600, it’s nice to be able to buy in for more than just $100.
 
upNdown said:
Right. And in a lot of home games, people are allowed to rebuy/add-on to an amount more that the maximum initial buy-in. Often it’s up to half of the biggest stack on the table or up to the biggest stack.
If you have a max buy- in of $100, and after a couple of hours you get felted, and somebody’s sitting on a stack of $600, it’s nice to be able to buy in for more than just $100.
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Per this I like the idea of $100 max buy-in OR half the big stack, whichever is greater. That way as the night wears on someone can buy in at a competitive stack. That said most cash games I have played in do not have a formal max buy-in. If you are trying to keep the pot sizes friendly than it could be a good idea, especially as you are getting your new game going. You can always adjust later per group consensus.
 
Unfortunately I have poker knight chips and they’re sold out of 25cent chips how are the casino royale chips they are the same price..
 
You can always start out with a NCV non-denom chip for .25 with your current set.
 
I’ trying to keep the sets the same so I have poker denoms for my tourney and since they don’t have the 25 cent I’d rather just buy cash game set of chips so their all the same that way it’s not all mixed so I can have two seperate set of chips
 
pedrofisk said:
You can always start out with a NCV non-denom chip for .25 with your current set.
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Thing is we like the numbers on the chip because people always ask how much each chip is worth. That’s why I switched over to the denom chips
 
i would recommend playing smaller stakes to improve the game longevity. each player should bring 3-4 buyins per night.

we play for 20 buyin so a bad night you would lose 80. (4 buyins)

if you play for 60 then people need to be ok with losing 180-240 per night sometimes.

i dunno how rich/poor your crew is but make sure everyone is comfy with the money at risk.

the main thing is if you play 60 buyin then people need to bring more than one buyin so the game doesnt break too fast.
 
I like the poker knights chips, but please consider going with a different set altogether for the cash chips. Please just trust us (others will echo this as well). The only way it’s advisable to have the same chip set cover both cash and tourney is if the denoms will never ever be used for both games. For instance, the $25 chip is fairly meaningless in the tourney, but if someone pockets one, then later introduces it into the cash game, it’d be costly. And before you say “but my friends are trustworthy” I’d point out that not all instances of chip migration are intentional.
 
Trihonda said:
I like the poker knights chips, but please consider going with a different set altogether for the cash chips. Please just trust us (others will echo this as well). The only way it’s advisable to have the same chip set cover both cash and tourney is if the denoms will never ever be used for both games. For instance, the $25 chip is fairly meaningless in the tourney, but if someone pockets one, then later introduces it into the cash game, it’d be costly. And before you say “but my friends are trustworthy” I’d point out that not all instances of chip migration are intentional.
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I understand where you’re coming from, which is why I want different chips for cash game but something that’s similar in price. The Monaco chips are also out of 25cent chips. So what’s a good chip that’s the same price the poker knight chips
 
Bearbocmc said:
I understand where you’re coming from, which is why I want different chips for cash game but something that’s similar in price. The Monaco chips are also out of 25cent chips. So what’s a good chip that’s the same price the poker knight chips
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Search here (classifieds) for China clay chips, or post a WTB ad for a cash set in your budget.

The knights or monoco chips are plastic, and it might be a challenge to find China clays for the same price. But it can’t hurt to ask/look.
 
I’m looking to spend about .15/.16 a chip. I want number denoms on them.
 
well, you might have to make concessions if you are a) crunched on time and/or b) crunched by budget.

beggars can't always be choosers.
 
I’m ok with that, as long as it’s a ok chip for my budget with Denom I’m ok. Like I saw these casino royale chips that are same price as my poker knight chips and wondering if they’re decent or not.
 
So I’m not dropping a lot of money so would you recommend 100 x 25/200 x 1$/ 100 x 5$ ? Is that good for each denomination?
 
Bearbocmc said:
So I’m not dropping a lot of money so would you recommend 100 x 25/200 x 1$/ 100 x 5$ ? Is that good for each denomination?
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For 10 players @ $60 buy-in playing 25c/50c that's only going to be enough for 1.2 buy in's per person. Since you said that some players might want to fire multiple bullets or initially buy in for more, I don't think that's going to be enough.

I prefer to have enough chips for 3 buy-ins per player. That might be a little more than needed, but I think it's a good target.

For 10 players at $60 buy-in playing 25c/50c cash I wouldn't go any less than:

100 x 25c
200 x $1
180 x $5
20 x $25

Bank of $1625 and 2.71 BI's per player. 500 chips.

OR more ideally, this will help ensure that you should never run out of chips at these stakes even on those nights where a bit more money is on the table. This would also support 3 BI's for up to 14 players.

100 x 25c
200 x $1
260 x $5
40 x $25

Bank of $2525 and 4.21 BI's per player. 600 chips.
 
I had someone say you should do 20$ buy in max but have 3 BI so ultimately people may want to spend 40$ or 60$ or 80$
 

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