Using dollar coins as $1 chips in $2-$5 NLHE Home Game? (3 Viewers)

[pltrgyst]

Dollar coins are small, thin, and and heavy. As a matter of fact, I had 50 rolls of Susan B. Anthonys and the first three presidential dollars that I got tired of holding onto a few weeks ago and deposited at the bank just to get rid of them. Don't do it.

 

[Phoe9x]

1 thing to mention, is it’s very confusing if you collect money up front in return of chips because it’s already a legit currency.

Do you cash out the dollar coins? Do people need to bring their own dollar coins each game? It just sounds like a nightmare for keeping accurate counts of money on the table.

 

[buzzmonkey]

I think I'd go:

Value	Qty	Total
$1.00	100	$100.00
$5.00	300	$1,500.00
$25.00	300	$7,500.00
$100.00	200	$20,000.00
$500.00	50	$25,000.00
$1,000.00	50	$50,000.00
	1000	$104,100.00

You'll get more versatility I think out of more $5s than $100s and it will be easier for your dealer to hold tips for color up if you have more $5s in the $1/$2 game.

Is your dealer playing or just dealing? If they aren't playing you should put a tray in your table for them to work from. Way more efficient, less likely to make errors and easier to keep track of their tips. An added help would be to add a toke box, but that's probably less necessary. It's more for security for them to have a place to keep their tips where nobody could grab them from the tray.

For chips you should definitely do at least semi-custom and I'd recommend from a secure vendor that won't sell your art to someone else. BRPro is great and you can get a semi custom set of 100 chips for about $750. For about $50 more you can go full custom (plus art fees if you need someone to design them for you). CPC would be next level. BRPros would be very hard to counterfeit, CPCs would be close to impossible. But you're budget is going to be about 3-5x what it would be for ceramics. Figure $2-4 per chip.

 

[TheWhat]

What is truly amazing about this hobby is how the higher costs become normalized so quickly. A week ago I was liking Bluff Canyon china slugs but the Kings Casino seemed similar for less money and now 14 gram china slugs are entirely off the table.

That's how it goes. I came here to validate Monte Carlos.

Custom table, chairs, cards, a god damn hot dog roller, multiple custom sets, bought and sold 1000s of chips ... and I am still here lll.

Enjoy it, it's awesome. Do think custom is the way to go for everyone's game, but buying in the meantime will help curate your taste; like any good hobby.

 

[upNdown]

Not only do coins not stack well, I don’t like the idea of people tossing a heavy price of metal on top of high cost chips. It’s a recipe to destroy the chips.

Not that it matters much because it sounds like dollar coins are off the table, but this should never happen. If the dollar coins are only used for the small blind, they should only ever be the first thing into the pot.

 

[JWC]

Not that it matters much because it sounds like dollar coins are off the table, but this should never happen. If the dollar coins are only used for the small blind, they should only ever be the first thing into the pot.

I agree with the theory, but in practice mistakes will happen. Coins just don’t belong on the table.