Hairy_Crocodile
3 of a Kind
Hello Everyone!
I am new to the world of poker, and I'm exited to start to really learn and understand this game at a deeper level. I apologize for the long-ish post, but I'd like to be thorough so that those of you more experienced than I can give better feedback and recommendations based off of my needs/wants.
I have played here and there with friends and family over the last few years, but have found a couple groups of players in my friend group that play on a regular basis. Most of these games are low stakes, anywhere from minimum a measly $25 buy-in to standard $100 low-stakes, sometimes $200-$300. However, on the nights we all just want to drink excessively and have fun without worry of having to buy-into games more than once a week, we'll just play for fun with larger denomination chips for the heck of it.
Generally, the nights are groups of either 4-6, 8, and occasionally ~12 or more players if we can get everyone together.
The sets that people have are generally cheap, with the metal cases that barely latch and fall apart after a few months or so of use.
I have always wanted a set of my own, but had never had found anything I liked aesthetically, and wanted something that would last me a long time.
I found a couple sets from BBO that I liked aesthetically, that were ceramic that will last a long while, you can customize how many of each chip you want, and the price point is good for me. ($500 for 1000 ceramic chips seems fine).
I also am curious if my pelican 1485 can fit 1000 chips, I know it can hold 500 no problem just looking at it, but I digress....lets focus on the set and how many I should get first before I go to that part of the forums.
The set has fixed denominations that can definitely be a downside, as you cant just make up what they are per the stakes you are playing at, so they lack flexibility. However, when my friends are at the part of the night where they're 6 double Jack and Cokes deep and lord knows how many beers....., the question of "what is this chip worth again?" again and again gets frustrating, so the fixed numbers are nice for quality of life purposes.
I would like to get 1000 chips to be able to play micro/low stakes games with lots of the $0.25/$1/$5 chips for sure, and also have some of the larger denominations for relatively higher stakes, for fun games where you wanna pretend that $10,000 chip means something (
), and because I'd like to have the full set of chips (Love the color combinations and to have the "full collection" if that makes sense).
Because of these limitations I have imposed on myself from wanting fixed denomination chips for a few different uses, coupled with my inexperience regarding chip set ratios, I would like to ask the question: How many of each chip do I get for my set? Are my wants feasible with 1000 chips?
I understand that most sets cut a lot of the more uncommon denominations, but again, i'd like to have the full set for collection's sake.
Off the top of my head, I made something like this as a starting point for everyone to tear apart so we can make a better and more balanced chip distribution than mine:
QTY Denomination:
250 x $0.25
150 x $1
150 x $5
100 x $10
100 x $25
100 x $100
80 x $500
50 x $1000
20 x $10000
What would you change? Any recommendations?
I can't wait to learn more about this game at a deeper level and start to show off some of the cool poker related things I've gotten from my travels. But I gotta start off somewhere first!
I hope that you all have a wonderful day, thank you for reading! Cheers
I am new to the world of poker, and I'm exited to start to really learn and understand this game at a deeper level. I apologize for the long-ish post, but I'd like to be thorough so that those of you more experienced than I can give better feedback and recommendations based off of my needs/wants.
I have played here and there with friends and family over the last few years, but have found a couple groups of players in my friend group that play on a regular basis. Most of these games are low stakes, anywhere from minimum a measly $25 buy-in to standard $100 low-stakes, sometimes $200-$300. However, on the nights we all just want to drink excessively and have fun without worry of having to buy-into games more than once a week, we'll just play for fun with larger denomination chips for the heck of it.
Generally, the nights are groups of either 4-6, 8, and occasionally ~12 or more players if we can get everyone together.
The sets that people have are generally cheap, with the metal cases that barely latch and fall apart after a few months or so of use.
I have always wanted a set of my own, but had never had found anything I liked aesthetically, and wanted something that would last me a long time.
I found a couple sets from BBO that I liked aesthetically, that were ceramic that will last a long while, you can customize how many of each chip you want, and the price point is good for me. ($500 for 1000 ceramic chips seems fine).
I also am curious if my pelican 1485 can fit 1000 chips, I know it can hold 500 no problem just looking at it, but I digress....lets focus on the set and how many I should get first before I go to that part of the forums.
The set has fixed denominations that can definitely be a downside, as you cant just make up what they are per the stakes you are playing at, so they lack flexibility. However, when my friends are at the part of the night where they're 6 double Jack and Cokes deep and lord knows how many beers....., the question of "what is this chip worth again?" again and again gets frustrating, so the fixed numbers are nice for quality of life purposes.
I would like to get 1000 chips to be able to play micro/low stakes games with lots of the $0.25/$1/$5 chips for sure, and also have some of the larger denominations for relatively higher stakes, for fun games where you wanna pretend that $10,000 chip means something (
), and because I'd like to have the full set of chips (Love the color combinations and to have the "full collection" if that makes sense).Because of these limitations I have imposed on myself from wanting fixed denomination chips for a few different uses, coupled with my inexperience regarding chip set ratios, I would like to ask the question: How many of each chip do I get for my set? Are my wants feasible with 1000 chips?
I understand that most sets cut a lot of the more uncommon denominations, but again, i'd like to have the full set for collection's sake.
Off the top of my head, I made something like this as a starting point for everyone to tear apart so we can make a better and more balanced chip distribution than mine:
QTY Denomination:
250 x $0.25
150 x $1
150 x $5
100 x $10
100 x $25
100 x $100
80 x $500
50 x $1000
20 x $10000
What would you change? Any recommendations?
I can't wait to learn more about this game at a deeper level and start to show off some of the cool poker related things I've gotten from my travels. But I gotta start off somewhere first!
I hope that you all have a wonderful day, thank you for reading! Cheers
