Cash Game Micro stakes home game .05/.10 with no 5c chips...any ideas? (7 Viewers)

[ratik]

I have two DDLM chipsets, one for tournaments and one for cash games. The denominations are:

Tournament Set:
100 × $100, 100 × $500, 200 × $1000, 160 × $5000, 40 × PINK.
Cash Set:
200 × Blue (25p), 200 × White (£1), 160 × Red (£5), 40 × Green (£25).

I’m looking to run a cash game with £5, £10, or £20 buy-ins, with blinds at 5p/10p. I have no 5p chips.

My friends are not interested in buying in for £25-£50 or playing .25/.25 blinds, so I need to make the lower-stakes structure work with my available chips.

Possible Solutions:

1. Repurpose the Red £5 chip as a 5p chip. This would give me 560 chips to work with, which should be plenty. However, it would annoy me slightly since it doesn’t match the intended denominations.

2. Divide all chip values by 5. A £5 buy-in would get £25 worth of chips, and so on. No physical changes needed, but it might make cashing in and cashing out confusing.

3. Use the tournament set instead, playing .10/.10 with $100 chips representing 10p. I’m not particularly keen on this idea, but it’s an option.

Has anyone encountered a similar situation? I’d love to hear your thoughts or alternative solutions—feel free to critique my current ideas!

 

[ChrisArmyKnife]

If you didn’t mind mixing sets, you could also use one denomination of your tournament set as a 5p chip. Like the 500. Or you could play .10/.10 and use the pink or 100 chip as .10

 

[Labrat]

Moar chips!!

What I usually do when we have a low-stakes family game is look at it as a .50/1.00 game with a 100 buy-in. Dividing by 10 at the end is easier than by 5.

20 - .25
20 - 1.00
10 - 5.00
1 - 25

Or whatever kind of starting stack you like to use, doesn't really matter. Some like more fracs, some like less.

So buying in for 10 gets you 100 and when it's time to cash out just divide everything by 10. eg. player A has a $150 stack at the end of the night, he cashes out for $15. Side bonus is you get to play with all the pretty high-value chips, too.

 

[demonnic]

I'd get more of the pink non-denoms to use for nickels, it's what I was going to do when I was considering going with the DDLM set for my own cash game.

 

[FestiveKnight]

Use actually 5p nickels lol

 

[ratik]

Moar chips!!

What I usually do when we have a low-stakes family game is look at it as a .50/1.00 game with a 100 buy-in. Dividing by 10 at the end is easier than by 5.

20 - .25
20 - 1.00
10 - 5.00
1 - 25

Or whatever kind of starting stack you like to use, doesn't really matter. Some like more fracs, some like less.

So buying in for 10 gets you 100 and when it's time to cash out just divide everything by 10. eg. player A has a $150 stack at the end of the night, he cashes out for $15. Side bonus is you get to play with all the pretty high-value chips, too.

This is exactly what I'm after.

Sadly, I'm based in the UK semi-custom or matching DDLM chips from BR Pro Poker are $90 shipping plus absurd customs fees in the UK (another £75 or thereabouts). Spare money not doing great ATM with second child

0.25/0.25 to 0.5/10 after multiplying buy-in by 10 is superb. Super easy to explain, get to use a boat load of chips and everyone gets the feel of being a big-shot

Great contribution mate, thank you very much