Cash Game Right amount of quarters? #quarterwars (2 Viewers)

How many quarters per player in a $50 buy-in game?

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Guys, how many quarters per player in their starting stacks, if I am setting up a cash game exactly like this:

  • 9 players, $50 buy-ins, and 5 rebuys of $50 each.
  • 25c/50c blinds
  • NLHE
  • If you prefer to have X amount of quarters on the table regardless of players (say 100 chips), then vote 100 / 9 players = ~11 so round off to 12.
 
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Search engine is your friend. So much info here can be learned by reading the numerous other threads on similar topics. Just my 2c.

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I already did. Where do you think I found out about #quarterwars :)

Opinions are very polarized between MOAR and $1 being the workhorse. I'm curious to see how people vote.
 
it all depends on how your players play... if its real limpy and a $1 or two is big... then more quarters. If most preflops are being raised to $1+ and people are betting stacks of quarters instead of a couple dollars... and its slowing the game down while people are counting stacks of quarters... then fewer quarters would be better and more dollars...

This is assuming hold'em of course. Ante games might need more.
 
I voted 20 just because that's how we roll here at The Armory.

I think it's interesting that 12 is getting the most votes (this is written after 11 votes). Quite a few people advocate for only getting one rack of quarters in a cash game set. If that's the case, including a 5% margin for extras in the set, the most quarters folks would own in a set is 105. Starting with 12 quarters in a stack, 9-handed, brings the quarter count to 108 - a total that's not feasible by this line of thinking.
 
Psypher1000 said:
I voted 20 just because that's how we roll here at The Armory.

I think it's interesting that 12 is getting the most votes (this is written after 11 votes). Quite a few people advocate for only getting one rack of quarters in a cash game set. If that's the case, including a 5% margin for extras in the set, the most quarters folks would own in a set is 105. Starting with 12 quarters in a stack, 9-handed, brings the quarter count to 108 - a total that's not feasible by this line of thinking.
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I've never in my life found a reason to have starting stacks premade at the cash table. Do whatcha like be it 12 per person or whatever but when you get to the last guy how about only giving him
4 instead of busting out another rack so he can start with 12 :D

More than one rack of quarters for a single table is too much. One guy is going to end up hoarding them anyways (coughBenDaveDancough) which I've never understood. Why bury three barrels of fracs behind your stack instead of recirculating them? :)
 
Ronoh said:
I've never in my life found a reason to have starting stacks premade at the cash table. Do whatcha like be it 12 per person or whatever but when you get to the last guy how about only giving him
4 instead of busting out another rack so he can start with 12 :D

More than one rack of quarters for a single table is too much. One guy is going to end up hoarding them anyways (coughBenDaveDancough) which I've never understood. Why bury three barrels of fracs behind your stack instead of recirculating them? :)
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I do like the idea of sticking to barrels.
 
Psypher1000 said:
I voted 20 just because that's how we roll here at The Armory.

I think it's interesting that 12 is getting the most votes (this is written after 11 votes). Quite a few people advocate for only getting one rack of quarters in a cash game set. If that's the case, including a 5% margin for extras in the set, the most quarters folks would own in a set is 105. Starting with 12 quarters in a stack, 9-handed, brings the quarter count to 108 - a total that's not feasible by this line of thinking.
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11.1 quarters wasn't an option.

I give 12 quarters to the first 8 players... player 9 gets 4 quarters and player 10 gets none. One rack of quarters per table.
 
What about putting 2 racks of quarters into play at the start of the evening while players get comfortable and are still playing tight, and when someone rebuys, take a couple of extra $5s to the table and color up some quarters while your bird cage is open?

Best of both worlds?
 
bentax1978 said:
That cough wasn't direct at me, was it? I hate having a lot of quarters in my stack.
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From where I was sitting I had to look over your stack to see Bens, was probably him again my bad :)
 
mummel said:
What about putting 2 racks of quarters into play at the start of the evening while players get comfortable and are still playing tight, and when someone rebuys, take a couple of extra $5s to the table and color up some quarters while your bird cage is open?

Best of both worlds?
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That would be fine too. Honestly, I think you're slightly over-thinking the issue. You need enough quarters so that people aren't constantly making change (and I think most people would agree that a rack is a good lower bound for this), but not so many quarters on the table that they're in the way and become a nuisance (and again, I think most people would agree that more than 2 racks is overkill). So if you like a lot of quarters, go for two racks. If you're limited to a certain number of chips in your set, and would prefer more higher denom chips to make your set more flexible, go with one rack of quarters and more $1 and $5 chips.
 
Ronoh said:
From where I was sitting I had to look over your stack to see Bens, was probably him again my bad :)
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Must have been Friday night at the Post, as it's not often my stack is tall enough to partially obscure the view of Ben's stack ;)
 
bentax1978 said:
Must have been Friday night at the Post, as it's not often my stack is tall enough to partially obscure the view of Ben's stack ;)
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Biggest culprits were Dave @ the Post last year and Ben in Chicago. And Tampa. And Atlanta. And... :D
 
I tend to air on the extreme side of quarters for my games. I like having lots of chips on the table and being we don't have huge buyins or rebuys very often I always start everyone with at least 20x quarters. Otherwise there just aren't very many chips on the table which is depressing.
 
Ronoh said:
Biggest culprits were Dave @ the Post last year and Ben in Chicago. And Tampa. And Atlanta. And... :D
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Ben can have horde all the quarters he wants, so long as I have all the $5, $25 and $100 chips (y) :thumbsup:
 
For the record I wouldn't mind 400 quarters and 800 singles on the table to cover the first nine buyins at a one table .25/.50 $100 buyin game if people knew how to handle cheques.

They don't.

MOAR CHIPS is always better is a great tagline but the reality is a bit different :D
 

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