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J&S - CPC Custom Chip Creation (2 Viewers)

I can see your point now that I am laying them all out. They kind of blend together. So instead of adding to the overall chip set they are muted. I guess I need to keep at it and find the right balance between chips edge spots complementing each other but unique enough to ado to the overall chip set.
 
I narrowed down the edge spots and color scheme. Will look over it for the next few days, but interested to hear everyone's opinion. I think I am almost ready to have J5 start working on my inlay :).

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Hi ya! Wow! Those came a long way in a hurry. That mockup looks awesome!

The only thing that isn't really working for me for some reason is the black ds18 spots on the $25 - might I suggest blurple or maroon for the same general effect?
 
Thanks for the feedback. I will explore a few options. Maybe only doing 1 line will make it less pronounced. My goal was to make 1 edge spot in each chip the primary color of another chip. This way the overall chip set color scheme had continuity. Its hard to find a place for the black to go.
 
Messiah said:
Thanks for the feedback. I will explore a few options. Maybe only doing 1 line will make it less pronounced. My goal was to make 1 edge spot in each chip the primary color of another chip. This way the overall chip set color scheme had continuity. Its hard to find a place for the black to go.
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Try swapping the blue and black spots on the $5 and $25 chips. That should tone down the quarter and provide more contrast on the fiver....
 
Just a thought, have you considered chip pricing on your progression. Your lowest denom is gonna be relatively high price point. I know for me cost is a factor in my dream set design. If it's not for you good on you.
 
Much prefer the previous $1 chip, and glad to see you kept the 25c and $100 as-is. Toss-up on the $5's, and like the new $25 better.
 
When messing with the colors I didn't try my original green color. I think this makes the $1 and $25 pop a little more compared to light green. I plan to mess around with the red a little more after a day away, but I think I am getting very close now since certain chips are done.

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My chips are progressing nicely. Starting to work with J5 (stay tuned for inlay design pictures) and CPC is running diamond and square molds in September. To make that order I need to place my order soon. I have put a decent amount of thought into the chip denominations, but curious to get other's opinions.

My goal is to have between 600-800 chips. I think 600 is possible with the below breakdown. My normal game is $0.25-$0.5 blinds, but we have been known to jump up to $0.5-$1 and even short stacked $1-$2.

Breakdown:
$0.25 - 120
$1.00 - 160
$5.00 - 120
$25.00 - 100
$100.00 - 60
Total - 560

This provides a bank of $9,290. The theory being that it could almost fully support a game as big as $5-$10 with 9 players (afterwards cash would just have to play). I also made it so it could support a tournament structure of reasonable size.

Unless people think I am lacking in some chip denomination, I was think of using the extra 40 chips to make bounty chips. What do you think?
 
I'd be more inclined to go

120 x 25¢
200 x $1 or 180 and add 20 x $25s
200 x $5
60 x $25
20 x $100
 
Opinions are like a$$holes...

My cash set which is 920 chips, primarily used for 1/2 NLHE and .50/1 NLHE Never have a problem with two tables going. Too many quarters, so could easily do with 100.
200 x .25
300 x 1
300 x 5
100 x 20
20 x 100
 
Thanks for all the great feedback! The consensus seems to be that my 5s and 1s are a little short. When designing the quantities, I tried to make the set so no low chip denominations were wasted and people wouldnt be sitting at the table with 3-4 stacks of low denominations.

I am a pretty big nerd when it comes to this stuff so I put together a spreadsheet to determine the buyin for each game that wasted as little low chip denominations as possible.

Using my original breakdown, these are the buyins I came up with per buyin/game. All rebuys would use bigger chip denominations with players exchanging those chips for lower denominations from other players.

Let me know what buyins you think I am a little too short on $1 and $5 chips. Its also helpful to know if you think the starting stack is too small or I need more buyins of starting stacks. The difference being if you have a 10 person game every starting stack chip increase is the equivalent of 10 chips vs 1 more person buying in/rebuying is only the starting chip stack.

(Supports 10 people buying in)
Buyin: $50.00 - Blinds: $0.25 - $0.50:
- $0.25 = $3.00 = 120 chips
- $1.00 = $12.00 = 120 chips
- $5.00 = $35.00 = 70 chips

Buyin: $100.00 - Blinds: $0.50 - $1.00
- $0.25 = $3.00 = 120 chips
- $1.00 = $12.00 = 120 chips
- $5.00 = $60.00 = 120 chips
- $25.00 = $25.00 = 10 chips

Buyin: $200.00 - Blinds: $1.00 - $2.00
- $1.00 = $15.00 = 150 chips
- $5.00 = $60.00 = 120 chips
- $25.00 = $125.00 = 50 chips

Buyin: $400.00 - Blinds: $2.00 - $4.00
- $1.00 = $15.00 = 150 chips
- $5.00 = $60.00 = 120 chips
- $25.00 = $225.00 = 90 chips
- $100.00 = $100.00 = 10 chips

One option I see is to increase $1s by 40 to 200, $5 by 40 to 160 and then drop $25 and $100 by 20 each. This allows me to increase the $1 chips in the $50 and $100 buyin game to $17 from $12 and in a $200 and $400 buyin game to $20. As well as, increase the $5 chips to $80 from $60 in the $200 and $400 buyin game.
 
tl;dr

k9dr nailed it. FWIW, I never want more $1s than $5s in my big bet sets.
 
courage said:
tl;dr

k9dr nailed it. FWIW, I never want more $1s than $5s in my big bet sets.
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Very much this. And you should never be giving out more $1s than $5s in a buy-in for $1/2 NLHE. If you're trying to spread $1/2 you're going to need a lot more than 160 $5s.
 
Thanks for the great advice. I think I am settling in on the following breakdown:

$0.25 - 120
$1.00 - 180
$5.00 - 180
$25.00 - 80
$100.00 - 40
total chips = 600

This allows me to comfortably spread a game as large as 3-6 and as small as 0.25 - 0.5. A buyin example for 1-2 would be:

$1 chips - $15
$5 chips - $85
$25 chips - $100
 
FWIW, your latest breakdown also allows you to run a decent 9-player deep-stack tournament with ease:

T400 stacks
20 x T1
16 x T5
8 x T25
1 x T100
------------
45 chips = T400

Blind structure (200BB)
rd sb bb
------------------
L1 1 2
L2 1 3
L3 2 4
L4 3 6
L5 4 8
remove T1 chips (use T5 chips)
L6 5 10
L7 5 15
L8 10 20
L9 15 30
L10 20 40
remove T5 chips (use T100 chips)
L11 25 50
L12 25 75
L13 50 100
L14 75 150
L15 100 200 ***
L16 150 300

Tournament is unlikely to end any later than L15 (3:45 with 15-minute levels, or 5:00 with 20-minute levels).


However, for your cash games, I'd want a lot more $1's and $5's on the table.... at least another rack of each. In general, more workhorse chips promotes loose play, while fewer workhorse chips (and more higher denominations) in play tends to tighten up a group's play. Players with lots and lots of chips tend to be more willing to bet/call/raise.
 
I like that $100. Very nice!
 
Looking good. I favor a simpler quarter, but not my set :)
Hey, if you remove the red spot on those quarters, the chip looks a lot like the chip that changed my (chip collecting) world -- the Nevada Lodge $1!
 

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