Thanks in advance folks. I'm trying to help organize a low stakes no limit cash game tomorrow night. The group is made up of fairly novice, social players and we'll probably have 10 players.

We usually buy in for $10. Some people buy two or three times in a night.

I have a set of 500 chips in the following numbers: 150 white, 200, red, 100 green, and 50 black.

What would you make the blinds? What chip demoninations would you use?

Thanks!

Based upon what I've read here in other threads, I'm thinking of making the game either .10/.20 or .10/.10, and using the following chip values:

White .10
Red .50
Green 2.50

The starting stack would be 10 white chips ($1), 13 red chips ($6.50), and 1 green chip ($2.50) for a total of $10 starting stack. This would leave 50 whites, 70 reds, and plenty of greens in reserve for ppl who wish to rebuy.

I'd love to hear feedback. In particular, is 10 dimes too few? Will we be making change all the time? Thanks!

go with .10/.10, gives everyone 100BB for their buy in.

whites and reds are fine amounts, but I've never heard of a 2.50 chip or coin. Just make it a buck, and the blacks are a $5 for when someone has a baller stack. After a few rebuys, when most of the whites and reds are already out (or everyone seems to have enough), give the latest rebuy 2 blacks, and the big stack can make the change.

Change the Green to $2 and save them for re-buys (Black at $10 and only use if you are out of white, red, and green). So 10 White and 18 Reds for the initiate buy-ins. Re-buys exclusively Green (or use some Red and white for the first 5 or so re-buys.)

Thanks guys. I appreciate the advice.

Some folks would go with .10 SB and .10 BB, but you can also just eliminate the SB/BB concept entirely and just have one blind for .10. Good luck. Don't hesitate to use this forum for your questions about everything home game.

I do like the White 1, Red 5, Green 25, Black 100 color correlation. I'm OK with the $2.50 green chip for that reason.

For novice players, I don't think there is going to be a noticeable difference between 10-10 blinds or 10-20 blinds. I'm sure most aren't going to size the bets according to pot and stack size. For that reason, I'd make it 10-20, so it's closer to 'normal'.

A $10 buy-in with a 20c BB means starting with 50 BB. Some will balk, I think it's OK, for a novice or social game. One of the groups I play with, most begin with a 40BB starting stack, and only occasionally do people buy in for 100BB+

Without killing a vibe, I'd make a clear and short announcement about rules (RROP) being the basis, and in particular

Have you considered playing the game as a limit game rather than no limit? Limit games have more variance ( or less skill ) in determining the winners or losers for a session which can be good for the health of a game with new to poker players.

I've had great success hosting a $20 buy-in, with .25/.50 blinds, no-limit for 10 attendees. I have chips that show denomination values going from .25/.50/$1/$5/$25. Any rebuys, I just give someone 4x $5 chips and we change it on the table. It's enough chips for everyone to work with, but not too many to create a big pain in the ass pile to sort/stack.