Seeking advice on breakdown - eventual increase to 3K cash chip set (1 Viewer)

[Mr Tree]

I am planning to eventually increase the HP cash set to 3000 chips. My current breakdown is:

$.25 - 308
$1 - 669
$5 - 719
$25 - 249
$100 - 100
$500 - 60

I would welcome advice on how to break down the additional 805 chips. I know a bulk of them need to be $5s.

I am thinking potentially doing

$.25 - 400
$1 - 800
$5 - 1300
$25 - 249
$100 - 100
$500 - 60

Do I need to increase the upper denims any?

 

[Rhodeman77]

How many tables do you want to be able to support with this set? What is the biggest game you play? Do you play limit games?

With 3000 chips, I would want 1000 $1's to support a single table limit game game.

I would lower the quarters down unless your plan is to have 4 tables of .25/.50 going at the same time.

Yes, I agree that $5's are the most important chip to add more of. It is the workhorse chip in all the lower stakes games.

 

[MD Mike]

When you said HP cash set, I immediately wondered why Hewlett Packerd started making poker chips.

 

[Mr Tree]

How many tables do you want to be able to support with this set? What is the biggest game you play? Do you play limit games?

With 3000 chips, I would want 1000 $1's to support a single table limit game game.

I would lower the quarters down unless your plan is to have 4 tables of .25/.50 going at the same time.

Yes, I agree that $5's are the most important chip to add more of. It is the workhorse chip in all the lower stakes games.

There will be a seperate 2000 set of $2s for limit so do not make limit a consideration. I'm trying to make the set as large as possible to spread my annual meetup. Conceivably a five table cash game spread.

 

[Mr Tree]

When you said HP cash set, I immediately wondered why Hewlett Packerd started making poker chips.

Hitching Post > Hewlett Packard

 

[Rhodeman77]

So for the 5 tables, what stakes, games do you think will be played?

If only 1 or 2 is going to $.25/.50 you have enough quarters. Do you expect a crazy $1/2 mixed game or bigger going on as well? If so, so extra big chips may be needed.

 

[Mr Tree]

Here's a potential likely mix...
1 limit table
1 .25/.50 NLHE table
1 .50/$1 NLHE table
1 .50/$1 light mixed table
1 $1/$1 circus table

 

[BNM]

A separate set of 2000 $2 chips... Good lord, man!

 

[ChaosRock]

I am thinking potentially doing

$.25 - 400
$1 - 800
$5 - 1300
$25 - 249
$100 - 100
$500 - 60

Do I need to increase the upper denims any?

I like that ^^^, Tom... Hard to improve it really if you want the flexibility of running up to 5 tables... If you were just thinking a maximum of 3 tables, I would say get all $5s, LOL!!

 

[Mr Tree]

A separate set of 2000 $2 chips... Good lord, man!

 

[Mr Tree]

I am planning to eventually increase the HP cash set to 3000 chips. My current breakdown is:

$.25 - 308
$1 - 669
$5 - 719
$25 - 249
$100 - 100
$500 - 60

I would welcome advice on how to break down the additional 805 chips. I know a bulk of them need to be $5s.

I am thinking potentially doing

$.25 - 400
$1 - 800
$5 - 1300
$25 - 249
$100 - 100
$500 - 60

Do I need to increase the upper denims any?

Lol just realized this is like 90 short of 3000.

Maybe
.25 - 400
$1 - 800
$5 - 1340
$25 - 300
$100 - 100
$500 - 60

 

[ssanel54]

I would suggest
300 x .25
700 x 1
1600 x 5
400 x 25
140 x 100
60 x 500

I realize this is 3200 total, but gives you 3 x 1000 chip carriers, and you keep your large denom chips separate.

Part of my rationale is that when you run 5 full tables it will most likely be at a meet up, and you wont need a ton of quarters and 1s for the lower stake games. Also, I upped your 25s and 100s in case you need some big chips to run multiple limit tables while big cash games are going on.

 

[courage]

I would suggest
300 x .25
700 x 1
1600 x 5
400 x 25
140 x 100
60 x 500

I realize this is 3200 total, but gives you 3 x 1000 chip carriers, and you keep your large denom chips separate.

Part of my rationale is that when you run 5 full tables it will most likely be at a meet up, and you wont need a ton of quarters and 1s for the lower stake games. Also, I upped your 25s and 100s in case you need some big chips to run multiple limit tables while big cash games are going on.

This looks really good to me and would work for my 4 table cash game meatup, 5 would be fine I think. You could probably drop 200 of the 5s if you had to.

 

[bergs]

Ideally, with the following assumptions, your chip breakdown to get the tables going would be as follows:

.25/50 = $100 buyin, stack of quarters, stack of ones, 15 fives
.50/$1 = $200 buyin, 10 quarters, 22 ones, 35 fives
$1/1 = $400 buyin, stack of ones, 41 fives, 3 twenty-fives

That's 320 quarters, 672 dollars, 1008 fives, and 24 twenty fives.

Figure each player rebuys 4 times for the full starting stack. That's a very loose game. Let's use 4 racks of quarters and one rack of hundos for the rebuys. We already used 24 quarters on the initial buyins, so it leaves us 376 quarters

24 rebuys at .25/.50 for a total of $2400 (one rack of quarters)
48 rebuys at .50/$1 for a total of $9600K (275 quarters racks of quarters and 30 hundos gives us $9875)
24 rebuys at $1/1 for a total of $9600 (remaining 70 hundos and 6 five hundos covers it nicely)

Spread the remaining $500s around for wheeeee fun.

Totals (rounding up):

300 quarters (you can skimp here a bit if you bump up the $1s which we will with round off)
800 dollars
1200 fives
400 twenty fives
100 hundos
20 five hundos

total of 2820 chips. If you want to add anywhere, add to the $5s and $25s evenly (say 100 of each).

I have 400 quarters, 1400 dollars, 900 fives, 220 twenties, and a rack of hundos, and I don't think I can spread more than 4 games and at least two of them have to be 25/50c. Probably adding more $5s and $20s for BBOTB7 with commem chips.

 

[bergs]

One important note -

With rebuys, your $25 are going to be the workhorse chip. As the night gets later and people are into their 3rd or 4th buyin, there are going to be some big stacks on the table and they'll be hoovering the $25s to facilitate giving stacks to the rebuys. Don't skip on the $5 workhorse chip of course, but your next biggest priority should be equally the $1s for the smaller games and the twenty fives for rebuys across the board.

 

[BNM]

View attachment 57096

Looking forward to a similar photo with your chips doing the hiding.

 

[dew4au]

Now this is the kind of degen chip planning that I can get behind. (y) :thumbsup:

 

[Mr Tree]

One important note -

With rebuys, your $25 are going to be the workhorse chip. As the night gets later and people are into their 3rd or 4th buyin, there are going to be some big stacks on the table and they'll be hoovering the $25s to facilitate giving stacks to the rebuys. Don't skip on the $5 workhorse chip of course, but your next biggest priority should be equally the $1s for the smaller games and the twenty fives for rebuys across the board.

edit - never mind. Saw your second post first

 

[pltrgyst]

Hitching Post > Hewlett Packard

HP Sauce > Hitching Post > Hewlett Packard

 

[pltrgyst]

....Figure each player rebuys 4 times for the full starting stack....

Typical Bergs, planning on hitting and running....

 

[bergs]

Typical Bergs, planning on hitting and running....

I had you down as the hit and run, and me rebuying 8 times, resulting in a 4 Rebuy average.