How many of each chip color do you buy?

[Lady D]

This is a stupid question, but do you buy more of the smaller denomination or more of the larger denomination, for example:

50 black - $5
50 white - $25
100 green - $100
150 red - $500
150 blue - $1000

or vice versa

150 black - $5
150 white - $25
100 green - $100
50 red - $500
50 blue - $1000

[ORGrinder]

just depends on what you like.

i for one have 50 blues, 10 reds, and 10 greens for each player... and then i color up towards the ends with blacks (i have 100 which is plenty by the time i color up).

it works just fine for me. others will suggest different... it's just a matter of how you want to structure you game.

:D

[MasterShake]

It's going to depend on how many chips you buy and what you usually play. I went with

100 white
100 red
125 green
125 black
50 purple.

I did this because I play a combination of ring and tourney style games depending on how many people are playing. This combination gives me enough for 20 people to play a tourney, but I have enough low denomination chips to play ring style and cash people out as they want to leave.

EDIT: I use a different money system than you also. I have
white $1
Red $5
Green $25
Black $100
Purple $500

[Lady D]

i bought 500 chips.

but i just don't know if you're really supposed to buy more for the lesser denomination or more for the higher value chip. does it just depend on if you'll be playing more with the higher values then get more of them?

[Lady D]

also, how many chips do you give out at the beginning? Is it a total dollar amount that you start out with, or is it the amount of chips for each color you get.

[JohnnyCache]

ahm . . . that would depend. If you allow people to buy in for whatever they want, everybody would have different amounts.

If you want everybody to start the same, they'd all have the same.

and remember - the colors aren't that standardized. . . if you get too many of one and not enough of the other, just switch them around.

[Lady D]

i would do it with everybody starting the same. so i guess there's no set amount?

[supa-t]

It depends on if you are playing a ring game where everybody buys in dollar for dollar, or if you are playing a tourney, where people get a certain amount of "tourney" chips.

In ring games it is standard that the lowest buy-in should be 10X the big blind. So if you play $.25/$.50 limit then players can buy in for $5 and any amount above that.

If you play tournament then players pay the entry fee and then get $500 or more in tourney chips.

Usually, if the buy in for the tourney is under $500 then players get $500 or $1000 worth of chips (depends on how long you want your tourney to last and how many chips you have). If the buy in is more than $1000 then players recieved the buy in amount in chips.

[jwrussell]

Just for another view point, you can also have people buy in for the exact amount in Tourneys. For instance, $30 buy-in, $30 in chips starting with $1/$2 or .50/$1 blinds, depending on how long you want the game to last. This works well in a tourney I normally play in with rebuys for the first 2 hours. If I remember my chips, I think you see more of the lower chip denominations and fewer of the higher. Really depends on your games though. I bought a set of 500 chips and didn't change anything in the set up and it has worked fine.