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07-23-2018, 04:20 PM
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Chip breakdown for home tourney
Going to buy 1,000 chips for one and two table freeze outs. Going to use WSOP blind structures, just shorter levels. Thinking of starting with $25-$50 blinds and either $7,500 or $10,000 in chips. what breakdown would you guys suggest as far as the different denominations? To order, minimum is 25 chips of a particular denomination.
Thanks in advance.
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07-23-2018, 04:36 PM
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veteran
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
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07-23-2018, 04:42 PM
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
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Originally Posted by BigBlue56
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Blue, that link doesn't bring anything up.
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07-23-2018, 04:50 PM
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veteran
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
It does for me.
You can search the forum from the forum home page.
From this (thread page) you'll have to click search, then advanced search to get to a screen where you can search by forum.
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07-28-2018, 05:22 PM
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
I find nothing helpful
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07-29-2018, 07:57 AM
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centurion
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
I'd buy 2 racks of $25, 1 rack 100, 1 of 500, 1 of 1000, 1 of 5000, 1 of 10,000 and 2 of $1 and 1 $5. That should cover you and also when the tournament is over you guys can play a cash game.
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07-31-2018, 10:50 PM
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
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Originally Posted by iamthepush
I'd buy 2 racks of $25, 1 rack 100, 1 of 500, 1 of 1000, 1 of 5000, 1 of 10,000 and 2 of $1 and 1 $5. That should cover you and also when the tournament is over you guys can play a cash game.
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An entire rack of T10,000 chips? You really think that's necessary?
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07-31-2018, 11:01 PM
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centurion
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
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Originally Posted by zippyroo
An entire rack of T10,000 chips? You really think that's necessary?
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Eh, maybe, gives you room to have deeper tournaments or allows for rebuys
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08-01-2018, 04:59 PM
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centurion
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
If you're going to play a WSOP structure with antes make sure you have sufficient $25 chips to allow antes to be paid easily without making change. Antes in home games have a tendency to slow down what is already a painfully low hands-per-hr.
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08-02-2018, 10:55 AM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
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Originally Posted by fro_dude
If you're going to play a WSOP structure with antes make sure you have sufficient $25 chips to allow antes to be paid easily without making change. Antes in home games have a tendency to slow down what is already a painfully low hands-per-hr.
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Yes,, please consider using the BB ante system for any self dealt home games. You won't like having individual players ante each hand I guarantee. 
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08-02-2018, 05:29 PM
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stranger
Join Date: Jul 2018
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
You should check out pokerchipforum.com - that's where you'll get good information.
Figure out what you want your starting stacks to be, and do the math from there. Most people will start with 8/8/x/x/x or 12/12/x/x/x - pretty sure the main event uses the following:
8 x 25
8 x 100
2 x 500
8 x 1000
8 x 5000
If you want to start with 10k instead of 50k, then leave the 5k chips off the starting stacks. I'd suggest throwing a couple in each stack and starting with 20k stacks. But get a rack of 5k's and you can experiment with the starting stacks you like. Just make sure you have enough extra 500's and 1000's to color up the smaller chips.
Remember, you DONT need many 500 chips, you DO need a lot of 1,000 chips, and it might be a good idea to grab a few 10K or 25k chips to color up the 1,000's toward the end.
TL;DR -
175 x 25
175 x 100
50 x 500
200 x 1,000
50-100 x 5,000
25 x 25,000
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08-03-2018, 11:13 AM
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grinder
Join Date: Mar 2017
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
In the game I run I have the following breakdown:
$5 - 400
$25 - 300
$100 - 200
$500 - 100
I use the same chips for cash games and just give people $1000 in chips for $X depending on the stakes being played. Make sure if you use the same chips for cash and tournaments that you account for all of your chips before switching to cash. Depending on how many players you have, you can probably get by with 500 chips if you have 9 or fewer players.
For 9 players or less, use this breakdown
$5 - 20
$25 - 16
$100 - 5
I think these smaller denominations will be much more versatile than than the recommendations I see above.
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08-03-2018, 08:53 PM
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banned
Join Date: Jun 2018
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Re: Chip breakdown for home tourney
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Originally Posted by upanddown
You should check out pokerchipforum.com - that's where you'll get good information.
Figure out what you want your starting stacks to be, and do the math from there. Most people will start with 8/8/x/x/x or 12/12/x/x/x - pretty sure the main event uses the following:
8 x 25
8 x 100
2 x 500
8 x 1000
8 x 5000
If you want to start with 10k instead of 50k, then leave the 5k chips off the starting stacks. I'd suggest throwing a couple in each stack and starting with 20k stacks. But get a rack of 5k's and you can experiment with the starting stacks you like. Just make sure you have enough extra 500's and 1000's to color up the smaller chips.
Remember, you DONT need many 500 chips, you DO need a lot of 1,000 chips, and it might be a good idea to grab a few 10K or 25k chips to color up the 1,000's toward the end.
TL;DR -
175 x 25
175 x 100
50 x 500
200 x 1,000
50-100 x 5,000
25 x 25,000
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This is very helpful. I'm also considering a structure that doesn't include antes just to make it simpler.
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