hello all, I have recently purchased these chips off craigslist.




320-green with black
100- black with pink (eh...)
100-Blue with yellow
80-red with gray



its not the greatest set, but I got it for a pretty good price and it is certainly an upgrade from my cheapo plastic set I had. It has 4 different colors, but more than half of the set is green.



I havent had too many big tournaments since getting the chips. The biggest game I've had was with 7 people. I dont remember how I did the chip breakdown, but I dont remember a problem. I think everyone started with 1000. I think Greens were worth 10, and blacks were worth 100. When I started running low due to rebuys (which i encourage) I would give out reds worth 500





I never get a chance to use the blues. Which is upsetting, because I like the blues alot more than the blacks. For whatever reason, probably because blacks are typicall $100 at casinos, I used black as 100 the first time I used the chips, and have stayed consistent since. My player pool benefits from consistency.



Does anyone recognize these chips? What would the best chip breakdown for tournaments be? I would be willing to buy more chips if I could find more.

In the few .25-.50 games I've had, greens became .25 and blacks $1. I've never needed anything larger, but I imagine if somehow a cash game gets big I easily have plenty of $5 (reds) to work with.

Thanks guys!!

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Greens = T25
Blacks = T100
Blue = T500
Reds = T1000 for a tourney set.

for a cash game the greens remain your low denomination, and work your way up.

So thirty dollars for me set seems like a deal!! Craigslist score!!

Now to figure out what more I'd like to buy....I'd like my tournaments to run a little deeper, so I'll sit back and tinker with ideas...

there are "standard" colors:

red = 5
green = 25
black = 100
1's can be white or blue
500's are generally purple

But in a home game (or even in the vegas casino I'm currently working at), you can do what you want. Better to be consistent, as you say, not change the values week by week. Make sure there is a 4x or 5x step between values -- don't make one chip worth 10 and another 100. 1/5/10/25/100/500. The one exception is that you have 500s and 1000s, then 5000, 25,000, 100,000...

for tournaments, I'm a big fan of using the WSOP blinds progression, which starts at 25/50. See the faq for pfapfap's "cheat sheet" card.

your set is a bit awkward because you have so many greens. Normally, you want about 100 of the "blinds" chips per table. If you use the greens as 25s in a tournament, 300 is far too many, and they quickly become irrelevant.

You could start with 5/10 blinds, using the reds as 5s. t1000 is 100bb to start with, so that works out with what you did before, and the greens become the "workhorse" chip in a single-table tournament.

Your set is actually broken down well for a limit game, where you can use a **** ton of one color. You could use the greens as quarters, and play something like .75/1.50 limit with 3-chip/6-chip betting. People love that. Use the reds as $5 "color" for the big stacks.

My choice would be to make it a mixed game of HORSE + 2-7td, badugi, & crazy pineapple (one orbit or a time limit on each game). Played limit, it won't be very intimidating to people just learning the games. For ante games, you could use those blues as nickles, but in mixed games I've played we just have the button ante for the table for simplicity.

Yea... I'm lucky my crowd knows how to play hold em...I don't think they're ready for anything beyond that.

But so far my set has worked well

whoops.

I didn t know there were standard colours. A friend of mine has had the wish for sometime that colours should be standard