Questions About Buying Chips For Home Game

[midgetspy 0]

Hey all,I'll start with a quick intro of what chips we use and what we use them for so you guys can give me some educated advice. My friends and I play a home game about once a week, there are about 15 of us and we have 2 guys in the group who own their own chips. They both have the same set, which is a 500 pc set of 13.5g chips like this one.150 x White (1)150 x Red (5)100 x Green (25)50 x Blue (50)50 x Black (100)We either play tournaments with 1500 starting chips or else $0.05/$0.10 cash games, so we've never found a use for the white ones as 1 - we always use them as 10's. That said, the chips above give:150 x 10 = 1500 (White)150 x 5 = 750 (Red)100 x 25 = 2500 (Green)50 x 50 = 2500 (Blue)50 x 100 = 5000 (Black)-------------Total: 12250Since we usually play tourneys with 1500 starting chips, one case of chips like this is only enough for 8 people with no room for coloring out the 5/10 chips or rebuys or anything... so we almost always need both guys' cases in order to have enough chips. Also we'd like to be able to try some deeper tournaments sometimes (5k starting but same blinds, for example) but would have to have way more chips to make that work. And lastly, we had a 20 person MTT once, but had to scale back the number of starting chips quite a bit because of our lack of chips... I'd like to not have to worry about this.So now to the actual point of the thread: I want to buy myself a set of chips, but I'm not sure what to get or where to get them from. First of all, what is the standard weight for chips? I have seen all kinds of weights online, 11.5g seems to be very common but like I said the ones we always use are 13.5g. Having never been to a casino, what do they use there? Is there an "official" weight?Second, where in Canada is a good place to order chips from? The ones we use are from www.thenuts.ca, but they only have sets up to 500pc - I clearly need more than that (or I'll have to buy multiple sets, I guess).Thirdly, how many chips should I buy? Is 1/5/25/50/100 a standard chip progression, or do some sets go 5/10/...? Are there sets with more than 5 colors or is that pretty much standard? Should I be looking for chips with labeled denominations or blank ones?And lastly, if all those questions haven't set in my mind what I should buy, this should help: what do you guys use? I have seen some postings here about home game tourneys with 10k starting and stuff like that, so I'm sure there is a better solution than buying 10 of the same sets, lol.Thanks,Nic

[psujohn 0]

As for what chips to buy:http://www.homepokertourney.com/chips_needed.htmProblem is you won't be able to get a good set of chips suitable to a tourney unless you can get a custom set - not custom chips but a set where you can chose what number of each color chip you get. Custom sets like that tend to be more expensive.

[dead money 1]

Pokersourceonline.comGo there. You join a site and get the points needed and you can get the Nevada Jacks 300 chips set for free or you can upgrade to 500 for $100 and you can choose what denominations you want and how many. These are great chips. 10 gram like most casino chips. Great feel. Look good. They are perfect. And where else are you gonna get this quality chip for $100?

[No_Neck 0]

Pokersourceonline.comGo there. You join a site and get the points needed and you can get the Nevada Jacks 300 chips set for free or you can upgrade to 500 for $100 and you can choose what denominations you want and how many. These are great chips. 10 gram like most casino chips. Great feel. Look good. They are perfect. And where else are you gonna get this quality chip for $100?

Anyone know what is a good number of chips for running a cash game? I am thinking about upgrading and I was just wondering...Something like a $1/2 NL game.

[David_Nicoson 1]

Anyone know what is a good number of chips for running a cash game? I am thinking about upgrading and I was just wondering...Something like a $1/2 NL game.

I'd figure about 100 chips per person. Mostly in red. Some white. Some green.

[RMcFadden94 0]

To the OP, Get rid of using the Blues as having a value of 50. The next jump in any casino in chip value is from 25 -> 100. 50's just dont make sense. Bump the blues to 100, and then the blacks to 500, and you will dynamically increase the final value of your chips:150 * 10 (white) = 1500150 * 5 (red) = 750100 * 25 (Green) = 250050 * 100 (Blue) = 500050 * 500 (Black) = 25000Total: 345002 sets: 69000 in chips.This should really help with your chip troubles, as you only really neex the most chips at the lower levels anyways.My recommendation, if you dont want to go with the chip values above, and you really want to buy yourself a set is definitely go with a heavier weight chip. At a minimum 11.5, but if you can afford it go for the 13.5 g.Best of luck.

[dms26 3]

Hey all,I'll start with a quick intro of what chips we use and what we use them for so you guys can give me some educated advice. My friends and I play a home game about once a week, there are about 15 of us and we have 2 guys in the group who own their own chips. They both have the same set, which is a 500 pc set of 13.5g chips like this one.150 x White (1)150 x Red (5)100 x Green (25)50 x Blue (50)50 x Black (100)We either play tournaments with 1500 starting chips or else $0.05/$0.10 cash games, so we've never found a use for the white ones as 1 - we always use them as 10's. That said, the chips above give:150 x 10 = 1500 (White)150 x 5 = 750 (Red)100 x 25 = 2500 (Green)50 x 50 = 2500 (Blue)50 x 100 = 5000 (Black)-------------Total: 12250

why not use the 1's as 500 or 1,000 instead of 10?

[13CARDS 0]

Why not use blacks as $100s (as they are intended) and use the blues as $500s (as they are closer to purple, the actual color of a $500 chip)?? That way, you are only making one change instead of two.

[azureXsmurF 0]

https://www.discountcasinogear.com/store/product893.htmlThey are limited supply now, but are very cheap, and they FEEL more like nice clay chips than any other cheap alternative.You could use red as 5, green as 25, black as 100, and white as 500 :oBTW, most casino chips range from 8g to 10g

[OVERKILL 0]

http://pokershop.com/I get my stuff from here , they pretty much have everything you need.You customize your chip case to be set up exactly how you want your tourney set up.You can choose the case you want, the chip amounts , the colors , the style, etc.Very cool site good luck.

[thecardthief 0]

look on the net for academy sports and outdoors. They have 500 count chips in the standard colors white,red,blue,green,blackThey are the heavy 11.5 g chip and they come in an aluminum case. In the store they sell for 30 bucks us. I know they ship eveywhere so give them a try.

[11 to 1 0]

When you decide what you want, go put "poker chips" in the Ebay search engine.