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Instead of a $500 chip 500 singles in a cash bundle? (1 Viewer)

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duecesneverloses

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When playing online I like to hop into the Twitch streams that constantly play Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, etc. In lots of these games you see the high rollers are using cash bundles on the table. It looks cool when someone tosses a brick of cash into the pot to make the call. Since I don't think in the foreseeable future I will never play as large as those guys but I think it would look cool to have cash on the table. Is it just me or would it be cool to get 500 singles bundle them together and use them instead of a $500 chip? I feel like the overall opinion will just be MOAR CHIPS but would this be sacrilegious to the chipping community?
 
Maybe a bundle of $20's that total $500. But if I won a pot that had a bundle of 500 $1's in it, I would be more annoyed to have to take it to the bank to change it for larger bills.

I was annoyed by the guy that bought into my last cash game with 50 $2 bills and 50 $1 bills. His reason being he thought I might need small bills for the end of the night.

I made sure he got his $28 in all $1's when he cashed in his tips after going broke and dealing for a few hours.
 
Sounds like fun. But 500 $1's would be FIVE $100 bundles. And those bundles are like an inch thick, give or take, depending on the condition of the bills. So 500 $1's would be a pretty large bundle.
Also, I've never played in a game that used $500 chips. I've played in games that use the occasional $100 chip, but people seem to prefer lots of stacks of $5 chips (or handfuls of $20/$25 chips) to larger chips. My point is, if your game is using $500 chips, you're probably playing REALLY high stakes. And if people are playing stakes that high, are they going to be impressed with One Dollar Bills in any quantity? I'm guessing not. They certainly wouldn't want to end up with the bundle at the end of the night.
Large bundles of cash sound like fun, but I don't think they'd work too wall.
 
I didn't see the part where he was going to use the ones to pay out at the end of the game. If the 500 was is part of he chipset, then it would stay with the chips and winners would be paid from the bank they bought in with. If having a stack of one's floats your boat, go for it. (y) :thumbsup:
 
You'd be surprised how big a stack of 500 bills is. If you wanted to use cash stacks in singles in your home game, I'd suggest $50 or $100 max, and were I to do it, they would be stacks that would stay at the home game and just be for use in play, i.e., they could only be returned to the house for bigger bills at the end of the night.
 
I was just bored and was watching an old stream and had a thought. If I were to implement this it would be part of the chipset tho none would have to cash out with 500 singles. The only reason I could ever envision being able to implement this it would be a night when one of the rich whales he always tries to buy in for 500bb in any stakes he plays. He usually comes to our 50l homage's and buys in for $250 if I got him to play 1/2 this could be a feasible idea then.
 
If it was part of the chipset, I could deal with it. But I think a stack $10 or $20 would look better. $1's just look cheap.
 
I knew this would be the opinion on a poker chip forum.;)

Because I don't think really care to harvest a single 500 chip considering my set won't be a casino mixed set.
 
A stack of a hundred five-dollar bills would be much more convenient than a brick of ones.

I've thought of doing it, but our occasional cash games never get big enough to need anything other than chips.
 
If you are making it a part of your chips set. The best would be a banded stack of mint 5's (or 10's). I agree that ones seem cheap when you are trying to play up the "big money" aspect of it.
 
rowlin said:
A stack of a hundred five-dollar bills would be much more convenient than a brick of ones.

I've thought of doing it, but our occasional cash games never get big enough to need anything other than chips.
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Yeah to be honest my game is probably like this but I can hope one day my game is wild enough to need a $500 chip or cash bundle.

