For reference this is the current setup:
Chip | T100 | T500 | T1000 | T5000 |
Qty | 140 | 60 | 120 | 80 |
For a T50k (Assuming you only color up 100 and 500, and only re-buy with T5k chips)
Players
|
T100
|
T500
| T1000 | T5000 | REBUYS |
6 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 3 |
7 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 3 |
8 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 2 |
9 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 |
10 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Adding 20x25k adds 10 buy-ins for a T50k, but that's kind of unnecessary because you don't need a dozen rebuys for a STT generally. If you move to a T75k and still don't color up the T1k chips you get more rebuys across the board.
Players
|
T100
|
T500
| T1000 | T5000 | T25000 | REBUYS |
6 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
7 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
8 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
9 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
10 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
Adding 20x20k adds 8 re-buys for a T50k. If you do a T60k with T20k plaques, you also get more re-buys. Change making seems similar, in the T75k you have 45k in T1k and T5k to make change for a T25k, in the T60k you have 35k in T1k and T5k. 45/25 is 1.8, 35/20 is 1.75. In both cases you might be better off doing as many buy-ins as possible without the plaque before introducing any.
Players
|
T100
|
T500
| T1000 | T5000 | T20000 | REBUYS |
6 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
7 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
8 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
9 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
10 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
If you do a T50k with T10k plaques you get this. Bumps the re-buy count, and you can easily drop two T5k from the starting stack for a T10k. Making change should be fairly easy as the T10k is so close to the T5k.
Players | T100 | T500 | T1000 | T5000 | REBUYS |
6 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 6 |
7 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 5 |
8 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 4 |
9 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 3 |
10 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2 |
What have I learned? Plaques don't fit in my sets starting stacks and are best left for re-buys and color-ups. If I absolutely need plaques in play right away, T10k make the most sense but leave me sparse on re-buys unless I drop the starting stack to a T40k. T20k could also plausibly be used as re-buy and color up chips for a T40k tournament after T5k chips have been exhausted. A 400 chip set doesn't really need a fifth denomination.
I'm pretty sure I fucked up some excel math on this, but I think it's at most +- 1 rebuy.