How many of each chip?

[The Modfather]

Hello. Just found your forum - very good resource, and I'm happy I stopped by!

Anyhow, I'm looking to buy my fisrt set of poker chips. I'm gonna get an 11.5g set of 1000 chips. Would like to know how many of each color I should order to accomodate our bi-monthly games. We have 8 ppl on average.

Here are the colors/denominations we currently use:

BLUE - .50¢
WHITE - $1.00
RED - $5.00
GREEN - $25.00
BLACK - $100.00

Hope someone can shed some light on this for me!

Thanks all!

[ORGrinder]

what's your blind strucutre?

[myonker]

I found it very hard to have a good break down of chips with 1000 tc regardless of the blind structure (although this becomes very important later on). I'm up to 2600tc and I still dont feel comfortable with my breakdown, but I also have 15-30 player games.

My advise is this: Figure out how many Total Chips each player is to start with broken down by color (IMHO about 65-80 in total chips work the best). Then figure out how many players you have, which I think you said 8. Are all the chips going to be played at the start or are you going to "color up" as the game goes. Then comes the blind structure.....if you're pushin the blinds those .50c chips are going to be useless after 45 minutes or so.

I've spent a lot time figuring this out for my games and have learned a lot by playing with different combos and such. I've created a spreadsheet which breaks everything I mentioned above down. If you would like to have and modify for your own use send me a PM with your email and I'll send it to you.

[UnluckyKyle]

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[The Modfather]

check out this website www.homepokertourney.com

that is an invaluable website for hosting your own homegame. Read up and post back here if you have any further questions.

Great site man! Reading up on it now - thanks a ton!