XBobdog said:
If you are making it a part of your chips set. The best would be a banded stack of mint 5's (or 10's). I agree that ones seem cheap when you are trying to play up the "big money" aspect of it.
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Anything I used I would go to the bank and try and get mint bills. I assume they have mint bills at the bank if you ask but I've never specifically asked for minty bills so idk.
 
jbutler said:
No one playing in a game that needs a $500 chip would be anything but repulsed to be paid with 500 $1s.
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Me at start of the night
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duecesneverloses said:
500 singles bundle them together and use them instead of a $500 chip? I feel like the overall opinion will just be MOAR CHIPS but would this be sacrilegious to the chipping community?
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I like the idea -- in homage to the chipping community, a bundle, or 'brick' of bills would function like a high denom plaque. Although, if you're using real bills, I'd use 100-$5s instead, or, you can use all fake bills, or maybe a bundle of fake bills (or just paper) sandwiched with 2 real bills.

This is something I would keep in the set as chips, not cash out to players at the end of the night, unless someone really wanted a bundle of cash of low bills.
 
duecesneverloses said:
When playing online I like to hop into the Twitch streams that constantly play Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, etc. In lots of these games you see the high rollers are using cash bundles on the table. It looks cool when someone tosses a brick of cash into the pot to make the call. Since I don't think in the foreseeable future I will never play as large as those guys but I think it would look cool to have cash on the table. Is it just me or would it be cool to get 500 singles bundle them together and use them instead of a $500 chip? I feel like the overall opinion will just be MOAR CHIPS but would this be sacrilegious to the chipping community?
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Given the price of Paulson chips, we may have to start using cash bundles as replacement for chips! :eek:

But I personally think cash should never play on a table. Counting takes too long, more mistakes are likely to happen, and the worst part is trying to guess stack sizes.
 
XBobdog said:
If you are making it a part of your chips set. The best would be a banded stack of mint 5's
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Agreed. 20 x mint $5s = $100 bundle, and would replace the $100 chip(s) in your set. 100 x mint $1 bills would serve the same purpose, if you wanted a larger bundle size.
 
John Conor said:
Check out this thread https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/asm-vegas-md50-suicide-queen-cash-set-bricks.6519/

Also this one https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/pcf-and-the-impact-after-year-1.18763/#post-339395

You wouldn't be the first. Also I remember reading you can get fake stacks, movie props or whatever, on Amazon or eBay.
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Best advice in thread^^^

This way you have the same look taking up less realestate next to chip stacks and you're not spending $500.
 
John Conor said:
I didn't see the part where he was going to use the ones to pay out at the end of the game. If the 500 was is part of he chipset, then it would stay with the chips and winners would be paid from the bank they bought in with. If having a stack of one's floats your boat, go for it. (y) :thumbsup:
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Valid point. But consider what is supposed to be enticing about having cash in play. It's supposed to be more directly alluring than chips and cause people to play differently than they might otherwise because the value of the cash is more apparent than the value of the chips (given where I'm posting this, I realize this requires some suspension of disbelief that anyone would be more inclined to go after cash than chips, but go with me here).

So it seems like you'll lose a lot of the value of the cash bricks if no one looks at the bricks lustily. If $1 bills were bet in any of my regular games, they would have the opposite effect.

In thinking about the above, I can't help but remember the below hand - on of the best HSP hands ever - in which Ivey makes explicit what I was talking about with regard to the effect of big cash bricks in play:

 
I actually tried this a couple of sessions that I hosted years ago. There were 25 $1 bundles and you could tie 4 together to make it a hundo, and I gave assurances that I'd pay out hundo bills if you cashed in the bundles so I could reuse them. The reaction was "why don't you order more $20 chips". I love the idea and the optic, but it's one of those things that just wasn't as cool as it seems on HSP.
 
bergs said:
I actually tried this a couple of sessions that I hosted years ago. There were 25 $1 bundles and you could tie 4 together to make it a hundo, and I gave assurances that I'd pay out hundo bills if you cashed in the bundles so I could reuse them. The reaction was "why don't you order more $20 chips". I love the idea and the optic, but it's one of those things that just wasn't as cool as it seems on HSP.
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I think I saw that when I was looking through pictures of "cash stacks/bundles" lol

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/media/stacks-and-cash-bundles.508/
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If you do end up bundling cash, I suggest using either size 12 or 16 rubber bands.

 

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