If you use that money to call down a few three-barrel bluffs instead, you could afford full racks of chips

If I ever play at your game, I'm making sure I'm one of the first 10 players to buy in so I get the $10 in bonus chips

One benefit to full racks is that it's easy to transfer the bank for whatever reason. Say you're running a big tourney and don't take over the bank until the end, or have an emergency and need to transfer it to someone else, or whatever.

"One rack of quarters, three racks of dollars, two racks of fives" is very easy to count and know what's missing and match the cash, without giving anybody a reason to suggest that one rack had three barrels of quarters and two of dollars, instead of the other way around. Sure, you can stop the game and count everybody's stack, but that's not much fun at all.

This is true, big stacks create looser play. Tho' if you constantly need to make change with 100 quarters, I can't imagine it'd be much different with 160. Someone's hoarding, and someone is making every bet with as many quarters as he can.

The clear solution, of course, is to have bigger gamblers so that they have more dollars and fives in play. Same physical chips, much more money.

Good point, though in practice this situation occurs so rarely that it's not a consideration (for me anyway, YMMV).


You always get these guys. And you get the situations where the more aggressive players take down a lot of small pots with lots of quarters, so they end up with 2-3 barrels in front while others have none.

That's the dream, but lately I can't even get a few guys together for a .25/.25 game.

Sucks. You need a core. My core changed through the years. If your game is running low, maybe seek out other games for a while, recruit fresh blood?

haha...busted. I grabbed the table from the FAQ...it is for $50 buy-ins, obviously. Should have checked that. Good catch.