Cash Game New Member's Optimal Chip Break Down (3 Viewers)

[Salbino]

I don't see the problem or slow down with making change. We play .25/.50 and only put out 8 fracs each. when someone is out of fracs they toss in a $1 and the dealer will make the change as they pull the pot in to deal the flop. It doesn't take longer than 8 seconds lol.

 

[shangs]

Cash games i've played in only needed 3 chip levels. Did we want more to show off our chips? Of course... but our Nickle/Dime/Quarter game was $.25/1/5 on the table 99% of the time... If we put $25s on the table it was because someone had gone belly up and when they bought in we gave them that and the table made change, so the physical number of chips rarely went up (by more than a few chips) and we enjoyed asking occasionally "Who's got the green chips now?"

8/8/6 is what people bought in for ($2/$8/$30) so 2 "yuppie food stamps". The quarters were usually for ante and opening bets, and we had a rule you could only raise 4 times, so nobody tossed in more than $5 in a round of betting. Some games like elevator hi/low that could still be $35 total if there was a lot of action, but those pots were normally split. We did make change among ourselves a lot however. If you were betting $1 at a time, at some point someone would put in a $5 and take 4 $1... it made everyones stack easy to count.

When people bought back in, they bought back in for $25 (or 50/75). With 6-9 people at the table usually, we were playing dealers choice a lot early on, then limit hold'em. Then we got into tournaments and everything changed...

Nobody ever lost their shirt unless they were aggressive and stupid. I think the most i lost in a night was $80, and the most i won $120 or so.

I agree we play the same with 1,5,25, and 100s are only brought out in extreme situations or closer to the end of the night getting closer to cashout., when i play with my other group we use .25 fracs 1s and 5s and go smoothly, in this case rarely we pull out 25 chips, again could fully go without needing this fourth chip and it's not needed I purely use to chip up huge stacks in the last 30-45 minutes of the session to make everything quick during cashout.

 

[hiddan]

Thanks for the informative post and all the replies. I was thinking if I wanted to cover our main .25/.50 NLH game 200bb deep, 8 players, +4 rebuys avg. and also rare 1/2 game 100bb I could do somerhing like this:

.25 x 140
$1 x 200
$5 x 200
$25 x 50
$100 x 10

 

[merkong]

FWIW, the GFC plays .25/.25 with an initial buy-in of $25-40 and all night top-offs to the big stack.

We bank north of $1K weekly.

We roll 2 racks of fracs, 3 of workhorses, 100 $5 plaques, and a handful of $25 plaques. If the night is huge and we want to be fun we have a few $100 plaques we peel the big stacks down with.

My point being the sweet spot for games our size is 2 racks of fracs and 3 of workhorses. Yes, it's easy to make change but it's another rack... Oh, and moar chips.

Carry on.

 

[Machine]

Thanks for the informative post and all the replies. I was thinking if I wanted to cover our main .25/.50 NLH game 200bb deep, 8 players, +4 rebuys avg. and also rare 1/2 game 100bb I could do somerhing like this:

.25 x 140
$1 x 200
$5 x 200
$25 x 50
$100 x 10

My game went from .25/.5 to .5/.5 because it speeds up the game. This will get you off the ground, but I would tweak the numbers a little bit.

I would do

.25 - 120
1 - 200
5 - 320
25 - 40
100 - 20

This will fit into 7 racks nicely and cover variations on players, also if you ever want to sell this set it will make it easier to find a buyer. See how this plays and the you can sprinkle in moar chip where you want later on.

 

[hiddan]

My game went from .25/.5 to .5/.5 because it speeds up the game. This will get you off the ground, but I would tweak the numbers a little bit.

I would do

.25 - 120
1 - 200
5 - 320
25 - 40
100 - 20

This will fit into 7 racks nicely and cover variations on players, also if you ever want to sell this set it will make it easier to find a buyer. See how this plays and the you can sprinkle in moar chip where you want later on.

That would be one more rack than I planned but I see the logic esp. for The selling case. Thanks for the advice.