For my first custom set. I have been running the number of chips for each denomination over and over in my head the last 2 weeks. Even doing some math in the shower (lol). This is ultimately what I ended up with. I normally host an 8-9 handed $0.25/$0.50 NLH with min max buy in of $40-$100 (so 40BB-200BB) with unlimited rebuys and a $1 live straddle option for UTG. So far it has worked well, and sometimes it even plays like a $0.50/$1 towards the end of the night. I really like using $1 for workhorse chips at these stakes, (from my observation of local card house $1/2 games their workhorse chip is the $5). So basically with my home games being 1/4 the stakes of live poker, I would like to go for similar chip breakdown. I also would like to ideally stay below 600 chips, as budget is important but I can stretch to 600 max if need be. The games will never go beyond $0.50/$1 and the most our money our table has seen in one night is about $1500 (I don't really see us exceeding this # but if we do, we can always introduce bigger denom chips in the future). We average around 800-1k total usually (4 players usually buy in for $100, while 4 buys in for $50 (as you can see not too many reloads unless degen, which it sometimes does, super rare). I want to keep the least # of denominations possible. I know this is a tough ask. So far this seems like a decent breakdown to be able to use the $1 chip as our workhorse. Always open to suggestions. Thanks!
80 - 25cent pink ($20)
300 - 1 blue ($300)
160 - 5 red ($800)
20 - 25 green ($500)
560 total chips
total bank: $1620
