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Originally Posted by phydaux
I should probably just get a 500 piece set with just blue, white & red.
under no circumstances!
what kind of chips are you getting?
keep in mind that the "standard" values are just a suggestion. Some people claim that sticking to the standard is less confusing, but I've never run across real problems using very non-standard combinations. Blue/white/red is far too
common for my tastes. Makes me think of those awful bicycle plastic chips.
Since you probably never need the hundos, you should get more 1s instead. At the stakes you'll be playing, you could use lots of 1s and/or .25's, so I'd get plenty.
White chips are an abomination (which is why casinos use that color for 1s -- "who want's those piddly and disgusting once-whites? tip the dealer with them and play at manly stakes!"). So get a nice color for 1s and throw convention out the window, imo. I use blacks for ones because blacks are awesome. I have blue edge spots on them to calm down the traditionalists.
Likewise, there is no standard for .25s, so make them something nice, again. Don't do blues and blacks in the same set. My quarters are brown. Since they might play alongside 5s, make sure they contrast with your reds or whatever you choose for 5s. You're right that you won't use a lot of 25's.
The way it was explained to me, a typical nl/pl structure will have a blinds chip, a value chip, and a color chip. you use the blinds for preflop bets and maybe use a lot of these depending on the exact stakes (1/1 will use lots, 2/5 will use more 5s). The value chip is your 5s in a 1/2 game, and you will need a lot. Color is only there to keep the big stacks from sucking up all the chips in the set. They mostly only get bet in all-ins.
For limit, you just want a boatload of one color chip, plus some color chips. You can skip the middle value entirely.
Last edited by gedanken; 02-13-2011 at 05:30 AM.