Quick double check on chip distribution count for buying new set (5 Viewers)

[PixelatedPunk]

Hey all,

Just wanted a double check on my numbers before I place an order, and was wondering if these look good for my situation? Based on what I have calculated and read on the forum, 600 should be plenty for a 9 person tournament with a few rebuys (about 1 per person). I am just wondering if I should I bump my order to 700 to possibly allow for another table (maybe a tourney of 14-16?). Would bumping the order to 700 allow for this, if I did went 10/8/10/7 instead of 15/12/9/7?

I am leaning toward the first one posted, does that look sufficient?

I am debating on either a T.25 or a T1 tourney set for about 8-9, sometimes 10 people. Here are the details:
T1 with T1,000 starting
15/12/9/7
9 Players

T.25 with T500 starting
12/12/7/6/3
9 players

Same as above, but with 14 players if I ever wanted to run a tournament?

Thank you!

 

[BSteck]

You might want to consider chips so you can color-up the smaller denominations as the tourney progresses.

 

[Natskule]

Really a deep stack tournament with 500 to 2000 big blind starting stacks. I usually start with 100 big blinds.

Any particular reason you are going T1 or T0.25? Possibly using the same set for cash?

 

[PixelatedPunk]

Really a deep stack tournament with 500 to 2000 big blind starting stacks. I usually start with 100 big blinds.

Any particular reason you are going T1 or T0.25? Possibly using the same set for cash?

We normally have a 3-4 hour tourney with a 500 set non denominational chip set right now it’s super casual, and I was leaning towards T.25 to also do cash yes, but most likely I would only do cash if we had like 4-5 guys.

From my intro thread (https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/hello-from-la-mesa-california.129273/):
We have been doing a tournament style. We are a bunch of dad's with somewhat young kids. We have been tweaking the rules as we have been going on, but it's a $20 buy in, with unlimited rebuys until a certain time. We did try unlimited rebuys until the end of the night, but we usually try to have the games go for a few hours on a Saturday night since we all need to be up the next morning lol.

Currently our set consists of the following (they are non denominational, see pictures from last post). I set these values but am looking into getting chips with denominations:

$1 White - 154
$5 Red - 150
$25 Blue - 97
$50 Green - 54
$100 Black - 49

Last time I gave out $700 worth of chips and started at 1/2 blinds and usually just doubled that every 20 minutes. The later the night, we usually ramped up blinds every 15 minutes. Rebuys got you $700 worth of chips.

 

[Tonystark137]

Thread 'Optimal Cash Game Chip Set with 900 Chips for 20$/25$/50$/100$/200$ Buy-ins'
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...00-chips-for-20-25-50-100-200-buy-ins.130151/

 

[PixelatedPunk]

Ended up going with 1,000 chips with the following to be a little more flexible. Probably will do T.25 with a T200 starting instead of the 500 I listed, maybe also a T1 depending on the mood. Should I increase the higher denominations?

25¢ x 150
$1 x 200
$5 x 300
$25 x 200
$100 x 100
$500 x 50

based on
Post in thread 'Small denomination STT tournament set/stacks... T1 base?'
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...rnament-set-stacks-t1-base.44089/post-1134244

 

[Tonystark137]

I don't recommend mixing cash and tournament chips.

 

[PixelatedPunk]

I agree for security, but I wanted to be flexible in case I ever want to try cash in the future. This set will be used as a tournament set like 99% of the time with max 10 players (hoping to expand to 18 in long run but I can get more chips, although 1k should be enough from what I’m reading), so I’m not too worried. Based on it being a tournament set, do the numbers look ok?

 

[PepperPaul]

I’m a big proponent of buying a tournament set that can be converted to cash. I bog a huge tourney set and don’t run tourneys and longer and they’re not really set up where I can use them for cash, so they just sit unused. They’re customized with my name so can’t really sell them either.

 

[donkSTRIKER]

just to throw it out there, have you considered instead of .25, make your lowest $25? Like a 25/100/500/1000/5000 set or similar?

The idea here is that when you use them for cash, you can just treat each chip as "cents" instead of dollars?

ie when used as cash:
$25 = 25 cents
$100 = 1 dollar (100 cents)
$500 = 5 dollars
etc

(For me it just feels more natural to have a $25 chip in a tourney than a 0.25 - especially since you said 99% of the time you are playing tourneys!)