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Hi,

Hope all are well! I am trying to purchase my first clay chip set from CPC. Considering the cost and the fact that they are taking their last orders before April 2025, I want to make sure that I choose the right amount of chips and respective denominations. Below are the details and questions.

- I am planning to get up to 1,000 chip set so feel free to suggest chip count ratios between 600 - 1,000.
- My group usually plays for "egos"...meaning 6-10 people, tournament style, no rebuying, with $20 to $50 initial buy-in. We found that this style doesn't hurt anyone's pocket, and it keeps brining people back together.
- Currently I am using Apache Empire 600 chip set (see attached) with the following denominations: $0.25, $1, $5, $10, $25, $100. After several initial games, we often find ourselves not using 0.25 chips since it takes time to build up blind limits. As a result, unfortunately, that removes a significant amount of chips out of the circulation as we those account for 150 out of 600. I bought this set originally thinking that we would have many cash games, but I do not see that happening any time soon.

- Questions:
1. Knowing that we will never have more than 10 people in the same game, is 1,000 chips set an overkill?
2. What "universal" denominations and count ratio should I get in order to use the same set for both tournament and cash style games? Does such unicorn combo set exist?

I appreciate any valid feedback to get me in the right direction.

 

[Eriks]

I would do two different sets with approx these breakdowns:

One tourney set with 400 chips
T25 x 120
T100 x 120
T500 x 50
T1000 x 110

Starting stacks of 12/12/5/6 for T10k

One cash set with 600 chips (25c/50c example)
25c x 100
$1 x 200
$5 x 200
$25 x 80
$100 x 20

You don’t need both a $5 and a $10 chip.

 

[LeLe]

20-player T.25-base tourney set (8/8/8/x):
160 x T.25
160 x T1
180 x T5
100 x T20 (or T25)
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600 chips

Can be used for actual-cash-value tournaments, or as a single-table cash set (where $100 bills can play if necessary).

What you asked for ^ but u should buy extra for each denominations as CPC is either changing ownership or winding down in the future atm

For blind Level, just search for T25 and convert them to T.25

 

[allforcharity]

1000 chips for single table tournament is overkill. 400 should be enough.

If you have the budget for 1000 chips, try to get a 400 chip tournament set and a separate 600 chip cash set.

 

[Beakertwang]

1000 chips for single table tournament is overkill. 400 should be enough.

If you have the budget for 1000 chips, try to get a 400 chip tournament set and a separate 600 chip cash set.

This is 100% good advice.