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Cash Game Why so many $5s? (3 Viewers)

ngmcs8203 said:
How many chips is too many chips for you? I guess if the stacks are dirty or in stacks of something weird like 14, it’d be a pain but stacks of 20 shouldn’t be an issue.
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I think more than 30smth per player per denomination can get busy and hard to accommodate in (inevitably tall) columns
 
trever said:
The same way people hate to break $20 and $100 bills, people hate to make change from big chips.

A player with 40 $5 chips will call $20 all day, but a guy with 8 $25's will hesitate to call.
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True; those two scenarios are the two extremes, though
 
Rhodeman77 said:
Is this a raked game or a game with a dealer working for tips? Very strange to see $30 in $1’s in every starting stack unless they are being pulled off the table regularly.
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Nope. No rake and no tips. This guy just likes to have a lot of the lowest level of chips in play. In fact, he asked me to keep an eye out for 50c chips for his set as he "only" has about 160 and wants two full racks for when he plays $0.50/$1.00.
 
Posted this in the last thread. This is the 1200 chip set I had made to get me from .5/$1 to $2/5 for 10 seats. 50/$1 is now $1/1 so I’m not using the blue .50¢ chips any more.

Lots of red!!! For $1/1 it’s a max $120 so a barrel of white and one of red. For $1/2 it’s $220 with an extra barrel of red. The initial buyin is the only time I give out $1s. Everything after is reds and even greens (if a player accumulates more than maybe a rack of reds I buy a barrel back with greens and put them back in the bank. .

Too many unnecessary chips and too many denominations on the table gives me agita and is a bitch to cash out after a long session.

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Old State said:
Posted this in the last thread. This is the 1200 chip set I had made to get me from .5/$1 to $2/5 for 10 seats. 50/$1 is now $1/1 so I’m not using the blue .50¢ chips any more.

Lots of red!!! For $1/1 it’s a max $120 so a barrel of white and one of red. For $1/2 it’s $220 with an extra barrel of red. The initial buyin is the only time I give out $1s. Everything after is reds and even greens (if a player accumulates more than maybe a rack of reds I buy a barrel back with greens and put them back in the bank. .

Too many unnecessary chips and too many denominations on the table gives me agita and is a bitch to cash out after a long session.

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Good looking set of chips. Thanks for sharing.
 
I personally like to get a new color on the table rather than an endless sea of red. But we only play .50/.50 so usually we're talking just a little north of 2k on the table. 2-3 racks of red and I move on.

If I could get my guys to play 1/3 then I'd probably tilt more towards the 4-6 or more racks but we have a ways to go!

And even though it's the stakes equivalent I can't bring myself to put more than two racks of singles on my .50/.50 table, it just isn't the same. Any more than that and they annoy me for some reason :LOL: :laugh:
 
3 racks of $5 felt like the most balance IMO for my usual 50/$1 up to $2/$2 game.

Enough $5 chips for people to play loose enough and not too many that we don't get to see $25 and some $100 to come into play at the later stage.

I don't mind mixing around with 1-2 rack of $1 and 2-4 rack of $5 as well, but I do find losing people tend to bet bigger when they only have mostly $25 in their stack
 
400 fives divided by 10 players is 40 per player on average. That doesn't even seem like a lot :).

How many chips make a "good stack" to you? That's the question. To me 60-80 chips on the high side seems good before being too much.
 
Brad1316 said:
I prefer to have a larger amount of $1 chips vs. $5 chips. They are more useful if you want to run $2/$4 or $3/$6 limit nights. And a casual observation is there is less making change when you have an ample amount of $1 chips on the table.
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I treat the one as the workhorse in games where the blinds are less than one. So when I host 50¢-50¢ I will put 40 singles in every starting stack.
 
Eriks said:
Why do you $5-crazed people bother with efficiency when it comes to # of fracs or tournament sets? Isn’t ”moar” chips just as cool then?
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This is a great question. To me it comes down to quickly counting stacks in no limit. And to me fewer denominations is easier to count than fewer chips.

So ideally a nl stack contains mostly the workhorse chip and then a handful of blind chips. Two denominations only is easy to count. Three denominations is okay, but if you get to four denominations it can get challenging to do in your head.

Bottom line, I can count 42 reds, 5 blues, and 7 quarters in my head faster than 3 greens, 26 reds, 9 blues, and 11 quarters, even though both total $216.75. (though I can do both in my head, I can do the first one in probably half the time.)
 
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This is what I figured for our home game.
200 max buy in. 1/1.

200 buy in

$1 x 30 = $30
$5 x 29 = $145
$25 x 1 = $25

Puts 60 chips in front of each of us. Rebuys would put more $25s on the table .
 
JustinInMN said:
400 fives divided by 10 players is 40 per player on average. That doesn't even seem like a lot :).

How many chips make a "good stack" to you? That's the question. To me 60-80 chips on the high side seems good before being too much.
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I want big stacks because I earned them, not because the host is a chip geek.
Some people here seem to have more fun playing chips than they do playing poker. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just can’t relate.

FWIW for my .25/.50 8-max NLHE game, 320 is the right amount of fives. One rack of fracs is plenty and 20x $1s per person is more than enough.
 
JustinInMN said:
400 fives divided by 10 players is 40 per player on average. That doesn't even seem like a lot :).

How many chips make a "good stack" to you? That's the question. To me 60-80 chips on the high side seems good before being too much.
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Yep, two barrels of $5s per player hardly seems excessive to me. So three racks should suffice for a 7-handed circus table.

As to your question, a stack size of five barrels (aka a rack) seems totally reasonable for home tournaments.... just not as the starting stack.
 
JustinInMN said:
This is a great question. To me it comes down to quickly counting stacks in no limit. And to me fewer denominations is easier to count than fewer chips.

So ideally a nl stack contains mostly the workhorse chip and then a handful of blind chips. Two denominations only is easy to count. Three denominations is okay, but if you get to four denominations it can get challenging to do in your head.

Bottom line, I can count 42 reds, 5 blues, and 7 quarters in my head faster than 3 greens, 26 reds, 9 blues, and 11 quarters, even though both total $216.75. (though I can do both in my head.)
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First time I’ve been presented with a logical reason. I respect it, but it’s not enough to have me changing camps
 
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