The red ones would still be ones, just red. Now red fives, those are $5
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Tourney Lowest chip T5 or T25? (3 Viewers)
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Is it possible to build a tourney structure where denoms represent actual cash value? Say using 5c, 25c, $1, $5 and $20?
What would the stack sizes have to be say for a 10 person tourney? Say using $20 buy-in, 5/10c starting blinds (200 BB).
Could this work?
What would the stack sizes have to be say for a 10 person tourney? Say using $20 buy-in, 5/10c starting blinds (200 BB).
Could this work?
bentax1978
4 of a Kind
So like a $20 tournament with starting stacks of 10/10/7/2?
Yeah this is a bit of a clusterfck. Way too many chips to count out for blinds. It would have to be modified to include bigger jumps in the SB/SB to minimize chips. Not sure if this can work.
bentax1978
4 of a Kind
There would be no difference between a 0.05/0.25/1.00/5.00 structure and a T5/T25/T100/T500 structure.
But in this case it seems like a 20c chip would make much more sense.
.20 chip would make no sense. That's like saying a tourney starting with T5 should use T20 instead of T25.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
Well whatever the case, using 4 chips to post the BB for the majority of the night seems tedious, especially when it comes to side pots and all-ins. I also cant see how you would post the BB towards end game if you dont have 5c chips on on the table (so you cant color up the 5s).
The solution is probably to play with the blinds a bit to get the right blinds that match the chip denoms.
The solution is probably to play with the blinds a bit to get the right blinds that match the chip denoms.
ekricket
Royal Flush
Omg wasn't there a chipset from China that utilized this concept? Built everything around the blind structure but made for crazy denominations.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
Small Big
5¢ 10¢
10¢ 20¢
15¢ 30¢
25¢ 50¢
Break, color up nickels
50¢ $1
75¢ $1.50
$1 $2
$1.25 $2.50
$1.50 $3
Break, color up quarters.
$2 $4
$3 $6
$4 $8
$5 $10 <tournament should end here
Easy-peasy.
5¢ 10¢
10¢ 20¢
15¢ 30¢
25¢ 50¢
Break, color up nickels
50¢ $1
75¢ $1.50
$1 $2
$1.25 $2.50
$1.50 $3
Break, color up quarters.
$2 $4
$3 $6
$4 $8
$5 $10 <tournament should end here
Easy-peasy.
ekricket
Royal Flush
This
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...ok-like-new-china-plastics.17311/#post-310516
I laugh so much I cry every time I read this thread.
I like this but isnt the 100% jump in blinds after the first break too much? Maybe a 50c/75c level should go in there?
Mmm, I also checked something. I'm using Blinds Up on my TV to manage the levels, but $3 would need to displayed as300 on my screen because you cant use fracs on Blinds Up. Not a big deal, but it would be nice to show a 3.
Is anyone using a blinds manager that allows for fracs (i.e. 25c = 0.25 on screen)?
Is anyone using a blinds manager that allows for fracs (i.e. 25c = 0.25 on screen)?
bentax1978
4 of a Kind
LOL. I was looking for a picture like that, but with Bert and Ernie.
bentax1978
4 of a Kind
I really should know better,
T25 all day
That's only because you've never tried to play with them. Unless you define "best" very strangely, indeed.
This, although if you're building a casino set then sometimes starting at t5 means you don't need as many of the now ridiculously priced 1k or 5k chips.
Craig D
Pair
This is what I did with 200 $1s I had as part of a tournament set (I only have 80 $500s so no $2000 chip)
Starting Stack $3000 (5s 25s 100s and a 500 sometimes) $3000 re-buys ($500s) with $5000 ($500s and $1000s) add on, works great!
Have Fun
Starting Stack $3000 (5s 25s 100s and a 500 sometimes) $3000 re-buys ($500s) with $5000 ($500s and $1000s) add on, works great!
Have Fun
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Knights of Columbus Tourney had this very thing the other night. Blinds were 5k-10k and I was chip leader with 130k going to the final table. I had a measly 26 chips in front of me as the chip leader. Total chips in play was around 530k or so.
DJ Mack
Flush
My first custom CPC set started with T5. Why? I dunno. That's just what most of our tournaments ran as so I went with that. But in the last 4 months we have migrated to T25 as the start for most games.
I am now expanding the set and fixing the 500 to 1000 problem by making a 2k, followed by 10k and 25k all as 44mm chips.
For a large tournament (16+ players) I will still do T5. Both because that will likely mean a lot of novices playing and the simple matter of chip counts. For anything smaller I can do T25 though I may need to order some more 500s. I'll be in the odd position of having twice as many 2k chips as 500s due to the order minimums at the time.
I am now expanding the set and fixing the 500 to 1000 problem by making a 2k, followed by 10k and 25k all as 44mm chips.
For a large tournament (16+ players) I will still do T5. Both because that will likely mean a lot of novices playing and the simple matter of chip counts. For anything smaller I can do T25 though I may need to order some more 500s. I'll be in the odd position of having twice as many 2k chips as 500s due to the order minimums at the time.
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
If you have T25k chips in play, then you have to keep T500 chips in play at the end of the game.
K ALL IN 9
Flush
It seems like starting with a T5 chip vs a T25 chip is more complicated. I was thinking about trying a tourney with my cash set to match the buy-in to reflect the actual value of the chips, just for fun, but the blinds have big/random jumps during the game in order to get the denoms to work.
Using T5:
Using T25:
Using T5:
Using T25:
Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
Most Las Vegas casinos use structures where the big blind increases by 100%. Many of them increase by 100% on nearly every single level. It's not optimal, but it is the way the world works.
Zero use the 25/75 blind.
Yet you sit there, telling us that the way the majority of Vegas casinos run their tournaments are "random"?
Please Mummel, explain.
This ought to be good...
Zero use the 25/75 blind.
Yet you sit there, telling us that the way the majority of Vegas casinos run their tournaments are "random"?
Please Mummel, explain.
This ought to be good...
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