Hello everyone. I'm a new member, but have spent a good bit of time lately going through tons of old threads. I believe I want to order a set of Tina chips for a home game group that I'm a part of, and hoped to get some input and advice from the group here.
Ten plus years ago we had a group of friends who played low stakes tournaments virtually every weekend. Life happened and the game eventually went away. But we've recently started playing again after one of our old group bought a new place with a detached garage that he made into a game room. We generally have around 12 players each game, with up to 18 on the rare occasion that everyone can make it. The group exclusively plays tournaments, no cash games, with starting stacks of 2500 and 5/10 starting blinds. We play with dice chips, and simply based on the color breakdowns that they have we end up with somewhat ridiculous (in my opinion) starting stacks of 40-50 chips containing 5/10/20/50/100/500 denominations. So I'd like to gift an upgrade of chips for the group, and order enough that they don't need to cobble together different starting stacks to get everyone to 2500.
As I said, we play in a buddies garage, so I've been playing around with a design that fits the group. This is what I've come up with so far:
My friend has a tan bulldog that everyone loves (except when he lays under one of the tables and farts while we're playing). I realize these aren't strictly traditional colors, but the yellow 500 chip is a staple in the game with everyone trying to get the "bananas". I used the design tool here for a general idea, but I'll likely ultimately want to order the 43mm web mold from Tina. I'm thinking maybe 1000 chips with a distribution of 250/250/250/200/50 (5/25/100/500/1000). We generally play one buy-in and one rebuy or add-on, but sometimes allow unlimited rebuys for the first 4-5 blind levels.
Does anyone have any suggestions or see any potential problems with what I've posted?
I like the label text matching the edge spot colors, but I know the colors are somewhat of a crapshoot. Would you recommend uniform labels?
I've never used Illustrator, and don't really want to get into that, so I intend to try and work with one of the designers here to get the exact files I'd need to order. I have the different labels saved as .svg files. Would what I have so far be a good start to streamline that? Anything else I'm not thinking of that could be helpful?
I appreciate any advice or comments anyone might have,
Ten plus years ago we had a group of friends who played low stakes tournaments virtually every weekend. Life happened and the game eventually went away. But we've recently started playing again after one of our old group bought a new place with a detached garage that he made into a game room. We generally have around 12 players each game, with up to 18 on the rare occasion that everyone can make it. The group exclusively plays tournaments, no cash games, with starting stacks of 2500 and 5/10 starting blinds. We play with dice chips, and simply based on the color breakdowns that they have we end up with somewhat ridiculous (in my opinion) starting stacks of 40-50 chips containing 5/10/20/50/100/500 denominations. So I'd like to gift an upgrade of chips for the group, and order enough that they don't need to cobble together different starting stacks to get everyone to 2500.
As I said, we play in a buddies garage, so I've been playing around with a design that fits the group. This is what I've come up with so far:
My friend has a tan bulldog that everyone loves (except when he lays under one of the tables and farts while we're playing). I realize these aren't strictly traditional colors, but the yellow 500 chip is a staple in the game with everyone trying to get the "bananas". I used the design tool here for a general idea, but I'll likely ultimately want to order the 43mm web mold from Tina. I'm thinking maybe 1000 chips with a distribution of 250/250/250/200/50 (5/25/100/500/1000). We generally play one buy-in and one rebuy or add-on, but sometimes allow unlimited rebuys for the first 4-5 blind levels.
Does anyone have any suggestions or see any potential problems with what I've posted?
I like the label text matching the edge spot colors, but I know the colors are somewhat of a crapshoot. Would you recommend uniform labels?
I've never used Illustrator, and don't really want to get into that, so I intend to try and work with one of the designers here to get the exact files I'd need to order. I have the different labels saved as .svg files. Would what I have so far be a good start to streamline that? Anything else I'm not thinking of that could be helpful?
I appreciate any advice or comments anyone might have,
